Russia to withdraw form Open Skies Treaty, EU concerned
Russia to withdraw form Open Skies Treaty, EU concerned, https://www.europeandefence.eu/news/russia-to-withdraw-form-open-skies-treaty/
By Jasper de Vries, January 18, 2021
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How does the nuclear-weapons ban treaty going into effect this week figure into all of this? Signed by 50 countries, though not the big nuclear powers, though it makes these illegal.
njsally A VERY GOOD QUESTION! That supposedly Chines curse about “living in interesting times” is surely applicable to the coming few years. The big nuclear powers, and all their industry, finance, academic and media hangers-on will now put all their spin skills into discrediting the Treaty, and further, probably to discredit the UN itself.
So much hangs on nuclear weapons – so much investment, so many workers and communities dependent on that industry. Then there are the hatreds, and the fears, of nations, memories of atrocities, the ingrained inability to trust, and the male thing of “who’s got the biggest”.
It would take a worldwide marathon effort to counter the determination of the big powers to kill this Treaty. The nuclear powers might stifle it via ridicule, or best of all, by silence – just ignore the Treaty. (After all, wasn’t it made up by a few weak men, and silly hysterical women?)
The Treaty is in fact, carefully devised so as to complement existing agreements, and allow for gradual change, brining in that truly novel concept of humanitarianism.
But – it might take a catastrophe to make the Treaty globally acceptable.