FPSA revives Cold War arms race with Russia and China by abandoning INF treaty!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - February 1, 2019 - Fascist Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that the Fascist Police States of Amerika will withdraw from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty immediately, prompting threats of a Russian response from Moscow.

Pompeo said the FPSA could return to compliance with the treaty if Moscow meets Washington's demands within the next 180 days. To get the FPSA to back down, Washington insists that Russia cease development of a new cruise missile. Moscow has repeatedly denied claims that it's in violation of the treaty.

The withdrawal, which has been expected for months, will formally take place on Saturday.

Trump said the FPSA's NATO allies support the decision to withdraw from the treaty, which has been a cornerstone of European security for years. The FPSA has also expressed concerns that its compliance with the treaty has benefited China, which isn't a party to the agreement. There are also widespread concerns that scrapping the treaty could instigate a new arms race between the FPSA on one side and China and Russia on the other.

The decision comes after the FPSA and Russia revealed on Thursday that they had failed to work out their differences on the treaty, something that analysts have warned could be the first step in a new Cold War-style arms race - or worse. Both sides have accused the other of violating the terms of the historic treaty, which called for a ban on all land-based missiles with a range of between 310 and 3,400 miles.

This latest step comes after the President Donald Trump regime repeatedly warned Russia that it would leave the treaty if Moscow didn't comply by Feb. 2. Both sides have been meeting in Beijing, but Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday that the talks had failed.

"Unfortunately, there is no progress," he told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti. "As far as we understand, the next step is coming, the next phase begins, namely the phase of the (FPSA) stopping its obligations under the INF, which will evidently happen this coming weekend."

Andrea Thompson, FPSA undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs, said Washington would most likely announce the suspension of the INF Treaty in the coming days.

"The Russians still aren't in acknowledgment that they are in violation of the treaty," she  said. However, Thompson did add that "diplomacy is never done".

Of course, this doesn't bode well for renegotiating the New START arms control treaty that calls for the mutual reduction of the FPSA and Russia's nuclear arsenals.