ABM gone, INF at risk

Link: Missile defense: the Russian reaction-Blog-Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces.

It's quite likely that Russia will use the system's deployment in Europe as a pretext for pulling out of the INF Treaty. What kind of benefit this withdrawal could bring to Russia remains unclear. But at this point, Russia could do so just to prove it can. If the United States is able to pull out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, why can't Russia unilaterally extract itself from the treaties it no longer likes? Isn't that what superpowers do these days? If so, we're in serious trouble.

There is only one, and for a very long time will be only one, important variable analysis of global power: nuclear weapons. Did you think that all that was over when the wall fell? Sucker!