The strategic implications of dismantling the INF are staggering, even existentially threatening. Signed on December 8, 1987, the INF sought to constrain what had been an ever escalating nuclear arms race between the United States, then under President Ronald Reagan, and the Soviet Union, then under General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev
Category: Diplomacy
Are The Russians Offensive Realists?
Geographic and economic challenges are some of the main issues that have left the Russians feeling vulnerable, causing them to take an antagonistic regional and global posture.