Russia offers NATO a moratorium on missile deployment, but won’t sacrifice its own security to prove its goodwill

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Russian 9M729 missile prepared for a demonstration to foreign military attaches in january 2019. Sputnik Vladimir Astapkovich

Vladimir Putin has sent a letter to NATO, urging its members to join Russia’s moratorium on deployment of short- and mid-range missiles in Europe. The US-led bloc has dismissed the offer, saying Moscow already fields such weapons.

It’s been revealed that, last week, Russia’s president relayed a secret message to a number of foreign capitals, including all NATO member states and major Asian players, aimed at maintaining the status quo after the US withdrawal in February from the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).

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