Topic: Inf Treaty

Scott Ritter describes the world as being a "millisecond" away from nuclear war due to the high probability of a technical or human mistake. He cites a 1995 incident where a Norwegian weather rocket was nearly mistaken for a US nuclear strike by Boris Yeltsin. Ritter argues that without the INF Treaty and other disarmament frameworks, there is no longer a "buffer time" to prevent accidental global annihilation.

The deployment of US anti-missile systems in Romania and Poland is viewed by Russia as a direct offensive threat, as the launchers can be used for Tomahawk cruise missiles. Putin warned that if similar systems are placed in Ukraine, the flight time to Moscow would be reduced to mere minutes. He characterized this military encirclement as a "knife to the throat" that Russia can no longer ignore.