The United States and its NATO allies have said they will formally suspend their participation in a 1990 treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe, marking the end of another historic arms control agreement. The Wall Street Journal writes it. The alliance’s move follows Russia’s formal withdrawal from the same agreement and long-standing Western complaints that Moscow is not abiding by the terms of the agreement. The suspension goes into effect for the United States on December 7th.
“Russia’s withdrawal is the latest in a series of actions that systematically undermine Euro-Atlantic security,” NATO’s governing body, the North Atlantic Council, said in a statement. The suspension of treaty participation – which continued to be observed even after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union – will give the United States more flexibility to station forces on NATO’s northern and southern flanks, including Romania and Bulgaria, near Ukraine give . It will also allow Ukraine’s Western allies to avoid exchanging information about the deployment of their forces with countries close to Russia.
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