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Doug Stanglin USA TODAY Published 3:57 PM EST Feb 20, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Moscow will target the U.S. with its new hypersonic missiles if the Trump administration follows its scrapping of a key arms control agreement by deploying new intermediate-range missiles in Europe. In his state-of-the-nation address to Russian lawmakers, Putin said Russia was ready for talks with the U.S. on disarmament issues, "but we won't knock on the closed door anymore," Russia's state-owned TASS news agency reported.  The Trump administration announced in early February that it would withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty over what it said was Russian violation of the Cold War pact.   The INF Treaty, signed in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, covers deployed and non-deployed ground-based short-range missiles (from 310–620 miles) … [Read more...] about Russia’s Vladimir Putin warns US of missiles if Trump scraps INF

opinion USA TODAY Published 5:24 PM EST Feb 20, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Moscow will target the United States with its new hypersonic missiles if the Trump administration follows its scrapping of a key arms control agreement by deploying new intermediate-range missiles in Europe. The US started this tit-for-tat By John Glaser Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a clear warning to the United States: If Washington deploys new intermediate-range missiles in Europe, Moscow will, too. The context behind this threat is President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Negotiated in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the INF was a fairly successful arms-control agreement in which each party agreed to eliminate a whole class of missiles. In recent years, both sides accused each other of failing to fully uphold the agreement. Instead of pursuing … [Read more...] about Russia’s Vladimir Putin missile threat can be handled by US: Talker