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US-Russia Nuke Confrontation in Heart of Europe Inevitable Without INF

Sputnik Interview with the GPI President Paolo von Schirach:

July 05, 2019 – WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States and Russia are headed towards a nuclear confrontation in the heart of Europe unless they reaffirm or amend the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, GPI President Paolo von Schirach told Sputnik.

“Are we going to see a new nuclear confrontation in the heart of Europe, decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall?” Schirach, now president of the Global Policy Institute think tank in Washington, DC asked. “Decades after the end of the Cold War this makes no sense… Hopefully, both sides will see this, and decide to negotiate in good faith to either reaffirm the INF Treaty or perhaps to amend it in order to adapt it to changed circumstances.”

Read the full interview on Sputnik