Russians launch new long-range missile

[Pcdunn]

... in apparent treaty violation and as a challenge to the United States.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-missiles-idUSKBN15T2CS

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/w...ol-treaty.html

Now what?

[Svensson]

Hm, so the Iranians are launching a missile in violation of a treaty and Trump is putting them on notice. Then the PRK are launching a missile in violation of sanctions and Trump slates them.

Now we have Russia launching a missile in violation of a treaty and what do we hear from Trump? Crickets.

[Pcdunn]

I may have used the wrong word-- apparently it wasn't "launched" but "deployed", meaning issued to the armed forces. Except now they're saying, it wasn't "deloyed" per se, just "moved around."

Meanwhile, this happened:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/16/russian-spy-ship-spotted-near-virginia.html