Cold War Redux

This is not good news at all. Yet another colossal international relations and national security failure by the Bush administration:

BBC: Russia Suspends Arms Control Pact

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended the application of a key Cold War arms control treaty.

... Russia has been angered by US plans to base parts of a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic...

The suspension is not a full-scale withdrawal - but it means that Russia will no longer permit inspections or exchange data on its deployments. ...