Opinion | Sébastien Roblin: U.S. trolls Russia, China with test of missile it can't actually use - NBCNewsTHINK
that"we are not very much in favor — we are definitely even against — deployment of missiles on our soil."
Supporters of deploying the new missile and others that have been stalled by the INF treaty resort to arguing that the weapon is worth having in the United States' quiver in case a crisis causes foreign partners to change their minds. They say the program is"" because it's cheaper to put missiles on land-based launchers than on ships or planes. But that elides the fact that land-based missiles would be procured in addition to, not instead of, more flexible U.S. weapons.
Currently, there’s no foreign country within striking distance of China and Russia that’s eager to provoke them by keeping the missiles. Moreover, the Pentagon has already invested hundreds of billions of dollars in stealth jets, missile-armed warships and submarines that the United States can use much more flexibly to strike targets deep in an adversary's territory. And for nuclear deterrence, the United States has
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