πΊπΈ The American media will once again drop the ball this week. All the members of the #OSCC are gathering in Vienna for the Open Skies Review Conference, the #OpenSkiesTreaty is alive and well, and the beligerant Trump admin has failed to kill it, despite their intent to leave.
https://twitter.com/BelgiumMFA/status/1313738189727772672
From their own statements it's clear the Trump admin's plan, a 5+ yr old effort by Republican degenerates who advised the POTUS like Cotton, Bolton, and Morrison, was to destroy the treaty and increase allied dependance on American satellites to line the pockets of the MIC.
All countries which are signatory to the #OoenSkiesTreaty are part of the OSCC so they can use their own planes (or borrowed) to conduct reconaissance with treaty-certified tamper-proof cameras that all OSCC members have agreed are within treaty-defined resolution fidelity limits
U.S. satellites are not able to be inspected, and not designed to be treaty-limited to 30cm optical resolution for visual spectrum imagery. No country can outsource their national security to U.S. national technical means; it is in no country's interest to do so, except the U.S.
Leveraging the #OpenSkiesTreaty, Ukraine can fly over Russia and take pictures of troop movements. Greece can fly over Turkey, and visa-versa. Even the United States can fly over Canada, and make sure we aren't massing troops to go set fire to the White House, again. ( What? π€·ββοΈ )
Everyone involved with the pending U.S. withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty knows its value; it's dirt cheap compared to any satellite offering. This isn't about saving money, it's a shakedown; the Trump admin wants to sell U.S. imagery, to line their donors' pockets.
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