7500 Effective today, the United States is no longer a party to the Open Skies Treaty: Signed March 24, 1992, the Open Skies Treaty permits each state-party to conduct short-notice, unarmed, reconnaissance flights over the others' entire territories to collect data on military forces and activities. (media.patriots.win) posted 144 days ago by I-am-Orlando 144 days ago by I-am-Orlando +7500 / -0 738 comments share 738 comments share save hide report block hide child comments Comments (738) sorted by: top new old worst You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread. ▲ 55 ▼ – Scumbag-reddit 55 points 144 days ago +55 / -0 Simply put- US will no longer allow other nations to fly over any part of sovereign soil for any type of data gathering for the sake of that nation's own "national security". permalink save report block reply ▲ 17 ▼ – deleted 17 points 144 days ago +17 / -0 ▲ 17 ▼ – Tomboy_Patriot 17 points 144 days ago +17 / -0 Am I stupid to believe we allowed this before? permalink parent save report block reply ▲ 6 ▼ – whippeat 6 points 144 days ago +6 / -0 It was sensible as a trust exercise So you can see your enemies building up troops on the border etc, and they can see you Therefore there’s less suspicion that someone will sneak attack you, so nobody will want to act first permalink parent save report block reply ▲ 5 ▼ – deleted 5 points 144 days ago +5 / -0
Simply put- US will no longer allow other nations to fly over any part of sovereign soil for any type of data gathering for the sake of that nation's own "national security".
Am I stupid to believe we allowed this before?
It was sensible as a trust exercise
So you can see your enemies building up troops on the border etc, and they can see you
Therefore there’s less suspicion that someone will sneak attack you, so nobody will want to act first