terry scholz terry why have the u.s. united states and russia not succeeded in keeping this treaty alive. well terry it's not today that the u.s. would say the treaty is dead it would allege that moscow violated the i.n.f. years ago when it started building this missile system and that basically it's not a treaty if only one sided hears to it and it took the us a few years to convince the europeans its nato allies that this is indeed the case and that it's more dangerous to continue to follow an accord that isn't working and now all of nato unanimously supports the united states pulling out of the treaty russia has been given many many many warnings until the very last minute and now while some european leaders don't like that the i.m.f. is dead they understand it now many see the termination of this treaty as a threat to global peace u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists had this to say yesterday the intermediate report. is a landmark agreement. and the cold war when it expires tomorrow the world will mean variable break on nuclear war and this will likely i. suppose by i believe the. chai