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Commentary: Trump withdrawal from Russia nuclear pact plays into Putin’s hands
Trump...the great negotiator...once again, has no plan of action other than to attempt to tear up old agreements. He has no ideas about what to do instead. He has no thoughts, he hasn't negotiated anything new...he hasn't made any attempt to enforce the existing agreement. He "negotiates" like a spoiled child.
Still wondering what this buffoon of a President talked to Putin about in private in Helsinki.
Trump’s Oct. 20 announcement that Washington would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia, a landmark 1987 agreement signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to remove nuclear weapons from Europe, eliminates whatever curbs may be left on the development and deployment of a whole new generation of lethal and more readily deployable nuclear arms. Gone will be any restraints on Russian President Vladimir Putin from modernizing and updating his nuclear arsenal, thereby reviving the nuclear arms race at a time when a new round of nuclear forces in North Korea and Iran threaten the world and new missile technologies are proliferating.
Trump’s ill-conceived and poorly thought-out action plays directly into Putin’s hands. As much as the Russian leader may already be flouting the principles and provisions of that treaty, he can now do so with impunity and none of the consequences of being labeled the transgressor.
Fortunately, since this was a treaty ratified by a two-thirds vote of the Senate on May 27, 1988, it cannot be formally ended without a similar two-thirds vote, which seems most improbable in today’s divided political environment. Still, Trump can, in theory, begin violating the provisions of the treaty without any Senate action, which – if Russia keeps its threats to match tit-for-tat – will have the equivalent impact of tearing up the document. And the costs of a new nuclear arms race could be astronomical. The nonpartisan Arms Control Association has estimated that updates to the U.S. nuclear arsenal would cost U.S. taxpayers upwards of $1.2 trillion over the next 30 years.
Trump...the great negotiator...once again, has no plan of action other than to attempt to tear up old agreements. He has no ideas about what to do instead. He has no thoughts, he hasn't negotiated anything new...he hasn't made any attempt to enforce the existing agreement. He "negotiates" like a spoiled child.
Still wondering what this buffoon of a President talked to Putin about in private in Helsinki.