Bolton Pushes Trump to Withdraw From Russian Nuclear Treaty

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

Years of US allegations that Russia is violating the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) may be coming to a head, with John Bolton reportedly pushing hard for President Trump to withdraw outright from the pact.

Instead of negotiating over the questions, Bolton wants the US to just withdraw outright, despite that being a major escalation on tensions with Russia. State Department and Pentagon officials are both opposed to this.  

The administration was to have talks on Monday to discuss Bolton’s idea, but this has been postponed, at least for now. Still, Congress is also pushing for action on Russia, as part of general hostility toward Russia.

US Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison suggested that the US was preparing to preemptively attack Russia and “take out” the missiles they consider a violation. Bolton’s pullout, while intended as a provocation, appears to be at least somewhat less-so than attacking Russia outright.

The question of whether Russia is actually violating the INF is a complicated matter. Russia argues the missiles in question are not in violation of the letter of the treaty, while US officials have never attempted to prove they are, just repeatedly claiming such a violation happened.

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3 thoughts on “Bolton Pushes Trump to Withdraw From Russian Nuclear Treaty

  1. IF AMERICA WITHDRAWS OUTRIGHT, THE JEWS WILL LEAVE THIS COUNTRY LIKE RATS FROM A DOOMED SHIP, TO AVOID THE WEAPONS THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE UNLEASHED……..WE SHALL SEE IF I’M RIGHT EH???????

  2. Put Bolton in line for the first nuke that hits this land of ours . I just don’t see a race for more powerful nukes in the world helping anything

  3. One more thing bolted why are you not asking Israel to be in nuke treaty. Huh why not let’s see there nukes huh . Again trump why is Israel always left out of the nuke club. Huh. The world knows they have nukes , we gave them the tech plus they stolen it

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