The American President has signalled he will not renew a major nuclear arms agreement because Russia has not stuck to the terms of the Open Skies Treaty that prohibits nations from overflying other nations territories …The treaty was done by Bush I….
Trump has also walked away from the Iran Nuclear Treaty done by Obama…
As with other things Trump…
The above agreements do NOT actually run out for a while…
Trump IS desperate to come up something that would show he could pull off a foreign policy ‘deal’…Something he has been unable to do for since he got into office…Trump does NOT have much interest in foreign affairs something Joe Biden does and would work on unpon winning the Presidency….
A Joe Biden win could change everything…
President Trump has decided to withdraw from another major arms control accord, according to senior administration officials, and will inform Russia on Friday that the United States is pulling out of the Open Skies Treaty, negotiated three decades ago to allow nations to fly over each other’s territory with elaborate sensor equipment to assure they are not preparing for military action.
Mr. Trump’s decision will be viewed as more evidence that he also may be poised to exit the one major arms treaty remaining with Russia: New START, which limits the United States and Russia to 1,550 deployed nuclear missiles each. It expires weeks after the next presidential inauguration.
American officials have long complained that Moscow was violating the Open Skies accord by not permitting flights over a city where it was believed Russia was deploying nuclear weapons that could reach Europe, as well as forbidding flights over major Russian military exercises.
And, in classified reports, the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies have contended the Russians are also using flights over the United States to map out critical American infrastructure that could be hit by cyberattacks….
Trump will be meeting the Russian Foreign Minister next week….
Late Monday, the White House confirmed an Oval Office meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Lavrov for Tuesday afternoon. Considerable evidence suggests any conversation with Mr. Lavrov would include the last major nuclear arms control treaty still in force between the United States and Russia: the Obama-era New START treaty, which in recent days President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has said he wants to extend for another five years….
The treaty, which is set to expire in February 2021, right after the next presidential inauguration, limits both sides to around 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear weapons, though that leaves out smaller tactical weapons and does not cover a range of other non-nuclear weaponry that can wreak havoc.
The result is that Mr. Trump, until recently, has dismissed the agreement as a “one-sided deal,” and a failure by President Barack Obama. He has complained that it fails to cover all of Russia’s arsenal — and, moreover, does nothing to control China’s nuclear ambitions. At the same time, Mr. Trump has said he wants to avoid a nuclear arms race, even as Russia is developing at least five new kinds of delivery vehicles for its weapons, and the United States is revitalizing its nuclear arsenal.
At a NATO meeting last week, Mr. Trump revealed that he had been speaking with Mr. Putin about an extension of the treaty — something the White House had never mentioned in its descriptions of phone calls and meetings between the two leaders.
If Mr. Trump can pull off an extension, it would be the first diplomatic breakthrough of his presidency with Russia, and could arrive at a moment that he is desperate for some kind of diplomatic win — with North Korea, Iran or Russia — to trumpet during the presidential campaign….
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The European’s are left on the side praying that American’s will vote Joe Biden in to bring things back to normal again…