Not everyone is happy with the Trump administration’s decision, however. United Kingdom Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson praised U. S. President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to\u2026<\/b>
\nNot everyone is happy with the Trump administration’s decision, however.
United Kingdom Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson praised U. S. President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw from a landmark Reagan-era nuclear treaty with Russia.
\u201cOur close and long-term ally of course is the United States and we will be absolutely resolute with the United States in hammering home a clear message that Russia needs to respect the treaty obligation that it signed.\u201d
According to Williamson, since Russia is in breach of the INF, it needs to \u201cget its house in order\u201d and stay committed to the agreement.
\u201cWe of course want to see this treaty continue to stand but it does require two parties to be committed to it and at the moment you have one party that is ignoring it. It is Russia that is in breach and it is Russia that needs to get its house in order,\u201d Williamson concluded.
Yesterday, as Politico reported, President Trump confirmed that the United States would be withdrawing from the Cold War-era treaty, following rumors that White House National Security Adviser John Bolton had been pushing for the withdrawal.
\u201cWe\u2019ll have to develop those weapons. We\u2019re going to terminate the agreement and we\u2019re going to pull out,\u201d Trump said.
Earlier this week, The Guardian first reported \u2013 citing Trump administration officials briefed on the matter \u2013 that John Bolton is leading the initiative to withdraw from the INF.
In March this year, after President Trump appointed Bolton as national security adviser, BBC published an extensive report describing Bolton as a neoconservative war hawk who cheered for the Iraq war while working for former U. S. President George W. Bush.
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Not everyone is happy with the Trump administration\u2019s decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, however.
The Brookings Institution described the maneuver as a \u201cmajor mistake,\u201d suggesting that the United States should have taken a more nuanced approach. Instead of abruptly withdrawing from the deal, the Trump administration should have made a push to preserve it by urging European and other allies to pressure Putin to comply with the deal, according to Brookings.
Signed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the INF Treaty banned all U. S. and Soviet land-based cruise and ballistic missiles with ranges between 310 and 620 miles. Signed towards the end of the Cold War, the agreement subsequently resulted in the destruction of 2,700 missiles, improving the relationship between the two nuclear powers.<\/p>\n

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