{"id":39470,"date":"2018-10-21T11:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39470"},"modified":"2018-10-21T11:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T16:22:42","slug":"putins-puppet-advances-nuclear-missile-escalations-against-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39470","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPutin\u2019s Puppet\u201d Advances Nuclear Missile Escalations Against\u00a0Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/10\/21\/putins-puppet-advances-nuclear-missile-escalations-against-putin\/\">\u201cPutin\u2019s Puppet\u201d Advances Nuclear Missile Escalations Against\u00a0Putin<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-5444\" class=\"post-5444 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-trump tag-missile-treaty tag-ntermediate-range-nuclear-forces-treaty tag-nuclear tag-russia\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-21-at-10.52.35-AM.png?fit=784%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-21-at-10.52.35-AM.png?w=784&amp;ssl=1 784w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-21-at-10.52.35-AM.png?resize=300%2C184&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-21-at-10.52.35-AM.png?resize=768%2C470&amp;ssl=1 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"480\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/oct\/19\/john-bolton-russia-nuclear-arms-deal-trump-lobbying\">the news broke<\/a> that Swamp Monster-In-Chief John Bolton has been pushing President Trump to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the 1988 arms control agreement between the US and the Soviet Union eliminating all missiles of a specified range from the arsenals of the two nuclear superpowers. Today, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/20\/trump-us-nuclear-arms-treaty-russia?CMP=share_btn_tw\">has announced<\/a> that he will be doing exactly as Bolton instructed.<\/p>\n<p>This would be the second missile treaty between the US and Russia that America has withdrawn from since it abandoned the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty\">Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty<\/a> in 2002. John Bolton, an <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/03\/29\/john-bolton-trump-bush-bustani-kids-opcw\/\">actual psychopath<\/a> who Trump hired as his National Security Advisor in April,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2001\/aug\/24\/usa\">ran point on that move<\/a> as well back when he was part of the increasingly indistinguishable Bush administration.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\"><a class=\"TweetAuthor-avatar  Identity-avatar u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\" data-scribe=\"element:user_link\" aria-label=\"Senator Rand Paul (screen name: RandPaul)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Avatar Avatar--edge\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/681152691461042177\/_PrgDgFA_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-scribe=\"element:avatar\" data-src-2x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/681152691461042177\/_PrgDgFA_bigger.jpg\" data-src-1x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/681152691461042177\/_PrgDgFA_normal.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor js-inViewportScribingTarget\" data-scribe=\"component:author\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor-nameScreenNameContainer\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-decoratedName\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-verifiedBadge\" data-scribe=\"element:verified_badge\"><b class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">\u2714<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is why John Bolton shouldn\u2019t be allowed anywhere near US foreign policy. This would undo decades of bipartisan arms control dating from Reagan. We shouldn\u2019t do it. We should seek to fix any problems with this treaty and move forward. <a class=\"link customisable\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"https:\/\/fxn.ws\/2q1FqTi\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xj5FqyCyS6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-expanded-url=\"https:\/\/fxn.ws\/2q1FqTi\" data-scribe=\"element:url\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">https:\/\/<\/span>fxn.ws\/2q1FqTi<span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a> <a class=\"PrettyLink hashtag customisable\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FoxNews?src=hash\" rel=\"tag\" data-query-source=\"hashtag_click\" data-scribe=\"element:hashtag\"><span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">#<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value\">FoxNews<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\"><a class=\"u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1053638837283491843\" data-datetime=\"2018-10-20T13:27:29+0000\" data-scribe=\"element:full_timestamp\"><time class=\"dt-updated\" title=\"Time posted: October 20, 2018 13:27:29 (UTC)\" datetime=\"2018-10-20T13:27:29+0000\">9:27 AM &#8211; Oct 20, 2018<\/time><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-card\">\n<div class=\"PrerenderedCard is-loaded is-constrainedByMaxWidth\" data-card-name=\"summary_large_image\" data-css=\"https:\/\/ton.twimg.com\/tfw\/css\/syndication_bundle_v1_73385286cca9d2256f6bf3993470820d4827b058.css\" data-scribe=\"component:card\">\n<div class=\"TwitterCardsGrid TwitterCard\">\n<div class=\"TwitterCardsGrid-col--12 TwitterCardsGrid-col--spacerBottom CardContent\">\n<div class=\"SummaryCard-image TwitterCardsGrid-col--12\">\n<div class=\"tcu-imageContainer tcu-imageAspect--2to1\">\n<div class=\"tcu-imageWrapper tcu-image-1053638837283491843 js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/card_img\/1052575137038512129\/0YWdhojW?format=jpg&amp;name=600x314); background-size: cover;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-block\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/card_img\/1052575137038512129\/0YWdhojW?format=jpg&amp;name=600x314\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"SummaryCard-contentContainer TwitterCardsGrid-col--12\">\n<div class=\"SummaryCard-content TwitterCardsGrid-ltr\">\n<h2 class=\"TwitterCard-title js-cardClick tcu-textEllipse--multiline\" dir=\"ltr\">US poised to pull out of nuclear arms treaty with Moscow: source<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"u-block TwitterCardsGrid-col--spacerTop SummaryCard-destination\" dir=\"ltr\">foxnews.com<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u201cThis is why John Bolton shouldn\u2019t be allowed anywhere near US foreign policy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1053638837283491843\">tweeted<\/a> Senator Rand Paul in response to early forecasts of the official announcement. \u201cThis would undo decades of bipartisan arms control dating from Reagan. We shouldn\u2019t do it. We should seek to fix any problems with this treaty and move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most severe crisis in nuclear arms control since the 1980s,\u201d Malcolm Chalmers, the deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/20\/trump-us-nuclear-arms-treaty-russia?CMP=share_btn_tw\">told <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIf the INF treaty collapses, and with the New Start treaty on strategic arms due to expire in 2021, the world could be left without any limits on the nuclear arsenals of nuclear states for the first time since 1972.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPutin\u2019s Puppet\u201d Advances Nuclear Missile Escalations Against\u00a0Putin Yesterday the news broke that Swamp Monster-In-Chief John Bolton has been pushing President Trump to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the 1988 arms control agreement between the US and the Soviet Union eliminating all missiles of a specified range from the arsenals of the two nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20095,7844,22461,4487,2583,694,742,827,857],"class_list":["post-39470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-ballistic-missile-treaty","tag-donald-trump","tag-intermediate-range-nuclear-forces-treaty","tag-john-bolton","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-russia","tag-soviet-union","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39471,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39470\/revisions\/39471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}