{"id":39510,"date":"2018-10-22T05:42:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T10:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39510"},"modified":"2018-10-22T05:42:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T10:42:30","slug":"washingtons-latest-cold-war-maneuver-pulling-out-of-the-inf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39510","title":{"rendered":"Washington\u2019s Latest Cold War Maneuver: Pulling Out of the INF"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington\u2019s Latest Cold War Maneuver: Pulling Out of the INF<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The Trump administration has decided to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), the most comprehensive disarmament treaty ever negotiated between Washington and Moscow.\u00a0 National Security Adviser John Bolton, a long-time opponent of arms control, reportedly will inform Russian President Vladimir Putin this week that the United States will do so. The Trump administration will also be briefing our key European allies on the decision, which will complicate relations with Germany and France who favor maintaining the treaty.\u00a0 This is the latest in a series of U.S. steps over the past 20 years that have put the Russians on the defensive, and led Russian President Vladimir Putin to be more assertive in protecting Moscow\u2019s interests in East Europe.<\/p>\n

The INF treaty actually eliminated an entire class of intermediate-range missiles from the U.S. and Soviet arsenals in 1987.\u00a0 The Pentagon opposed the treaty, and Secretary of Defense Weinberger and his deputy for arms control and disarmament, Richard Perle, resigned in protest over President Ronald Reagan\u2019s decision to go forward.\u00a0 The Pentagon has opposed all presidential decisions to pursue disarmament, although\u2014in the case of INF\u2014the Soviets destroyed more than twice as many missiles as the United States, and the European theatre became safer for U.S. forces stationed there.\u00a0 The treaty and the improved bilateral relations actually led to a slowdown in military spending in both the United States and Russia.<\/p>\n

In 2002, President George W. Bush created the worst of all possible strategic worlds when he abrogated the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM), the cornerstone of strategic deterrence and one of the pearls of Soviet-American arms control policy.<\/p>\n

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Washington\u2019s Latest Cold War Maneuver: Pulling Out of the INF Photo Source White House Photographic Office | CC BY 2.0 The Trump administration has decided to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), the most comprehensive disarmament treaty ever negotiated between Washington and Moscow.\u00a0 National Security Adviser John Bolton, a long-time opponent of arms […]<\/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":[149,5493,22483,22461,4487,22484,542,22485,694,742,857,865],"class_list":["post-39510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cold-war","tag-counterpunch","tag-inf","tag-intermediate-range-nuclear-forces-treaty","tag-john-bolton","tag-melvin-goodman","tag-moscow","tag-richard-perle","tag-russia","tag-soviet-union","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39510","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=39510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39511,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39510\/revisions\/39511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}