{"id":39552,"date":"2018-10-22T17:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T22:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39552"},"modified":"2018-10-22T17:16:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T22:16:23","slug":"trump-threatens-us-will-increase-nukes-until-russia-china-come-to-their-senses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39552","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatens\u00a0US Will Increase Nukes Until Russia, China &#8220;Come To Their Senses&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-22\/trump-warns-us-will-increase-nukes-until-russia-china-come-their-senses\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Trump Threatens\u00a0US Will Increase Nukes Until Russia, China &#8220;Come To Their Senses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1776\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1776\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>After hours of closed door talks in Moscow between US National Security Advisor John Bolton and his Russian counterpart\u00a0Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, Bolton told reporters that <strong>the United States has yet to take a decision on whether it plans to deploy missiles in Europe if the\u00a0Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) is scrapped<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton further said that he now understands Russia\u2019s position on nuclear arms regulations and treaties\u00a0much better, and added that more consultations on arms treaties are needed, while further <strong>denying prior Russian charges that a US pullout of the INF was an attempt at\u00a0&#8220;blackmail,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0according to Russian state media sources. He subsequently had a 90-minute meeting with\u00a0Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and later in the trip is expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Bolton%20Moscow.jpg?itok=B68hNxiq\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Bolton%20Moscow.jpg?itok=B68hNxiq\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Bolton%20Moscow.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Bolton%20Moscow.jpg?itok=B68hNxiq 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"7b9f07de-64c5-42d0-bc62-4ae0f554284d\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>John Bolton shakes hands with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. Via RFE\/RL<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This comes following President Trump&#8217;s shock weekend announcement concerning the Reagan-era treaty with the Soviet Union, wherein he said\u00a0after a campaign rally in Elko, Nevada:\u00a0&#8220;We\u2019re not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement,\u201d\u00a0and indicated,\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re going to terminate the agreement.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-19\/bolton-pushes-trump-drop-1987-treaty-after-russia-unveils-advanced-nukes\"><em>The Guardian<\/em> had the day prior<\/a> to the Saturday statement revealed that Bolton &#8211; in what some described as an overreach of the position&#8217;s typical role &#8211; had been pushing Trump to abandon the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-21\/russia-slams-us-pullout-inf-treaty-seeking-concessions-through-blackmail\">reaction on Sunday was fierce<\/a> with Russia&#8217;s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warning that\u00a0<strong>Trump&#8217;s pledge to &#8220;terminate&#8221; the treaty was &#8220;very dangerous&#8221;<\/strong> and that &#8220;[Withdrawal] won&#8217;t be understood by the international community, but [instead] arouse serious condemnation of all members of the world community, who are committed to security and stability and are ready to work on strengthening the current regimes in arms control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Threatens\u00a0US Will Increase Nukes Until Russia, China &#8220;Come To Their Senses&#8221; After hours of closed door talks in Moscow between US National Security Advisor John Bolton and his Russian counterpart\u00a0Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, Bolton told reporters that the United States has yet to take a decision on whether it plans [&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":[130,7844,281,22483,22461,4487,542,22516,2583,694,22464,9845,827,857,4318],"class_list":["post-39552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-inf","tag-intermediate-range-nuclear-forces-treaty","tag-john-bolton","tag-moscow","tag-nikolay-patrushev","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-russia","tag-sergei-ryabkov","tag-sergey-lavrov","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39552","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=39552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39553,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39552\/revisions\/39553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}