The Trump Regime

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Trump says US will withdraw from nuclear arms treaty with Russia

Donald Trump has confirmed the US will leave an arms control treaty with Russia dating from the cold war that has kept nuclear missiles out of Europe for three decades.

“We’ll have to develop those weapons,” the president told reporters in Nevada after a rally. “We’re going to terminate the agreement and we’re going to pull out.”

Trump was referring to the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF), which banned ground-launch nuclear missiles with ranges from 500km to 5,500km. Signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, it led to nearly 2,700 short- and medium-range missiles being eliminated, and an end to a dangerous standoff between US Pershing and cruise missiles and Soviet SS-20 missiles in Europe.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... aty-russia

A large cheer goes up from the MIC.

[Stooo]

And Putin withdraws hours later also.

Funny old world...

[Fletch]

Washington Resurrected the Arms Race

By Paul Craig Roberts

The meetings in Beijing during January 30-31 between Washington, Russia, China, France and the UK apparently failed to preserve the commitment to prohibit intermediate range nuclear weapons. Washington stuck to its determination to withdraw from the historic agreement of Reagan and Gorbachev to destroy all land-based intermediate range nuclear missiles. This US withdrawal from a nuclear weapons reduction agreement follows the George W. Bush/Cheney regime’s withdrawal from the anti-ballistic missile treaty. Indeed, since the Clinton regime, every US president has produced worsening trust between the two major nuclear powers.

No good can come of this as Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said at the Beijing meeting.

The intermediate range nuclear missile treaty (INF) does not involve US security. It protects Europe from Russian missiles and Russia from US missiles stationed in Europe. Trump’s announcement that he is breaking free of the treaty tells the Russians that they are going to have missiles on their borders that allow them no response time. The Europeans are crazy to go along with this as they will be targeted by Russia in turn, but the Europeans are Washington’s vassals.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51019.htm

Another treaty scrapped. Who'd do any deal with the US who time and time again prove they don't keep their side of any deal.

[Fletch]

Iran nuclear deal: Trump pulls US out in break with Europe allies

US President Donald Trump says he will withdraw the US from an Obama-era nuclear agreement with Iran.

Calling it "decaying and rotten", he said the deal was "an embarrassment" to him "as a citizen".

Going against advice from European allies, he said he would reimpose economic sanctions that were waived when the deal was signed in 2015.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44045957

[Fletch]

And Putin withdraws hours later also.

Funny old world...

When you are the target, you act accordingly.

[Fletch]

God Wanted Donald Trump To Be United States President: White House Press Secretary

God wanted Donald Trump to be United States president and that is why he supports things important to people of faith, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has told a US religious broadcaster.

In an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network, Ms Sanders said Mr Trump was the most conservative president in US history.

"I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president and that's why he is there," she said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51014.htm

Dangerous Christian fundamentalists running the US.

Good job it separates church from government...

[Fletch]

And Putin withdraws hours later also.

Funny old world...

Yet another way to look at the demise of the treaty is that Washington wants out of the treaty so that it can deploy intermediate range missiles against China. Washington has actually drawn up plans for war against Russia and China and has conducted simulations of what the outcome would be. America wins, of course.

The dangerous idea that a nuclear war can be won has been pushed for some years by the neoconservatives who are committed to US hegemony over the world. This idea definitely serves the material interest of the military/security complex and is very popular among the power brokers in Washington.

Washington’s excuse for breaking the INF treaty is that Russia is cheating and has violated the treaty. But Russia has no interest in violating a treaty that protects Russia. Russia’s intermediate range missiles cannot reach the US, and the only reason Russia would target Europe would be to retaliate for Europe hosting US missiles on Russia’s borders.

The beneficiaries of a renewed nuclear arms race are the stockholders of the military/security complex. Washington is feeding their profits by placing humanity at greater risk of nuclear Armageddon. Weapons are piling up, the use of which would destroy all life on the planet. This makes the weapons the very opposite of security. Trump whose goal was to normalize relations with Russia is now under the thumb of the military/security complex and has announced US intentions to withdraw from the last remaining arms control agreement—the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51019.htm

[Stooo]

And Putin withdraws hours later also.

Funny old world...

When you are the target, you act accordingly.

Target of what?

[Fletch]

And Putin withdraws hours later also.

Funny old world...

When you are the target, you act accordingly.

Target of what?

US missiles.

Washington’s excuse for breaking the INF treaty is that Russia is cheating and has violated the treaty. But Russia has no interest in violating a treaty that protects Russia. Russia’s intermediate range missiles cannot reach the US, and the only reason Russia would target Europe would be to retaliate for Europe hosting US missiles on Russia’s borders.

[Stooo]

And Putin withdraws hours later also.

Funny old world...

When you are the target, you act accordingly.

Target of what?

US missiles.

Washington’s excuse for breaking the INF treaty is that Russia is cheating and has violated the treaty. But Russia has no interest in violating a treaty that protects Russia. Russia’s intermediate range missiles cannot reach the US, and the only reason Russia would target Europe would be to retaliate for Europe hosting US missiles on Russia’s borders.

But Putin was already building them.

[Maddog]

God Wanted Donald Trump To Be United States President: White House Press Secretary

God wanted Donald Trump to be United States president and that is why he supports things important to people of faith, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has told a US religious broadcaster.

In an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network, Ms Sanders said Mr Trump was the most conservative president in US history.

"I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president and that's why he is there," she said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51014.htm

Dangerous Christian fundamentalists running the US.

Good job it separates church from government...

I would of thought she would have said God wanted her dad to be president, after be got done saving the queen and all that business.

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Russian Foreign and Defense Ministers on US Treaty Breaches
On February 2, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defense Minuster Sergey Shoigu briefed Vladimir Putin on the history of US Treaty breaches – since the Clinton co-presidency.

It’s nothing new, ongoing for the past 20 years or longer. In 1987, the treaty was agreed on by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, a landmark agreement.

According to Lavrov, the US has been violating the treaty at least since 1999 – by “testing combat unmanned aerial vehicles that have the same characteristics as land-based cruise missiles banned by the treaty,” adding:

Since then or perhaps earlier, the US has been “us(ing) ballistic target mis......https://www.globalresearch.ca/russian-f ... es/5667456


I'm old enough to remember when America was a trusted and respected nation around the world.
Not sure why it was but there you go.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/russian-f ... es/5667456

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God Wanted Donald Trump To Be United States President: White House Press Secretary

God wanted Donald Trump to be United States president and that is why he supports things important to people of faith, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has told a US religious broadcaster.

In an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network, Ms Sanders said Mr Trump was the most conservative president in US history.

"I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president and that's why he is there," she said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51014.htm

Dangerous Christian fundamentalists running the US.

Good job it separates church from government...

Wonderful chap our Donald, doing a grand job as the US president. Could not have asked for any one better don't you think. Good golfer as well I wonder if god gave him his handicap.

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