Trump is moving towards a very serious decision

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday Washington would withdraw from a treaty on its long-range nuclear weapons deal with Moscow during the Cold War, accusing Russia of violating it for many years.

Moscow was quickly respond by a source at the foreign ministry, saying that the United States “dreams” to be the only dominant force in the world, accusing Washington of “deliberately” to undermine this treaty for years.

On October 10, the Director of the Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Vladimir Jeremakov, said that the deployment of MK-41 launchers on the territory of Romania and Poland was contrary to the medium- and short-range missile disposal agreements Term.

He pointed out that there are serious questions about the work of our American colleagues that are inconsistent with the medium and short-range missile agreements, including the deployment of multi-use launchers “MK-41” on the territory of Romania and Poland.

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Weapons Treaty was signed in 1987 between US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

The treaty provides for the reduction of medium- and short-range missiles, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, and the parties have pledged not to manufacture, test or deploy any ballistic, winged or medium-range missiles and to destroy all missile systems with an average range of 1000 – 5500 km, and its short range between 500 – 100000 km.

By May 1991, the Treaty had been fully implemented, with the Soviet Union destroying 1,792 ballistic missiles and ground-fired launchers, while the United States destroyed only 859 missiles.

It should be noted that the treaty is not limited in duration, but each party to the treaty has the right to revoke it after providing convincing evidence that it is necessary to leave it.

“Russia has not respected the treaty, so we will end the agreement and develop these weapons”, US President Donald Trump told reporters in Elko, Nevada.

“We will not allow them to violate a nuclear agreement and go out and manufacture weapons (while) we are barred from doing so.

We stayed in the agreement and respected it, but Russia did not respect it unfortunately”.

The Trump administration in Moscow is deploying a 9M729 missile system with a range of 500 km, according to Washington, in violation of the treaty.

The treaty, which eliminated a full range of missiles ranging from 500 to 5000 km, put an end to a crisis in the 1980s over the Soviet Union’s deployment of S-20 nuclear missiles targeting Western European capitals.

A source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Washington has approached this step for many years by destroying the basis of the agreement deliberately and gradually.

He added that “this decision falls within the framework of US policy to withdraw from the international legal conventions that place equal responsibilities on them as on their partners and undermine their own concept of their exceptional status”.

Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov said in a tweet on Twitter that Trump’s decision to withdraw from the treaty was “the second major blow to the world’s strategic stability system” after Washington pulled out of the 2001 ABM Treaty.

“Again, the United States is the party that initiated the withdrawal from the treaty”, Pushkov said.

Trump announced his decision as his national security adviser, John Bolton, arrived in Moscow on Saturday to “continue” the dialogue between the US and Russian presidents, which began last July.

Bolton, known for his hard-line positions, is set to meet with senior Russian officials on Monday, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.

The British newspaper “The Guardian” said Bolton was pressing the US president to withdraw from the “medium-range nuclear weapons treaty” and was blocking negotiations on the expansion of the START II treaty, which expires in 2021 and which Russia wants to extend.

The withdrawal of the United States from the treaty could draw attention to China, which could develop without restriction its medium-range nuclear weapons since it did not sign the agreement.

Before his election, the US president promised to establish the best relations with Russia, but doubts about the complicity of his campaign team with the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential election.

In July, Trump showed a very calm attitude toward Putin during a joint press conference held after their first summit in Helsinki on July 16, particularly with regard to accusations of Russian interference in the US presidential election, which Moscow denies.

The two presidents will meet on November 11 in Paris to celebrate the end of the First World War.