While the US spent most of 2020 not making serious inroads on a nuclear deal with Russia, President Trump is now reported to be interested in quickly rattling one off before the November 3 election.
Officials believe that once talks begin in earnest they could wrap things up within a week. They are also warning Russia that Trump would add more demands to the deal if it’s not finished by the election.
That forces Russia to make a decision, as the US was all but impossible to deal with before and 2021 Trump would apparently be a continuation of that. Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden, who is leading in the polling, has expressed interest in making a deal with Russia if he is elected.
That might be motivating Russia to make a deal based on who they think is going to win. Getting a deal done should be a priority either way, however, and that might encourage making a deal now instead of risking a surprise Trump win giving way to an expiring New START.
Russia’s Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov also questioned US confidence of getting a deal done in a week, saying they are huge differences in approach to the deal and it might be more difficult.
Trump is returning to his 2016 stance of “getting along with Russia” after he was driven away from it after the visit of Lavrov to the Oval Office and after the Helsinki Summit with Putin. The Deep State, MSM and MIC were furious over those things, and the Russiagate hoax went into higher gear.
Trump found little support for his “Detente”- the right did not like it nor did the Dem Party Establishment nor the GOP Establishment.
The left would not support it because – well, because it was the policy of Trump. They forgave themselves by saying Trump was lying about Detente anyway.
Trump did not have the support and he was not tough enough to continue with this policy which would have been hugely popular.
Now it is too late. He woke up too late to this.
Sad.
Was Trump inadequate to the task or did his Detente fail because we failed to provide support largely due to TDS?
Trump does not know what the eff is doing about anything. Period!
He lacked the courage of his convictions.
The Americans have left or let treaties expire again and again these last few years. The trade war with China, threatening to walk away from NAFTA… TDS has nothing to do with it. Trump was going to drain the swamp and do business, and hire “the best people”. Did he hell. All the while Trump is the first president to mention the MIC on Fox, he hires Bolton of all people to talk peace with NK and sends his son-in-law to “fix” Israel and the Palestinians, which consisted of giving Israel whatever they want and ignoring / dictating to the Palestinians. Trump has a vague idea that peace is popular the way he has a vague idea that racist dogwhislting fires up his base. He’s not genuinely excited or interested in either of these things beyond how they work for him either to secure his re-election or stroke his own ego (“Nobel Peace Prize, that sounds nice”).
A nuke deal. A health care plan. Debit cards for us old f*cks. A desperate man counting noses and looking for votes.
The Flim Flam Man :>)
The trust element in any “agreement” with the us should be less than zero; from the Russian side, do not believe trust but verify works at all with us involved.
Russia should hang tough.
Excellent advice!
Recently, Russian ForMin Lavrov advised europe to what passes for leadership there that if they continue with their insulting and mindless atks, it will no longer possible to conduct a diologue (or words to that effect).
I think it is becoming more and more clear that the Russians should finally give up on the usa as well as it is agreement non-capable. With pompass galloping around the world mindlessly with his threats and sanctions, why bother to try to talk some sense to these clowns-they are zionist to the extreme: with regime change and nato encirclement!
“They are also warning Russia that Trump would add more demands to the deal if it’s not finished by the election.” Just the normal fairness and courtesy expected from the good ol’ USA.