One day after reports that President Trump was pushing for a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia and China, the Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement confirming that they, too, are willing to negotiate on the matter. China has yet to directly respond.
Yesterday’s report suggested that Trump’s primary goal for any treaty was to place new limits on Russia’s nuclear arsenal. Russia’s Deputy FM Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia wants a joint statement of all three nations repudiating any use of nuclear weapons.
Talk of new nuclear negotiations is a surprise after the US unilaterally withdrew from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Many feared this would usher in an era where disarmament talks just didn’t happen.
New negotiations are likely to be complicated, touching on long-standing issues related to strategic arms. This is likely to include the US deployment of missile defense systems along Russia and China’s respective frontiers.
Now that the bogus Mueller Inquisition has finally collapsed,
TALKS can begin btw superpowers.
After a needless 2 yr. delay courtesy of the Dem-crat party.
Didn’t seem to stop spanky from ripping up every nuclear agreement he could find, send anti missile systems to eastern Poland, and develop new “usable” nukes. But your right, big victory for his minions, hes not in jail. Of course, that would change 5 minutes after he ever testified under oath.
So you wanted another Hillary/0bama “reset”, right,
that went so well.
And you don’t understanding opening negotiations from a position
that has leverage, Trump does, hence scrapping the agreements.
Regardless though, you seem so crestfallen that after 2 yrs of microscopic scrutiny from the FBI’s “finest”, 18 angry Leftist attorneys, come up with NOTHING! That’s called “checkmate!”
Hilarious!
Coulda, woulda, shoulda is for the grumbling loser, “if he testified”, pleez.
Lol, what did one his lead attorneys say ? He wont testify, it’s a perjury trap….nice trump logic, scrap arms control treaties, arm yourself as fast as you can, then renegotiate at a later date. I don’t think you grasp the point of arms control.
Are you familiar with the justice system?
If Mueller wanted his testimony,
he would have to subpoena him,
but, … Mueller didn’t.
2yrs, NOTHING!
Trump got Kim to the table,
he got Mehico and Canada to the table,
he got the EU to ante up re NATO,
destroyed the ISIS caliphate when 0bama said it would take 100K US troops so declined.
All the while, cut taxes,
fostered a RECORD stock market,
RECORD low UE and
a 1st quarter GDP of 3.2%!
I don’t think you grasp what it takes to be a big league player.
Spanky did all that ? Wow, stoke, thanks fer taking the time from your amazing world to let us at antiwar know how great the world got again.
Wow Dave,
that was quite an air-pocket rebuttal.
Thanks for letting everyone a antiwar know how
quickly you run out of talking points.
WRONG! Kim got Trump to the table, and got him to cancel those exercises. ISIS was started by the US (as Trump said during the campaign, “we founded ISIS”) and Saudis, and would have been destroyed by the Syrians without years of US obstruction. But believe whatever you want. And what you don’t get is that Mueller’s “deep state” coup worked like a charm — it turned Trump into a neoconservative, much like yourself.
WRONG,
without Trump scaring the shiite out of Kim with
the 7th Fleet parking off shore,
increasing the sanctions,
practicing war games on his southern border,
letting it known SEAL teams were practicing for a decapitation scenario, FAT Kim would be sitting pretty, but,
not able to get a full nights sleep—–he caved.
The US (0bama/Hillary) absolutely created ISIS,
and for years the Syrians (what US “obstruction”, absurd)
couldn’t stop shiite!
0bama complained it would take 100 K US ground troop to deal with them, so he demurred.
Trump employed 2 Marine artillery units, air power and Sp. Ops. the result caliphate GONE! Minimal loses, peanuts for costs.
What you don’t get is Mueller’s “deep staters” WERE running everything,
now with Trump, not so much!
“Minimal loses, peanuts for costs” that’s why I dont respond to your BS view, your just a common sociopath, like spanky. I bet you wish you could iron his pants with him in em, Amerisas’ old job.
Compare the costs
of invading Iraq or Afghanistan as 0bama said we would have to do
in order to eliminate the ISIS caliphate.
By comparison there were minimal casualties and peanuts for costs.
You just can’t stand that Trump wisely used local ground forces
(mainly Kurds) and in a matter of months the caliphate was gone.
All of this after years of ISIS mass beheadings and
attacks on US and ally soil,
while 0bama dithered and complained impotence.
Just facts Dave.
No, the marines leveled all infrastructure that constitutes a “state”. Thereby killing who knows how many people, and creating millions of refugees which were the cause of the arab spring, and resulting civil wars across the middle east. The Russians and the Syrian state were on there way to end “ISIS” resistance before trump came in to escalate the war to devastating levels. Guess you think that’s ok. Dont bother linking US casualty figures, or costs. Lies. Your assessment of what Obama “thought” was needed is pure fantasy. Following the chemical attack bs in 2015, Obama left it to Congress to authorize beyond the 400 troops that were there. The Russians brokered the deal to make that unnecessary. No, your man promised to carpet bomb “ISIS” cities and kill “terrorists” families. That is one promise he kept.
“Just facts”
Facts? You want facts? OK, let’s have some facts.
The Islamic State lost territory. That was already happening before Obama green-lighted the US invasion of Syria and it was going to continue happening whether the “US-led coalition” murdered thousands of civilians to try to get Trump credit for the Islamic State losing territory or not.
The actual outcomes of Trump’s particular policy:
1) Trump maintained and increased the US’s status as ISIS’s most successful recruiter/fundraiser and juiciest future target.
2) The ISIS faction that realized a “platform” rather than “territorial” approach will be more successful prevailed and got to work more quickly than it otherwise would have.
No “facts” just your speculation, Tom.
ISIS was not losing territory, they were solidifying, the Syrians never really threatened them. Things did not change until Trump changed the ROE, added US artillery, and organized the Kurds. Those are facts. Show me where, before Trump took office ISIS was “losing territory”.
1) Where is a fact here. After Trump engaged them, they lost their caliphate, that is a fact. So if your statement had any validity, how did it result in their destruction?
2) ISIS didn’t “realize” anything other that losing their territorial base. And just as AQ or the Mafia, when defeated in an area, they scatter like cuchroaches for survival.
I only saw opinion in your post. No factual anchors. The caliphate is gone, that is a fact, and it didn’t occur while 0bama was president.
If you think ISIS “lost their caliphate,” then what you’re dealing in is not fact. All they lost was a point of vulnerability. In a new and different age of warfare where success is not measured in “territory held,” they temporarily let themselves be seduced into playing the old game, against that game’s more experienced and better-positioned players.
” Show me where, before Trump took office ISIS was ‘losing territory.'”
I apologize. I didn’t realize that either the years 2014, 2015, and 2016 hadn’t occurred in your universe or that Sahel, Zara, Rima Farms, Ras al-Ain, Krak des Chevaliers, Flita, Ras Maara, Rankous, Al-Zabadani, Tal Buraq, Kessab, Aleppo and the Daraa Governate didn’t exist in your alternative geography.
The objective was to remove ISIS’s territorial base of operations,
which was achieved.
No one killed every AQ fighter,
and no one will ever kill every ISIS fighter,
but knee-capping and keeping them on the run is an imperative achievement.
ISIS was at it’s territorial height in 2014,
and the battle for Mosul
(the first significant defeat for ISIS)
didn’t start until Oct. 2016 and was not completed until July 2017.
So while their were minor back and forth contests,
in 2015- 2016,
the turning point occurred in July 2017.
If Kim “caved,” how come he still has all his nuclear weapons? Why didn’t he just surrender all his weapons at the Hanoi conference, as Pompeo tried to get him to do, if he was so scared of the mighty Trumpie-bear?
As for Syria and ISIS, I have to thank Thomas Knapp for this one:
“I apologize. I didn’t realize that either the years 2014, 2015, and 2016 hadn’t occurred in your universe or that Sahel, Zara, Rima Farms, Ras al-Ain, Krak des Chevaliers, Flita, Ras Maara, Rankous, Al-Zabadani, Tal Buraq, Kessab, Aleppo and the Daraa Governate didn’t exist in your alternative geography.”
What you will never get, because you’re a deluded fanboy, is that they aren’t MUELLER’s “deep staters;” he is their pawn, not their master. And they are as much in charge now as they ever were. Otherwise, explain the overwhelming influence of Pompeo, Bolton, Abrams, etc. Mueller’s “Russian meddling” blackmail was exactly what made sure that Trump went along with neoconservative foreign policies. Of course, someone like you doesn’t really care about nonintervention. Your version of peace is “the US bellows, and everyone obeys.”
Kim isn’t shooting rockets over Japan or threatening SK,
diplomacy takes time.
0bama pretended to take on ISIS, with ROE that prohibited destroying truck convoys of oil that funded ISIS, because 0bama said the drivers were civilians! And the Air Force complaints about returning pilots, who were not cleared for bombing and were force to land with ordinance, or just drop the stuff in an empty field for a safer landing. While I’ll grant Tom’s point about “success” on the margins, nothing really changed until Trump changed the ROE and sent in additional Marine artillery and pursued a full-on alliance with the Kurds. The real shift came with the fall of Mosul, the oil capital and principle funding source for ISIS.
What you will never get is those FISA warrants were falsified to subvert a valid election and maintain the “deep state” grip on the US. Mueller was nothing but a prop to fabricate a charge, he failed and now the real
coup leaders are in the cross-hairs, just stay tuned.
These detailed partial measures only eventually lead to distrust and exploitation, as they did before. Such a limited approach does not address the heart of the problem which is using public states as war machines of private interests.
This is the only good way to spin several of our governments recent moves – that they wanted to replace some of the old bilateral agreements so that China is included. However, I don’t know if that’s true, and if it IS true I’m sure Bolton & Friends are already working to sabotage it.
Of course, no mention is made of Israeli nuclear weapons or of including them in any reduction agreement. Could it be that Trump’s puppet masters want to be the only country with nuclear weapons so they can control the rest of the world by threatening nuclear inialation to any country that does not captitulate to them?
For Israel, the Samson Option is always on the table, no matter what agreement the other nuclear powers come to. That’s an unstated given in any negotiations. As Moshe Dayan once said, “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.” If it looks like Israel’s going down, they will take the rest of us with them in Holocaust II.
They also didn’t mention India, Pakistan, France, Britain, or North Korea. why would they want to discuss Israel, or any of the other second or third tier powers?
I”m not surprised because I in fact predicted that Trump would want to put his name on a new nuke treaty. I said it here more than once. Pulling out of the old treaty was his way of setting the stage so that he can be the guy who signs a new one. Even if that new one, isn’t one bit different than the old one, he want’s to look like he’s the guy doing everything. I’m not sure why everyone didn’t see this coming.
A blind man could see that this is how Trump works, why would a nuke treaty be any different? The guy lives to put his own name on top of EVERYTHING. He’s simply doing it again with bigger stakes. And no I don’t approve of doing business that way, but it is what it is and everyone should have seen this coming. It’s Trump Style 101.