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10-20-2018 , 07:54 PM

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/20/polit...sia/index.html

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President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the US is pulling out of the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia

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We're gonna pull out," he said of the agreement, which was signed in December 1987 by former President Ronald Reagan and former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachecv.

Thanks Awval.

10-20-2018 , 08:33 PM

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the guy's a walking disaster.

10-21-2018 , 12:05 AM

wheatrich

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russia already was ignoring that treaty but yeah this isn't good

gotta be bolton's doing, that's the kind of thing he'd want

Trump certainly wouldn't have known of this things existence until someone who wanted it gone pointed it out to him.

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10-21-2018 , 09:30 AM

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lol at Trump pulling out of anything

10-21-2018 , 09:40 AM

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Trump loves this sort of **** because he feels like a big boy when he acts unilaterally and doesn't have to ask congress to do something. Treaties, tariffs, pardons, he has no ****ing idea what he's doing but he loves to mash dem buttons.

10-21-2018 , 09:47 AM

jalfrezi

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UK Tory government following His Masters Voice as always.

10-21-2018 , 09:56 AM

chezlaw

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Isnt this more about China than Russia? USA can't have an arms race (or wahtever they imagine they are doing with respect to china) with a top tier power if it's bound to a treaty with a 3rd rate one

10-22-2018 , 12:19 AM

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Standard act of aggression by the US

Worrying times for any BRICS nation with the UK increasing their Nuclear budget this year and, when including veterans benefits, the US now spending 2/3rds of its people's hard earned taxes on it's Military (lol democracy)

I'm not a Trump supporter but the good thing about him is that he is too transparent and polarizing to lead the people into full scale war. Had Clinton/May/Macron/Netanyahu all been in power simultaneously we could possibly be in the middle of WW3 right now...

10-22-2018 , 12:40 AM

John21

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Originally Posted by chezlaw

Isnt this more about China than Russia? USA can't have an arms race (or wahtever they imagine they are doing with respect to china) with a top tier power if it's bound to a treaty with a 3rd rate one

Remarks by Vice President Pence on the Administration’s Policy Toward China
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings...-toward-china/

10-22-2018 , 02:39 AM

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It has been said that in the past it was much easier to control a million people instead of killing a million people and going forward into the future it will be much easier to kill a million people than to control a million people.

10-22-2018 , 08:00 PM

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I mean, why do have all those weapons if we waint gonna use them.

10-23-2018 , 07:23 AM

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Pretty sure I heard him say "our military has 700 billion to play with" in an interview the other day when he first mentioned leaving the deal. Good that the CinC views war as a game.

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