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Analysis: The U.S.-Russia Disagreement over the INF Treaty – Do Svedanya

Posted: October 24th, 2018

By Rob Dannenberg

Rob Dannenberg served as chief of operations for CIA's Counterterrorism Center, chief of the Central Eurasia Division and chief of the Information Operations Center before retiring from the Agency.  He served as managing director and head of the Office of Global Security for Goldman Sachs, and as director of International Security Affairs at BP.  He is now an independent consultant on geopolitical and security risk.

U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss the U.S. decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). 

The meeting follows a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend, saying that the U.S. would pull out of the nuclear arms agreement “Unless Russia comes to us and China comes to us and they all come to us and they say, ‘Let’s all of us get smart and let’s one of us develop those weapons’, and indicating that the U.S. would begin building new nuclear arms.

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