After 32 years, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the United States and Russia is dead. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the U.S.’s final withdrawal from the accord last week, blaming Russian violations for the move and promising “a new chapter by seeking a new era of arms control that moves beyond the bilateral treaties of the past.”The Trump administration has made withdrawing from productive international treaties something of a pattern, but—unlike the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Paris climate agreement, and the Iran nuclear deal—American INF-related grievances weren’t a Trump-era development; Russia pushed the envelope of the accord on …read more
Source: The New Republic
