Putin Takes Swipe at Trump for Withdrawing From Nuclear Treaty: 'It Was Not Worth Ruining'
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that a new nuclear weapons deal needed to be struck urgently as he criticized the decision by Donald Trump to pull the U.S. out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty which had been in place since the Cold War.
In an interview with Arabic-speaking journalists ahead of his visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Putin reiterated Russia's opposition to the withdrawal in February from the INF, which had been signed in 1987 by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan.
It banned missiles with ranges of between 310 and 3,400 miles but the U.S. and Nato had accused Russia of violating the pact by deploying a new type of cruise missile, a claim Moscow denied.
Putin said: "It think it was a mistake…and that they could have gone a different path. I do understand the U.S. concerns. While other countries are free to enhance their defences, Russia and the U.S. have tied their own hands with this treaty. However, I still believe it was not worth ruining the deal; I believe there were other ways out of the situation."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-takes-swipe-at-trump-for-withdrawing-from-nuclear-treaty-it-was-not-worth-ruining/ar-AAIKLrK?li=BBnb7Kz
Maybe you should have not meddled in the election then Pooty.
= new reply since forum marked as read
