Politics Putin flips off the nuclear weapons agreement

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  1. riverman

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    Interesting this happens just as Flynn resigns......feel safer now?

    WASHINGTON — Russia has secretly deployed a new cruise missile despite complaints from American officials that it violates a landmark arms control treaty that helped seal the end of the Cold War, administration officials say.

    The move presents a major challenge for President Trump, who has vowed to improve relations with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and to pursue future arms accords.

    The new Russian missile deployment also comes as the Trump administration is struggling to fill key policy positions at the State Department and the Pentagon — and to settle on a permanent replacement for Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser who resigned late Monday. Mr. Flynn stepped down after it was revealed that he had misled the vice president and other officials over conversations with Moscow’s ambassador to Washington
     
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    And I thought Rasta would be all over this? ....breaking protocol for the first time since the end of the cold war....and we have huge holes in nat'l security right now....Trump holding nat'l security talks in a restaurant filled with customers and the leader of Japan? The swamp just got thicker
     
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    When speaking with Putin on the phone, reportedly Putin asked Trump about the SALT treaty. It's been around since 1972 but Trump did not know what it was. Then he said on the phone it was a terrible treaty because weak Obama.

    Hard to drain the swamp when the swampmaster is puling the strings - by which I mean Putin.
     
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    But I thought being best buds with Putin would push us away from WWIII.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Doesn't sound like the Vladimir Putin I know ...
     
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