Trump opens a new front
The United States leaves the Treaty on Medium-Range Nuclear Forces, a dangerous action in detriment of peace and stability on the planet.
Donald Trump has decided that starting this Saturday the United States will suspend the so-called INF or Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, signed in 1987 with the former Soviet Union. The treaty is considered a vital exponent in the nuclear balance between the two major powers.
This was announced by one of the government’s main hawks, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who logically attributed it to Russia’s non-compliance.
The decision has been accompanied by the establishment of a media matrix, bringing to the whole world the imperial “truth”, that is, Russian “guilt”.
On this new front of confrontation I turned to what Pedro Baños, an expert in geopolitics, wrote, who assures that “Trump’s apparent madness is a perfectly planned strategy”.
When BBC asked him if Trump is a clown, Baños assured that “this apparent madness does not cease to be a strategy: the strategy of the madman.
“That’s what he’s doing in all conflict scenarios, but keeping them open is very expensive and he, as a practical man, as a businessman, realizes that the profitability he’s getting is minimal,” he stressed.
The reality in these two years in the White House presents a Trump far removed from all logic in international relations; a man who has broken and taken his country out of vital agreements at the global level, such as the rupture with the Nuclear Agreement with Iran, the exit of the Paris Agreements on Climate Change, the abandonment of Unesco and the UN Human Rights Committee, and now, shredding a document as important as the Agreement on medium-range missiles.
If we analyze it coldly, we see that the real estate tycoon wants to lead humanity into a climate of chaos like never before.
The suspension of the INF warns us of a world that is returning to the arms race, a costly investment that is detrimental to other vital ones such as food, health, employment, education, development, among others.
This Treaty was the first agreement between the two powers, which directly prohibited an entire category of weapons: land-based cruise missiles with a range of between 500 and 5 500 kilometers.
In addition to these dangerous steps, John Bolton, National Security Advisor, and Tim Morrison, Arms Control Advisor, have said that they will not renew the New Start Treaty, also signed with Russia to limit deployed nuclear weapons to 1,550, which is in force until 2021, and if it is not extended, it could start a world of unpredictable auguries.
U.S. President Donald Trump, quoted by Reuters, said on Friday that his government will begin to develop “military response options” and it will work with NATO to adapt to the new situation generated after the suspension of the INF.
(Taken from Granma in Spanish)
Written by Radio Grito de Baire
