PressTV-US deep state sets guidelines for foreign policy: Ron Paul

Former Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has warned about the dangers posed under Trump by the US military-industrial complex, which wanted to increase arms sales.

Paul said on Monday the US arms manufacturers, which were one of the most powerful groups in the US deep state and wielded huge influence over Trump, were setting the guidelines for the US foreign policy. 

US President Donald Trump, over the weekend, confirmed that he planned to pull the US out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, known by its acronym “INF”, claiming Moscow had been violating the Cold War era nuclear weapons deal. The treaty limited the proliferation of intermediate nuclear weapons.

“US foreign policy is not going in the direction we would like it to go. There is a nemesis in the military-industrial complex, “Paul said in an interview published on Monday. “They are really very powerful,” Paul said referring…

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