{"id":354885,"date":"2018-04-02T07:12:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T06:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-arms-control-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-04-02T07:12:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T06:12:51","slug":"no-arms-control-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-arms-control-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"No Arms Control &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>John Bolton\u2019s appointment as national security adviser to President Donald Trump is the latest blow to hopes for a less confrontational U.S.-Russia relationship that would include new talks on arms control.\u00a0Mutual trust is now hanging by a very thin thread.<\/p>\n<p>One wag suggested to me that the Bolton appointment should not really come as a surprise, since it fits the recent Washington pattern \u2014 if White House chaos can be considered a pattern. For Kremlin leaders, though, White House zig-zags are no laughing matter.\u00a0Let\u2019s try to put ourselves in their shoes and imagine how the unfolding of recent events may have looked to them.<\/p>\n<p>On March 1 in his state-of-the-nation address, President Putin revealed several new strategic weapons systems that Russia developed after the Bush\/Cheney\/Bolton administration abrogated the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which had been the cornerstone of strategic stability for the previous 30 years. (John Bolton is included in that august company because, as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control, he was Vice President Dick Cheney\u2019s enforcer to put the kibosh on the ABM Treaty.)<\/p>\n<p>You would not know it from the \u201cmainstream media,\u201d but in that same speech Putin offered to \u201csit down at the negotiating table\u201d and \u201cwork together \u2026 to ensure global security\u201d \u2014 taking into account the strategic parity Moscow claims.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to what he called \u201cour duty to inform our partners\u201d about Russia\u2019s claimed ability to render ABM systems \u201cuseless,\u201d Putin added: \u201cWhen the time comes, foreign and defense ministry experts will have many opportunities to discuss all these matters with them, if of course our partners so desire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>One \u201cPartner\u201d So Desires<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On March 20, two days after Putin was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/04\/no_author\/u-s-establishment-nixing-arms-control\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bolton\u2019s appointment as national security adviser to President Donald Trump is the latest blow to hopes for a less confrontational U.S.-Russia relationship that would include new talks on arms control.\u00a0Mutual trust is now hanging by a very thin thread. One wag suggested to me that the Bolton appointment should not really come as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}