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American Committee for East-West Accord
Trump, New START, and U.S.-Russian Relations (Daniel Larison)
Feb 13, 2017 04:36 am
In the case of New START, it was conventional hawkish boilerplate back in 2009-2010 that Russia benefited more from the treaty, but this wasn’t true. It represented the continuation of a mutually beneficial arms reduction process, and it ensured that reductions by both sides would be verified by inspections….…If Trump is now echoing the shoddy arguments against New START, that suggests that he doesn’t understand that arms control is one of the major areas where U.S.-Russian cooperation is very important, and it also means that he is getting very bad advice from the same kinds of people that Romney was listening to back then. That’s bad news for improving relations with Russia.http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/trump-new-start-and-u-s-russian-relations/
