The American Conservative

Bolton hates every diplomatic agreement that has succeeded, and he applauds diplomatic breakdowns as successes.

Allowing New START to expire would be very dangerous and foolish, but all signs suggest that this is exactly what the administration is going to do.

Trump’s decision to exit the treaty doesn’t have popular support.

Giving up on the INF Treaty is one of the biggest blunders that Trump has made as president, and it could prove to be one of his costliest mistakes.

Quitting the INF Treaty unfortunately fits the administration’s pattern of reneging on and abandoning agreements without giving any thought to the consequences of withdrawal.

Quitting the INF Treaty and allowing New START to expire would represent the willful destruction of the most important arms control agreements that the U.S. has.

Letting the treaty expire would make both countries and the entire world less secure, and it would further damage relations with Russia.

Failure to extend the treaty will leave both countries worse off, and once the treaty expires it is difficult to imagine another one taking its place anytime soon.

Trump is bringing discredit on the very idea of engagement with Russia, and at the same time the U.S. gains nothing from his substance-free approach to diplomacy.

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Unfortunately, the president and his National Security Advisor have both expressed opposition to New START in the past.

The administration is once again subordinating U.S. policy to the preferences of its reckless clients in the region.

A genuine pragmatist would accept the nuclear deal for what it does and seek to maximize the benefits that the U.S. gets from it. A blinkered ideologue wants to burn it to the ground. Bolton is obviously the latter.

Corker distinguished himself in a bad way by being remarkably supportive of the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

Trump’s proposal to increase America’s nuclear arsenal would be enormously expensive, a violation of existing treaties, and the start of an unnecessary arms race.

The administration is reliably belligerent, but otherwise it is unreliable.

If Trump is now echoing the shoddy arguments against New START, that’s bad news for improving relations with Russia.