Trump intends to increase US nuclear potential

The United States must expand its nuclear arsenal in order to be "on leading positions" in this area. This was in an interview with Reuters by US President Donald Trump.

According to Trump, his dream is "so that no country had nuclear weapons." “But if the countries intend to have it, we will be the best,” the American president added.

In addition, Trump said that he was dissatisfied with the deployment of Moscow cruise missiles, which contradicts the agreement on the elimination of medium and shorter missiles. When asked whether he intends to discuss this problem with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump replied that he would certainly do this if he met Putin. At the same time, he specified that such a meeting has not yet been planned.

The head of the International Committee of the Council of the Federation Konstantin Kosachev called Trump's statement "the most alarming" among all those who sounded earlier. “Let me remind you that the START -3 is based on the absolute parity of the nuclear forces of Russia and the USA. Its meaning, like all previous agreements in this area, is precisely in preventing“ superiority in the nuclear sphere ”of any of the parties. And this is the fundamental circumstance that ensures global strategic security,” Kosachevwrote on his Facebook page.

On February 15, the New York Times, referring to sources in the American administration, reported that the Russian military launched a completely combat-ready unit of ground-based winged land-basing Earth-Earth class. According to the publication, Russia deployed two divisions of cruise missiles, one of which is located at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region, and the other in December was moved from this landfill to an unknown base. According to the United States, this violates the RSMD agreement.

Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov, in turn, said that Russia remains committed to its international obligations, including the RSMD agreement. “No one officially accused Russia of violating the RSMD,” he said. “Russia remained and remains committed to its international obligations, including within the framework of the contract you mentioned.”

In mid-January, Trump did not exclude the abolition of some sanctions against Russia, assuming that "something could turn out so that many people would win." At the same time, Trump has blessed the abolition of sanctions with the conclusion of a nuclear transaction with Moscow.

"You have sanctions against Russia - we will see if we can achieve a couple of good deals with Russia," the elected president of the United States said. At the same time, he explained that for him the priority in building relations with Moscow will be the issue of containing nuclear potential.

“On the one hand, I believe that nuclear weapons should be much less and it needs to be significantly reduced,” he said. “But there are sanctions from which Russia is currently suffering.” “But I think you can do something so that many have benefited,” the elected president of the United States added, without specifying exactly how he intends to link these two questions.

The perpetual Treaty of the RSMD was signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in 1987 in Washington. The parties pledged not to produce, not to experience and not to deploy ballistic and cruise missiles of ground -based medium and low range.