Trump: the United States is ready to increase nuclear potential

US President Trump, speaking on Monday to journalists, again stated that Washington intends to denounce the 1987 American-Soviet Treaty on the elimination of medium and smaller missiles due to its violation by the Russian side.

The president emphasized that the United States is ready to increase its nuclear arsenal. "America will increase its nuclear arsenal, while the countries of the world, such as Russia, China or any other, do not realize that they cannot threaten our safety or the security of our allies with impunity. Russia did not follow the spirit or the letter of the RSMD agreement," Donald Trump said.

China has not signed this kind of agreement with the United States and therefore is not limited to creating a similar type of missiles.

The new statement of the president followed on the eve of the meeting of his national security adviser to John Bolton with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is expected that John Bolton will announce to Vladimir Putin about the decision of Donald Trump to refuse the United States to refuse the RSMD agreement.

The RSMD agreement, signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, eliminated a whole class of ground -based missiles, both ordinary and nuclear, with a range of 500 to 5.5 thousand kilometers. However, according to Washington, Moscow, in violation of the agreement, created a medium -range missile "Novator 9M729", capable of delivering a lightning punch on NATO countries.