Leaving the INF treaty would allow the Trump administration to counter the Chinese, but it's unclear how it would do that. U.S. National security adviser John Bolton has said the U.S. is confident that Russia has violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. She said in a tweet and a video message about the INF treaty that Russia is to blame for its demise. "When only one party respects an arms control treaty while the other side flaunts it, it leaves one side vulnerable, no one is safer, and [it] discredits the very idea of arms control." Kingston Reif, director for disarmament at the Arms Control Association, said Thursday the Trump administration has failed to exhaust diplomatic options to save the treaty.

Source: CBC News February 01, 2019 11:03 UTC