{"id":11166,"date":"2018-10-22T11:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=11166"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:24:30","slug":"president-trump-to-pull-us-from-russia-missile-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=11166","title":{"rendered":"President Trump to pull US from Russia missile treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The US will withdraw from a landmark nuclear weapons treaty with Russia, President Donald Trump has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters, Mr Trump said Russia had &#8220;violated&#8221; the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty.<\/p>\n<p>The deal banned ground-launched medium-range missiles, with a range of between 500 and 5,500km (310-3,400 miles).<\/p>\n<p>The US would not let Russia &#8220;go out and do weapons [while] we&#8217;re not allowed to&#8221;, Mr Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why President [Barack] Obama didn&#8217;t negotiate or pull out,&#8221; the president said after a campaign rally in Nevada. &#8220;They&#8217;ve been violating it for many years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2014,\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-28538387\">President Obama accused Russia of breaching the INF<\/a>\u00a0after it allegedly tested a ground-launched cruise missile. He reportedly chose not to withdraw from the treaty under pressure from European leaders, who said such a move could restart an arms race.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian foreign ministry source said the US move was motivated by a &#8220;dream of a unipolar world&#8221; where it is the only global superpower, state news agency RIA Novosti reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US will withdraw from a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11167,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions\/11167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}