US Builds Up Forces Around Russia, Blames Moscow for Holding on to Nukes
SputnikNews.com
25.05.2016
On the eve of his trip to Japan for next weekend’s G-7 summit, President Barack Obama told Japanese broadcaster NHK that Moscow is to blame for stalling the process of global nuclear disarmament. Russian geopolitics experts Mikhail Alexandrov and Vyacheslav Tetekin explain why the president’s remarks are particularly cynical and disingenuous.
When asked by NHK about global nuclear disarmament and the prospects for a world without nuclear weapons, Obama recalled that he’d “tried to negotiate with the Russians, and was able to get, when I first came into office, a START-II treaty that reduced the stockpiles of Russian and US nuclear weapons.”
Presently, however, the situation has changed, and according to the president, Moscow is to blame. “I think we can go further but so far Russia has not shown its self interest in doing more,” Obama complained.
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