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President Donald Trump on Sunday formally exited the Open Skies Treaty, but now hes moving to scrap the planes, ensuring President Joe Biden will not be able to re-enter the program easily.
The Open Skies Treaty is an 18-year old agreement designed to allow the U.S. to fly reconnaissance missions over Russia to ensure the Pentagon and the President are informed of military deployments and movements. First proposed in 1992, the treaty was formalized in 2002. 34 nations are party to the agreement, and all are allowed to fly unarmed aircraft over any member nation. The goal is to ensure transparency and mutual understanding.
But Trump is working to ensure his America First policy, which now puts the U.S. at a disadvantage again, outlives his tenure in the White House for as long as possible.
Complicating Bidens options, the Trump administration is designating Open Skies aircraft excess defense articles and will liquidate the planes after leaving the treaty today, the Wall Street Journals Michael R. Gordon said Sunday.
Weve started liquidating the equipment, a senior U.S. official told the Wall Street Journal. Other countries can come purchase or just take the airframes. They are really old and cost-prohibitive for us to maintain. We dont have a use for them anymore.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, long-known to have presidential aspirations, falsely claimed Sunday that removing Americas ability to surveil Russia makes the U.S. more secure.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/trump-quits-treaty-allowing-us-to-fly-reconnaissance-missions-over-russia-will-destroy-planes/
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Of course he does.
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Hekate
(90,674 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,467 posts)Sure looks like an act to benefit Putin, IMHO.
crickets
(25,969 posts)and concerned for its safety. Republicans in Congress will respond in... oh, yeah. They won't.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)Obviously. And this is the traitor the GOP falls on their sword to protect.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Chaos and destruction are good for their goals. nt
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Asshole is going to do so much damage in this lame duck session. Seriously, his goal is to break everything on the way out the door.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)... over 4 years which is doesnt completely benefit Putin... youd think theyd do something once in awhile just to throw the dogs off their trail... but NOPE!!!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And the Trump supporters will voice their slavering, enthusiastic approval.
Chainfire
(17,536 posts)Hell, he may as well scuttle all of our submarines and surface ships too. Think of the savings!
Baitball Blogger
(46,703 posts)a sane president to transition into office on January 20th.
Did I say sane? I think we can go beyond the mental insults, when referring to Trump. He is a definite traitor to this country!
liberalla
(9,243 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)You'd think republicans would go batshit but apparently they are all in the poodle's pocket too
Skraxx
(2,971 posts)Doing as much of Putin's bidding as possible before he's unable. Delay delay delay so he can keep shoveling intel and destroying as much as possible before Biden can start learning about it.
flying_wahini
(6,591 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)The whole point of these acts is to make the nation impossible to govern. If Trump truly thought hed won, hed wait until late November-early December 2024 to poison the well. That hes destroying the government now is proof he knows he wont be around after January.
Takket
(21,563 posts)TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)global1
(25,242 posts)single-handedly funded the U.S. Military and made it the world's strongest fighting force because the Obama Administration left it in a shambles?
Trump is the one that is dismantling our military and its position in the world. Can't his supporters see that?
Johonny
(20,841 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,423 posts)the new administration is installed.