Trump says US will leave nuclear deal with Russia

The statement was made this Saturday (20) in a speech in Nevada. Donald Trump said: "We will end the treaty."

In recent days, the fact that Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, was pressuring the US president to drop the treaty signed in the Cold War with the former Soviet Union came to light.

The treaty reports nuclear weapons of intermediate reach and dates from 1987. The US has accused Russia of violating the agreement by developing a new cruise missile. The government of the Russian Federation denies the allegations.

"They have been violating the agreement for many years and I do not know why President Obama did not negotiate or leave," Trump told reporters on Saturday.

The agreement stipulates the elimination of nuclear and conventional missiles with the range between 500 km and 1000 km and between 1000 km and 5.5 thousand km.

"We will not let them violate the nuclear agreement and build weapons ... We are the ones who have remained in the agreement and we honor the treaty, but Russia has unfortunately not honored the agreement so we will end it, we will leave [the agreement], "he said.

In addition to accusing Russia of violating the agreement, Donald Trump said the United States needs the development of its military equipment.

The possibility that the US leaves the agreement still suffers resistance from sectors of the government, such as the Pentagon itself. According to sources heard by the British newspaper The Guardian, Bolton would be trying to prevent negotiations for the extension of a new treaty, the "New Beginning", signed in 2010 and which expires in 2021.

Throughout the speech Donald Trump also talked about China.

"Unless Russia comes to us and China comes to us and they all come to us and say 'let's be smart, let none of us develop these weapons,'" he said, adding, "But if Russia is doing this and China is doing this and we are holding the agreement, that is unacceptable.

So we have a tremendous amount of money to put into our military sector. "

The US president also said he would withdraw from the agreement and develop the weapons prohibited by the treaty.

"If we're smart and the others are smart and say, 'We're not going to develop these terrible nuclear weapons,' I'm going to be very happy about that," Trump said. , who also said: "As long as someone is violating the agreement then we will not be the only ones keeping it."