Sanctions and Nuclear Weapons: Trump offers a deal

16.01.2017
USA

US President-elect Donald Trump has proposed a comprehensive solution to the problems that have accumulated between Moscow and Washington. In his words, the United States can lift the sanctions against Russia if an agreement to significantly reduce nuclear weapons is achieved.

Business approach

By making this statement, Trump has reiterated his commitment to the realist approach to international relations. He cannot remove such ideologically-motivated sanctions immediately following his inauguration because if he did so, he would be subject to a new wave of criticism from the globalist networks in the government and the media. Instead, he is now formulating a possible offer which will be announced at a meeting with Vladimir Putin. Trump calls this kind of offer a "win-win deal".

The key question

Establishing relations with Moscow will be one of the most important foreign policy questions facing the new White House administration. Trump will need to prove in practice that he is a better negotiator than Obama. Thus, it is possible that an agreement with Russia that would suggest a kind of détente could be concluded in record time. American society is suffering from a number of phobias rooted in the Cold War. One of them is the fear of a nuclear war with Russia. This kind of sentiment has largely been fueled by previous administrations in order to manipulate the population.

Nuclear factor

The presence of modern nuclear weapons is a key point of  sovereignty of such large states as Russia and the United States. It is therefore hard to foresee a significant reduction of contemporary nuclear systems. It is possible, however, that older types of nuclear weapons which no longer present any tactical or strategic value could be reduced. According to experts, a significant part of America’s nuclear potential is constituted by just these kinds of systems. Thus, this would be not only a chance to dispose of obsolete weapons, but also a formal occasion for warming relations with Moscow.

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