The nuclear arms treaty between the U.S. and Russia has now expired and Trump is showing no urgency to sign a new one

Vladimir Putin is a reckless man who invades countries and has his opponents killed, but he understands that some things are too dangerous to meddle with.

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That’s why he proposed last September that the United States and Russia should extend their ‘New START’ nuclear arms control treaty for one more year, to gain more negotiating time for renewing it.

Donald Trump is also a reckless man who invades countries, but he does not order his opponents killed.

On the other hand, he is far more ignorant than Putin, which is why he didn’t even make an official reply to the Russian dictator’s proposal.

“If it expires, it expires,” Trump told the New York Times last month. “We’ll just do a better one.”

Well, it has just expired, and there’s no sign that the hyperactive US president is fast-tracking a replacement for what he sees as ‘Obama’s treaty’.

Besides, you don’t win Nobel Peace Prizes by renegotiating old treaties.

It took years to negotiate the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), which was signed in 1969. It might never have........

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