'You don't rip up international law, you enforce it'
- @PatriciaMary speaks to @JonSnowC4 following Trump's threat to withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
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'The Americans say that Russia has been cheating on the treaty, and in fact, the Obama administration pointed to a missile that Russia was developing. Russia then agreed they would not deploy it and now the Trump administration says they have deployed it.'
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'I think its likely that both countries have strayed over the line.' 'This happens a lot in treaties one county say this, one country says that - we saw it all the way through the Cold War.'
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'The question is should they just be withdrawing from the treaty or should they be holding Russia's feet to the fire, bringing them to the UN security council and talking about how they rectify this situation.'
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US National Security Adviser John Bolton doesn't like international constraints and restrictions on US actions, and following Iran and Paris, we're seeing a withdrawal from international law, which isn't a good thing - says
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