The US & our allies must push the UN to convene a new round of negotiations leading to solid and unambiguous treaties that will prevent rogue nations from invading nearby states they covet.
Nuclear non-proliferation and preventing war — stopping or even reversing the spread of nuclear weapons across the world and preventing the invasion of one country by another — is right up there with doing something about climate change in terms of guaranteeing a future that includes safety and security for the people of our planet.
Right now we're engaged in negotiations with Iran, for example.
Since Trump stupidly and single-handedly pulled the US out of the JCPOA Iran nuclear deal, we and the other countries negotiating the deal (Britain, France, China, Germany, Russia, and the US) are trying to assure Iran that we'll protect them in the event, say, Saudi Arabia or Israel decide to try to take them out.
It's not going so well, and part of the reason is the failure of the "Budapest Memorandum" of 1994, an agreement worked out just three years after the Soviet Union dissolved and Ukraine again became an independent nation.Read more at
HartmannReport.com.
-Thom
