Even going back to the 1980s, the president has been very interested in nuclear disarmament, and since he returned to office last January, he’s been very out there saying that he’s interested in what he calls “denuclearization.” He’s been very clear that he wants to negotiate with Xi Jinping and with Vladimir Putin to control nuclear weapons, and he’s hinted several times, in his recent conversations with those two men, that he’s talked to them about nuclear negotiations. We had a terrible time during the Cold War with severe differences over the war in Vietnam, over the wars in the Middle East, and still, we were able to establish the first detente and agree to the first strategic arms deals with the USSR. And, you know, once Dmitry Medvedev was removed from the presidency [in 2012], and Putin stepped back into that role, there was no love lost between Obama and Putin, and Putin simply declared that he was not willing to negotiate anymore with the United States until the limits of New START were achieved in 2018.
Author: Joshua Keating
Published at: 2026-02-02 22:23:50
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