Trump plans to start arms race: Analyst

US President Donald Trump pulled out of a key nuclear treaty with Russia to start an arms race, increase US militarism and war-making, an American writer and political commentator says.

The Trump administration withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) on Friday.

Stephen Lendman told Press TV in an interview on Saturday that the reason for pulling out of the treaty was to increase US militarism, arms production and war-making.

“Trump pulled out of the INF treaty to give his regime unrestricted ability to increase its nuclear weapons, and other weapons, arsenals, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, nuclear weapons, unobstructed” Lendman said.

“This is what US presidents do. All of US presidents have been pro-war. This is the way it is. This is the way the system is,” he pointed out.

Lendman said that Trump too was going along “so we will see an arms race”.

“When he became president he bragged about being unrestrained on spending as much money as possible to increase US militarism and war-making,” according to Lendman.

“Now the US is more unrestrained… and doing whatever it wants, to expand Its cruise missiles, its ballistic missiles, and its nuclear arsenal,” he warned.

Lendman added that the pretext for pulling out of the INF treaty was a big lie “claiming that Russia breached the agreement”.

The American researcher said that Russian had been breached it.

“Russia has been in full compliance with its INF obligations,” he said.

Lendman said, on the contrary, the US had consistently and repeatedly breached treaties and agreements.

“What the US does is blame other countries for the crimes that it commits against other countries and their people, and this goes on repeatedly,” Lendman said, adding, “Anyone paying attention to the world events knows this is going on.”

The US has abandoned numerous agreements and treaties and of course it is continuing to wage endless wars of aggression against non-belligerent countries, Lendman noted..

Pulling out of the deals and treaties, according to Lendman, “made what the US wants worse, rather than better”.

Pulling out of the INF treaty has raised serious concerns among the advocates of arms control.