US tells Russia it will withdraw from INF treaty because of Russian breach--Trump Putin to meet in Europe

BBC:

US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin plan to meet in Paris next month, amid a continuing dispute over a key nuclear arms treaty.

The pair will meet at World War One centenary commemorations, US National Security Adviser John Bolton said.

He was in Moscow to convey US plans to withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty.

Russia denies US claims it has breached the treaty and warns that withdrawal is a "dangerous step".
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Mr Bolton said a formal notice of withdrawal had not yet been filed but would be "in due course".

He pointed out that the world was now "multipolar" and that other nations, specifically China, had taken advantage of the US-Russia Cold War-era treaty that banned medium-range missiles.

China has urged that the treaty be retained, prompting Mr Bolton to say he would also want it to be "if I were living in Beijing. But I am not".
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It was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, in the final years of the Cold War.

It banned ground-launched medium-range missiles, with a range of between 500 and 5,500km (310-3,400 miles), both nuclear and conventional.

The US insists the Russians have, in breach of the deal, developed a new medium-range missile called the Novator 9M729 - known to Nato as the SSC-8 - which would enable Russia to launch a nuclear strike at Nato countries at very short notice. Russia denies this.

The story does not describe the missile the US believes to be in breach of the agreement, but it is also clear that the Chinese threat of using the same range of missiles as well as North Korea could also weigh on the decision. 

The decision by the Trump administration should put another nail in the coffin of the Russian collusion hoax propagated by the Clinton campaign and embraced by some in the DOJ and FBI as well as the media as a way of removing Trump from office.