I have been critical of the Trump presidency because I think it has been a calamity for America and the world. But just because President Donald Trump does something doesn't mean it's wrong. Even he gets a few things right, and it's incumbent on his critics to acknowledge it when he does.
Case in point: Mr Trump's recent decision to withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. This was a landmark arms-control agreement between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that banned land-based missiles with a range of 500km to 5,500km. It led to the destruction of thousands of missiles, lowered tensions in Europe and contributed to the end of the Cold War.
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