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Donald Trump backed by UK after he pulls out of anti-nukes treaty with Russia
The US President claimed Vladimir Putin has been breaching the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
BRITAIN today backed Donald Trump after the US President ditched a 30-year-old nukes treaty with Russia.
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson blamed Vladimir Putin for undermining the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
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He said the Kremlin needs to "get its house in order" before the West can deal with it on an equal footing.
The treaty, which dates back to 1987, stops the US and Russia from launching most cruise missiles from the ground.
But Putin's regime is accused of repeatedly breaking the treaty by developing banned missiles.
Mr Trump said last night: "We're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to.
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"We'll have to develop those weapons, unless Russia comes to us and China comes to us and they all come to us and say let's really get smart and let's none of us develop those weapons
"But if Russia's doing it and if China's doing it, and we're adhering to the agreement, that's unacceptable."
Mr Williamson, who is currently in the US, said the President was right to pull out of the INF and insisted Russia was at fault.
He said: "Our close and long-term ally of course is the United States and we will be absolutely resolute with the United States in hammering home a clear message that Russia needs to respect the treaty obligation that it signed.
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"We of course want to see this treaty continue to stand but it does require two parties to be committed to it and at the moment you have one party that is ignoring it.
"It is Russia that is in breach and it is Russia that needs to get its house in order."
Critics have accused Mr Trump of endangering peace by leaving the treaty which was negotiated by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
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