Defense

The Open Skies Treaty is not something you have ever heard of most likely.  It is  a post-Cold War agreement that allows countries to operate reconnaissance flights over other nations and collect data on military activities with the aim of building trust between countries. Since coming into force in 2002, the treaty has become a key tool for the U.S. and its European allies to monitor Russian military deployments to former Soviet satellite countries, including Russian aggression in Ukraine. 

By pulling out the Iran Deal he has brought about the acceleration of Iran's nuclear program.  This is a big move by Iran described below and underscores the utter failure of Trump's policy.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday [9/4/19] ordered all limits on nuclear research and development to be lifted, the country's third step in scaling down its commitments to a 2015 deal with world powers.

Republicans are standing behind Trump and Stephen Miller's plan to STEAL MONEY FROM OUR MILITARY.  These funds being stolen will prevent new schools and houses that serve our military bases.  Beyond that heartless action, there's the matter of national security which our Air Force confirms is greatly harmed due to this.

It’s shocking to see the Navy drop its climate change task force. The climate crisis is a serious security issue and our Armed Forces need to be prepared.  Our military needs to be able to do their jobs. It will be more difficult and costly if ignored.

The Navy has quietly stood down its Task Force Climate Change, created in 2009 to plan and develop "future public, strategic, and policy discussions" on the issue.

We’re experiencing more natural disasters than ever before. Climate change is only making them more deadly. Now, Trump is taking critical money from FEMA to further his cruel anti-immigration agenda.

The Trump administration plans to shift at least $155 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief fund to support its policy of returning some migrants to Mexico.

Trump Administration is driving out scientists.  Rod Schoonover was, until recently, a senior analyst in Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the State Department. He also worked as director of environment and natural resources at the National Intelligence Council and was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

A sycophant becoming the Director of National Intelligence is one of the more worrisome moves in this administration. Modern autocrats often use the intelligence institutions to attack/undermine their opponents.

Trump is consolidating his personal control over the intelligence community. Between loyalists Barr and Radcliffe, and pliant CIA and FBI directors, Trump is close to neutralizing intelligence and law enforcement as spoilers in his bid to amass unprecedented executive power.

The water at or around at least 126 military installations contains potentially harmful levels of chemicals, which have been linked to cancers and developmental delays for fetuses and infants.  These included 36 sites with drinking water contamination on-base, and more than 90 sites that reported either on-base or off-base drinking water or groundwater contamination.

Killing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was a gift to Russia.  The INF Treaty was at the heart of arms control that helped lead to the end of the Cold War. The death of the treaty could easily harm rather than bolster U.S. and allied security.

Only the best right?  Only the best.  That's who Trump said he'd surround himself with.  Instead, it's literally THEE worst, every time.

Elliott Abrams, a controversial neoconservative figure who was entangled in the Iran-Contra affair, has been named as a Trump administration special envoy overseeing policy toward Venezuela....

Abrams, who served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations, is a well-known and somewhat controversial figure in U.S. foreign policy circles.