https://www.commentarymagazine.com/noah-rothman/the-nuclear-demagoguery-of-the-obama-administration-in-exile/
During the Obama administration, Russia regularly violated the terms of the Open Skies accord by limiting America’s capacity to overfly Russian territory and survey its facilities, assets, and deployments—a fact the State Department complained about in 2015. At the time, Defense Intelligence Agency director Lt. Gen. Vincent R. Stewart told members of Congress that the treaty was “was designed for a different era” and that he was “very concerned about how it is applied today,” though he saved those reservations for a classified setting.
Moreover, the Obama administration publicly accused Moscow of failing to abide by the INF’s obligations “not to possess, produce, or flight-test” medium-range ordnance. The Obama administration repeatedly tried and failed to compel Moscow to comply with the terms of both accords. The Trump administration merely pursued the consequences associated with facts established by their predecessors.
National Security Action, an advocacy group founded by Obama administration alumni Ben Rhodes and Jake Sullivan.
The portrait National Security Action’s Ned Price paints of Trump’s nuclear brinkmanship is a bleak one: The Trump administration has already abrogated bilateral accords such as the Open Skies Treaty.