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{{See also|American foreign policy}}
{{See also|American foreign policy}}
Prior to [[NATO expansion]] beginning in the 1990s, [[John Quincy Adams]] laid out the specifics of American [[foreign policy]], saying America does not go "abroad in search of monsters to destroy."<ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/repository/she-goes-not-abroad-in-search-of-monsters-to-destroy/</ref> If the US had stayed neutral in the [[Ukraine war]] and refrained from sending [[Ukraine]] any [[weapon]]s, the war would have ended in April 2022 with a full Russian withdrawal under the terms of the [[Istanbul 1.0|Istanbul Agreement]]. This peace deal was initialed by representatives of Russia and Ukraine on March 29, 2022 and was scheduled to be signed on April 9, 2022, in Istanbul by Putin and Zelensky before [[Joe Biden]] and UK Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]] persuaded Zelensky not to sign it and continue the war indefinitely with disastrous results for Ukraine.
Prior to [[NATO expansion]] beginning in the 1990s, [[John Quincy Adams]] laid out the specifics of American [[foreign policy]], saying America does not go "abroad in search of monsters to destroy."<ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/repository/she-goes-not-abroad-in-search-of-monsters-to-destroy/</ref> If the US had stayed neutral in the [[Ukraine war]] and refrained from sending [[Ukraine]] any [[weapon]]s, the war would have ended in April 2022 with a full Russian withdrawal under the terms of the [[Istanbul 1.0|Istanbul Agreement]]. This peace deal was initialed by representatives of Russia and Ukraine on March 29, 2022 and was scheduled to be signed on April 9, 2022, in Istanbul by Putin and Zelensky before [[Joe Biden]] and UK Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]] persuaded Zelensky not to sign it and continue the war indefinitely with disastrous results for Ukraine.
The charge that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] cannot be relied upon to honor its commitments has become a recurring theme in [[Russian]] [[diplomacy]] and increasingly resonates beyond [[Moscow]]. Over the past two decades, the United States has withdrawn from a remarkable number of [[international]] agreements, raising questions about American credibility, the future of [[multilateral]] cooperation, and whether the United States can be treated as a reliable partner on the international stage.
The pattern began in earnest in 2001 when [[President George W. Bush]] withdrew the United States from the [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]], a 1972 arms control accord with the [[Soviet Union]] that had been in force for three decades. The withdrawal, citing purported risks of [[nuclear]] [[blackmail]] from rogue states, led Russia to declare it would no longer abide by the [[START II treaty]]. Russian [[President Vladimir Putin]] ordered a buildup of Russia's nuclear capabilities designed to counterbalance American [[missile defense]] systems.
In May 2018, the [[Trump 1.0]] administration withdrew from the [[Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action]], the [[Iran nuclear deal]] negotiated by the [[Barack Obama]] administration alongside the [[United Kingdom]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Russia]], and [[China]]. [[Europe]]an [[allies]] stayed in the agreement and ignored Washington's requests to reimpose [[economic sanctions|sanctions]] on [[Tehran]]. [[Iran]] responded by resuming [[uranium]] enrichment.
In August 2019, the United States formally exited the [[Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty]], a [[Reagan]]-era [[arms control]] pact with Russia. In May 2020, [[Secretary of State Mike Pompeo]] announced the United States would withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty, a thirty-four nation confidence-building measure that permitted unarmed reconnaissance flights over member states’ territories. The withdrawal became effective November 2020 despite opposition from [[NATO]] [[allies]] and members of [[Congress]] who argued the administration had violated [[legal]] requirements for notification.
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