A bombshell comes out of Wikileaks. The Obama administration turned over secrets about England’s nuclear arsenal to the Russians:
Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.
Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.
The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website. . . .
A series of classified messages sent to Washington by US negotiators show how information on Britain’s nuclear capability was crucial to securing Russia’s support for the “New START” deal.
Although the treaty was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US.
Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain.
via WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain’s nuclear secrets – Telegraph.
One might say, but these are our missiles we are giving to the Brits. No, when we give them to the Brits, they belong to them. And, at any rate, if our allies don’t want the Russians knowing something and have directly refused our request for permission to disclose it, sheer respect for the other nation would mean we should act accordingly. How can this be anything but betrayal?
This is only the most serious example of a long list of diplomatic disrespect of Great Britain ever since the Obama administration took office. Why are we doing such things to our closest and strongest ally?
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