Defense Chief `Completely Aligned` With Trump On Pulling Out Of Russia Arms Treaty
(World News Russia)

The Pentagon said Monday that Defense Secretary James Mattis is `completely aligned` with President Donald Trump`s seemingly abrupt announcement to pull the United States out of an arms control treaty with Russia, CNBC reports. `The secretary of Defense has consistently said that Russia has not been in compliance with the treaty,` Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said. `The secretary is completely aligned with the president, and he is in close contact with the president on this.` Earlier this month, Mattis told reporters in Brussels that any decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, treaty would be done in consultation with NATO partners since Russian...