It's propaganda - it doesn't have to be true or make sense, it just has to deflect attention and blame from what Russia is doing. Which, according to US intelli

It's propaganda - it doesn't have to be true or make sense, it just has to deflect attention and blame from what Russia is doing. Which, according to US intelligence, has been designing, building, and actually deploying real, non-hypothetical cruise missiles with nuclear warheads that violate the treaty in question. Not missiles that could theoretically be modified to deliver nuclear warheads with some work, actual operational nuclear-armed treaty violations: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/europe/russia-cruise-missile-arms-control-treaty.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/europe/russia-cruis... It helps that certain, ahem, outspoken Trump critics like https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1091683402741399552 https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1091683402741399552 are willing to literally regurgitate Putin's propaganda and claim to be fighting Russia by doing so, and there seem to be a fairly plentiful supply of people willing to eat this up so long as it's anti-Trump.