Trust, but verify
Trust, but verify is a Russian proverb. It was used often in the text of nuclear disarmament during the Cold War era by Ronald Reagan and meant the United States can trust the Soviet Union, but they need to make sure they will not betray the United States.
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- President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev during the second plenary session.jpg
1985 Reagan–Gorbachev meeting at the Geneva Summit in Switzerland