Posted on 02/01/2023 7:50:07 PM PST by amnestynone
The Biden administration on Tuesday formally accused Russia of violating the New START arms treaty over what it said was Moscow‘s failure to allow inspections of weapons sites or agree to meetings on treaty disputes. President Biden agreed to extend the New START treaty — one of the last major arms control treaties still in force — for five years shortly after taking office in January 2021 — without seeking changes or concessions from the Kremlin related to its strategic forces buildup. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine barely a year later has put bilateral relations in a deep freeze since then. “Russia‘s refusal to facilitate inspection activities prevents the United States from exercising important rights under the treaty and threatens the viability of U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control,” a State Department spokesman said in a statement.
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When you are waging war against a nation and then expect it to honor its arms treaty with you, that is the unholy spawn of hypocrisy and stupidity.
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Claims the country that murders its own children, forces a nonworking vaccine on the rest, and denies civil liverties to God-loving citizens.
Who cares what we say?
“they definitely support Russia and its aggression today.”
Especially when NATO piles troops on Russia’s border and Russia reacts by placing troops inside their own border. That’s a big act of aggression by the evil Ruskies!
Just think of how the globalist media would vilify the US if Russia had a version of NATO and piled NATO troops on the Mexican/American border and the US reacted by placing their own forces on US side of the border.
It was even worse under the Czars, but we didn't care about it back then. (My Polish ancestors sure did, though)
“At this point Russia has very little reason to trust us enough to sign any new agreements.”
no itis the reverse. Russia has never lived up to treaties. They use them to try to disarm us. They apparently have plans still.
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