Why does this sound like malarkey?
Because it’s “zerohedge.” Enough said.
Because that is what it is. A big, heaping pile of it. Some of the stuff he lists was stuff that the Russians boasted about supposedly achieving a couple of years ago (e.g. a missile that defeats anti-missile systems). Frankly, they just wanted to roll Barry with START and many of us on FR figured the Russians would look for an excuse to pull out of it make make Barry look like the chump he is.
Because it is.
Russia knows damned well that there is no attack coming.
It gives them an opportunity to fire up their country by spouting BS .