Posted on 02/21/2023 6:08:36 AM PST by shadowlands1960
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Tuesday that Moscow was suspending its participation in the New START treaty — the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States — sharply upping the ante amid tensions with Washington over the fighting in Ukraine.
Speaking in his state-of-the-nation address, Putin also said that Russia should stand ready to resume nuclear weapons tests if the U.S. does so, a move that would end a global ban on nuclear weapons tests in place since Cold War times.
Explaining his decision to suspend Russia’s obligations under New START, Putin accused the U.S. and its NATO allies of openly declaring the goal of Russia’s defeat in Ukraine.
“They want to inflict a ‘strategic defeat’ on us and try to get to our nuclear facilities at the same time,” he said, declaring his decision to suspend Russia’s participation in the treaty. “In this context, I have to declare today that Russia is suspending its participation in the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Arms.”
New START’s official name is The Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.
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Hey Drew DeSantis is NOT RUNNING!!!
Generals and Majors ah ah
They’re never too far
From battlefields so glorious
Out in a world of their own
They’ll never come down
Till once again victorious, whoa
Generals and Majors always
Seem so unhappy ‘less they got a war
Generals and Majors ah ah
Like never before are tired of being action less
Calling Generals and Majors
Generals and Majors everywhere
Calling Generals and Majors
Your World War III is drawing near
-XTC
It deserves the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment.
I starting to agree. The corrupt in government/globalist want WWIII.
I wonder if D.C. would be one of the first targets?
DeSantis is also 10 years younger than Pompeo.
DeSantis is also 10 years younger than Pompeo.
Biden is a master diplomat.
He is a government insider! He's the former president. You don't get more inside than that!
But, here's the thing that Trump's supporters can't comprehend. You're never going to get Trump!
If you were honest, you'd say, "I am supporting Donald Trump for president because I want a Democrat House, Senate, and White House after the 2024 elections."
Because this is exactly what you're going to get.
I'll take my chances with Ron DeSantis, thank you very much. I don't like sending Democrats to Washington. Trump does. He's proven himself very good at it.
Biden would leave the country
Talk about desperate! I give this a 8 on the honking hoot scale. Nice try poser.
You remind me of the General in Dr. Strangelove:
“I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed....no more than ten to twenty million killed...tops.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcK6ad_t9ak
JFK is who got us into the Vietnam war when he sent in 16,000 troops and had Diem killed.
If JFK had lost in 1960 then we would not have gotten the Vietnam war, this immigration that came from the 1965 Immigration Act and his campaign platform of chain migration would not have happened, and the 1960s would have been a normal decade, federal employees would not be unionized, and the homeless would not be filling our streets because of JFK’s Community Mental Health Act.
Many years of his government service were in the military and he coached football and baseball and taught history at the high school level.
“Do you truly believe FJB would retaliate?’
I don’t expect us having to find out.
I like DeSantis. I like Trump more.
If they’re both running during my state’s primary next year, I’ll vote for Trump.
But that doesn’t mean I hate or even don’t like DeSantis.
I have no need to put him down, twist his words, or assume he’s deep state or RINO.
I do think Trump was absolutely ROBBED and deserves to finish the job he started. He should president, twice, just like Grover Cleveland.
Still, good conservatives should like them both. They’re real and fulfill the conservative government philosophy we all want.
I don’t really see that much difference between either man’s take on Russia or the Ukraine war.
Putin bemoaned the “spiritual catastrophe” of the West.
“They distort historical facts and constantly attack our culture, the Russian Orthodox Church, and other traditional religions of our country,” Putin claimed. “Look at what they do with their own peoples: the destruction of the family, cultural and national identity, perversion, and the abuse of children are declared the norm. And priests are forced to bless same-sex marriages.”
“As it became known, the Anglican Church plans to consider the idea of a gender-neutral God … Millions of people in the West understand they are being led to a real spiritual catastrophe,” he claimed.
Prediction: One day China will try to take by force Russia’s rich Asian -Pacific territories and Siberia. Japan and the United States will ally with Russia to prevent China from becoming incredibly powerful. Most of Asia will be involved in the conflict. What Germany was to the 20th century, China will be to the 21st.
“Japan and the United States will ally with Russia to prevent China from becoming incredibly powerful”
There is some validity to your prediction with the correct President in office.
That can’t be. The Putinistas on this site assure Putin is a peace-loving hippie and it’s only that nasty NATO that reneges on treaties. /s
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