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Russia suspends only remaining major nuclear treaty with US
AP ^ | February 21st, 2023 | Vladimir Isachenkov

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: commanderinchiefjoe; joewantsaworldwar; letsgobrandon; newstarttreaty; pushuntilthenukesfly; senilityonparade
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To: Drew68

Hey Drew DeSantis is NOT RUNNING!!!


61 posted on 02/21/2023 7:33:15 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Vision
...Russia is about to give up any day now?

When the clock strikes "Go"!
62 posted on 02/21/2023 7:33:37 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dragnet2

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


63 posted on 02/21/2023 7:34:39 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DCBryan1
I tried to watch By Dawn's Early Light

It deserves the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment.

64 posted on 02/21/2023 7:37:15 AM PST by conservativeimage (The world is not dark. The future is not bleak. Tomorrow will be a good day.)
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To: frogjerk

I starting to agree. The corrupt in government/globalist want WWIII.

I wonder if D.C. would be one of the first targets?


65 posted on 02/21/2023 7:37:20 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: shadowlands1960
My pick has been Pompeo/DeSantis...Pompeo has what DeSantis is lacking in International relations. Eight years with Pompeo will make him Prime...

DeSantis is also 10 years younger than Pompeo.

66 posted on 02/21/2023 7:38:41 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: shadowlands1960
My pick has been Pompeo/DeSantis...Pompeo has what DeSantis is lacking in International relations. Eight years with Pompeo will make him Prime...

DeSantis is also 10 years younger than Pompeo.

67 posted on 02/21/2023 7:41:31 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: shadowlands1960

Biden is a master diplomat.


68 posted on 02/21/2023 7:41:59 AM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: dragnet2
you want Trump to be a government insider too. LOL!

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.

69 posted on 02/21/2023 7:42:05 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

Biden would leave the country


70 posted on 02/21/2023 7:42:36 AM PST by combat_boots
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To: Drew68
Trump is a government insider!

Talk about desperate! I give this a 8 on the honking hoot scale. Nice try poser.

71 posted on 02/21/2023 7:43:42 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: amnestynone

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


72 posted on 02/21/2023 7:45:34 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: shadowlands1960

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.


73 posted on 02/21/2023 7:46:27 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: dragnet2

Many years of his government service were in the military and he coached football and baseball and taught history at the high school level.


74 posted on 02/21/2023 7:57:45 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

“Do you truly believe FJB would retaliate?’

I don’t expect us having to find out.


75 posted on 02/21/2023 8:09:53 AM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: Drew68

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.


76 posted on 02/21/2023 8:18:30 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: shadowlands1960
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2023/02/21/putin-suspends-u-s-nuclear-treaty-tells-russians-west-wants-to-finish-us-forever/

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.

77 posted on 02/21/2023 8:23:07 AM PST by Kazan
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To: DEPcom

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.


78 posted on 02/21/2023 8:24:53 AM PST by allendale
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To: allendale

“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.


79 posted on 02/21/2023 8:28:04 AM PST by DEPcom (DC is not my Capitol after Jan 6th lock downs.)
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To: shadowlands1960

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


80 posted on 02/21/2023 8:50:04 AM PST by FormerFRLurker
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