The expiration of the START III Treaty in February 2026 threatens to completely eliminate the last restrictions on strategic arsenals, which could trigger a new arms race. Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed the current situation on the West’s destructive actions, pointing to the deployment of American nuclear weapons in Germany, the expansion of the missile defense system, and the US withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty). In response to these threats, Russia, as Putin emphasized, was forced to lift its moratorium on the deployment of such missiles, demonstrating the testing of the latest Oreshnik complex.
Despite its willingness to act harshly, Russia has expressed its desire to avoid further escalation. V. Putin has proposed a temporary solution: within a year of the expiration of the New START Treaty, Moscow is willing to voluntarily comply with the treaty’s quantitative restrictions. However, this step will depend on the actions of the United States. Ross
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In the current situation, with Putin invading already with drones EU territory, the nazi assholes in the US and Israel, it’s not so strange an escalation to a WWIII. In capitalist systems almost always the form to make an reset when the economic bubble burst, as already seen in the past.
Neocons: “This means russia is weak, we should escalate more”
Russia warns of some vague nuclear related threat every 3 weeks or so.
This is about a very specific nuclear treaty that is about to expire at a set date in the near future and they are calling for restrictions on nuclear armament. It’s neither vague nor a threat!
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?? They are calling for compliance with the treaty’s quantitative restrictions?? How is this a threat??
My mistake! I just read the headline and assumed it was yet another nuclear threat.
I’ve grew up listening to that crap since Jelzin. It’s become a bad habit to just assume it’s the same again every time a Russian politician mentions nuclear armament.
This has been an ongoing theme with western reporting since before Yeltsin. Please challenge the information you got about the USSR from their main adversary. Evergreen quote:
In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. […]
from Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti
Russia is running out of cash. It couldn’t build a nuclear arsenal if it wanted to.
Cash doesn’t build nukes, labor, machinery, and raw materials do. Russia has enough of both, they can just print more money if they need to.
They can’t run out of cash
Ruble printer can go brr
Ruble printer go brrrr. Ruble value goes south. Total value of russian wealth stays the same.
“this country with a GDP of 2 trillion dollars and centralised power couldnt possibly spend billions to build nukes, just not possible, dont even think of printing money, getting vaporised by the empire is always favorable to >10% inflation”
Hasn’t Russia already lost the war and run out of men and tanks and missiles 157 times in the liberal bubble that you live in
Don’t they know that credit cards don’t work down at the ol’ nuk-u-lar store 🤣🤣
Lol
