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How Arms Control Went Out The Window
Today the last nuclear treaty between the the United States and the Russian Federation expired. It is the first time in 64 years that there will be no limits on each side’s nuclear forces.
The New START Treaty had been limiting the number of deployed strategic nuclear weapons and weapon carriers. Other nuclear related treaties like the Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and the Open Skies Treaty have previously been ended by various U.S. presidents.
Russia had offered and asked for prolonging the New START Treaty but the U.S. had, until today, not responded to that request.
Most of these treaties were designed to limit the number of weapon system on both sides to roughly equal numbers. They prevented arms races where one side would produce an overwhelming amount of weapons to destroy the other side in a surprise attack. They guaranteed Mutual Assured Destruction as both sides would be destroyed in an all out nuclear war.
But the real value of these treaties were in their verification elements. Verification allowed to build trust between both sides:
To enforce the [New START] treaty, each side had to notify the other of any activity involving its strategic weapons, including missile test launches and heavy bomber movements, share data about the numbers of deployed missiles and delivery systems, and allow on-site inspections.
One example is that under the treaty all strategic bombers of each side had to be parked in the open, not in shelters, so that the other side could see them in satellite pictures. It guaranteed that there were no ‘secret forces’ hidden somewhere. (Ukraine abused this feature when it launched drone attacks against Russia’s strategic bombers.)
The U.S. has never given any good reason why it wanted the treaties to end.
The Bush administration claimed that the ABM treaty was hindering building missile defenses against ‘rogue states’. In reality it wanted to build a missile defense system that would disable a Russian nuclear attack and thereby give the U.S. the capability for a first strike which Russia would not be able to answer.
Russia, in consequence of the ending of the treaty, build new weapons like the Poseidon nuclear-powered underwater vehicle as well the Sarmat missile, which can not be stopped by missile defenses.
When the first Trump administration withdrew from the Intermediate-Range treaty it claimed, without providing evidence, that one specific Russian missile test had exceeded the range limits defined in the treaty. Russia responded to the end of the treaty by developing and deploying the Oreshnik system as a new intermediate range missile.
The U.S. excuse for leaving New START is that a new strategic weapon treaty is needed which will have to include limits on China’s strategic missile forces. China rejects to be part of such a treaty because it has less than 20% of the strategic nuclear weapons that Russia and the U.S. each deploy.
It is unlikely for now that the end of New START will lead to a race to acquire more and more strategic nuclear weapons even as the military-industrial complex will demand more missiles.
But the end of the treaty will lead to less knowledge of what the other side is doing and will over time erode any trust in ones own capabilities as the real capabilities of the opponent will be increasingly unknown. This insecurity and what might follow from it is the real danger.
Over the last hour news has come out of an informal prolongation of the parameters of the New START treaty:
President Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner negotiated on New START with Russian officials on the sidelines of Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi.
The treaty will still formally expire on Thursday, and the extension will not be legally formalized, a U.S. official said. “We agreed with Russia to operate in good faith and to start a discussion about ways it could be updated,” a U.S. official said.
Another source said the practical implications were that both sides would agree to observe the deal’s terms for at least six months, during which time negotiations on a potential new deal would take place.
If I were in Russia’s position I would not trust the U.S. to stick to any such informal commitment. Any such agreement will need to be verified.
Russia should test if the U.S. is willing to allow for the verification of its informal commitment to New START limits.
Quote from comment #3:
“look at the Wiggers”
This guy meant the Chinese Sunni Muslims of Turkic ethnicity, living in Xinjiang (dry area in western China, bordering Afghanistan and other ‘stan countries) known as:
the Uyghurs.
So, “Wiggers” vs Uyghurs, that’s how ignorant, nearly illiterate, the average USAmerican is, even when they seem well intended good people.
That’s exactly how fascist/imperialist regimes, like USA’s, endure. The more ignorant a population is, the longer the criminal regime lasts without even an attempt of revolution.
That’s also why the fascists/imperialists in the West, mainly in Anglo-American regimes, but also in others, always HATED Socialism and Communism, whose fundamental ideology has always been EDUCATION of all the people, putting the children of the poor studying history in good schools, and giving them all high-education at Universities, with zero tuition.
That’s why the Soviet Union was USA’s fascist oligarchy’s main enemy during the so called “Cold War”, and that’s why China is USA’s fascist oligarchy’s main enemy nowadays.
The European Project was just a TEMPORARY measure to pretend that this oligarchy wanted common people to live well. Now that there’s only Russia, and not a Soviet Union, near Europa, the European Project is no longer needed.
That’s why the fascist oligarchy is replacing the “progressive” Liberal governments by pure nationalist fascists all over Europe. To turn the entire Europe into a big Ukraine, and sacrifice everything for the empire.
We already see governments cutting social spending and dismantling healthcare and education services (mostly public and free until recently), just to replace it all with a fascist system like USA’s.
And at the same time, the governments’ budgets are all being siphoned to the Military Industrial Complex. Hence the emperor’s demand for 5% GDP spending (total waste) on NATO.
As long as USAmericand are this ignorant, and as long as Europeans are blindly being USAmericanized, this wont stop. Why would we make a revolution against this evil regime, if most can’t even correctly spell the name of the people being attacked by us? If most can’t even point correctly at the map? If most have zero idea about other cultures?
You know everything about the “evil” China and Russia and Iran and Cuba and Palestine and Venezuela, etc.
But you know NOTHING about those people and those countries.
You know only what the fascist oligarchy’e mad dogs (CIA, Mi6, Mossad, etc) want you to know.
And, in order for you to not even suspect about this mass propaganda/ignorance machine, they pretend to have “different” names and “different” opinions: CNN, FOX, BBC, Euronews, WaPo, NYTimes, TheGuardian, etc. But it’s all the same.
So, what’s the end of this New Start treaty all about? Isn’t it obvious? To fill all USA’s proxies with strategic bombers, missile launchers, and nuclear warheads, and prepare a M.A.D. where both Russia and China and USA’s proxies are destroyed, but USA stays safe.
Example number 1: the nuclear “israel” versus Iran, the unstoppable GENOCIDE/HOLOCAUST of the Palestinian Semites, and the neutralization of all other Muslim countries in that region.
Example number 2: the talks about turning the Japan proxy also into a nuclear power.
Example number 3: all the USA’s missile launchers (nuclear capable) in NATO’s eastern borders, as well as talk about expanding the number of NATO countries with nuclear warheads.
This is the Anglo-American fascist-imperialist corrupt genocidal zionist oligarchy’s endgame. To dominate all, to neutralize any trace of dissent, and to completely destroy any resistance even if it takes also destroying USA’s proxies.
CIA’s Nazi project in Ukriane (planned for decades, started on practice in 2013), and Mossad’s al-Qaeda/terrorist project in Syria (the so called “civil” war), are just the start of this new phase of the empire.
More Ukraines and more Syrias (and more aggressions as in Venezuela) are already planned and about to happen. The Taiwan proxy war (the planning of which is already in the final phase in the Pentagon) will be even worse that the one in Ukraine, because it will envolve DIRECTLY several countries, and some of them might be nuclear by the time USA activates that proxy war.
WHAT ABOUT A SOLUTION?
Well, as I said before, education of the common people is essential, but something can also be done before that. A big enough revolution INSIDE the armed forces of the empire. True patriots defending the people and peace, instead of brainless troops defending the oligarchy’s interests and committing their aggression.
Aaron Bushnell comes to my mind. He shouldn’t have burned himself to death. What a waste. He should have looked for other decent people inside USA’s army, and organized the burning of Washington DC and Langley.
They could then help other like-minded decent people do the same in London and Brussels (NATO’s headquarters) and occupied Jerusalem.
It would be a snowball effect, because nazi Kiev and terrorist Damascus and all other fascist/assassin/corrupt vassals would also collapse.
After all this, then the education of the people could be developed. Telling them all about all other cultures in the World, presenting different points of view, mutual respect, completely erasing any trace of racist/xenophobic and colonial/imperialidt and fascist/nazi and elitist/oligarchic ideologies.
It wouldn’t solve all the problems in the World. Revolutions never do that. But it would, as other Revolutions did, solve the main problems of the Present, and Make America/Europe Decent Again!
Posted by: Carlos Marques | Feb 6 2026 14:43 utc | 196
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