New START Treaty

Temporarily... until Alaska is returned. 

Putin's rule will be reminded by a history on pair with the greatest tsars the Russian Empire had.
Clowns who undermine his achievements are ... clowns
A guy took a rotten, spoiled, and in a process of disintegration country, and turned it back into the world's superpower status in less than 20 years. No matter the garbage collective west was throwing on him, no matter a load of troubles they put on Russia, he just walked steadily forward. Islamist insurgency, economic crises, political instability ... he managed to resolve that all. He returned pride to regular Russian citizens, a dark shadow of losing the "cold war" is just a distant unpleasant memory. An interesting fact is, that people who know him, portray the opposite of what the western MSM garbage is doing. In reality, each negative characteristic put on him turns out to be the opposite. And we talk about testimonies of dozens of politicians and people around the globe, really serious players like Modi, Xi, Abe, Schroeder, Berlusconi etc.
When clowns like Macron publics private phone calls, it turns out that Putin is saying in private conversation just the same as he does in public!.
No deals, no soft play, no opportunism.
This is a part that the "modern western world" does not understand anymore - that the politician tells the truth.
If one herd what Putin was saying in the last 20 years, it is very easy to figure out the next steps of Russian politics.
They will act accordingly to Putin's words, step by step.
The fate of Ukraine was propheted by him in detail and in different scenarios, on several occasions.
But the point is, that the western audience really has a mental issue with understanding that what is being said will be executed.

Russia-West Agreement on Coexistence Needed for Arms Control Dialogue: Deputy FM, 01.26.2023.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - It is strange for the United States to demand from Russia the resumption of inspections under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) after Kiev tried to strike Russian long-range aviation facilities, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said.

"It is very strange, if not harsh, to demand the resumption of inspections at Russian facilities of strategic offensive forces when the Kiev regime has made attempts to strike at our long-range aviation facilities with the direct military-technical and intelligence-information participation of the United States," Ryabkov told Russian media. The full interview is published on the foreign ministry's website.

"The question arises: what exactly are the Americans going to check there? Maybe, the consequences of these attacks?" the deputy minister added.

When asked if Moscow is concerned that without inspections and meetings of the bilateral consultative commission, the United States will accuse Russia of violating the treaty and stop fulfilling it's side, Ryabkov responded by saying that while the collapse of New START will cause "deep regret," Moscow will not "forcibly" keep the United States in the treaty.
If the Americans decide to aggravate the situation for propaganda purposes, it will be their choice. We are no stranger to Washington destroying arms control agreements instead of taking concrete practical steps to strengthen their viability. [...] We proceed from the fact that the agreement objectively continues to meet the interests of both countries.

Sergey Ryabkov
Deputy Foreign Minister

Ryabkov said that in order to continue the dialogue on arms control with Washington, it is necessary to agree on the principles of coexistence that minimize conflict potential with the West.

He added that any such agreement should be based on the principles of equality and strict parity. "No unilateral concessions are allowed here," he stressed.

"For our part, we state that the over-the-top aggressiveness of the United States, which relied on inflicting a 'strategic defeat' on Russia in the all-out hybrid war unleashed against us, made it practically impossible in principle to conduct constructive and fruitful dealings with Washington on arms control in the 'business as usual' mode. This, of course, does not mean that we are giving up arms control as such," the diplomat said.

Ryabkov added that no new date had been set for talks with the United States on New START on Monday, as the conditions were not right for new talks on the treaty.

Last month, the deputy FM stressed that Russia-US talks on strategic arms reduction had been paused, not terminated. Moscow postponed a round of nuclear arms control talks with the United States set for late November in Cairo, with Ryabkov emphasizing at the time that the US had "not just demonstrated their reluctance to listen to our signals and reckon with our priorities, but also acted in the opposite way."

"The situation does not, frankly speaking, allow for setting a new date, ... taking into account this escalation trend in both rhetoric and actions by the United States," Ryabkov stated.

The diplomat added that Washington wanted to focus on resuming inspections under New START, while stonewalling Russia's request to discuss specifics related to the weapons count under the treaty.

Signed in 2010 by then-Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, the nuclear arms control pact aimed at halving the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers.

It was set to expire last year, however, Moscow and Washington managed to find common ground and approved a prolongation of the accord for five more years without renegotiating any of its terms. The treaty will now expire on February 4, 2026.

https://sputniknews.com/20230126/russia-west-agreement-on-coexistence-needed-for-arms-control-dialogue-deputy-fm-1106738934.html

Russia should update the RSD-10 (SS-20) and return it to service. Traitor Gorbie destroyed them as he was preparing to sell Russia down the river with his
tag team partner Yeltsin.

No more appeasement deals with NATzO and its owner USA.

I would think nuclear tipped kh101 would do a fine job, as would kinzhal


Even a YARS in depressed trajectory could perform the same role when launched from Urals

To clarify the START Treaty is not cancelled
- the numbers of allowed launchers and warheads will be maintained
- the notification process will be maintained
- the inspection process however will not be maintained

"On the eve of the message to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the suspension of participation in the Start Treaty. He stressed that this is a suspension, not a withdrawal from the agreement. At the same time, the head of state said that before returning to the discussion of the START Treaty, the country should understand how to take into account the nuclear arsenals of France and Great Britain."

https://translated.turbopages.org/proxy_u/ru-en.en.baa92182-63f60432-634e1000-74722d776562/https/iz.ru/1474258/2023-02-22/v-mo-zaverili-v-sobliudenii-rossiei-ogranicheniia-dsnv-po-nositeliam-iadernykh-boezariadov

https://vz.ru/news/2023/3/16/1203348.html

Yandex Translation:

It is time for Washington to understand that Russia is a sovereign actor acting on the basis of its own interests, Senator Andrei Klimov told the VZGLYAD newspaper. Earlier, the US State Department announced the invalidity of the suspension of Russia's participation in the New START Treaty.

“International treaties presuppose the agreement of each party to comply with the conditions prescribed in them. This is the essence of any agreement. But the United States is accustomed to acting in relation to other countries as to its subordinates, ”said Andrey Klimov, head of the Federation Council commission for the protection of Russia's state sovereignty.

“We are not US vassals. They can blame NATO or EU countries for anything. Russia is a sovereign actor, and we will act on the basis of our own interests. Moreover, Moscow did not terminate the New START. We suspended participation, for which there were good reasons. In particular, such a decision was made to ban US flights over Russia in conditions when Washington is actually waging a hybrid war against us,” the senator notes.

“States can deny anything they don’t like indefinitely. Even if they oppose the fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Their considerations have nothing to do with our actions. It is time for Washington to come to terms with this thesis,” Klimov sums up.

Earlier, the US State Department issued a statement in which Russia's announced suspension of participation in START was called "legally invalid." According to the diplomatic agency, Moscow is still "bound by circumstances" in accordance with the Treaty.

Washington also called on Moscow to allow inspections on the territory of the Russian Federation. In addition, the States demanded that Russia agree to a meeting of the Bilateral Consultative Commission.

Recall that on March 1, the United States received a notification from Moscow about the decision to suspend participation in the START Treaty. State Department spokesman Ned Price called such actions "irresponsible and deplorable." At the same time, he stressed that Washington is ready to continue constructive cooperation on the issue of arms control with Russia.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree suspending Moscow's participation in the New START Treaty. In his opinion, the agreement is outdated due to the fact that its action  does not formally apply to NATO. Meanwhile, the alliance openly declares its desire to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia, in connection with which taking into account the nuclear potentials of Great Britain and France also becomes vital.

Once the New START treaty is abandoned (by the US), Russia needs to mass produce 5000km+ range Nuclear tipped Zircon missiles, as Garry said you can save a ton (or 25 tonnes) of weight and US air defences will have no means of shooting it down. Good thing they've put the Tu-160 back into production, eh?

After what the US did with the ABM and INF treaties it has not a shred of basis to bitch about Russia's suspension (not termination) of
START participation. But everything about the US is bloody hypocrisy. All of their moral posturing is rotten to the core. Their supposed
"democracy" is a police state and gang toilet. The grotesque cases of abuse of people in the US at the hands of judges and law enforcement
are truly exceptional.

Hitler bitched at the USSR for being a rotten facade. Well, it is the US that is a rotten facade.

Arrow wrote:I hope this is true. No more treaties reducing strategic nuclear weapons.

https://x.com/TobiAyodele/status/1841055816012419349

The West has shown what "worth" making treaties with them are.

In reality, they have developed space based weapons and are continuining to position their nuclear arsenal in europe along with their AEGIS shields at Russia's borders while arming religious nutjobs with weapons and encourage them in their believe being "special" and not taking any consequences for their genocidal path.

Russia needs to do what is good for them and establish past possibilities and political allies like North Korea, half the Middle Eastern states.
Develop further relationships in African countries that are still big part of the GDP and natural resources to France and the UK. South East Asia is non of our business, let them be handled by China and their influence in the region.

Vietnam and Laos are quite friendly towards Russia.

GarryB wrote:
It is different for Russia than with the US or the west... Russia can be friends with countries around China just like China can be friends with countries around Russia... because neither country demands special treatment or exclusivity in the relationship, and good relations with everyone that is not trying to strategically defeat you and destroy your country and impoverish your people is a good thing.

I was meaning that Russia should not do a regime change or pursue such interests in South East Asia like they did and do in Africa to cut off French colonies and their status as a lord over their natural resources.

Russia should pursue any politics that is not shortsighted or with low beneficial yield for Russia in short terms, but plan ahead for at least 50 years like China does.

GarryB wrote:
When the conflict in the Ukraine finishes if Germany wants gas then let it repair the Nord Stream pipes first... and by then there will be pipes in Russia going across Mongolia to China and China will have shifted from Coal to more efficient and cleaner gas power generation, and of course a pipeline through the Caspian Sea to Iran and then to the rest of the world through her ports is going to consume a lot of the energy that Russia produces so Germany can buy what is left over... if there is any... Russia should not tell them this until the repairs are complete... how will Germany feel completing gas transit pipes and then having them sit dormant when you are short of gas...

Not only should Germany be completely be held responsible for making the pipeline operational again but also, if they do not held publicly the USofA accountable for state terrorism on their and Russia's infrastructure, Russia should not make any deals with them. For any other future projects their must be an open TAX and Fees that are by contract and publicly known as "Hypocrisy Tax" and "US Vassal Tax". Any contracts with the West are a economical and political potential burden to Russia and this potential burden is historical fact, so Russia should be compensated accordingly in advance with a contractual manifested admission of guilt and compensation. No negotiations on such clausels, no negotiations on the additional fees and taxes.

No more nice guy to open Enemies of Russia. No more "partnerships" with people that are openly declaring war and warmongering against Russia. Russia should take more measures to arm, train and make colonies of the West able to fight back and hunt on western vessels on sea regardless being civilian or navy vessels. We know they are arming every piece of nutcase in the world to make attacks on Russia. Russia must make calculated efforts to arm those who will not bite Russia but only the West. The potential groups are slim, but they exist and have little to no effort to organize anything against Russia, nor motivation to do so. Houthis are great example. South America has some potential to do this too.