{"id":3028,"date":"2023-02-08T18:58:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T17:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2023-02-09T08:41:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T07:41:17","slug":"no-more-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/no-more-start\/","title":{"rendered":"No more START"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US has\u00a0\u201cunleashed a total hybrid war\u201d<\/em>\u00a0against Russia and is putting the two nuclear nations on a path to direct confrontation, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. It claims Washington\u2019s demands for nuclear inspections in Russia are\u00a0\u201ccynical\u201d<\/em>, considering its\u00a0\u201cobvious\u201d<\/em>\u00a0assistance in Ukrainian attacks against Russian strategic nuclear forces.<\/p>\n

The allegations were part of the Ministry\u2019s public comments on the status of the New START treaty, the last remaining US-Russian agreement on nuclear weapons reduction. According to US media, the Department of State notified the Congress last week that Russia was in\u00a0\u201cnoncompliance\u201d<\/em>\u00a0due to a refusal to facilitate inspections on its soil.<\/p>\n

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that was not true, since the treaty allows suspension of inspection. Washington was the first to start barring Russian monitors from doing their job in the US, it alleged. The ministry said that\u00a0\u201ccreated obvious unilateral benefits\u201d<\/em>\u00a0for the US and prompted a response in kind by Moscow.<\/p>\n

The 2010 treaty was signed in a different environment and is based on the notion that the US and Russia are equal partners who seek to build trust and improve global security through disarmament, as reflected in its text, the ministry explained. But now that Washington has declared the\u00a0\u201cstrategic defeat\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of Russia as its goal and ramped up tensions in all aspects of bilateral relations, there can be no\u00a0\u201cbusiness as usual\u201d<\/em>\u00a0with the US, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil Washington revises its hostile stance regarding Russia and drops the policy of increasing the threats towards our national security,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Moscow will consider any proposed gestures of goodwill under the nuclear treaty\u00a0\u201cunjustified, untimely and uncalled for.\u201d (source: RT<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If I am not wrong, this means there are no more nuclear disarmament agreements left between America and Russia; America unilaterally departed from ABM and INF years ago, and START was the only one left, but it was close to expiring in a few years anyway and the necessary negotiations on its renewal haven’t even started yet, so it was obviously only a matter of formality.<\/p>\n

At this point, the superpowers are not only in a state of cold war, they are very close to the state of declared war.<\/p>\n

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The US has\u00a0\u201cunleashed a total hybrid war\u201d\u00a0against Russia and is putting the two nuclear nations on a path to direct confrontation, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. It claims Washington\u2019s demands for nuclear inspections in Russia are\u00a0\u201ccynical\u201d, considering its\u00a0\u201cobvious\u201d\u00a0assistance in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3030,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}