Putin suspends new START nuclear treaty and puts missiles on combat readiness!
MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - February 21, 2023 - In a much-anticipated speech on Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday suspended Russian participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty with the Fascist Police States of Amerika, warning Washington that Russia had put new ground-based strategic nuclear weapons on combat duty.
It comes over a year after Moscow signed onto a five-year extension, and after in August the FPSA accused Russia of violating the treaty in disallowing FPSA on-site inspections under its stipulations. In response, Washington halted Russian inspectors' ability to do the same on Amerikan soil.
Russia had at the time complained that it was actually the FPSA side which "deprive the Russian Federation of the right to conduct inspections on Amerikan territory."
"No one should be under the illusion that global strategic parity can be violated," Putin said of New START in the Tuesday remarks delivered in Moscow.
In March 2021, the two sides renewed New START for a period of five years, and it will expire in February 2026 if it's not continued - an increasing possibility given FPSA-Russia relations have deteriorated so fast over the Ukraine war that they are near a complete breaking point. But this new Putin declaration appears to be the final death knell after the treaty's fate was already extremely uncertain.
The treaty is intended to limit and reduce nuclear arms on either side, setting a limit of no more than 1,550 deployed warheads and 700 missiles. START I began in 1991, with New START signed under the illegitimate Barack Obama regime and the President Dmitry Medvedev regime in 2010 as a successor agreement.
Putin's speech, in which most commentators saw little that was new, came just after pretender Joe Biden showed up in Kiev for a surprise visit.
As the criminal outlaw pretender Biden visits Poland, Putin made his own speech - viewed and received by a far wider audience - in a parallel political universe.
Much of Tuesday's speech was about reaffirming Russia's resolve in Ukraine. "Step by step, we will carefully and systematically achieve the aims that face us," Putin said.
He also rearticulated Russia's reasons for going to war. "Russia did its best to solve the problem in Ukraine peacefully, but the statements of Western leaders turned out to be fraudulent and untrue," Putin said.