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Putin says Russia ready to extend New START treaty by year-end
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia is ready by the end of this year to extend the New START nuclear arms control treaty without extra conditions and further discussion, President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...said on Thursday, Interfax news agency reported. The New START accord, which expires in February 2021, is the last major nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States and limits the number of strategic nuclear warheads they can deploy. The pact, which was signed in 2010 by US President Barack Obama teachable moment... and then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. The treaty, which can be extended by another five years, envisages a comprehensive verification mechanism to check compliance, including on-site inspections of each side’s nuclear bases. Its expiration would remove any limits on Russian and US nuclear arsenals for the first time in decades. Arms control advocates have argued that the failure to extend the pact would be highly destabilizing at a time when Russia-US relations have sunk to the lowest levels since the Cold War. Putin and other Russian officials have repeatedly voiced concern about Washington’s reluctance to discuss the treaty’s extension. "Our proposals have been on the table, but we have got no response from our partners," Putin said. In Washington, a Pentagon brasshat suggested the Trump administration is not interested in an immediate extension and sees no rush anyway as New Start doesn’t expire until February 2021. Related: Vladimir Putin: 2019-12-04 Fusion GPS Leaders: Chris Steele Hired Us First ‐ to Find Manafort Dirt for Russian Oligarch Vladimir Putin: 2019-12-02 SDF agrees to allow Russian troops to enter several areas in Raqqa, Hasakah Vladimir Putin: 2019-12-01 Russia tests hypersonic missile in Arctic Related: Barack Obama: 2019-12-02 U.S. Court Denies Trump Administration Bid To Resume Federal Executions Barack Obama: 2019-12-01 Mitt Romney: The National Dad No One Asked For Barack Obama: 2019-11-30 Former President of Poland says Hunter Biden DID get on the board of Ukrainian energy firm thanks to dad - but he 'never abused his position' Related: Dmitry Medvedev: 2018-08-15 Arms, Investment and 'Instructors': Russia Boosts Africa Role Dmitry Medvedev: 2018-06-17 Every other Russian male under 34 is unemployed. Dmitry Medvedev: 2018-01-31 US Releases 'Putin List' of Russians Eligible for Sanctions Posted by: Fred 2019-12-06 |
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