Arms control experts have criticized the Biden administration for failing to send a proposal to Russia on maintaining limits on nuclear weapons deployments that was publicly floated by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan last month.
Sullivan said on June 2 that the US was willing to open talks with Russia on a “framework” to preserve curbs on nuclear arms deployments after 2026, the final year of New START, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the two powers.
While Russia has suspended its participation in New START, both sides have said they will continue complying with the treaty’s limits. New START caps the deployment of nuclear warheads for both sides at 1,550 and also restricts the deployment of nuclear bombers, submarines, and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Sullivan said the US was open to talks on the issue “without preconditions.” But last week, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Russia had not received any proposals from the US on resuming arms control talks. He added that Moscow has studied what Sullivan said publicly and said Russia was not interested in negotiations until the US changes its “hostile” policies against Russia, referring to the proxy war in Ukraine.
“I would like to say that we are not ready to and will not conduct this dialogue based on what the Americans are now proposing, as they ignore several key points in this entire configuration,” Ryabkov said. “We must first and foremost make sure that the US policy, which is fundamentally hostile toward Russia, is changing for the better for us. That is far from happening now and, I would rather say that the opposite is going on.”
Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, told Reuters that he believes Ryabkov’s statement still leaves open the possibility for eventual negotiations. “My interpretation is that there is still scope for the US to communicate about what they are interested in,” he said.
Kimball said there is “no excuse that the administration has delayed for nearly two months the formal communication of this proposal to the Kremlin.” He said such negotiations would be “difficult in good times and extraordinarily difficult so long as Russia’s war on Ukraine continues.”
First they have to brief Biden where Russia is…
Ha!
LOL
Washington is too busy servicing its self sucking dick to be of much use…
You have an antisocial administration. No surprise there.
I heard Nuland will finish the proposal when she gets back from her vacation.
Joe Biden is trying to start nuclear war on two continents, why would he propose an arms deal?
I don’t believe that any super power leader would want to start a nuclear war. Not even the chihuahua of the Kremlin who makes nuclear threats because is desperate for a win.
That statement is a stretch.
Ok, but then why does he keep crossing red lines in Ukraine with a nuclear armed state, who basically said they will consider any F16 capabable of carrying nuclear arms, or cluster munitons, as a nuclear threat and respond in kind?
Why in the middle of soaring tensions with S. and N. Korea, is he docking a visible nuclear submarine and provoking them?
Why are we flying on the border of Taiwan and China with military air craft testing a nuclear armed states metal?
Sure sounds aggressive, reckless and stupid, to me.
None of that is indicative that Biden want to start a Nuclear War.
That’s just foreign policy and Nuclear Deterrence being done for decades. They make moves and comments, we make moves and comments.
I could apply your same analogy to Kim, Xi, and Putin.
No doubt I don’t like them.
It’s necessary to maintain the fiction of benignity.
“Arms Control Experts Criticize US for Not Sending Russia Proposal to Curb Nuclear Weapons Deployments”
Russia has more and better nukes than America. Why would they agree in negotiations to suck Joey Biden’s appendage.
I have read accounts that Russia has 6,000 nukes. Beginning with George W. Bush, subsequent presidents have withdrawn the U.S. from treaties with Russia that benefit both the U.S. and Russia.
It would not surprise me to learn that Biden wants to enhance our own capabilities before sitting down to “negotiate”.
The US is running out of ammo and Russia is just gearing up. Add in Iran, Syria and the Republic of Korea to spice things up. Add in a nebulous US war resistors league for a full picture of an aware one percenter’s guillotine nightmare.
Everybody knows China has to be nice or the US will repudiate its debt and seize its assets before it can pump up the BRICS New Development Bank bank even faster than Russia. That’s why smart money set up Korea be the second bad cop on the Pacific.
Russia had quite wisely moved most of its assets to safety before the shit hit the fan; That’s one reason it has the cash for investing in a railroad to Iran’s main Persian Gulf port. Iran now has rights to the Volga. and the canal to the Mediterranean via Black Sea and the Rostov-on-Don river canal from the Volga. Iran will be quite unhappy if the US and Ukraine mess with its Mediterranean opportunity.
Iran can now ship up the Volga to the railroad that goes between Beijing and London through Moscow. Iran is probably the most advanced drone maker on Earth, plus it has the world’d strongest coastal defenses. Citizens of Nato should figure out how to help avoid all out war with a much stronger Eurasian foe than TV depicts. That’s the US war resistors source of strength.
Most ironic in the obvious ploy to distract US citizens from the larger pressing reality; curing rapid climate change is easy— BDS corporatism. Raise as much food as you can and learn to live well in balance with Earth. Join a new government party and develop modern socialist nations with American characteristics.
“The US is running out of ammo”
The US says it isn’t producing ammo fast enough to keep up with demand, and that this could prove fatal in the event of a major war in which the US is directly engaged.
Whether that’s true or not is a different question. We’ve been here before. Look up the “bomber gap” and the “missile gap” for two examples.
Somehow the size and tempo of US “live fire exercises” is increasing, rather than decreasing, which runs rather against the “running out of ammo” narrative.
Interesting perspective. You could very well be correct.
Not much adds up in the national news monopolies.
Thank you. I had not penetrated what could be a simple ploy for more taxes, austerity and borrowing.
Still, there’s the secular fact that the US arms industry doesn’t capitalize low margin production. Similarly, (tho an invidious comparison) Shakespeare studies are disappearing because the big grants and donations go to science, health and business.
Avoidance of low margin is my thinking, too.
If you look up the amount of ammunition fired in Iraq/Afghanistan per enemy killed you might be surprised. I think it is 250,000 rounds per kia.
Wow, that’s interesting because I don’t remember carrying that amount of ammo when we went out patrols and got troops in contact in both Afghanistan and Iraq. We would need another convoy trailing us to even have half of that amount.
Don’t believe me? Look it up.
Cluster bombs were put into use very quickly. That could mean that Ukraine is already tightly rationing artillery rounds. If this is true, then Ukraine is not getting what they think they need… even if the US can covertly provide it.
F*ck the Start Treaty. Reinstate the INF Treaty. Reinstate the Open Skies agreement. Just end the stupid proxy war to “bleed Russia”.
Agree. But is Open Skies still relevant in the age of satellites?
It kind of sounds like there are “arms control experts” complaining because the war has stopped this sort of activity and they do not have anything “new” to write papers about to nitpick a new proposal.
No podcast appearences from forums.
Forget about MSM columns too.
These people need something to justify paychecks so get something on paper for them please.
The first condition Russia should demand would be that the INF treaty be reinstated… as a show of good faith.