Victoria Nuland, undersecretary of state for political affairs, told the Russian news agency TASS on Thursday that the US was ready to hold discussions with Moscow on the New START treaty “tomorrow” if Russia was willing to do the same.
Her comments came after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he was suspending Russia’s participation in the New START, which limits the deployment of nuclear warheads and launchers and is the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the two powers.
“We’re ready to do it tomorrow if the Russian Federation is ready. And we’re also ready to allow inspections,” Nuland said.
According to the State Department, inspections under New START have been paused since March 2020 due to Covid-19. The US requested to conduct an inspection over the summer, but Russia said no, citing US sanctions they said impeded Russia’s ability to inspect Washington’s nuclear weapons.
The US and Russia eventually agreed to hold a meeting under the New START treaty in November 2022, but Moscow canceled the talks at the last minute over tensions in Ukraine. Since Putin announced the suspension of New START, Russian officials have stressed the move is temporary and said it could be reversed if the US moves to de-escalate tensions. But the Biden administration has shown no interest in backing down.
Nuland also told TASS that the US would only support negotiations on Ukraine if they were done under Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s “peace formula.” Zelensky’s plan calls for a full Russian withdrawal and for tribunals for alleged Russian war crimes, which are non-starters for talks with Moscow.
What a comedy, why should Russia trust?
Zellenski plan? Zelenski may be too confident. Trait shared with Nuland,
So much makes no sense. The more people lose, at times like gamblers brim with confidence,
Nuland’s statement is like watching a wet paint dry.
Someone please drag this swamp creature back to the DC neocon thinktank swamp where she came from (where she’ll still make 7 figures) She’s done enough damage already.
I’d air drop her into Bakhmut and let her add combat to her impressive resume.
Parachute optional and probably not big enough in any event.
Negotiations…Diplomatic Solutions…Peace Treaty…
Like the JCPOA? Or more like the Minsk Agreements? Perhaps we’d prefer a treaty like with the Indigenous peoples?
At some point we’ll all get tired of playing stupid…or not, your call.
We should always be ready to discuss nuclear weapons reductions. I would hope we negotiate in good faith, but I am worried. Many of our weapons systems could be viewed as an attempt to gain first strike advantage. We don’t really benefit by making the other side nervous.
Nuland has zero credibility as a spokesperson and zero credibility as a human.
She reminds me of Madeleine Albright in relation to Iraq.
I think she’s just posturing anyway. If State was serious about real negotiations with Russia, Blinken would be taking the lead (not that he can be trusted either).
Yes, I can see her receiving the Nobel Peace Prize along with Biden. …Cringe!!!! Double cringe!!!! (Sarcasm alert)
Anything is possible now-a-days.
Putin and his team know all about the Nuland deceptions, they know as well as she does, Zelenky’s formula was written in her office to sabotage any negotiations.
After all the her failures she is still spinning relentlessly in the same grove of the record.
Only fools would trust the punks in DC.
There will be no peace as long as the criminal neocons are in charge.
Yanks are all way`s saying in God we Trust , lucky for them there is no God otherwise they would go straight to HELL .
Under Zionist control for political affairs is her actual title.
US would only support negotiations on Ukraine if they were done under Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s “peace formula.”
right. because zelensky is some kind of world-class Buddha
Nuland, the kagan family, and the neo cons of her ilk are a cancer on this country and the world.
She and her husband cannot be rational humans with such extreme hatred.
I upvoted you, and I’m going to disagree with you slightly. Nuland and her ilk are perfectly rational, as are all humans. However, like most humans, she is starting from an emotional premise, in her case disgust of all things Russian, and everything else follows rationally from that. Most of what we call rational thought is mainly just rationalizing our emotional states, but it doesn’t mean we don’t reason. I mean, this woman went through a LOT of trouble to be in the position she is in today, and it’s apparently serving her well.
Cannot agree at all!
She has a responsibility to humanity and mankind not to push for Ukrainians to die in the trenches of Donbas and to seek a solution to end the slaughter, bloodbath, and destruction. Her “trouble” as you state was that she saw where the career enhancements could lead and that is what she pursued. I see her as well as the rest of the kagan family as being extremely cynical and manipulative.
As far as all humans being rational, that is something that could be challenged on any given day and on any given circumstance.
Ah, but not without employing logic! I’m not saying she’s not evil and trying to get us all killed. I’m saying she has directed her hatred to a goal in a way that would be admirable if it weren’t so evil and twisted.
I’ve heard she’s good at baking cookies.
Looks like she’s been sampling her baked goods. Maybe karma will be in the form of clogged arteries and a slow painful exit.
She’s a fat chunk of the detritus of east European venom and hate.
Precisely this.
I really wonder why any rational actor would ever put any faith in the intention, or indeed maybe even the ability, of Amerika to actually honour treaties, or any other agreement, for that matter. Always that ‘we had an election’ excuse to annulling everything that came before. Amerikan Exceptionalism, I suppose.
Yes – and all the NATO buildup and move East was all to counter Iran. Yep, sure it was!!
Lest we forget, yes, that was the lie they peddled.
And Ready to Abolish it the next Day…!
From “f*cki the EU” Nuland, her statement is a crock.
Putin to Nuland: “Na xhooey!!!”
“Nuland Says US Ready to Discuss New START With Russia ‘Tomorrow’ Russian officials have said the treaty could be resumed if the US works to ease tensions, but Biden has shown no interest”
Joey Biden has no interest in anything beyond wearing adult diapers and parroting talking points he is directed to say. He doesn’t know what time of day it is or what planet he is on.
As a scientist, I am baffled about how someone like that (Nuland Sullivan), gets up in the morning, puts on their shoes and goes to work to foment war, discord, misery and death –then goes home and can sleep well is beyond me.
The last paragraph of this news tells me that our government is not serious hence that this is a propaganda stunt to impress only God knows whom. And even God is not impressed.
Exactly. If there are any preconditions on negotiations, then the negotiations are being intentionally sabotaged. QED.
Why does she think she’s the boss?
Why would Putin want to talk to serial liers not to mention the US terror attack on the NS2 pipe line , sanctions ect ect ect , you trust the Americans at your PERIL.