US Long Violating Letter, Spirit of New START – Russian Ambassador Antonov
Sputnik – 03.08.2023
WASHINGTON – Russia in February suspended participation in New START, the only bilateral nuclear arms control treaty in place at the time, and conditioned its resumption of participation on an understanding of how NATO’s combined strike capability would be accounted for.
The United States has long been violating the New START Treaty, Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said.
“Washington has long been violating the letter and the spirit of the agreement. It has not only abandoned the principles embedded in the Preamble to New START, but also breached the central limits of the Treaty that restrict the number of strategic weapons. It illegitimately removed from accountability under the Treaty about a hundred strategic offensive arms: SLBM launchers and heavy bombers. Russia’s repeated demands to resolve the problem have been ignored,” Antonov told reporters.
He said there was another factor that has led to the current crisis.
“Even more important factor that has led to the current crisis over the agreement is the [US] Administration’s hybrid war against our country aimed at imposing on us a strategic defeat. Washington’s calls for addressing the New START issues separately from the overall geopolitical situation do not stand up to criticism,” Antonov said.
“The real goal of the United States is to gain access to Russia’s nuclear weapons bases in order to obtain information about the development of our strategic arsenal,” he said.
In February, Moscow announced the suspension of its participation in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which was signed by Russia and the US in 2010 and envisaged mutual inspections of the strategic nuclear facilities of the two countries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his annual address to the Russian parliament then that the US had demanded that Russia unconditionally fulfill its obligations under the treaty while itself being arbitrary about its own obligations.
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The truth is, this guy Ponomarev has a mental condition. It’s what army doctors call “Flight Forward.” That’s when a combat soldier who has been hiding in his foxhole for too long, (or his equivalent) suffers from fatigue, stress, and shell shock, suddenly leaps out of his foxhole right into the enemy’s line of fire, guns blazing. Ponomarev fits that description perfectly. To add to this indictment, Ponomarev is claiming that Russia’s army “looks second best” to the ragtag group that runs across the border into Russia for part of a day and shoots up civilians in their cars while they drive to work. “Putin is bluffing. He will never use nuclear weapons to counter a NATO attack on Russian territory,” said the crazy Ponomarev.
So man your guns America and follow me, full-speed ahead, you ain’t got nothing to worry about, says the advocate of sabotage and assassinations on behalf of WWIII.
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