{"id":1855548,"date":"2023-02-21T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T19:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1855548"},"modified":"2023-02-21T14:21:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T19:21:15","slug":"putin-says-russia-suspends-participation-in-nuclear-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-says-russia-suspends-participation-in-nuclear-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Says Russia Suspends Participation in Nuclear Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fputin-says-russia-suspends-participation-in-nuclear-treaty%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1855548&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>MOSCOW (Reuters)\u2014President Vladimir\u00a0Putin\u00a0said on Tuesday that Russia was suspending its participation in the New\u00a0START\u00a0treaty with the United States that limits the two sides&#8217; strategic nuclear arsenals.<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u00a0stressed that Russia was not withdrawing from the treaty but the suspension further imperils the last remaining pillar of arms control between the United States and Russia, which between them hold nearly 90% of the world&#8217;s nuclear warheads &#8211; enough to destroy the planet many times over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this regard, I am forced to announce today that Russia is suspending its participation in the strategic offensive arms treaty,&#8221;\u00a0Putin\u00a0told lawmakers towards the end of a major speech to parliament, nearly one year into the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u00a0said Russia&#8217;s nuclear energy company Rosatom must also ensure the country&#8217;s readiness to test a nuclear weapon, if needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, we will not be the first to do this. But if the United States tests, then we will,&#8221; He said. &#8220;No one must be under any dangerous illusions that global strategic parity can be destroyed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The New\u00a0START\u00a0treaty was signed in Prague in 2010, came into force the following year and was extended in 2021 for five more years just after U.S. President Joe Biden took office.<\/p>\n<p>It limits the number of nuclear warheads the United States or Russia can deploy and also allows for the deployment of missiles and bombers from land and sea to deliver them.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say Russia holds the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, with nearly 6,000 warheads.<\/p>\n<p>INSPECTIONS<\/p>\n<p>Analysts believe Russia&#8217;s actions will make it more difficult to ensure compliance with the treaty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suspension of the treaty is not equal to leaving the treaty, I assume there will be no Russian build-up above the treaty limits,&#8221; Andrey Baklitskiy from the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research stated this on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there will be much fewer opportunities to verify this (only national technical means), so compliance will be disputed,&#8221; He added.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech,\u00a0Putin\u00a0said, without providing evidence, that the West was directly involved in Ukrainian attacks on bases for Russian strategic bomber planes deep inside Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>He said NATO demands that Russia should allow inspections of its nuclear bases under the New\u00a0START\u00a0treaty were therefore absurd.<\/p>\n<p>NATO and the U.S. openly declare that they want to inflict a major strategic loss on Russia. What&#8217;s more, they plan to drive all over our defense facilities, even the most recent ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (Reuters)\u2014President Vladimir\u00a0Putin\u00a0said on Tuesday that Russia was suspending its participation in the New\u00a0START\u00a0treaty with the United States that limits the two sides&#8217; strategic nuclear arsenals.<br \/>\nThe post Putin Says Russia Suspends Participation in Nuclear Treaty appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1331908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4639,14343,3733,4280,6246,19221],"class_list":["post-1855548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-nuclear","tag-participation","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-suspends","tag-treaty"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1331908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}