Thorgalaeg
Deity
As always Putin knows how to talk the talk, problem he has not clue about how to walk the walk.
Apparently Russia was accused of violating New START treaty well before Putin's announcement at State of the Nation address. So the "suspension" announcement by Putin is a bit of disingenuous theatre/blame-shifting. He was already not participating in the treaty way before he announced that he was "suspending" participation.I was incorrect.
The suspension of New START was delivered at Russia's state of the nation speech, so was probably planned well in advance of Biden's Ukraine visit.
Here is President Biden with the air raid sirens.
Here is President Putin giving his State of the Nation 2023 speech where Russia suspended participation in New START (around the 1 hour 50 minute time).
To read a computer translation into English (quality is ???), click on the gear/settings -> Subtitles/Closed Captioning -> Russian (Auto-Generated)
Click on gear/settings again -> Subtitles/Closed Captioning -> Auto-Translate-> Scroll down and select English.
Everything Putin says should then be typed out in English at the bottom of the video.
Later in the day, President Biden gave a speech in Poland.
https://www.reuters.com/world/russi...tion-under-nuclear-arms-treaty-us-2023-01-31/WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday accused Russia of violating the New START Treaty, the last major pillar of post-Cold War nuclear arms control between the two countries, saying Moscow was refusing to allow inspection activities on its territory.
The treaty came into force in 2011 and was extended in 2021 for five more years. It caps the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the United States and Russia can deploy, and the deployment of land- and submarine-based missiles and bombers to deliver them.
The two countries, which during the Cold War were constrained by a tangle of arms control agreements, still account together for about 90% of the world's nuclear warheads.
Oop. Moldova is up next as the degenerate West.
I'm glad you're still at that preference. It's a good one.
Russian guarantees are already worthless
This pretty much is pushing Moldova into NATO
Taking it to the spillover thread @amadeus.I would say @Gorbles that the public in the UK is effectively exercising democratic control on a greater scale than could be done in Russia by not opposing the aid to Ukraine, either because it’s not significant to them or they already agree.
Nobody voted for aid to Ukraine, but they will vote in the next election and I think this provides a check on government action.
Well they xant join unless they resolve their territorial problems.
Regarding miltary aid that decision can only be made by the government becuse it has the weaponry,
and the timescales resulting fron the military operation/invasion do not really permit formal public consultation.
There is military aid and there is non military aid.
The UK public can make up its own minds about non military aid, and accordingly decide
to (a) contribute to Ukraine or (b) not contribute to Ukraine; on an individual basis.
Regarding miltary aid that decision can only be made by the government becuse it has the weaponry,
and the timescales resulting fron the military operation/invasion do not really permit formal public consultation.
We probably have a 100 million of them to spare. Let's go gun lovers, show you support for Ukraine!I mean here in the states assault rifles are legal whereby they sell magazines filled with the right kind of NATO rounds, private individuals have been buying that stuff up then shipping it at their own expense to Ukraine. The whole gun culture here also means some people are buying up kevlar vests, other related gear, and doing essentially the same thing.
Now I have no clue as to the legality of all of the above or whether or not INTERPOL would consider it international arms trafficking in violation of international law, but it goes on nevertheless. Kind of like all the volunteers who wanna fight or something.
We probably have a 100 million of them to spare. Let's go gun lovers, show you support for Ukraine!
We probably have a 100 million of them to spare. Let's go gun lovers, show you support for Ukraine!