New START Talks As A Path To Ukraine Peace
Date
1/29/2025 6:18:22 AM
(MENAFN- Asia Times)
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with Donald trump to discuss ending the Ukrainian conflict and resuming arms control talks after the American leader told the Davos elite last week that he'd like to do both with his Russian counterpart as soon as possible.
Their reference to resuming arms control talks is significant since the New START will expire in February 2026, but the negotiation process has been frozen since 2023. Background briefings on the subject can be found here , here and here .
To summarize, global strategic stability is, to a large degree, dependent on the balance of nuclear and associated forces (like delivery systems) between Russia and the US, the countries with the largest such arsenals by far.
They realized near the end of the Old Cold War how dangerous it was to produce so many thousands of nuclear weapons and how financially onerous such programs were, and ergo agreed to partial cuts and monitoring mechanisms.
This helped alleviate their security dilemma, which refers to one side's defensively intended moves (such as building nukes for deterrence purposes) being perceived by their rival as offensively intended (such as preparing for an overwhelming first strike) and thus catalyzing an escalation cycle.
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