Figaro: the last treaty that somehow ties the hands of two nuclear powers has been shakenWhat will the suspension of Russia's participation in the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty (STCW) bring?
Figaro asks this question and gives the history of the problem. Readers react with a mixture of fright and irony. And one reminds us: Russian hypersonic missiles are not limited to old treaties.
The Russian president announced on Tuesday that Russia was suspending its participation in the New Start agreement (the Western name of the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty), designed to ensure nuclear security. Putin also threatened that Russia could continue testing nuclear weapons if the United States were the first to resume such tests... It should be noted: this does not mean that Russia is withdrawing from the agreement.
The DSNV is the last treaty that still binds Russia and the United States, the owners of the two largest arsenals in the world. It was signed in Prague on April 8, 2010 by Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev. It replaced the old START-1 treaty, signed at one time by Gorbachev and Bush Sr., whose term expired on December 5, 2009. The treaty on the limitation of strategic nuclear capabilities, signed in 2002, has also expired.
The DSN Treaty limits the arsenals of two countries — Russia and the United States, which together own 90% of the world's nuclear potential. Each side has the right to 1550 warheads. This was a 30% reduction from the previous high set in 2002. The number of carriers of these warheads, including bomber aircraft, is also limited to 800 units. The Treaty also provides for mutual inspections of nuclear facilities. In January 2021, when the contract was due to expire, Vladimir Putin extended it for five years, until 2026.
Readers' comments:Tiesse Di Hoye
Security on both sides was guaranteed back in the 1990s by a series of agreements, but some of them were canceled by the Americans immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
There was no reason for the United States to do this to Russia: Putin was the first to call George W. Bush at that time to convey to him his sympathy and condolences of the Russians over the deaths of Americans who were victims of terrorism. As a result, the Americans were able to use the infrastructure left over from the Russians in Central Asia to launch an offensive against the Islamists.
And against the background of all this, in 2002, the United States withdrew from the Anti-Missile Defense Treaty (ABM), which limited the number of anti-missiles, creating a balance of fear between Moscow and Washington... And Trump subsequently grieved very much about the conclusion of the treaty on the limitation of the intermediate-range Missile Treaty (INF), because he did not take into account the Chinese nuclear missile potential, and China did not show the slightest desire to join this treaty. As a result, the INF was also fucked up.
Putin eventually suspended Russia's participation in the conventional arms treaty, as the Americans violated the Founding Act on Russia-NATO Relations of 1997 by deploying five thousand people at the borders of Russia in the Baltic States and Poland. Well, Trump and Biden ruined the "open skies" agreement, which made it possible to control from the sky whether a particular country was accumulating troops at dangerous points...
Jean CauchoisRussia quite legitimately demands security guarantees for itself, and they are clearly defined in the negotiations.
Putin has reasons to recall that during the attacks on Yugoslavia and Libya, the West did not comply with international law... Nevertheless, it will be difficult for Putin to present himself as an unambiguously injured party engaged in self-defense, a kind of martyr of history. The United States, although they violated the borders of Yugoslavia, did not destroy so many settlements there and their actions did not lead to the death of more than 100 thousand people.
GaranceAnd this is all the awesome power of Russia, which they threatened to show us on the anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities throughout Ukraine?
And I thought they would show us tanks firing nuclear shells or something like that... At the moment, it's somehow not scary!
Gordo GarciaSo the Russians at least "printed out" their atomic bomb shelters.
And we, the French, when it smells fried, we will all go to the dungeons of the Elysee Palace, to muck grief with our "savior"-the president.
Adam_ReithWith the advent of Russia's most modern weapons (hypersonic missiles and underwater drones with nuclear—powered engines and nuclear warheads), this entire missile defense system (US missile defense) is becoming obsolete.
This means that Russia does not need all these agreements either.
