Why Bother?

The entire ukraine drama has affected many facets of political life in Russia and the US.

It has also exposed serious military and technological shortcomings of the US and NATO. 

For decades, NATO was hyped up as the greatest and most powerful alliance in history, which isn’t true. The WW2 alliance was the greatest and most powerful in history. 

US missile technology and NATO's lack of preparedness and know-how when it comes to modern combined arms warfare and weapons systems, has exposed it as a hollow force woefully behind the times. 

It is this realization which has brought out the most ire in the western regimes. For centuries, Russia was billed as a poor, inferior, backward society. 

Generations of western schoolchildren have been raised on all sort of anti-Russian tropes and stereotypes. They were indoctrinated into automatically thinking that Russia was inferior in all things the moment that Russia was mentioned.

Now that Russia has proven to be far more militarily, economically, and technologically adept and resilient that anyone in the west thought, the cognitive dissonance within the uninformed and deluded western minds is wreaking havoc on their psyche.

What was thought as inferior is actually superior, but this just doesn’t square with the warped western worldview that underscored everything else. Suddenly, the west is not best anymore. 

This has created an identity crisis in the west, which has, sadly, resulted in the combined west tripling down on its anti-Russian fantasies, and taking them even further.

New tropes are being concocted by armies of professional and amateur western propagandists in the US, EU, NATO and kievan troll farms and ‘think tanks.’ 

Alternative histories are being written, and real history erased or reinterpreted to perpetuate the false image of a primitive and barbaric Russia.

New Russian and Soviet crimes are being invented, and the numbers of people supposedly killed by Russians and Soviets grows greater everyday.

All this to cover the lies, deceit, and failings of the combined west.

Because the thing that the US, EU, and NATO fear the most is looking weak. 

By engaging in disinformation and deception against everything Russian, including in terrorism against Russians, this is the very thing that the west projects: its own weakness.

That’s what brings us to the issue of arms control, specifically nuclear arms. 

In the cold war 1.0 days, the US and the USSR were pretty evenly matched in nuclear and missile technologies, and could afford to deal away some of this capability.

But it worked as long as each side had equal capability to eradicate the other. 

The US also readily agreed to such arms limitation treaties because they never applied to the rest of NATO. So if the US gave up a couple hundred nuclear bombs, the rest of NATO made up for it.

Today, these two main premises have changed, and not to the benefit of the US. 

First, Russia now leads the US in the number of nuclear warheads. It also has missiles that are generations ahead of what all of NATO has. 

Russia has also introduced new types of revolutionary missile types that don’t fit into any traditional missile categories, confounding western regimes. 

That missile parity is now gone - in Russia's favor.

Second, Russia has insisted that any future nuclear arms limitation treaties must also apply to all NATO members, not just the US, a condition the US refused to consider. 

So faced with inferior missiles, and the elimination of the ‘NATO cushion’ when it comes to retaining a missile count the US supposedly gave up itself, the US regime of Biden and now Trump have lost interest in arms limitations treaties.

The US regime knows that it is in a weakened position in the realm of missile technologies, and therefore it can't sign away what little it has. 

Russia can afford to pursue such deals because it knows that it will only have to deal in limiting nuclear warheads and weapons types which both sides have. Russia will not sign away its newest platforms since the US has no equal platforms that it could sign away on a quid pro quo basis.

But does disarmament of any kind make sense for Russia in this environment? 

The combined west is supporting its ukrainian proxies in fighting and killing Russians. 

The west has made it clear that it seeks a strategic defeat of Russia, and its dismemberment. 

The west seeks to subdue Russia and gain control of its resources, which equal 1/3 of the world's total, with an estimated value of $75 trillion, if not more.

There’s also no telling what other insane plans the west has for Russians, if it gained control over the country.

But whatever it is, it would make the atrocities of the 3rd Reich look pathetic in comparison.

That’s why Russia should forget about any arms limitation treaties, and just build a deterrent that is as strong and formidable as it can be, and keep it that way.

There is no talking to, and dealing with inept fanatics that openly want to destroy you.

Russia would be shooting itself in the head, if it gave up any part of its deterrence in return for promises from people who will do everything to stall in implementing any treaty provisions, and would never fully comply with them in the long-run.

A case in point are the US-ran bio labs setup in ex-Soviet states ringing Russia.

Years ago, Russia and the US signed a treaty on the eradication of bio warfare programs and weapons.

While Russia has complied with it, the US simply cheated by moving these bio labls from US territory to other countries, and has been operating them as ‘Bio warfare research centers’ ostensibly dedicated to fighting and countering bio warfare agents and biological terrorism.

But digging deeper, these centers are actually disguised biological warfare centers, where pathogens are regularly tested and their weaponization is studied.

Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan and other such countries have active, US-funded bio warfare centers operating inside them. Already there have been public health emergencies, and strange diseases unleashed onto the public in some of these countries.

When the Russian military exposed such bio warfare centers in ukraine, and seized documents proving US involvement, the US regime denied it, even though its own evidence and admission shows that these centers existed in ukraine for decades. 

So there is no point in nuclear arms disarmament treaties. US has no cards to play in this regard, and will only seek to disarm and weaken Russia, demand that Russia mothball its newest and best missiles, and seek access to Russian missile sites and missile manufacturing facilities. 

It is best for Russia to just let what’s left of these treaties die out. If the US isn’t interested in renewing them as they are, then neither should Russia.