Another thing, what the Americans will go in vein. Alas, while it is an open question, since any good reason to believe in the seriousness of their intentions, alas, are not enough. It can be assumed that the entry into negotiations for the White house, and everything he does in the last time – step from a purely political (read election) sight. Trump has gained his victory in the elections in 2016 with the promise to take real steps towards nuclear disarmament, but instead a result of the devastating actions of Washington we have the latest agreement in the sphere of strategic stability – SNV-3.
Anxiety about his fate, expresses not only our side, but America’s European allies, as most experts in the United States. Even famous for its warm and not very good feelings for Russia Washington Post in December in an editorial with great concern, wrote: “This agreement provides a very detailed and valuable mode of control. This Treaty fully meets the interests of the United States, limiting the quantity of the threat of nuclear weapons and providing a degree of predictability of the future. … The need to extend the start-3 for another three years is obvious. That is why the indifference of the trump to the question of the extension of the validity of the start-3 baffles. Russian officials raise the issue of extending the contract for more than a year. But trump’s obviously not done any serious negotiations with Moscow on the issue”.
Puzzled by the fact that on the eve of the Vienna talks the future of their party on the American side referred to China: “China also invited. Will China negotiate in good faith?”, – Billingsley wrote in his blog on Twitter.
Linking the fate of the start Treaty with the position of a third party, moreover, repeatedly stated by itself (in particular, today the official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs of China Beijing is not going to participate in the negotiations), that is, attempt to determine the future bilateral agreement is obviously unenforceable demand the involvement of a third party, raises suspicion about the desire to “podstelit straw” and advance to explain his refusal to extend the agreement.
the Position of Russia is very simple and has repeatedly and publicly declared its top management: as said the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, we propose to extend the start-3 Treaty immediately and without preconditions. Alas, our willingness, it seems, is understood as if the contract is more necessary to us than America. But in fact, this Treaty, the last pillar of global strategic stability, needed worldwide, and Russia is acting as a responsible global player. I would hope that in Vienna the United States will remember that they sometimes acted in this role.
Source: website of Senator Konstantin Kosachev in .
