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Daniel Good's avatar

A new arms control agreement with Russia "would ensure that the Russian arsenal will remain more limited", but it would also ensure that the US would be similarly restrained. Is this the real reason US might not want to renew the obviously mutually beneficial agreement? It is hard to see, with fog of war, who is "winning" in Ukraine and what the final outcome will be. But it looks like US weapons are not giving Ukraine the much anticipated boost, at least not yet. So who will have the "incentive" to use nukes? A terrible question to contemplate.

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Feral Finster's avatar

By Brett Stephen's logic, we shouldn't make deals at all, ever, with anyone.

Of course, if I were the Mullahs, I'd be making sure that whatever else I did, I got my mitts on The Bomb, because force is the only thing that sociopaths like Brett Stephens and the American foreign policy establishment respect.

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