Putin, in a Strategic Blunder, Gives America a Chance To Catch Up in the Arms Race 

Why should America care if Russia announces it is suspending compliance with a treaty it is already violating?

AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file
Russian ICBM missile launchers at Moscow's Red Square in 2016. AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file
ELI LAKE
ELI LAKE

In the year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it seems that every few weeks a senior Kremlin official or an organ of the state-run press threatens a nuclear strike to scare America and its allies from aiding the country Russia has been trying to destroy.  

This week was no exception. President Putin, in a defiant and delusional speech marking the one-year anniversary of the Ukraine war, announced that Russia would be suspending participation in the remaining nuclear treaty Moscow has with America.

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