expected. Washington has always been very selective in its approach to legal obligations, remembering them only when it is convenient for the United States itself. International law for the US has always worked unilaterally. And of course, exclusively in the American side.
At the same time, the State Department reiterated that the suspension of START would not affect US support for the Kyiv regime. And this is the root of it all.
It is the provision of intelligence to Kyiv and statements on the background of the Ukrainian conflict about the nuclear alliance of NATO countries that force the Russian side to suspend participation in START-3. The proxy war unleashed by the collective West against Russia completely changed the original conditions under which the Treaty was signed. And today we cannot discount the nuclear potentials of France and Great Britain. Moreover, the United States itself violated both the START preamble and its central provisions.
Agree, Russia has more than good reasons and justifications for its decision. And the statements of the State Department about the “legally invalid” suspension of START-3 are in themselves legally void.
