Russia's State Duma has approved a bill to formally withdraw from the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement, a bilateral pact with the United States originally signed in 2000 and amended in 2010.
This move effectively ends a key remnant of Cold War-era arms control efforts aimed at reducing nuclear proliferation risks by disposing of surplus weapons-grade plutonium.
The agreement committed both nations to dispose of at least 34 metric tons each of excess plutonium - enough material for roughly 17,000 nuclear warheads combined.
This development underscores the fragility of U.S.-Russia nuclear diplomacy, with little momentum for revival amid ongoing geopolitical tensions.
Hal Turner Opinion
Now that the U.S. is choosing to supply Ukraine with Tomahawk Cruise missiles, to attack Russia, Russia can now choose to provide its allies with Plutonium to make their own nuclear weapons for use against . . . . The U.S. or its allies. (Think Israel?)
With the U.S. moving Tomahawks to make life more dangerous for Russia, Russia is clearly now moving to make life more dangerous for the United States. See how that works?
It's pretty simple, really. Too bad the nitwits in government who are pushing for escalating the Ukraine war, were too dumb to see that Russia can do things to escalate much farther, and in ways the US won't like.
The folks supporting Ukraine really are morons; they seem incapable of seeing "the big picture" with what happens when one superpower (the U.S.) starts toying with another superpower, Russia.
If the U.S. and Europe get smart, they will tell Ukraine to make peace with Russia, right now, today, and put a halt to this seemingly never-ending, escalatory, activity.
We are all heading into a giant nuclear war, where I suspect hundreds of millions, will die. But maybe that's the U.S. goal? The U.S. is, after all, financially broke. The Congress has spent us into oblivion and they can't pay off what they've borrowed. So they need "Debt forgiveness."
The only way to get that is for several U.S. major cities to be levelled by nukes, and tens-of-millions of average (innocent) Americans to be killed.
This way, the morons, freaks, and pedophiles in politics can slither out of their nuclear Bunkers and tell Creditors "Our cities are destroyed, our people are dead, we have no economy left . . . . we can't pay you. We need debt forgiveness."
The Creditors, seeing multiple US cities flattened and radioactive, with tens-of-millions killed, will realize hey have no chance of getting any of the money back, so they will forgive the debt.
Then the very same people in Congress who CAUSED THIS, seem to think they can come out and start the whole shebang all over again, with themselves (of course) still in power.
I suspect they have no idea what average Americans will do to them when they see the very people responsible for their families being killed. I think it won't work out too well for the political class.
But it is a fitting end: The people who deliberately start wars, should be among the ones who die from them.
