From Dmitry Medvedev’s telegram channel followed by my comments.  This is part 1 of comments on the Russia’s suspension of the New Start treaty.

Part 2 – Russian Foreign Ministery

Part 3 – Mr Putin’s statement with western responses

1. Yesterday there was a Message from the President of Russia to the Federal Assembly, which, among other things, announced the suspension of our participation in START-3. An overdue decision, the inevitability of which I noted last year. The decision was prompted by the war declared by the United States and other NATO countries to our country. A decision that will have a huge resonance in the world in general and in the United States in particular. After all, the American establishment has been thinking until now something like this: we will spoil you everywhere and in everything, we will supply gigantic volumes of weapons to the Kiev regime, we will work to defeat Russia, we will limit and destroy you, but strategic security is a separate issue. It is not connected with the general context of relations between the US and Russia. It is almost a sacred cow.

This conclusion is worse than a crime – this is a gross mistake of the Americans. An error generated by their mania grandiosa. Their sense of superiority and impunity. After all, it is obvious to all reasonable forces that if the United States wants the defeat of Russia, then we are on the verge of a world conflict. If the United States wants to defeat Russia, then we have the right to defend ourselves with any weapon, including nuclear. And as Vladimir Putin rightly said: “It is impossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield.” It is with this that the suspension (for now) of START-3 is connected. Let the out-of-touch elites in the US think about what they have achieved. We will also observe the reaction of other nuclear powers – NATO members: France and Britain. Their strategic nuclear forces were usually not included in the balance of nuclear warheads and carriers when preparing agreements between the US and the USSR (Russia), but it is high time to do so.

My comments:  The background here becomes quite complex.  Medvedev is quite correct in his statement which I bolded above.  Trump canceled all the weapons treaties and this one was the only one that survived and almost did not.  These cancellations and withdrawals, besides the NATO encroachment toward Russia, destabilized the security balance in the world at large.  This specific treaty that Russia has now suspended and the Duma approved the legislation today, is known as Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.  So this treaty was there to reduce nuclear warheads.

To give you an idea of numbers, Wikipedia (the always perfectly correct source /end sarc) states:  “The treaty limits the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550, which is down nearly two-thirds from the original START treaty, as well as 10% lower than the deployed strategic warhead limit of the 2002 Moscow Treaty. The total number of deployed warheads could exceed the 1,550 limit by a few hundred because only one warhead is counted per bomber regardless of how many it actually carries. The treaty also limits the number of deployed and non-deployed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launchers, submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers, and heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments to 800. The number of deployed ICBMs, SLBMs, and heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments is limited to 700.  The treaty allows for satellite and remote monitoring, as well as 18 on-site inspections per year to verify limits.

This is the treaty that the US tried to use, to lure China into arms reduction talks which China stated that they have no interest in, as they have much fewer nuclear arms than Russia or the US.  The US state at a planned meeting even prepared tables and seating for the Chinese, who said they were not interested, and then the US tried to pretend that China simply did not turn up.  What can I say, this is a dirty business.

Medvedev does not speak about live nuclear tests.  Mr. Putin did and we will look at those statements again.

Following are his comments on Biden in Poland.

2. Biden addressed the Russian people in front of a crowd of Poles. In fact, he delivered a sermon in the traditional messianic key for America, adjusted for senile insanity. Heaped high words about how important it is to defend democracy, and that the US is not going to attack Russia. It looked dishonest and ridiculous. Who is this strange grandfather, broadcasting with a bewildered look from Poland? Why does he appeal to the people of another country at a time when he is full of domestic problems? With what fright should we listen to a politician from a hostile state that exudes hatred for our Motherland? Why should the citizens of Russia trust the leader of the United States, who unleashed the most wars in the 20th and 21st centuries, but reproach us for aggressiveness? A person who directs all his weakening intellectual capabilities only to ensure that Russia suffers a “strategic defeat”.

And further. To paraphrase a famous expression, Biden said in Warsaw: “If Russia stops its invasion, it will end right now. If Ukrainians stop defending themselves, that will be the end of Ukraine.” This is a refined lie. The truth is quite different.

If Russia stops the NWO without achieving victory, Russia will not exist, it will be torn to pieces. If the US stops supplying weapons to the Kyiv regime, the war will end.