The Pry Report has some good news for a change—talks with Russia about extending Obama’s terrible New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) have been suspended. President Trump tried to save New START by negotiating better verification provisions, by including tactical nuclear weapons, and making it multilateral by including China. But China and Russia refused these necessary changes to the treaty. New START was never verifiable, so Russia is probably cheating on the treaty, just like it has cheated on most other treaties. Washington’s foreign policy and defense establishments are addicted to the arms control fantasy. We need to protect America through the policy of “Peace Through Strength” by having nuclear and military capabilities second-to-none, not by trusting Russia and China to obey arms control treaties, that are largely worthless.
