Air Force General Anthony Cotton, head of the U.S. Armed Forces Strategic Command (Stratcom), said he hopes the country will return to Russia’s Agreement on Measures to Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Assault Weapons (START), but fears that will not happen. He announced this at a hearing in the Congressional Senate Armed Services Committee, reports TASS.
“I hope they come back and try to fit in. But hope is not a plan,” Cotton said.
February 28 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law on the suspension of the country’s participation in the Treaty on the Reduction of Strategic Assault Weapons.
Law Project introduced Putin, who announced his decision to suspend participation in the treaty during the announcement of his message to the Bundestag on February 21. According to Putin, Moscow should clearly understand what the other NATO nuclear powers, France and Britain, are claiming, and how their strategic arsenals will be seized, before returning to discuss the ongoing work under New START. bill.