Tuesday's Terrible Absurdities: Another Lurch Towards WWIII

Leftwing idiots spent Monday on CNN, MSNBC and the other propaganda organs of the Democrat party marveling at the joyous effectiveness of Old Joe the Sock Puppet’s efforts at this thing called “diplomacy.” Biden’s trip to celebrate President’s day with the president of his favorite influence-purchasing country, Ukraine, was widely held as a “triumph” by the ridiculous dumpster fire of corruption and mendacity that is the U.S. media establishment.

As it turned out, Vladimir Putin was not nearly so impressed. In a speech early Tuesday, the Russian brute announced he was suspending Russia’s participation in the so-called “New START” arms control treaty:

Michael Tracey @mtracey

Putin just announced the suspension of New START, the only remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia. For the first time in decades, there are no limits on either country's arsenal. Sure to be declared another great diplomatic triumph for the Biden Admin

Here’s an excerpt from a story at the Wall Street Journal:

MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would suspend its participation in the last remaining major nuclear-arms-control treaty between the U.S. and Russia, and vowed to continue the military campaign in Ukraine as the diplomatic gap between Moscow and the West widened.

Mr. Putin’s remarks on the New Start treaty came during a wide-ranging address to Russia’s federal legislature in Moscow on Tuesday ahead of the Feb. 24 anniversary of the beginning of the invasion. He again blamed the West for provoking what he calls the “special military operation” in Ukraine. President Biden is scheduled to give a speech later Tuesday in Poland, a day after offering continuing U.S. support to Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv.

“They want to deal us a strategic defeat and are meddling with our nuclear facilities. In this context, I have to declare today that Russia is suspending its participation in the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Arms,” Mr. Putin told lawmakers from both houses of the Russian parliament gathered inside Gostiny Dvor hall near Red Square. 

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Very predictably, U.S. child Sec. State Anthony Blinkin responded by demonizing Putin and pretending he has no valid concerns about the escalating proxy war being funded by the U.S. and NATO:

Responding to Mr. Putin’s speech, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters in Athens that the Russian leader’s decision “is both really unfortunate and very irresponsible.”