There's been massive hand-wringing and stages of grief over the demise of the last nuclear arms treaty. Yes, this increases the likelihood that the Atomic Clock may eventually move past Midnight. But look at the origin of this nuclear arms race. You may have not been aware of the full dimension of U.S. Exceptionalism back in the beginning of the nuclear arms race, or perhaps were not born yet. But the degree of that exceptionalism has now been fully exposed and even flaunted by both "Exceptional" countries, USA and the un-namable zionist entity.
From Gromyko's Memoir, page 45:
FDR's Vice-President, Henry E, Wallace was a supporter of Soviet-US co-operation, and wrote in his diary in January 1943, that problem number one after the war was going to be the maintenance of good relations with the USSR. In 1942 he was contemplating visiting Russia so learned Russian tolerably. He visited Russia in May, 1943. He told Gromyko "I believe that Soviet-American co-operation should above all mean averting military confrontation between us."
Gromyko goes on to say:
"Someone else with whom I had good relations, and who was extremely close to Roosevelt, was Harold Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior. Hopkins, Morgenthau, Ickes and Wallace, like Roosevelt, all shared the view that the differences between our two social systems should not stand in the way of defeating our common enemy and build peace after victory. Clearly these views expressed the interests of the American people. Yet, tragically, a totally different political strategy emerged in the early years of the "cold war," when the American administration began to preach the doctrine of naked force and to set in motion the arms race."
Before the end of the war, Gromyko was having a private lunch with Wallace and the Swiss ambassador and both their wives, and went aside for a conversation (page 47):
"The Vice-President said: 'Now that it looks pretty certain that the Allies are going to win the war, we have to take the opportunity to make a big improvement in US-Soviet relations. Present Allied ties must not be weakened. I'm very concerned about this, because some guys here, particularly in big business, are undermining the friendly feelings that the exploits of the Red Army have aroused in the American people'."
I told him he was absolutely right. 'After all, we became allies because the fundamental long-term interests of our two countries demanded it. As for the attitudes of American business, we think the administration could use its influence more to alter them. In our view, business circles worldwide could greatly benefit from the development of contracts with the USSR. The opportunities are going to be colossal after the war – especially when you consider how much plant and equipment the Soviet Union is going to need for rebuilding the industry Hitler's barbarians have destroyed.'"
Meeting Wallace again in 1946, Gromkyo remarked that "America's ruling class was now preparing to use the 'big stick' in world affairs – the policy President Theodore Roosevelt had fought for at the beginning of the century – and the American public had already been subjected to a mighty wave of propaganda in favour of it."
Here, already, during WW-II and just after, the development of Ike's Military-Industrial-Complex was well on its way to achieving control of the government.
As well, it can be argued that the U.S. with other western backing, for most of the war, was underhandedly backing the Nazis in an attempt to use this strife to weaken Russia, a recurring theme since the 19th century. Ford and IBM and the banks and possibly others were complicit in these schemes. Finally, reality sunk in as the "Allies" noted that Russia was now making progress toward Berlin, thus the mad rush and consequent loss of lives in the D-Day operation to attempt to reach Berlin before the Soviets, otherwise they would claim all of Berlin. Thus, the unfair division of Germany into four blocks, dismissing entirely the fact that it was Russia's efforts and massive losses that defeated the Nazis. More salt was rubbed in this wound with the failure of any Western government to send emissaries to the 80th Anniversary celebration of VE day in Russia.
Jeffrey Sachs' review of this topic (Russophobia) reveals the long history of abusive relations.
"While other great powers are presumed to have legitimate security interests that must be balanced and accommodated, Russia's interests are presumed illegitimate unless proven otherwise."
In the nineteenth century, with Russia's central role in the Concert of Europe after 1815, thus began its subsequent transformation into Europe's designated menace. Sachs also brings out "Western military interventions during the Russian Civil War, the refusal to integrate the Soviet Union into a durable collective-security system in the 1920s and 1930s, and the catastrophic failure to ally against fascism, drawing especially on the archival work of Michael Jabara Carley. The result was not the containment of Soviet power, but the collapse of European security and the devastation of the continent itself in World War II."
Yes, I'm repeating a lot of Gromyko's Memoirs here, but don't dismiss him as a non-credible witness. He went to school in New York, so understood the vapidity of American thought. We owe fifty years of (relative) peace to his efforts which have mainly gone unheeded – he was the consummate diplomat as revealed by his tireless work to calm down the highly volatile Stalin, and don't underestimate the personal danger of that chore.
Later in the book he makes it abundantly clear that EVERY Soviet advance in armaments was in response to ongoing Western arms incremental increases, not the other way around as presented by the Western propaganda engines. The "Cold War" was a Churchill/Truman creation and cemented into place with the development of NATO in 1949. NATO was presented with great fanfare as being a promoter of "Peace" while this façade was shattered in 1955 when the soviet Union asked to join, thus revealing the current depth of Russophobia.
Russia was looking for disarmament even in 1922, at the Genoa Conference. Under direct instructions from Lenin, Soviet Foreign Commissar Chicherin said: 'Our state proposes universal arms reduction, and then the threat of war will be removed." According to Gromyko, this has been the Soviet approach ever since.
Thus, perhaps you might be able to see Russia's offer of extending the just-expired arms reduction treaty not as supplication by a vassal, but as an incentive to bring the real rogue state, USA, back into the arms-control discussion. But the deeply-embedded Russophobia of the West and primarily the USA, remarkably demands further nuclear arms buildup and the enhancement of first-strike capability enhanced by the massive missile defence scheme of the "Golden Dome." Note, however, that such systems are obsolete in face of the new Russian hypersonic missiles which can come in straight down and from any direction, even over the South Pole. And the kinetic impact from something at that speed (Mach-10) is so great that a warhead of any kind is just an extra.
But DT has already, quite a while ago, commenced "modernizing" the U.S. nuclear arsenal, at great cost, in order to maintain its fading Unipolar grip on the entire world, so arms-reduction for USA is a non-starter.
Given that every advance in nuclear arms has been a U.S. initiative, pretending that arms-reduction treaties are a good thing reverts to the original Churchill/Truman Cold War outlook of Russophobia – that it was Russia doing the initial advances in weapons in spite of the truth of the reverse situation. Therefore, if America is serious about arms reduction, the U.S. itself could unilaterally disarm, which would allow the other countries to do the same, greatly reducing the pressure of war coming from The Hegemon (USA). Russia developed the bomb because U.S. did, same for China. Want to reduce nuclear weapons? Take out the cause - American Exceptionalism as a self-appointed World Policeman. Supposedly smart people in USA demanding concurrent Russian arms reductions are missing the point and have created a new twist on Russophobia. I will conclude with what Gromyko wrote on page 60 of his book, and bear in mind this was written well before its first publication in Russia in 1988:
In a world where nations recognised the right of social choice, there would be no grounds for dangerous confrontations, and disarmament would release vast resources for perpetual peaceful construction and the resolution of many global problems.
The Soviet people do not hanker after what is not theirs, but neither will they give up their heritage...
Mankind's main enemy today is not one ideology or another - it is not ideologies that fight - but the weapons of mass destruction. Humanity's shame and misfortune is war, and war must be thrown on the scrapheap. That is the only sensible approach to the realities of the modern world, where everyone must have a place. Otherwise mankind will not survive.
People of reason must not allow themselves to be trampled on by militaristic thinking: this can only bring tragedy, the destruction of the gift of life and the undeserved end of mankind in the manner of the biblical Armageddon.
People must speak up against this now, and passionately, while there is still time to create a stable peace on earth."
References:
European Russophobia and Europe's Rejection of Peace: A
Two-Century Failure, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Dec. 22, 2025, Horizons,
Winter 2026.
https://cirsd.org/activities/european-russophobia-and-europes-rejection-of-peace-a-two-century-failure/
https://pascallottaz.substack.com/p/the-last-day-of-nuclear-arms-control
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/alas-babylon
https://thebulletin.org/2026/02/the-experts-comment-new-start-expires-bringing-both-risks-and-opportunities/
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/we-threw-it-all-away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJwC9S0jR68 -Scott Ritter on
Nima's program
You can d/l a copy of Gromyko's Memoirs with a "free"
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