Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Destroyed the Biden government on Friday for his proposal to extend the only nuclear weapons control treaty between the US and Russia, telling “History” that puts national security at risk .
The White House announced on Thursday that Biden proposed a five-year extension of the New START treaty to Russia, which the Kremlin welcomes.
“This is a very bad decision,” said Cotton to presenter Martha MacCallum. “This puts America’s national security at risk. The new START treaty is a unilateral treaty that favors Russia.”
RUSSIA WELCOMES BIDEN’S PROPOSAL TO EXTEND THE NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL TREATY
The Trump administration waited until last year to start negotiations on the extension of the pact and included a list of demands that Russia would not meet.
“After four years with Democrats beating their chests over Russia and continuing on and on about the Russian collusion hoax, they have now returned to their old, weak and peaceful ways of appeasing Russia,” said Cotton. “We are in danger of facing a nuclear overrun by the combined nuclear forces of Russia and China, and it was a terrible decision by the Biden government to fold the cards and give Vladimir Putin exactly what he wanted on his first day in office.”
The treaty, signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 nuclear warheads and 700 missiles and bombers, and provides for local inspections to verify compliance. It expires on February 5, according to the Associated Press.
The treaty does not cover small nuclear warheads and tactical nuclear weapons, Cotton argued, as well as some newer and “more sophisticated” systems that Putin boasted about.
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“This ties one hand on America’s back, but leaves Russia free to continue to develop all these other nuclear technologies,” he said.
In a statement, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that failure to renew the treaty “would weaken the United States’ understanding of Russia’s long-range nuclear forces.”
“Just as we engage Russia in ways that promote American interests, we at the Department will remain attentive to the challenges that Russia poses and committed to defending the nation against its reckless and adversarial actions,” he said.