Agent Rutte should be in a modern-day dock. He and his masters want to push the world into catastrophe.
NATO chief Mark Rutte declared in a high-profile address to the Ukrainian parliament this week that alliance troops would be deployed in Ukraine immediately on signing any peace deal with Russia.
Letting New START expire would signal that the world’s largest nuclear powers are abandoning restraint.
By Georgia Cole, Research Associate, International Security Programme
On 4 February 2026, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is due to expire. If it does, it will mark the first time since the early 1970s that there will be no legally binding limits on US and Russian strategic nuclear forces without another agreement being under negotiation.
