In the meantime, Ukraine is helping shrink Russia's army.
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Russia should completely denuclearize given the promise that nobody will ever invade in the future. We promise.
Russia will never voluntarily make itself weaker. Even if they said they would, there's 0 chance that they would actually follow through.
They did comply with the terms of the SALT treaty, with only a bit of marginal fuckery. But then, a certain raving idiot walked away from perfectly good arms reduction treaties in his first term.
Both sides have to perceive a benefit from the treaty, and you need a rock-solid inspection regime. I have friends who were SALT arms inspectors. There was almost no room for deception in the process of decommissioning.
Of course, now, Putin's off his leash, as is the raving idiot in the US, so it'll be a while until there are any sane people who are willing to negotiate.
Russia voluntarily went and threw their entire soviet stockpile in the trash, making themselves weaker. They've pulled all sorts of moves that make russia weaker, because putin thought it was making him stronger. Russia is throwing all its manpower away right now. People don't grow on trees, no matter how ruthless the dictator may think he is.
People don’t grow on trees
Except Tarzan.
Because things didn't go according to plan. They didn't do it on purpose thinking, yeah let's invade Ukraine to make our military weaker, because that would be good for <insert reason>.
They thought and planned for it to be over quickly, just like what happened with Crimea, but they were very wrong.
It's not about what they thought, it's about what they did. It's the actions taken that count.
They'll voluntarily weaken themselves, if there's corruption to be had. The US is currently following that particular playbook, which causes me to wonder what's currently being irreparably broken.
what's currently being irreparably broken.
- The biosphere
- Human civilization
Corruption to be had? As if Putin's government could get more corrupt. They are as corrupt as they come, and if anyone tried to pocket some money behind Putin's back they'd be executed just like all their opposition is.
In a hypothetical well-crafted treaty (which I agree Russia would never sign) there would be penalties attached to breaking the conditions. Sanction snap-backs, for example.
They are in the right path already