We Didn’t START the Fire

“Despite a new era of superpower confrontation, talks over a new START treaty — or even an informal extension of the current one — never got off the ground, frozen by the war in Ukraine. When President Trump was asked in January why he had not taken up President Vladimir V. Putin’s offer for a one-year informal extension, he shrugged. ‘If it expires, it expires.'” (The same, apparently, goes for us.) NYT (Gift Article): Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to End Amid Global Rush for New Weapons.

+ According to Axios, there are talks of extending the pact between the Russians and Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. (Which sort of makes me think it’s not a bad time to build a bunker…)