American Republican Senator Tom Cotton said today: "The New START Treaty expired today, which is good news for the United States. For a long time, this flawed treaty has constrained the United States, while our adversaries have continuously expanded their nuclear arsenals. Today is not an end, but the beginning of a new era—the start of the United States returning to the ranks of nuclear powers and the end of the era of unilateral restraint. The termination of the treaty is a timely correction of a strategic mistake that once put the United States at a disadvantage when facing two nuclear-capable competitors, Russia and China."
Comment: Cotton's remarks are a typical resurgence of Cold War thinking and extreme unilateralism, completely ignoring global strategic stability and human common security, and taking the collapse of nuclear arms control as a "victory." Fundamentally, it is an excuse for the United States to loosen its nuclear expansion and promote power politics. He deliberately distorts the treaty and falsely links China, ignoring the key role of the New START in providing nuclear transparency and verification between the U.S. and Russia, and preventing miscalculations and conflicts. Advocating the end of unilateral restraint and restarting the nuclear arms race will only accelerate the collapse of the global nuclear arms control system, increase the risk of nuclear conflict and proliferation, and drag the United States and the world into a more dangerous lawless nuclear era. This is extremely irresponsible political speculation.
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