All right, Alexander, the new start treaty has expired.

And Putin requested of Trump to extend the existing treaty for one more year while they

negotiate something new, which is apparently what Trump wants to do.

Apparently Trump wants to include China in these negotiations. That's fine. I think that's

that for Russia was okay. We can talk about it over the next year, but let's make sure that at least

the existing treaty that's in place we extended for one year. So we have time to negotiate things.

And in the United States and the Trump administration pretty much showed no interest in taking Putin up on his offer.

There was a call between Putin and Xi Jinping yesterday. I imagine they discussed the expiration

of the New Star Treaty.

And there was a call, I believe, between Trump and Xi Jinping.

I wonder if they discussed the new Star Treaty.

But this is a huge story.

And it's a very dangerous development, what has just happened.

And if this does expire, that's it.

We have no more, I don't think we have any more treaties, nuclear proliferation treaties left,

do we?

We have none. The only thing that's left is the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which is from the 1960s,

which is all about preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries. And of course,

as we know, that is also a treaty now on the brink of collapse because nuclear weapons technology is spreading and that doesn't seem to be any way to stop it.

But in terms of arms limitation, we are in a unique situation in my lifetime.

Throughout my lifetime, we have either had negotiations on arms control,

on strategic weapons limitation, or we've had treaties limiting, restricting the possession

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