This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchler.

Ukraine conflict.

In the address to the Russian people on television in Moscow some days before, Vladimir Putin

mentioned the new start treaty from the 20th century, which has continued into the 21st

about strategic weapons in the Russian arsenal and the US arsenal, inspections and limiting

the number of strategic weapons, not tactical, strategic.

That is ICB-ABS that can reach continents and counter force destroy when a nuclear war.

Vladimir Putin said, we're walking away from it, we're postponing it, we're discarding

it, there were many metaphors.

However, what is the new start treaty and how does it connect now to various events

that are tumbling upon each other, the Chinese peace plan, the handshake between Xi Jinping

and Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus in Beijing, the battlefield, the arsenal, the ammo,

Jeff McCausen, Colonel Jeff McCausen in United States Army retired.

CBS News visiting Professor Dickinson College and CEO Diamond Six leadership and strategy

is here to begin with the conversation about the new start, now that it's suspended.

What is it that the US and its allies can do to negotiate with Russia in any sphere,

but especially when it comes to strategic weapons and was that a moot point after this

Ukraine conflict because it doesn't involve the Chinese missiles that are building in silos

in Northeast China, we're told the Chinese nuclear strategic missiles that are capable

on some of their new submarines and of course it's client state North Korea and the nuclear

weapons threatened there all the time.

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