Amid trilateral talks, Putin shocks Trump on last nuclear treaty, begins war prep as US eyes Iran?

Russia’s deputy foreign minister is signaling that Moscow is prepared to let New START die with no replacement, even as U.S.-brokered Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi inch forward without a breakthrough but with an unusually positive tone. Sergey Ryabkov says that when New START expires in February “nothing will replace” it and “nothing” will change in the sense that Russia’s security will still be guaranteed, stressing that Moscow suspended the treaty because of a dramatic worsening in U.S. policy toward Russia and what it calls serious U.S. deviations from treaty requirements.