Imagine a world where the only thing standing between us and World War III…
is the thing that could literally end the world.
That's the Kremlin's pitch today.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stepped up to a Moscow foreign policy forum and said it out loud:
"We have nothing left in this world apart from nuclear deterrence."
"It's the only thing that protects the world from a global war."
⚡ Chilling. And calculated.
Because the guardrails are gone.
On February 5, 2026, the last nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the US — New START — quietly expired.
For the first time in decades, there is no treaty limiting how many warheads Moscow and Washington can deploy.
No caps. No inspections. No rulebook.
Under the old deal, each side was held to 1,550 deployed warheads.
Today? That ceiling just… disappeared.
Here's the global nuclear scoreboard right now:
And China's arsenal? Pentagon projections say it could double by the early 2030s.
Trump wants a new treaty.
But he wants China in it too.
Beijing's response? A flat no.
Moscow's counter? Fine — then bring in Britain and France as well.
Everyone's pointing at someone else.
Meanwhile the clock just keeps ticking.
Peskov slipped in one more line that almost flew under the radar:
👉 "New types of non-nuclear weapons will emerge that may eventually match nuclear weapons in destructive power."
Think AI-driven swarms. Hypersonics. Cyber kill-switches on power grids.
The definition of "weapon of mass destruction" is quietly being rewritten.
For 50 years, the world ran on a fragile bargain:
We'll all build them. We'll all count them. We'll all never use them.
That bargain just expired.
And in its place, the Kremlin is offering a darker logic:
Peace through terror.
Safety through annihilation.
A world where the only thing keeping us alive…
is the thing built to kill us all.
That's all for now!
