Diane Sare, the Independent US presidential candidate, recently held an online press conference on the implications of the expiration of New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). She put forward a three-point policy proposal for adoption by the Donald Trump Administration.

Sare was joined by Arms Control Adviser and former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, who, after the 1987 signing of the INF Treaty, was on the first team of arms control inspectors at the Votkinsk missile production site in the erstwhile Soviet Union.

In an interview with the Russian press on the New START that he had signed as the then-President of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev recently pointed out that if the US failed to respond seriously to President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin‘s proposal to extend it for one year, “Moscow and Washington DC will be without arms control agreements for the first time in over half a century, and without any negotiating process to develop any new ones”. Medvedev also warned that Russia would respond “proportionately” to what appears to be an intended accelerated arms race coming from the White House and the European Union (EU).

Presidential Candidate Sare believes that the Russians are serious about this and they (after their experience of the Second World War) would find it imprudent to ignore the threatening language coming from the West.

“For the moment, Russia is ahead of us, with nuclear-powered hypersonic weapons against which we have no defence, and Americans should consider themselves fortunate that the current Russian leadership is cool-headed and not prone to taking rash and irresponsible actions,” stressed Sare.

She further said: “I worked for many years with former US presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who was the author of the much-misunderstood Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). The SDI, as LaRouche conceived of it, was not at all like the unworkable Golden Dome currently proposed by the Trump Administration, but was designed to be a science-driver joint endeavour of the US and the Soviet Union to develop a defensive system that would supersede nuclear weapons. LaRouche was the back channel for President Ronald Wilson Reagan on this policy, which was strongly opposed by those like George Herbert Walker Bush and James Baker, III, who wished to continue the Churchillian Cold War division of the world.”

Sare stated: “I believe we need an entirely new strategic and security architecture, as President Putin has said repeatedly, and this dangerous moment of crisis could become the opportunity to establish a new standard of relations. That would be the appropriate action for an American President at this time.”

Boundless Ocean of Politics received this article from the International Peace Coalition (IPC) on February 5, 2026.

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