Sorry, I thought you knew how to read and follow one thought that linked to another.

It is not me whining about trusting the Russians. I never said anything like that. I did say (fact) that we do not now have the treaty right to monitor compliance.

And I guess it was a bit much to expect you to understand Kyl’s admission that he is holding up the treaty because he is too busy is not at all the same excuse that someone (you maybe?) posted that claims he is justified in delaying because something secret (and irrelevant) is being withheld from him.

I am not all surprised that you have not actually read the treaty and the protocol to which you object. Nor am I surprised that you cannot cite anything in the treaty or the protocol that is a good reason for not signing so that we can inspect and monitor Russian compliance again. It does contain an awful lot of sentences, some of them as long as fifty words.