[dragonwriter]

> It's oversimplifying a lot to say Russia "dumped START II"

It is perfectly accurate to say that they did so (and that it was a direct response to the US withdrawing from the ABM Treaty.)

> NATO's "nuclear sharing" makes a mockery of NPT

NATO’s nuclear sharing agreements predate the NPT, and no new ones have been entered since the NPT, and the continuation of the existing ones is consistent with the NPT.