Global Arms Control Collapses as US-Russia-China Rivalry Accelerates

With the expiration of New START in February 2026 and no replacement treaty, the world has entered its first nuclear-unregulated era since the 1970s, as Russia and China deepen strategic alignment against Western-led order. Scripture warns that the final age will be marked by 'wars and rumours of wars' and unprecedented geopolitical instability — the silent dissolution of the guardrails that once restrained great-power conflict mirrors the conditions Christ described as 'the beginning of birth pains.' Daniel 2 foretells a final fractured world order that no human power can unite, and the multipolar realignment now underway bears the unmistakable shape of that prophesied fragmentation.