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Duly noted
Russia's refusal to allow a cataloguing of their nukes makes me wonder how, precisely, they payed for those Iranian drones... >

That's sort of the opposite of how the treaty works. The treaty is about both sides committing to having fewer than 1,500 nuclear warheads each, so even if your cartoonish idea that they traded nukes for drones was correct, these inspections wouldn't really be relevant to that. >

His comment was an aside, and not the exclusive and "cartoonish" inference you're suggesting.
It's a valid question, and the beauty of forum dialogue is a topic expanding into additional dialogue.
Maybe you didn't intend to, but you came across like a pompous prick.