After decades of abandoning dialogue with Russia on strategic stability issues, NATO and, rst, the United States have recently begun to actively make statements and proposals to Moscow on negotiations on strategic stability and arms control. The article presents an analysis of the reasons for these statements by Washington against the background of openly aggressive US policy towards Russia, as well as the real goals of the United States of America. New destabilizing factors of strategic stability and the reasons for its decline in the current crisis situation are presented. The position of Russia regarding the time and conditions of participation in the negotiation process on strategic stability and arms control is substantiated.