Pretty funny watching the world’s press reaction to the stutterer threatening a nuclear WWIII. In his own charming fashion he may have actually made Achmadphlegmajihad and the Born Again Communist Putin rethink their options and back off.
But not for long.
FWIW I have long maintained that a significant conventional military force is the best deterrent to the use of nuclear weapons, on our part. With a large standing army we can project our interests, as we wish, anywhere on the planet when the need dictates. Unfortunately we have depleted our conventional forces to a dangerously low level which renders us irrelevant in force projection.
We currently do not have the conventional forces needed to fully secure Iraq, let alone threaten Iran, North Korea, China or any of the other despotic nations aligned against us.
IMHO it is imperative that we increase our standing military forces to pre-Gulf War I levels as soon as is possible.
We can make nuclear threats only for so long.....