Posted on 06/02/2021 5:23:26 PM PDT by Mariner
President Joe Biden ran on a platform opposing new nuclear weapons, but his first defense budget backs two controversial new projects put in motion by former President Donald Trump and also doubles down on the wholesale upgrade of all three legs of the arsenal.
The decision to retain a low-yield warhead that was outfitted on submarine-launched ballistic missiles in 2019, and to initiate research into a new sea-launched cruise missile, has sparked an outcry from arms control advocates and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which is vowing a fight to reverse the momentum.
"We must instead spend money on threats that Americans are actually facing like pandemics and climate change, instead of on new destabilizing weapons when we can extend the lifespan of the ones we already have for much cheaper,” progressive Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said in a statement.
Khanna and other Democrats are spoiling for a fight over nuclear funding in the coming months, including slashing money for a new fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles and the new sea-launched missiles.
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Let's hope Biden does not yield on this matter.
“yield”
I C W U D T
Shhh. Don’t tell him. He probably thinks he’s just ordering soup.
>>n threats that Americans are actually facing like pandemics and climate change
And UFOs and meteors the size of the Eifel Tower...
We are close to a point that more weapons works AGAINST normal America by making the DC coup government stronger.
We need a nuclear deterrent. He has no credibility against Putin unless Putin believes we have one.
The leftists don’t understand this and would hand over control of the world to china and Russia if it would facilitate their power.
Hopefully Joe’s puppet masters don’t counter him on this one.
Ironic the foreign invader congresscritter from Northern Kalifornia wouldn’t be crawling over broken glass to add more nuke deterrents. When it’s time for the CCP to obtain economic concessions from a bankrupt Federal gubmint I would think a controlled economic zone in Silicon Valley (policed by the PLA) will be high on the list of demands.
Now known as Biden’s Nuclear Program so it’s all fine.
“If we are thinking in terms of deterrence we need to meet the threats that are out there, which we can do with a smaller force of bombers and submarines. We don’t need to have everything everybody else has. That’s not a strategically valid thought.”
I don’t think this idiot understands what “deterrence” is. It surely isn’t what this moron thinks we need, but what Putin thinks would need to give him pause.
Maybe, just Maybe, the cabal isn’t in power?
9th circuit? The wall? Now this?
Only serves as evidence of very real, non-elected, total deep state control over “government”.
Biden and his communist cohorts will do as Xi Jinping Pong demands...
The few secrets that hadn’t been dumped to the chicoms over the past 30-years have certainly been dumped during the last 100-days...
We seem to reliving the 1930’s...
A communist sop in the White House surrounded at the highest level by communists and a slant-eyed Asian power on a major empire-building spree...
The only difference being that, so far, the chicoms are conquering the globe with money and economic control...
Maybe Khanna should go back to Pakistan and stop nuke production there.
That was what the military chiefs got from Biden in exchange for not escorting him out of the White House.
Such an optimist, my fellow freeper. Remember, xiden does nothing without ChiCom approval. Those guys that supply our country with crap products and ineffective pharmaceuticals are pretty savvy; Joe gets some bona fides with his old school dem blue-collar hawks, knowing that this won't get through Congress. As Steve Perry sang, "Don't Stop Believing."
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