Posted on 11/24/2024 1:44:06 AM PST by EBH
China, being a nuclear power and rapidly expanding its arsenal, changes the strategic equation from the Cold War with the Soviet Union, he said. Where there was little economic interaction between Moscow and Washington in the Cold War, Beijing is a major trading partner with the United States.
That “makes the whole dynamic a little different.”
Nice. Ratchet up the threat level then ask for more money for even more weapons.
“Nice. Ratchet up the threat level then ask for more money for even more weapons.”
Ironic considering the same corporations who control our Military Industrial Complex are also funding China’s MIC. They are supplying both sides at the same time with MIC war funds.
The perpetual “Deterrence” scam is a win/win for these corporations.
exactly. A cycle that needs to be broken
Trump will take care of this, Biden did not undo all of president Trump’s increases in our nuclear weapons and submarines and currently some of our subs are being restocked with tactical nuclear cruise missiles after a 30 year absence.
“Under Trump, America’s nuclear weapons industry has boomed”
“While the country has been preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic, economic decline and the election, President Trump’s administration quietly and steadily steered America’s nuclear weapons industry to its largest expansion since the end of the Cold War, increasing spending on such arms by billions of dollars with bipartisan congressional support.
Overall, the budget for making and maintaining nuclear warheads has risen more than 50% since Trump was elected in 2016, substantially outpacing the rates of increase for the defense budget and overall federal spending during his presidency before the pandemic.”
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-23/under-trump-americas-nuclear-weapons-industry-has-boomed
Our ruling “elites”, want a war now, not in future! So, you go to war with the equipment you have, not what you want in future. And, there might not be a future, if we start launching nukes.
Tell that to president Trump, he believes in a strong military and a strong nuclear deterrent.
Here is 60 seconds of Trump.
Trump says he would stop Putin from saying the word ‘nuclear’ ever again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL17-2yi9wE
B-21, Columbia Class, and the Sentinel (I would’ve called those Minuteman 4’s) are the future of deterrence
“Nice. Ratchet up the threat level then ask for more money for even more weapons.”
Nice, preaching ignorance.
The recent intercontinental ballistic missile Putin hit Ukraine with is an advancement, a modernization that of the type, of numerous ones, that the U.S. has not produced and Putin has. Who is doing the “racheting up”.
Development requires motivation. So what do you think motivated Russia to create these missiles?
“Development requires motivation. So what do you think motivated Russia to create these missiles?”
Putin’s desire to continue to be an adversary, by choice, not by necessity.
Well that’s what happens with “Shock and Awe”. You want to show off to the world how strong you are and how devastating and precised your weaponry is and the rest of the world should what? Bow down?
“You want to show off to the world how strong you are”
So, by your thinking (or Putin’s??) that is ALL that the Gulf War was about, nothing else??? Idiotic.
No this is about NATO encroachment. Shock and Awe set off the weapons race
“No this is about NATO encroachment.”
What NATO “encroachment”??
Wow. If you can’t see the slow surrounding on Russia by an organization which is against Russia in it’s charter, then I don’t know how to help you.
“Wow. If you can’t see the slow surrounding on Russia by an organization which is against Russia in it’s charter”
You merely accept the Putin theory that calling things part of the Soviet Union was an error, a commitment to a Russian lie, that it was all along NOT Soviet exapansion across central asia and eastern Europe but really Russian expansion. That the Soviet Union was a myth and just a different name for the Russian Empire - which by the way is Putin’s beleief.
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