President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China and that eventually he hopes all three countries could agree to cut their massive defense budgets in half.
Why? Is he suddenly running scared and realizing just how badly he has crippled the US military and national security, not to mention any hope of counting on our allies to back us up when the threats start coming?
Then again, Trump is gullible enough to actually believe other countries were disarming and would shut down our entire program without a hint of assurances. And then he’d have to tell his MAGAts to be shocked when a few of our cities got nuked because how could anyone have predicted this could happen.
As the expression goes, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Sure, he’s a morally bankrupt wildly corrupt autocrat. But sometimes his enemies happen to be people I hate too.
Why is he doing this? I can’t say for certain, but my guess is that the military-industrial complex is on the wrong side of his kleptocracy. If they’d given the right bribes and flattery I’m sure he’d be saying that we gotta build more nukes, but apparently the CEOs of Raytheon et. al. didn’t back the right horse. Plus, Trump likes the dictator club. He’d rather he, Putin, and Xi spent those dollars on presidential yaughts and focused on locking up dissidents than having an arms race among buddies.
Even still… fundamentally he’s fuckin right. It makes no sense for us to give billions and billions and billions to these companies so that we have the capacity to exterminate the human race a fifth time or something. Killing our whole species once is fuckin stupid to begin with, but planning on doing it multiple times is just advanced levels of stupid, and it’s dangerous as hell to incentivize other countries to get into this red-queen race.
Sure, his reasons are almost certainly evil as hell. But wherever they are… he’s right that we should cut our military budget in half and negotiate disarmament.
Plus, Trump likes the dictator club. He’d rather he, Putin, and Xi spent those dollars on presidential yaughts and focused on locking up dissidents than having an arms race among buddies.
Why? Is he suddenly running scared and realizing just how badly he has crippled the US military and national security, not to mention any hope of counting on our allies to back us up when the threats start coming?
Then again, Trump is gullible enough to actually believe other countries were disarming and would shut down our entire program without a hint of assurances. And then he’d have to tell his MAGAts to be shocked when a few of our cities got nuked because how could anyone have predicted this could happen.
Dude…
As the expression goes, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Sure, he’s a morally bankrupt wildly corrupt autocrat. But sometimes his enemies happen to be people I hate too.
Why is he doing this? I can’t say for certain, but my guess is that the military-industrial complex is on the wrong side of his kleptocracy. If they’d given the right bribes and flattery I’m sure he’d be saying that we gotta build more nukes, but apparently the CEOs of Raytheon et. al. didn’t back the right horse. Plus, Trump likes the dictator club. He’d rather he, Putin, and Xi spent those dollars on presidential yaughts and focused on locking up dissidents than having an arms race among buddies.
Even still… fundamentally he’s fuckin right. It makes no sense for us to give billions and billions and billions to these companies so that we have the capacity to exterminate the human race a fifth time or something. Killing our whole species once is fuckin stupid to begin with, but planning on doing it multiple times is just advanced levels of stupid, and it’s dangerous as hell to incentivize other countries to get into this red-queen race.
Sure, his reasons are almost certainly evil as hell. But wherever they are… he’s right that we should cut our military budget in half and negotiate disarmament.
This is my read too.