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NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago

Trump wants denuclearization talks with Russia and China, hopes for defense spending cuts

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NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago
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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.
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    3 months ago

    Really? How well did throwing away nukes go for Ukraine?

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      Irrelevant. This is about multilateral nuclear arms reduction, not unilateral nuclear disarmament.

      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_disarmament#Arms_reduction_treaties
      • Council on Foreign Relations: The History of Nuclear Proliferation
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        And every step closer, is a step closer to death. Nuclear weapons are a tigers tail. When we let go, we all die.

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          More like a paper tiger, you fuckin psycho

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            Japan survived two nukes and became one of the largest financial forces in the world. So how many could Russia survive? 10? 50? Maybe Putin like those odds. Maybe Iran decides it’s worth it to clear out Israel. If there’s only a few nukes involved, the crazy fucks start thinking they can win a nuclear war, or at least survive it well enough to be worth it.

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      Having less nukes is not the same as disarmament it’s not even comparable. They dropped two nukes and did that much destruction in Japan, 2, and those were 1940s nukes, even with this change the US would still have thousands of nukes.

      https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-many-nuclear-weapons-exist-and-who-has-them/

      the United States admits to having 5,550

      Ukraine went to 0 nukes, the US has 5000+ nukes, how would that even be comparable if the US let’s say went down to 1000 nukes. That’s still 1000 nukes more than 0.

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        Every step closer to disarmament bring us closer to nuclear war. Every nuke disarmed makes us one step closer to Putin or Xi thinking they can win a nuclear war.

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