Trump wants denuclearization talks with Russia and China, hopes for defense spending cuts
Trump wants denuclearization talks with Russia and China, hopes for defense spending cuts
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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Denuclearization is a good thing.
Yes it's a good thing, but the US is utterly devoid of honour and trustworthiness and there's no chance they will actually follow through with denuclearizing their own arsenal, so this proposal is meaningless and no country should take it seriously.
True. The US is the only country that ever used them and the only country where politicians regularly threaten to use them. Somehow though they get to act as if they are the only ones that can be trusted with them.
A good thing for the country with bigger conventional warfare capabilities, none sovereign country is giving up their nuclear deterrence after what happened to Libya.
It is nominally a good thing. In the real world, however, I'd be working as hard as possible to ensure I had a nuclear program to discourage specifically Donald, Putin, and Elon
Those three aren't as bad as Netanyahu and he too has nuclear weapons.
I'm sure they will denuclearize in the same way North Korea did after Trump negotiated.
Why would North Korea denuclearize when the US still hasn't?
But Trump made a deal. The best deal in the history of deals.
Did the US uphold its end of the deal?
As far as I remember, the US interpreted "their end of the deal" differently than NK did.
That's exactly my point: Trump will "negotiate" the same way, will brag about a "deal" in the same way, and nothing will change in the same way, because both sides aren't really interested in substantial change in the same way.
As far as I remember, the US interpreted “their end of the deal” differently than NK did.
And they will do it again. And again and again and again.
Deals with the US aren't worth the paper they're written on.
Deals with the US aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.
The ethnic cleansing of North America happened one treaty at a time.
https://www.history.com/news/native-american-broken-treaties
USians can't possibly comprehend other countries having agency.
No it's not. Maybe you haven't heard but there is a war in Ukraine. They gave up nukes in exchange for pinky swear promises that their sovereignty would be respected.
I dont care if you think Ukraine couldn't use them or if they would have been invaded if they didn't agree. The Ukraine war is a giant fucking advertisement for owning nukes.
The only thing psychotic hairless apes understand is immense violence. We are not civilized. We are cavemen with atom bombs and spaceships.
Every country should own nukes. Every country without nukes doesn't matter and is ripe for exploitation or invasion.
Every country should own nukes.
I agree with this.
Everyone who downvoted you were wrong and you were right about having nuclear weapon. The whole damn point of nuclear weapon is to raise the cost of going to war with said country so that nobody ever fucking try to go and start a war. This is single-handedly the biggest contributor to the longest period of peace in our history. We would've already been well in our way to WW5 or WW6 if we didn't have nukes.
I thought Lemmy might be different, but it's astroturfed to hell.
10s of millions of people dead at the altars of US capitalism
Is this the "period of peace"?
Is this "period of peace" in the room with us right now?
This is single-handedly the biggest contributor to the longest period of peace in our history.
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I thought Lemmy might be different, but it’s astroturfed to hell.
tfw you find a place that isn't astroturfed as much and are shocked to find your totally organic opinion is devalued
It's just .ml that's weird like this