USA have absolutely abysmal records of upholding nuclear disarmament so IF it is even a serious proposition, the reason for it it’s the quickly incoming time when Minutemen missiles will have to be decomissioned while its replacement is so much overbudget and overtime that it seriously risk scrapping of entire project. Meaning the perspective USA will lose main part of its strategic armament is real.
Also you never, ever trust USA on any nuclear deals.
Also let’s not forget that the US is literally hiring Elon Musk to help then “win” the nuclear war, their words not mine.
How anyone can think their denuclearization proposal is in good faith is beyond me.
The man’s playing 4D chess with nukes again. Proposing to halve defense budgets while the world’s still a tinderbox—classic Trumpian audacity. Because inviting autocrats to a firesale on their only leverage is peak stability strategy.
Russia’s already ditched New START, China’s sprinting toward nuclear parity, and here we are, recycling the same failed playbook. Arms control via vibes and handshakes—because trusting Putin and Xi to pinky-swear their way to disarmament worked so well last time.
The math doesn’t lie: Cold War stockpiles could glass the planet a hundred times over. Modernizing them isn’t strategy—it’s a pissing contest funded by taxpayer dollars. But slashing budgets unilaterally? That’s not diplomacy; it’s naivety with a side of geopolitical Russian roulette.
Maybe focus on not setting the Middle East and Ukraine ablaze first. Priorities, folks.
Love how you think it’s Russia and China that made empty promises meanwhile the USA unilaterally pulled out of every nuclear treaty, direct NATO to bomb sovereign countries, pinky swore to Saddam that Saddam could take military action in Kuwait and then subsequently invaded him, work with Siemens to install wiretaps in every single ambassador’s phone literally all over the world, has a standing policy to invade the international court of justice if an American is ever on trial, is the largest drug trafficking operation in the world, actively engaged in torture programs by just moving prisoners to other nations and torturing them there, trains death squads and unleashes them on poor and indigenous communities in Latin America, and has dropped more bombs during “peacetime” than China has during its entire modern existence.
But yeah, it’s China and Russia who can’t be trusted.
When orange man starts talking about denuclearization agreements
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a rush toward re-nuclearization after these last couple years.
What are the odds Ukraine would be invaded by Russia if they had nukes?
Would Trump be joking about making Canada a 51st state if they had nukes?
Trump and the rest of the American government is showing NATO and every other country that we’re one election away from abandoning our promises to our allies. Nobody can be trusted.
Any country would be a fool to consider giving up their nukes after seeing the shitshow.
Never gonna happen, cant trust the wild beast
Seems like a good deal to me.
Yeah because we’re both super duper good at keeping our promises.
So what’s gonna happen when a finger on the monkey’s paw curls for this?
As much as I hate it, the doctrine of mutual destruction seems to work. The removal of it might lead to immediate hot world war
I refuse to believe trump will do anything decent like this
I’ll believe it when I see it. Military spending increased in his first term and talk is cheap.
If he actually followed through on cutting the military budget by half, I’d be an incredible move and I’d start considering him the lesser evil. But it’s all for show, it’s triangulation to appeal to certain groups. End of the day, he’s a right winger and right wingers won’t cut the military.
Big debt panic .
The comments in this thread are prime examples of why Democrats lost the election.
“We’re all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things that are actually, hopefully much more productive,” Trump said.
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Like lining the pockets of me and my owners while systematically weakening the country
That’s the sad part. They only get the first half right. 😂
Idiots thought can fool the other 2. 🤣
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.
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?
USians can’t possibly comprehend other countries having agency.
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
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”?
This is single-handedly the biggest contributor to the longest period of peace in our history.
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Is this “period of peace” in the room with us right now?
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
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.
didn’t Trump pull out of the last denuclearization treaty?
