Here's some real global warming on the horizon, courtesy of nitwit narcissist Donald "Rump" Trump (our emphasis throughout):
Donald Trump has confirmed the US will leave an arms control treaty with Russia dating from the cold war that has kept nuclear missiles out of Europe for three decades.
“We’ll have to develop those weapons,” the president told reporters in Nevada after a rally. “We’re going to terminate the agreement and we’re going to pull out.”
Trump was referring to the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF), which banned ground-launch nuclear missiles with ranges from 500km to 5,500km. Signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, it led to nearly 2,700 short- and medium-range missiles being eliminated, and an end to a dangerous standoff between US Pershing and cruise missiles and Soviet SS-20 missiles in Europe.Dismantling a significant legacy of St. Ronnie of Hollywood!? We know Rump doesn't have the brainpower to have come up with this by himself. Likely, he was convinced that this was a smart negotiating tactic that a dealmaking genius like him could pull off (it's, of course, boneheaded). So, what evil, dangerous minion might have been involved in leading asshat Rump into this horrendously destabilizing action?
The Guardian reported on Friday that Trump’s third national security adviser, John Bolton, a longstanding opponent of arms control treaties, was pushing for US withdrawal.Should have guessed it was the mustachioed maniac. He has zero interest in negotiating; he's a destroyer.
But, wouldn't this be bad news for the Russians?
Jeffrey Lewis, the director of the East Asia nonproliferation program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, said: “This is a colossal mistake. Russia gets to violate the treaty and Trump takes the blame.
“I doubt very much that the US will deploy much that would have been prohibited by the treaty. Russia, though, will go gangbusters.”So, to review, Rump pulls us out of a nuclear arms control treaty that has helped keep the peace for 30 years, that was signed by St. Ronnie, that the United States will be blamed for scuttling, and that will allow Russia full rein to bolster its intermediate range nuclear weapons to threaten Europe. See who the "winner" is here?
Happy Sunday!
3 comments:
It scares me that we have a weapon-crazed madman like Bolton in charge of “diplomacy” and it scares me that we have a money-hungry madman like Trump who sees golden opportunities to make billions of weapons, but what really terrifies me is that there are millions of Americans who think their show of force and their willingness to rearm the globe with nuclear weapons is a good idea.
WTEverlovingF is happening? What is going to happen when we once again have nuclear warheads aimed at other countries while their nuclear warheads are aimed at us? WE DID THIS ALREADY!!! I lived through the Seventies and I remember the feeling of relief when the nuclear weapons treaties were signed. It was monumental.
I wish Trump and Bolton were just bluffing. I wish we had a president who wasn't playing with our lives, the lives of every American citizen. But it seems we are existing at the whims of power-hungry warlords with devastating weapons soon to be rebuilt and reinstalled.
I am terrified.
"I am terrified."
Everyone should be but they won't be because they listen to Big Whore Media and are stupid. It's why this human piece of shit is the president.
donnah and One Fly - this is the kind of story that would be leading news cycles for weeks, if we had a functioning democracy, with a media that wasn't simply a neutral (at best) observer, and a public either too distracted, too numb from the constant bullshit and/or too dumb to react. We can only say, the best tool in our box right now is to start turning government around election by election before the bastards shut everything down and/or kill us all. There will always be monsters and their enablers; we just have to keep outvoting them.
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