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

  • 14 Feb 2025 13:33
    Message # 13463248

    Comment:  When DOGE encounters Sentinel with its extreme cost overruns stay tuned!

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-china-russia-nuclear-bbc1c75920297f1e5ba5556d084da4de

    Quote:

    WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.

    Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump lamented the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in rebuilding the nation’s nuclear deterrent and said he hopes to gain commitments from the U.S. adversaries to cut their own spending.

    “There’s no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons, we already have so many,” Trump said. “You could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over. And here we are building new nuclear weapons, and they’re building nuclear weapons.”

    “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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    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/nuclear-weapon-lobbying/

    Quote:

    The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion multiyear plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines. A large chunk of that funding will go to major nuclear weapons contractors like Bechtel, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. And they will do everything in their power to keep that money flowing.

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