Die USA wollen eine „wettbewerbsfähigere“ Atomwaffenstrategie verfolgen, nachdem China und Russland die Bemühungen der USA um Gespräche über Rüstungskontrolle zurückgewiesen haben

https://www.semafor.com/article/06/06/2024/us-to-adopt-more-competitive-nuclear-weapons-strategy?utm_campaign=semaforreddit

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  1. **From Semafor’s Mathias Hammer:**

    The Biden administration will announce its intention to embrace a more assertive nuclear weapons strategy on Friday, after China and Russia spurned US efforts to discuss arms control over the past year.

    The US believes it needs “to adopt a more competitive approach to non-proliferation and arms control” in light of rising global tensions, and “make certain adjustments to our posture and capabilities,” a senior administration official told Semafor. Pranay Vaddi of the National Security Council is expected to outline the new direction at an arms control conference Friday.

    At the same gathering last year, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan announced that the US was willing to discuss arms control with China and Russia “without preconditions.” But Beijing and Moscow have effectively rejected those overtures, forcing the US to shift its approach, the official said.

    The administration still hopes to bring its geopolitical rivals to the negotiating table, but wants to show there will be consequences for rebuffing talks, the official added. Russia and China “will face a diminished security environment if they continue to refuse to engage,” they said.

    **[Read the full story here.](https://www.semafor.com/article/06/06/2024/us-to-adopt-more-competitive-nuclear-weapons-strategy?utm_campaign=semaforreddit).**

  2. China said they would talk to the US about arms control when the US reduced their nukes down to the amount China has.

  3. If Russia insists on giving Nukes to Belarus, the US should give some to Ukraine and Taiwan too

  4. How about just reducing our numbers, even halfing it would still carry enough of a threat to not attack.

  5. Thanks, China and Russia. Your lack of willingness to cooperate on nuclear arms control mean US is free to research and devise more effective weapons down the road and maybe passing some of excess nukes to US allies if they request.

  6. Hell yeah! Let’s make more nukes! Fuck paying teachers a livable wage. We definitely don’t have a massive education problem.

    Edit: for everyone downvoting me, US teachers spent $3.24 billion of their own money on classroom expenses in 2023. $69,544 on average, 44k starting. That’s not nearly enough to deal with the shitstain youth we have today.

  7. The budget hawks are always entertaining, supposing if we just cut our defense budget in half those funds would go to social programs.

    There is room to trim for sure, MOSTLY because of politicians and lobbyists (See LCS program), but your life would be significantly impacted and wars would be far more likely.

  8. Looks like cold war is back on the menu, boys!

    Maybe this time the space race can be a Mars colony and warp drives. 

  9. Looks like the arms race is on again, boys! Defense contractors are celebrating.

  10. Winnie and Putler are totalitarian bullies.

    You don’t try to reason with bullies and appeal to their humanity. You make sure they completely understand that they cannot win, and that trying any shit will result in nothing but pain and loss for them.

    No more pussyfooting around with these dictator assholes.

  12. We could have universal school lunches for the next 30 years for a fraction of the cost.

  14. Biden and the Deep State are aggressively pushing the world towards a nuclear apocalypse

  15. Time to bring back megaton class weapons and tell DITRA scaling down was a mistake. Keep it strategic and make the tactical choices not occur

  16. If anyone needs evidence that Russia and China are simply just evil filth, here it is. What psychotic brain dead child doesn’t agree to reduce nuclear weapons? Right, you’re going to outdo the USA in weapons production and the business of war. Good luck with that you suicidal fkn idiots. You’ll end up getting us all killed you greedy shitstains.

  17. For one trillion dollars spent I expect our boys and girls already have cracked the hull and figured out the gravity generator. Basically one eventful day ends with no more nukes outside u.s control. Be nice to see the oligarchs and the tyrannical Communists in a big prison together.

  18. This is like when you try and do a diplomacy victory in Civ, but theres a stubborn Civ who rejects everything, so you just say “fuck it” and start making nukes in every city.

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