Trump Floats Deal With Russia, China to Halve Defense Spending

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-13/trump-floats-deal-with-russia-china-to-halve-defense-spending?embedded-checkout=true

37 comments

  1. I could not have imagined an America that would kowtow to it’s enemies.

  2. There it is. He’s giving America up so he can steal the residuals.

  6. Treating friends as enemies and enemies as friends… brilliant! /s

    Seriously has it been 4 years yet ‘cuz it sure feels like it.

  7. So he is proposing an agreement where all 3 parties halve defense spending or just the US?

    Just asking for clarification

  8. How does he plan to invade Canada and Greenland and Panama without a military?

  10. Let the corporate raiding of America enter its final stage, to be loaded with debt and sold off to the highest bidder for pennies on the dollar. Next stop, Europe.

  12. Ask Ukraine how having a deal with the US and Russia to reduce military power went

  13. How can we reconcile this with Peter Hegseth asking NATO countries to spend 5% of their GDP? Make it make sense!?

  15. Wait. He gave NATO allies shit for not doubling their spending…

  16. >All enemies foreign and domestic.

    So, does undermining the capabilities of the US – from intelligence to its military capacity – count as acting as an enemy?

  17. I hope the US Military leadership is paying attention and takes some fucking action before he sells our aircraft carriers to Beijing and Moscow.

  18. To be clear – this isn’t so education, healthcare, childcare, or a social safety net for seniors and other vulnerable citizens can be funded in our society.

    This is so tax cuts for wealthy folks can be funded for the next 10 years.

  19. I’m certainly not a defense expert but this has got to be the single dumbest thing an American POTUS has ever proposed for our defensive posture. Is it not?

    Edit: Why would Xi and Putin both not “agree” and then proceed to make no changes?

  21. “And then I promised him we’d also cut our military spending by half.”
    <Insert gif of Putin and Xi laughing>

  22. But the rest of NATO is supposed to spend 5% GDP?

    Hopefully, this goes ahead, and we can get the 13 colonies back.

  23. “we need to leave the paris climate agreement because china will use it against us.”

    “great news we’re going to cut defense spending and china and russia agreed to as well!”

    fucking clown

  24. Yup, next he is going to push away as many of the American trade partners as he can, mostly so he can try to sell increased trade with Russia in some future dumb ass trade agreement that is lopsided in favour of Russia

  25. Would be amazing if the biggest 2 military spenders on the planet could trust each other enough to make this a reality but it’s a pipe dream. Also who the fuck would trust anything coming out of Russia? Or a statement from Trump for that matter?

  26. When you wish for the US to stop spending so much on bloated defense contracts:

    Monkey paw curls

  27. So is the Military Industrial Complex really gonna let this slide, or are they on board with the Techbros and are waiting for the down fall of the government so they can snatch up as much as they can to set up their own fiefdom? I guess they’ve come a long way since killing JFK.

  28. How can this be enforced? China and Russia will certainly spend more than half of what they currently spend, in secret. And the US too. It’s a non starter…

  29. and why would Russia or China take him at his word that the US would comply (lets pretend for now they would) why would anyone make deal with an abject liar, who has no clue how deals work.

  30. I’m sure the money saved on defence will be spent on fixing healthcare. Right?

  31. Russia here, Yes of course we will cut our defense spending in half. What of China?

    China- Yes, we too will cut our spending in half. Wink wink. Nod nod.

  32. Because all three have shown themselves as being trustworthy in upholding international treaties? lol

  33. This is what will end him. You can fuck with the poors, the VA, social security, unions, democracy and no one will bat an eye. But if you fuck with the fuck with the military industrial complex, you’ll get fucked.

  34. Has anyone consulted General Dynamics, Raytheon, Boeing, and such? They better start bribes to Trump like everyone else. Stalin signed a non aggression pact with Hitler, and history shows how that worked out.

  35. I would say there is no way that he is that stupid, but….

    Putin probably told him to float it, do it, then do the shruggy shoulders thing when russua/china don’t do it.

  36. Market manipulation.

    Defense stocks took a tumble after this and I reckon he’ll war monger next week to drive them back up

  37. Okay. Clearly he sold the country out to China and Russia.

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