Trump, Who Loves Nukes and Hates Treaties, Is Putting Us on the Road to the Apocalypse

[DonViejo]

DR. STRANGETRUMP

Trump, Who Loves Nukes and Hates Treaties, Is Putting Us on the Road to the Apocalypse

The greatest danger is a disastrous miscalculation; the greatest irony is that the president’s trying to start an arms race his government cannot afford.

David Axe
11.21.18 5:09 AM ET

Every so often, critics of President Donald J. Trump wonder aloud and in print about the danger posed by putting nuclear weapons in the hands of a man who is so impulsive and vindictive. Those same fingers punching out storms on Twitter could, theoretically at least, press the button that brings on an apocalypse.

Because of a number of failsafes that prospect, for now, is remote. There is no threat that could prompt such an action, and not likely to be one. But Trump policy, deliberately and methodically, is laying the groundwork for a new arms race that will set the stage for greater nuclear tensions than we have seen since the height of the Cold War.

Having pledged in October to pull the United States out of a 1987 treaty limiting intermediate range nuclear missiles, Trump now has a new target in sight.

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is a 2011 accord between the United States and Russia that caps the two countries’ overall nuclear arsenals, including the most powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles and similar submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

New START is set to expire in February 2021 unless Washington and Moscow agree to extend it. But every expert The Daily Beast surveyed warned that Trump is likely to kill the treaty, either through quiet neglect or by declaring it un-American and refusing to negotiate its extension.

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[N_E_1 for Tennis]

1. We are in danger...

But we have to run into the problem to try to stem this, we cannot run away away in fear.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. By design.

The second coming, and all that.

A modern day doomsday cult, participated in by a solid 3rd of the planet, looks forward to the end of of the world. To hell with the rest of us.

Plenty of American Evangelicals love Trump for that very reason. Bring on Armageddon.

[beachbum bob]

3. he is the anti-christ and this wouldn;t bother most of his voters (evangelicals)

[jpak]

4. MAGA!

[Hortensis]

5. A need to physically defeat "enemies" and hating treaties

is characteristic of the sort who joined or sympathized with the John Birch Society, the same ones who became the tea partiers, and are now at the core of trumpism.

Most strong conservatives of this type are always sure there's an existential threat that must be destroyed before it destroys them, and they see treaties as proof of weak leadership, practically self-made breaches in our walls that must eventually inevitably lead to defeat. Many of these angrily opposed all our nuclear arms limitations and test ban agreements during the Cold War, and even after to this day.

The Iran agreement is just their biggest recent reason for anger and panic. Thank GOD for Trump and Bolton!