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agreed. Nuclear weapons should be treated extremely seriously.
However, a president doesn’t just have a button to press and the weapons fire; it’s a figurative expression. A president who gave that order in peacetime would surely be treated as temporarily deranged and ignored. They would need broad support, from their defense secretary especially.
Gen. Mattis is not a nut job.
From all indications, Mattis is the one shining savior in that whole group. The others would be hiding under their executive desks when something goes wrong.
He is not going to use the nuclear weapons (my prediction and my opinion)
All you have to do is read his book Art of the deal. The way he views the world, and deal making is all there.
“good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.”
― Donald J. Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal
“Leverage: don’t make deals without it. Enhance”
― Donald J. Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal
Albert Einstein
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
So, we have a bunch, and trump already asked multiple times why , since we have them, we can't use them... and now he wants to have more. OK, so we will have an arms race, but he says that his comments on nukes will deter others from stocking more of them... like... how?
He's manipulating the stock prices of all these companies, and the investors are running around like headless chickens buying and selling... it is just that it is too much fun for him? He can't resist? How long before all this whacked out behavior crashes not only the companies he's targeting, but the economy itself? Much less, how long before some other nutcase world leader takes him at his word?
oh my, how quickly we forgot Iraq and the great recession
Within a few months revisionist rightwing history will be claiming that 9/11, Iraq and the 2008 financial meltdown happened during Obama's presidency. If they aren't already.
Within a few months revisionist rightwing history will be claiming that 9/11, Iraq and the 2008 financial meltdown happened during Obama's presidency. If they aren't already.
Mika ( Morning Joe) called Trump to ask if he wanted to clarify his prior remarks about his intentions for nukes.
Trump responded" Let there be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all".
Alrighty then.
Who is " them?"
He was responding directly to a threat by Putin about the Russians expanding their nuclear program. Putin rattled his sabre and Trump rattled back. Its certainly far better than the response from the current occupier of the White House, that being a whimper.
They're one in the same in this country and many others.
If you think the wealth imbalance is bad in this country....China and Mexico in particular are much more skewed. Any threat of trade changes, tariffs etc. has a direct impact to the elite political figures in most of those countries. In our country it typically doesn't directly impact our elite politicians but still does in the secondary form of campaign contributions etc.
Albert Einstein
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
Talk of WW3 crops up during and after every election where one party tries to scare voters that the OTHER parties election will cause nuclear armagedon.
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