The New START treaty caps the number of nuclear warheads each side can deploy at 1,550 and limits the number of deployed and non-deployed strategic launchers to 800. The Russian ministry’s statement noted that President Vladimir Putin had offered a mutual agreement to maintain those limits for another year to make room for diplomacy to negotiate a new treaty, but the Trump administration hasn’t responded to the proposal.
Arms control experts have warned that the expiration of the treaty without a replacement or an agreement on maintaining its limits will likely lead to an increase in the deployment of nuclear weapons and spark a new arms race.
Polling shows that American voters overwhelmingly support the idea of Trump accepting Putin’s offer to maintain the New START limits and want the US and Russia to negotiate a new deal that either maintains those restrictions or results in a reduction of nuclear weapons.
What’s even the point? Don’t both sides have enough weapons to wipe out human civilization? If so what would more weapons achieve? it’s not like there would be an extraterrestrial war any time soon.
The point is to spend all the money, and demand more from the citizens. They are keeping us broke, and getting broker, while they squander trillions on their useless nonsense.
Every American citizen could be gifted a million dollar bank account tomorrow, and it wouldn’t hurt the government or any Sociopathic Oligarch one bit, but they’d rather waste it on bullshit, than allow us to have ANY of it.