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Arms race on. Defense industry, a euphemism for the military industrial complex, salivates.As DefSec Mattis admits, the US cannot stop an ICBM attack by capabilities that already exists, so new technology doesn't increase the threat. The US strategy is not to counter an attack directly with through deterrence based on the the nuclear triad, or "trident."No matter, huge increases in defense spending are already on the way.The National InterestCould America Stop a Cruise Missile or Hypersonic...
Read More »Gilbert Doctorow and Ray McGovern — Gang of Four: Senators Call for Tillerson to Enter into Arms Control Talks with the Kremlin
Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) Voices of sanity crying in the wilderness.Consortium NewsGang of Four: Senators Call for Tillerson to Enter into Arms Control Talks with the Kremlin Gilbert Doctorow and Ray McGovernSee alsoRussia InsiderKremlin Publishes Full Megan Kelly Putin Interview - NBC Cut the Best Parts (Video + Transcript)
Read More »Ekaterina Bilanova — US ‘Deep State’ Hopes to Bankrupt Russia Through New Arms Race – Analyst
The US elite believes that this worked for Reagan. There is, of course, the side-benefit of feeding the military-industrial-govermental complex that is foundational for the US politico-economic system.I would add that Russia is not the principal target. The chief competitor of the US is China, and the US cannot achieve its goal of permanent global hegemony without regime change in China and partition of the country into pieces that cannot challenge the US economically. This is only...
Read More »Sputnik International — US New NPR: Foreign Threats Justify Arms Spending Hike – Russian Ambassador
The new arms race heats up. The Trump Administration's newly-released Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) lays out plans to modernize the US nuclear triad by integrating nuclear capability on the F-35 fighter jet, deploying low-yield warheads at sea, and developing new silo-based strategic weapons, among other initiatives.… Nutty logic. The review claims a stronger US nuclear deterrent is needed to discourage Russia, China, Iran and North Korea from either developing new weapons or expanding...
Read More »Stephen F. Cohen — Russia Is Not the ‘No. 1 Threat’—or Even Among the Top 5
By declaring Putin’s Russia to be the greatest danger to America, the political-media establishment itself is endangering US national security. The NationRussia Is Not the ‘No. 1 Threat’—or Even Among the Top 5 Stephen F. Cohen | professor emeritus of Russian studies and politics at New York University and Princeton University, and a contributing editor of The Nation.See alsoCounterpunchSuddenly, I’m a ‘Russian Agent’! Dave Lindorff, investigative reporter, founding member of...
Read More »Arms race ratchets up
Sputnik InternationalAnalysts Explain How China May Respond to US Push to Militarize Asia-Pacific Deutsche WelleNATO to beef up in face of 'assertive' Russia The Cipher BriefSecuring Orbit: Countdown to a Space Corps? Russia FeedCrimea has a shipyard ready to build a new fleet of Russian aircraft carriers USNIUPDATED: 7 U.S. Aircraft Carriers Are Now Simultaneously UnderwaySam LaGrone
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