In his wide-ranging remarks, the Russian leader claimed that his country’s military is stronger than that of any potential aggressor, but acknowledged that the US military is bigger. Trump added that he believed if the USA and the Soviets could cause “riots” in the other nuclear countries they’d eventually agree to submit and disarm.
Advertisement
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which came into force in 1970, allows the United States, Britain, France, China and Russian Federation to possess nuclear arms. The North Koreans are trying to build missiles to reach the continental United States. “So that’s right back to the Cold War”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has ordered his military to strengthen its “nuclear potential”, told reporters that his existing system is “more efficient” that the USA one, and can pierce any missile defense system.
“We’ve had arms control, the Chinese have had an arms buildup”. His communications team reported on Thursday that Trump had, for the second day in a row, opted not to skip the President’s Daily Brief from his national security advisers. It remains to be seen whether the ideal of a “world without nuclear weapons”, which U.S. President Barack Obama advocates, will be maintained after he steps down in January 2017.
Putin has repeatedly denied involvement despite the accusations coming from the White House, and the Kremlin has repeatedly questioned the evidence for the US claims. Perhaps it means: As long as Russia’s revamping its own arsenal. “Trump understood the mood of the people and kept going until the end, when nobody believed in him, except for you and me”, he added.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has dubbed President-elect Donald Trump as the “Tweeter in Chief” for potentially sparking an arms race through Twitter.
Brzezinski responded, saying that Trump told her, “Let it be an arms race, we will outmatch them at every pass, and outlast the all”. He repeated that argument a week later.
Trump, who takes office on January 20, gave no further details. The New York Times detailed a number of theoretical explanations for Trump’s tweet in a dissection published Thursday afternoon.
“President-elect Trump was referring to the threat of nuclear proliferation and the critical need to prevent it – particularly to and among terrorist organizations and unstable and rogue regimes”, Miller said in a statement. In Hiroshima, Obama called for “a world without nuclear weapons”.
It seems as if Donald Trump is doubling down on a troublesome assertion he made on Twitter yesterday.
Hillary Clinton repeatedly questioned Mr Trump’s temperament and his fitness to be in possession of the nuclear codes.
Advertisement
“His thoughts are so correct”, Trump said. He then added, “But would there be a time when it could be used, possibly, possibly?”
