President Donald Trump floated the idea of a three-way meeting with the leaders of Russia and China in which the countries would agree to cut defense spending in half.
Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Thursday, suggested repeatedly that he'd seek such a deal with Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, saying the money could be spent better elsewhere.
"One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia," Trump said. "And I want to say, 'let's cut our military budget in half.' And we can do that. And I think we'll be able to do it."
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Unironically nuclear disarmament is a pure win for the world. The problem is it only works if we trust the Chinese
and the Russians
so... uh yeah.
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One big reason Japan teamed up with Germany in WW2 is because after WW1 they got pressured into a Navy deal with the world powers to reduce fleet size but they got a worse deal than the western countries, and it made their hard-right military guys have a multi-decade meltdown over not being respected.
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At this point zigger nukes either don't work or they're somehow in possession of some african warlord, and chinks have peepees too small to actually do anything.
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