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Old 09-05-2019, 03:36 PM
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Putin Just Kicked the Nuclear Arms Race Up Another Notch
By: Greg Walters - Vice - 9-5-19
RE: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4...-another-notch

Putin promised Russia wouldn’t be the first to actually deploy medium-range cruise missiles — but would follow suit if the U.S. does.

Pontoon barges doused in radioactivity be damned: Russia’s ready to build more nuclear weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia will start churning out the kind of medium-range missiles that were previously banned under a Cold War-era treaty President Trump ditched in August.

“Of course we will produce such missiles,” Putin told an audience in the country’s far-eastern city of Vladivostok, adding he feels “quite sad” about reports that the U.S. might deploy those same weapons in nearby Japan and South Korea.

Putin’s speech marks just the latest indication that a renewed arms race between the U.S. and Russia is kicking into high gear, weeks after Trump pulled the U.S. out of the longstanding INF Treaty banning short and medium-range cruise missiles.

Washington officially nixed that agreement last month after accusing Moscow of cheating. The U.S. then proceeded to fire just such a once-forbidden missile off the coast of California into the Pacific Ocean, a stunt that provoked howls of protest from Moscow.

On Thursday, Putin promised Russia wouldn’t be the first to actually deploy such medium-range missiles — but would follow suit if the U.S. does.

“We understand that deploying them in Japan or South Korea would be done under the pretext of preventing the threat from North Korea,” Putin said. “But for us it’s a significant problem, a very serious one, because these missile systems are going to be able to cover a large part of the Russian territory.”

A resurgent arms race with the U.S. has led Russia to start developing new kinds of nuclear missiles, which Putin has promised would prove “invincible” to American missile defense systems.

Those new weapons include a long-distance nuclear torpedo that could wipe out a coastal city, and a nuclear-powered cruise missile intended to achieve infinite range, called Skyfall.

But the raft of new weapons has raised concerns about nuclear safety, even in the testing and development phase — especially after two-dozen Russians were killed or injured in accidents with high-tech nuclear hardware in Russia this summer.

The Skyfall cruise missile is widely believed to have been behind the radioactive blast that killed seven researchers on Aug. 8.

That explosion in Russia’s far-northern White Sea sent radiation levels at the nearby city of Severodvinsk spiking upwards to 16-times typical background levels, and left two radioactive pontoon barges stranded on a local beach for almost a month, with nothing to warn local residents to stay away but a red shirt stuck on two sticks.

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Trump build your wall - but don't worry about NATO or our Troops overseas who are watching Russia build up their nukes. What are you going to do now? I'd call your Buddy and say Gee how come you're doing what your doing. Or will you say Oh that's OK and look the other way? I'm busy now building my Mexico wall. I'll get back to you later if I'm not on the golf course.

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Another report by Wonkette
RE: https://www.wonkette.com/trump-will-...states-you-bet

Donald Trump is so good at ELECTION. He has an intuitive understanding of ELECTORAL COLLEGE. How it works is, you piss all over your voters and steal from them, but you do it while shouting insane, racist nonsense and drawing dicks on weather maps. And then you win!

Trump is already putting his Very Stable Genius Plan into action with cuts to defense spending. After reaching a deal with Congress in February for $1.4 billion in border wall funding, Trump turned around and announced that he was going to grab an additional $3.6 billion from previously allocated defense funds by shouting "National Emergency!" If he gets Congress to "backfill" the allocations, he can just go ahead and steal it again. And if Congress refuses to reallocate the funds, then he'll blame Nancy Pelosi for hating the troops.

Win, win, win!

So who is Trump stealing from? Well, Puerto Rico's getting hit hardest, obviously, because ... ungrateful, and brown, and disenfranchised. Sure Hurricane Maria devastated the island, but they can do without that $400 million in planned spending, right? And screw Guam! Let them bitch to their congressman if they're mad about losing $250 million. LOL, get it?

But Trump is also cutting the knees out from under some of his supposed allies. North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis actually wrote an op-ed in the Post opposing Trump's emergency declaration to raid defense funds, before folding like a beach chair when it came time to vote. And for his humiliation, he's rewarded with $80 million in cuts for his state when he has to win his seat again in 2020. Which is what happens when you let a scorpion ride your back across the river.

Camp Lejeune, which hasn't been fully repaired since Hurricane Florence and is now battening down the hatches for Dorian, will lose $40 million. And Fort Bragg won't get a new elementary school. Cal Cunningham, a Democrat challenging Tillis next year, served two tours, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He will, no doubt, be bringing up the military funding cuts during the campaign.

In Arizona, Senate candidate Astronaut Mark Kelly is already blaming Republican Martha McSally for not protecting the $30 million allocation for Fort Huachuca, a screwup her office compounded by issuing a press release claiming the cut was only $30,000 before having to backtrack. Because reading is hard.

In May, Trump toured Camp Tyndall in Florida, and vowed to fund repairs for the massive damage incurred during Hurricane Michael in 2018. But he just grabbed $17 million allocated for that purpose for his stupid Fuck You Mexico Wall. Sorry, Little Marco!

The remaining smash and grabs are mostly in solid red or blue states. Alaska and Texas lose $74 million and $44 million, respectively, while New York and Maryland lose $150 million and $66 million. And Trump Campaign Manager Brad Parscale can shittalk about New Mexico and Virginia being in the bag for Trump, but the $220 million he's pulling out of them suggest otherwise.

In theory, Fort Campbell Middle School in Kentucky is losing $62 million, but that's probably a gift to allow Mitch McConnell to swoop in save the day for his constituents.

In short, this is very good plan to get re-elected. And cutting $155 million from FEMA with Dorian bearing down on us makes it even better. Carry on, President Good Brain!

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Wow! This writer didn't pull any punches. The truth hurts don't it!
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