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Originally posted by Sir ReGiN:
Do you not think about how this looks, all you americans?
It seems to me that all americans have violence on their brains, and fail to see that violence feeds violence.
It's not about just USA having no defense, it's about working towards a missile-free world.
And this treaty is a giant leap in the right direction.
How was it a leap in the right direction? Nuclear weapons production wasn't reduced in the least by this treaty and continued. Having enough weapons to destroy the world wasn't enough, both the US and Russia insisted on having enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world over and over (like anyone would be impressed after the first time
)We are still interested in reducing our nuclear stockpile in conjunction with the Russians to around 2,000. Maybe one day they'll all be gone. Maybe if they can be rendered useless, they can be completely removed.
Is the ABM considered worthy because we didn't blow ourselves up after 1972 despite the continuing nuclear arms race? If you use that logic, it was worthless to start with since we didn't blow ourselves up between 1945 and 1972.
I still find it interesting that people are upset about testing a nuclear
defense. How does each side having weapons, against which the other can't defend, make the world safer? Because if one dies, we all die?
What Americans think? We think that a world that would accuse US of having "violence on the brain" for creating
defensive weapons doesn't think that much of US to start with. Americans basically think the way this should look to the rest of the world is "they are pulling out of a treaty, by the legal means required, to pursue testing of a defensive,
not offensive, nuclear deterrant. It's their option."