“In their blind loyalty to their mega-donors, Republicans’ fixation on giant tax cuts for billionaires has created a revenue problem that is driving up our national debt,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in response to new Treasury Department figures.
“In their blind loyalty to their mega-donors, Republicans’ fixation on giant tax cuts for billionaires has created a revenue problem that is driving up our national debt,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in response to new Treasury Department figures.
You are forgetting that Russia officially has bigger nuclear arsenal than US. Yes, likely it isn’t, but that’s just a guess. US scaling its arsenal down would not do a thing, without starting with a treaty like we had in the past and currently it isn’t the greatest time to easily get it.
I don’t think China is particularly concerned about matching the Russian arsenal as much as ours. Russia, in addition to being a loose ally that needs them, would be a much more nearby threat, where a pretty broad array of strategic tools can be employed. It’s the US that the nukes will pretty effectively guard against into the future.
Do you think China and Russia are friends? At most they are allies working together to weaken the West. They have their own disputes and also share a border.
So long as Russia can ship their cheap Siberian resources to China via pipeline and rail, it’s unlikely to really be in Xi’s interest to actually sever that relationship any time soon. Now that the west is actually militarizing, Russia becomes more useful. Keeps attention from being focused too much on him, helps with the destabilization crap.
For Russia’s side, I don’t think they’d ever gain much from invading China. If they did, I do not think the PLA would need any nukes to destroy Russia. Frankly, I think Poland could probably do it at this point.
It’s not about friends and enemies though. It’s about benefit. And the benefit, is what it brings against the west, who are much more likely to be foes in the coming decades than Russia is. And the west’s nuke stockpile is mostly the US one.