While Obama Was Cutting Nuclear Arsenal, Russia and China Were Prepping for War
As part of his misguided quest to foster a global utopia devoid of nuclear weapons, former President Barack Obama reduced America’s nuclear supplies while in office, naively expecting other nations would follow suit.
According to a leaked draft of the U.S. Department of Defense’s latest Nuclear Posture Review, however, it appears Obama guessed wrong again.
“The draft review states that President Obama’s policy of cutting nuclear forces and reducing reliance on strategic weapons did not lead to cutbacks by Russia, China or North Korea,” reported The Washington Times, which had an opportunity to review the draft prior to its expected February publication date.
“Instead, those nations have aggressively built up nuclear forces, potentially tipping the nuclear balance in ways that could upset the U.S. strategy to deter a nuclear war.”
Released every four years, the Nuclear Posture Review is “a legislatively-mandated review that establishes U.S. nuclear policy, strategy, capabilities and force posture for the next five to ten years,” according to the DOD.
And the latest review makes it clear that Obama’s dream of creating a “world without nuclear weapons” was exactly that — a childish dream.
“We may not be able to eliminate man’s capacity to do evil, so nations and the alliances we have formed must possess the means to defend ourselves,” he had said during a widely criticized speech in Hiroshima two years ago. “But among those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without them.”
But that certainly never happened.
“These aspirations have not been realized,” the draft review reportedly states. “America’s strategic competitors have not followed our example. The world is more dangerous, not less.”
Instead of cutting back on its nuclear technology, for instance, the Russians have “embarked on a major buildup of nuclear forces, including new missiles, launchers, submarines and bombers,” according to the Times.
Just last year Russia unveiled a new nuclear submarine dubbed “Vlad’s Sea Monster” that can reportedly hit targets with inter-continental ballistic missiles from a stunning distance of up to 5,778 miles away.
In comparison, its American counterpart, the Ohio-class submarine, can only pursue targets at a maximum range of 4,846 miles.
The Chinese have likewise followed suit.
“Like Russia, China pursues entirely new nuclear capabilities tailored to achieve particular national security objectives,” the draft reads. “At the same time, China is modernizing its conventional military, challenging traditional U.S. military superiority in the Western Pacific.”
America should have been doing the exact same thing during Obama’s lengthy eight years in office — tailoring our nuclear capabilities to achieve our national security objectives — but instead it wasted it efforts on his silly dreams.
Fortunately, President Donald Trump intends to reverse this trend immediately “by developing new arms and modernizing older weapons and delivery platforms,” the Times noted. It may nevertheless take several years for the U.S. to catch back up to Russia and China, all thanks to Obama again.
H/T The Washington Free Beacon
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