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Just as President Trump started revitalizing the ‘Triad’ of aging U.S. nuclear forces to counter China and Russia’s rapidly growing capabilities, presumptive President-elect Joe Biden has promised to cut them. Biden says he wants to reduce what he calls America’s “excessive expenditure” on nuclear arms.

Biden has also criticized President Trump’s decision to develop new sea-based weapons, including a submarine-launched cruise missile.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the “incoming Biden administration is planning a review of the nation’s $1.2 trillion nuclear-modernization program with an eye toward trimming funding for nuclear weapons and reducing their role in Pentagon strategy.”

However, a Pentagon fact sheet published in November, states that not only do we need more nuclear weapons to counter Russia and China,  but: “Most of the systems that compose the Triad [Land based, Air Launched, and Submarine Launched] are operating well beyond their original design lives,” read. “They must be modernized, or they will be lost.”

Meanwhile, as I have written, both Russia and China are furiously modernizing and expanding their nuclear arsenals. China intends to more than double its current nuclear force by 2030, and new estimates have shown China may have far more nuclear weapons than currently believed.

But Russia is the more immediate danger. Moscow is regularly adding additional cutting-edge nuclear capabilities.

As Peter Suciu notes in The National interest:

Russia has stepped up the development of its intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). In the New Year, its Strategic Missile Force will receive thirteen launchers equipped with the latest Yars and Avangard ICBMs. The Russian Ministry of Defense also announced that additional funds have been allocated for the production of the systems.

Sucio adds that the Russian Ministry of Defense is placing its new nuclear weapons on combat alert. As reported by Tass:

In 2021, the Defense Ministry will deal with a number of priority rearmament tasks. It will have to put 13 launchers with Yars and Avangard intercontinental ballistic missiles on combat duty in the Strategic Missile Force,” said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday.

Shoigu added that Russia is now completing construction of the infrastructure for Yars and Avangard ICBM platforms, to deploy the missiles in Kozelsk, Yasny, Uzhur, Novosibirsk and Yoshkar-Ola.

U.S. nuclear strategists are especially concerned about Russia’s hypersonic and maneuverable Avangard boost-glide vehicle, reportedly capable of flying at Mach 27or about 32,000 kilometers (almost 20,000 miles) per hour — using its speed and maneuverability to overcome U.S. anti-missile defenses.

The RS-24 Yars, a modification of the Topol-M ballistic missile, is also a far more capable mobile or silo-based solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with MIRVed (multiple independently targetable vehicle) warheads.

Trump was right to start reviving and upgrading the Triad of U.S. nuclear forces. Both Russia and China are striving to match or overcome U.S. nuclear capabilities. In the escalation dominance game, this will allow them far more flexibility in their increasingly aggressive adventurism, and can only heighten global risks.

Biden should tread carefully in seeking to undermine this critical national security capability.

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Comments

    1. He and the other commies are leading us right into becoming communist regimes just like China and Russia. China’s population if 5 times the USA’s. I have no idea what lies down the road, and how soon, but the outlook is not too good for hard working conservative citizens here.

  1. The Dems always do the same thing. They weaken us and then get us into wars, because they never understand that strength leads to peace and weakness leads to wars. This fool, who didn’t really win the election, will follow suit as he bows to every idiot notion his communist/socialist brothers come up with. This country is in real peril this time because the left has figured out how to win elections while losing elections. There won’t be a Republican to save us

    1. The “Dems” fully understand what they are doing. They are leading the way into the “Brave New World”.

    2. I disagree God is on Trumps side—- and is about to show us all who Jesus Christ really is once and for all—- those who oppose God will wish they had never been born. —-keep the faith—- do not let a little turbulence upset you — fasten your seat belts—- hmm 🤔? Could you drop California off into the ocean or New York City- can you case on earthquake and lower mountain ranges of course not but God can and he has keep the faith

  2. Ha ha ha ha and 3rd world joe legally received 80 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in US history????????

    The Chinese will not even have to fire a shot.

    1. He rec’d more votes than eligible voters, and SCOTUS, McConnell, Romney, other rinos and ms. grease monkey 1955 pelosi, are now taking the reins of our country, leading us straight to Marxism to the delight of Dominion, Canada, China, Venezuela, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, mexico, Europe, the UN and others. SCOTUS did their part, do marxist societies have a supreme court to protect the peoples constitution? I don’t think so, so they may have just fraacked themselves and America.

  3. Can we get signatures to remove from office? Like they are trying to do in California? I’ll sign and so will millions of Trump voters. He’s going to destroy this country.

  4. Of course he is in the pockets of China and Russia, + Ukraine, and others, it is a family enterprise. Cut ours build theirs, furnish the money, from the taxpayers, it is the new marxist ops. Illegally elected with the aid of our SCOTUS, our leadership, our fascist big tech, MSM and foreign money..

  5. What? ” Hard anthracite coal miner from Scranton and steel mill worker at Bethlehem” Big Mouth Joe doesn’t like guns ! Just those his bodyguards have ! what a champion of the people he is . Maybe he will give us a moldy green deal and another war like LBJ gave us the “Great Society” where our boys got killed to the tune of 55 thousand or more in Vietnam with the Gulf of Tonkin Incident starting the conflagration and conscription as He , a school teacher and dilletante war manager, presided over it with Micro management (I was stationed at Ft.Carson when the levy came down in 64 with 95% draftees on it). also Democrats presided over WWI Woodrow Wilson, WWII Franklin Roosevelt, and Korea Harry Truman. It’s entirely possible he will ignore the germ warfare of China but back another war elsewhere but I think we must protect Formosa against them. So maybe the Biden family’s collusions with China and Ukraine “business” deals will bear fruit. I guess we will see.. Hope for the best — OlJoe

    1. Notwithstanding the fact that Bidet just was wrong on every major issue since he has been in office, I have observed him for a long time, and he has also been a loudmouth corrupt liar, and has not accomplished anything significant. The one thing I have taken away from his time in public life is that he is monumentally stupid. No one seems to mention this. JOE BIDEN – MONUMENTALLY STUPID.

  6. I know civilians will be casualties if they aren’t well prepared. The military however, his besty tried with all his might and he couldn’t seal the deal.

  7. This is a bad move. Speak softly and carry a big stick. His ideas will turn us into a puppet for China.

    1. BUT any and ALL $$$$$ would go into his pockets and NOT a D thing that would be GOOD for OUR Country! NOT MY PRESIDENT! CRIMINAL AND HOE!

  8. Democrats just must have money to buy votes, at all costs. During the Obama-Biden administration, they severely weakened the military to preserve excessive spending in the domestic budget. Fortunately, President Trump was elected and needed funding for the military was restored, even though it increased budget deficits, for which Democrats hypocritically blamed Republicans. Money spent for our nuclear capability don’t buy any votes for Democrats.

  9. Can’t do much damage to our country from his basement…he’s certainly not gonna be in the White House.

  10. Either the election was illegitimate or we have the dumbest people on the face of the earth. A senile old man who campaigned from his cellar beats a President who resurrected our country for those who suffered?

    1. There are more than 330 million people in the US. Among the corporate executives, military officers, academics, and Wall Street financial types, it is insane to believe that Bidet is the best guy they could find to be President.

  11. These actions to destroy us cannot stand….These leaders MUST BE REMOVED VERY SOON…By force if necessary…Who will sacrifice their life to “SAVE AMERICA?”….????

  12. Voter-FRAUD-joe would bow-DOWN to his BOSSES = Chinese Government…..But, NOT so FAST, he CANNOT be inaugurated as president because he’s been CAUGHT…He was NOT elected president…TRUMP was RE-elected….!!!

  13. This $tu_pid ba$t_ard crook will decrease our military defense to pay for every low-life maggot illegal that shows up at our borders. Sovereign nation? Not for long!

  14. Beijing Biden’s idea of national security is to surrender at the first sign of trouble.
    His CCP masters have already promised him a nice rocking chair on a nice big condo balcony.

  15. Bidet has promised on “day one” (if he can count that high) to issue an executive order to rejoin the climate accords. Look up George Carlin – Save the Planet.

  16. Where is the military. They took an oath to defend and protect the USA both foreign and domestic. The USA needs them to step up.

  17. Of course he will…..he wants to make it as easy as possible , for our great country to fall into the grips of the Communist Chinese government….Trump has let us down….Martial Law would end this take over but I think Trump was offered a deal …leave the White House and you and your family can move on….meanwhile, the country and the trump supporters can learn to live without their freedom …

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