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Imminent meeting with Xi; seems like a good bargaining chip. Seems clear he's calling out cheating on zero yield test thresholds with the "equal basis" languag
by aerostable_slug 1y ago
Imminent meeting with Xi; seems like a good bargaining chip.
Seems clear he's calling out cheating on zero yield test thresholds with the "equal basis" language (Russia was reportedly guilty of this in 2019 IIRC). It will be interesting to see where this goes.
- _DeadFred_ 1y agoTrump tried to wage the same tariff war with China twice. But everyone with any knowledge of history/strategy knows you can't fight the exact same way with your adversaries twice. China adapted and now we (the US) are f'd because this administration is too dumb/uneducated/unstrategic to understand this. Threats of nuclear war are not, in fact, 'good bargaining chip's. They were pathetic weakness when Russia did it with Ukraine, and now, sadly, when the USA does it.
- aerostable_slug 1y agoThreat of nuclear war? Where?
- JohnFen 1y agoThat's clearly the signal this talk of resuming tests is meant to convey.
- aerostable_slug 1y agoThat's ridiculous. It's not threatening a launch, it's threatening a new arms race. The idea is to push China into stopping its abrogating behavior. If Trump wanted to start testing unilaterally, he could just do that. There's no need for the Xi tie-in. Clearly this is meant as a foreign policy lever.
- JohnFen 1y ago> Clearly this is meant as a foreign policy lever. Yes. That's what I'm saying. He's adopting a threatening stance. The threat of nuclear war is literally the only message that resuming nuclear testing sends.