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This is confusing, the Russian and Chinese 'nuclear weapons tests' mentioned in the article didn't involve testing nuclear weapons, but Trump wants to test nu

This is confusing, the Russian and Chinese 'nuclear weapons tests' mentioned in the article didn't involve testing nuclear weapons, but Trump wants to test nuclear weapons in response? Did I read that right?

SiempreViernes 1y ago
That's certainly a plausible reading, but in truth it is very uncertain what he means. The leading guess I've seen is that he's "striking back" after Putin announced successful tests of new delivery platforms for nuclear weapons (which Russia developed because Bush abandoned the ABM treaty for the lols).
- exasperaited 1y ago
  Don't try to find the magic truth in Trump's rants: he is an ignorant, dementia-addled old man whose self-perception as a leader is as a strongman in an imagined late 1970s/1980s era because he's always been stuck in that era. Pretending it's all a crazy-man act with hidden strategy a) requires that he isn't mentally declining (when he obviously is and his doctors think so and are trying to tell us) and b) would require that this ignorant man has good advisors where he very clearly does not.
  - mschuster91 1y ago
    > and b) would require that this ignorant man has good advisors where he very clearly does not. Well... Project 2025. There are people behind Trump actually pulling the strings in a very dangerous direction!
mrweasel 1y ago
I'm confused about that as well. I don't see any reason for the US to not test the delivery mechanisms, i.e. the ICBM and missiles. The ICBMs are being replaced, so it would make sense to test those, but the Tomahawks and Trident missiles are tested frequently, the last Trident II being tested in September of this year.
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Havoc 1y ago
10/10 this is something Trump saw on some Fox Talkshow. That’s literally how he rolls. See his comments on Portland > Trump: ‘Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?’ And the carefully crafted intel briefings informed by best in the world intel services just to ensure he’s operating on good info? He doesn’t bother: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/09/trump-intelligence-briefing-frequency-00338946 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/09/trump-intelligence-... Dude shouldn’t be in charge of anything let alone nukes

SiempreViernes 1y ago

That's certainly a plausible reading, but in truth it is very uncertain what he means. The leading guess I've seen is that he's "striking back" after Putin announced successful tests of new delivery platforms for nuclear weapons (which Russia developed because Bush abandoned the ABM treaty for the lols).

exasperaited 1y ago
Don't try to find the magic truth in Trump's rants: he is an ignorant, dementia-addled old man whose self-perception as a leader is as a strongman in an imagined late 1970s/1980s era because he's always been stuck in that era. Pretending it's all a crazy-man act with hidden strategy a) requires that he isn't mentally declining (when he obviously is and his doctors think so and are trying to tell us) and b) would require that this ignorant man has good advisors where he very clearly does not.
- mschuster91 1y ago
  > and b) would require that this ignorant man has good advisors where he very clearly does not. Well... Project 2025. There are people behind Trump actually pulling the strings in a very dangerous direction!

mrweasel 1y ago

I'm confused about that as well. I don't see any reason for the US to not test the delivery mechanisms, i.e. the ICBM and missiles. The ICBMs are being replaced, so it would make sense to test those, but the Tomahawks and Trident missiles are tested frequently, the last Trident II being tested in September of this year.

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Havoc 1y ago

10/10 this is something Trump saw on some Fox Talkshow. That’s literally how he rolls. See his comments on Portland > Trump: ‘Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?’ And the carefully crafted intel briefings informed by best in the world intel services just to ensure he’s operating on good info? He doesn’t bother: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/09/trump-intelligence-briefing-frequency-00338946 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/09/trump-intelligence-... Dude shouldn’t be in charge of anything let alone nukes