Saturday, February 07, 2026

The (Stupid) Whining About START

Col. MacGregor and his pal, Napolitano (still Jones-ing for a Trump bench appointment) whine and cry that the US allowed the NewSTART treaty to expire.

They may be stupid--or they may be TDS victims.

 ...Idealists have yearned for a world free of nukes since shortly after "Little Boy" devastated Hiroshima, and even the most sober-minded share their concerns. Neither Henry Kissinger nor George Shultz were wild-eyed dreamers, and yet in 2007 they called for "reversing reliance on nuclear weapons … and ultimately ending them as a threat to the world."

The ineradicable problem is that America’s enemies reply, "please, you go first." The New START treaty, which the Obama administration negotiated and the Biden administration extended, was astonishingly one-sided. During Donald Trump’s first term, then-secretary of state Mike Pompeo observed, "only 45 percent of Russia’s nuclear arsenal is subject to numerical limits ... meanwhile, that agreement restricts 92 percent of America’s arsenal."...

More at the link.

Ignore the whiners on THIS matter.  BTW, Trump has already called for new 

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