Hardly anything is easier than putting a bomb in orbit. Hardly anything is harder to stop or to detect. The arms race has always been fueled by speculation about potential, theoretical thoughts about what the other side "could" do. The most important statement in this article is that our intelligence community has very low confidence that the Russians will deploy nukes in space.
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Just like Putin denied his intention to invade Ukraine even when the entire Russian army was surrounding the country. The great thing about Putin is that you can always trust him to go against his word.
Instead of guessing whether or not they have one, why not start a dialogue, following a "trust but verify" approach. Yes, I understand that the military contractors would profit greatly by putting such a system together for us, but hopefully our politicians can resist such urges and do the right thing.
During such negotiations, it would be a great idea to revisit the two major nuclear arms accords that the US abrogated and the one that the Russians abandoned.
That is expecting too much sanity from our politicians, but it is nevertheless, the right thing to do in an era in which we have two other existential crises, climate change and a rapidly mutating pandemic virus..
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A dialogue does not reduce the guessing. Putin can say and do whatever he wants to say and do. All we have any control over is how we react and respond.
There is absolutely no reason to trust anything Putin says.
You cannot negotiate with crazy. Putin is getting desparate--and old.
Now the Republican Party is totally in the control of Trump, and Trump is totally under the thumb of Putin, our worst, and most immediate threat is from within.
It is not clear if Republicans can see beyond their love of Trump and their hatred of Biden to think clearly--or think at all. It appears that they are focused on headlines, not legislation or the well-being of our citizenry or nation.
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