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Acco Hengst's avatar

There is much good news in this. If DoD thought that it was critical to be fully fired up and ready, we would not have this conversation. There are plenty of retired senior DoD military quite apprehensive about anything nuclear war. I think that reality shock is a blessing in need of better appreciation.

DoD, subterraneously, and by my reading, never had much enthusiasm for the proxy war in Ukraine.

My MoA comments of long standing reflect that. I pretend that I have a moderate capability to disambiguate their pronouncements.

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

IMO, there're very few Nazis in the US Military; they are all within the political spheres, and IMO they don't think about consequences so they'll do anything to attain their goals--much like the Zionists.

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occamsrazorback22's avatar

The book, "Bitten" (link) exposes how Lyme Disease was a bio weapon developed by the U$ military. It escapes the lab and has devastated untold numbers of people. The book is written by a science writer who had direct, personal experience with this horrible disease. A creepy story but just what you might expect from the U$ Gov't.

https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Weapons/dp/1982656328

Tucker Carlson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoxszhv9D1k

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

Thanks! I've known a few people with Lyme and listened to their dealings with the medical world.

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Walt King's avatar

It will I suppose be spread over many years but will still mean less for the NHS, and all the other things that the people actually need. Labour have already refused to restore the winter fuel payment for pensioners that the Tories cut. I am writing a piece on the collapse of the British economy over 60 years which I will post next week.

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Anna Zimmerman's avatar

I look forward to reading that.

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Walt King's avatar

This was supposed to be a reply to occamsrazor.

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Walt King's avatar

Explains something I read yesterday. Having said that the U.K.’s economy is in a disastrous state and severe cutbacks will be necessary, Starmer went on to say that £200 billion will be spent on upgrading nuclear weapons.

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occamsrazorback22's avatar

Where will the Brits find this kind of moolah? In the shed, next to the tractor, or behind the health care system that doesn't work because there's no money to fix it?

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dornoch altbinhax's avatar

In 2022 there was a BoE rescue following a gilts meltdown. I'm wondering if the UK's financial system isn't hanging by a thread, and now bad loans that won't be repaid by Ukraine, and Russia will end up with the underlying asset base, go figure how that works. Look at clown Klaus, "you'll own nothing, and be happy". With a western led reset assets revert to Blackrock (look at Jackson Hole, they seem to write policy for the FED) as the dominos fall, but then who's not on their books Russia and China. No global reset possible without them... times running out, and if plan B is a set of fascist garrison states under the US thumb, then prepare the cannibal's cookbook.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

What lousy priorities.

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Ed's avatar

B-2 per scuttlebutt was stopped at 21: the low rate production quantity (10% of total) because it could not get into operational test, too many issues, no money to fix. Sort of like F-35, but US has to sell those to replace F-16 which is seeing structural fatigue sooner than spec’ed. Politics.

In 1972 I avoided being put in minuteman launch officer bc color deficiency. Lots of new Lts were drafted!

Maybe Spacex can build a new rocket. The usual MIC suspects cannot.

No one talks MX, aka Peacekeeper. Small deployment in late 1980s, now quietly dismissed, retired. Highly classified that one big mistake.

Two trillion planned over 30, expect huge costs and failed spec’s.

Supposed Harris ordered MAD, and US systems failed.

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

What's scary is with the nuke system is such bad shape, a bioweapon attack will be ordered that results in the always unanticipated outcome shown in every SciFi film of the genre.

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Garry Gerskwotiz's avatar

The evil being perpetuated by the USA has no equal and those doing it have no brains, we're in for some deep shit unless it's miraculously stopped

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marcjf's avatar

My thought when I [re]read this was that the motivation for using obsolescent weapons must be higher right now, as if too much time elapses they will become unusable or at least much less effective/reliable and subject to more counter-measures. Use them or lose them?

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

There's merit in your thought. IMO, the real military people, not the political appointees, know the score there--what deterrence can come from a fleet of ICBMs where up to 50% will malfunction at launch? And the SLBMs aren't much better and have also suffered testing failures. And those military people must be very worried about the great ability of Russia to shootdown most everything that gets launched at it--and Russia's getting better at it as it continually improves its systems. IMO, the politicos don't know or refuse to understand reality and prefer to believe in past abilities that are no longer tenable. And that's dangerous.

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retka's avatar

If America and the West's nukes have atrophied, this is a positive development in that it reduces the American Threat to other nations.

Granted, the downside is that the USA will resort to manufacturing bioweapons, but the United States has not only done this in the past but actually used bioweapons against other nations such as during the Korean War and against Cuba.

So there is nothing new on that account.

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

Yes, there're up and downsides to this ongoing development. This development reported yesterday showcases such ambiguousness, https://sputnikglobe.com/20240829/us-icbm-warning-system-lacks-parts-suffers-obsolete-tech-hurting-readiness---report-1119953158.html

Reliance on the unreliable generates additional risks that wouldn't otherwise exist.

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retka's avatar

Yes, but if America decides to escalate its Ukraine proxy war against Russia to the nuclear threshold, then the Russians can effectively neutralize the American Threat and prevail, while the so-called "United States of America" will finally be ended.

Americans can't stand to admit it, but Russia's vanquishing of America would be very positive for the Global Majority.

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

I can admit it, but then I'm an unusual American and admit my national government's a vicious Outlaw state that needs to be brought to the hangman's tree.

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Ismaele's avatar

The "atrophy of the west's nukes", as you call it, is also due to the degrading competencies and DEI policies, as Simplicius noted in one of his previous articles: https://simplicius76.substack.com/i/147835184/nuclear-rearmament

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

I thought the Heritage Foundation's critique useful because it avoided blaming those policies because they're very recent while the degrading trend began over 30 years ago, 50 if we look at NASA. Some of the testimonies offered here by readers who worked for Bell Labs and other R&D giants point to other reasons behind the degradation, one of which was certainly funding, but also the financialization of the political-economy was very impactful. The continual dumbing-down of education was also a big contributor as business majors were very soft compared to any science-based major. The loss of good factory jobs also did its damage. The need for the ancien regime to invoke new methods to maintain its divide and rule policy is what we now see being employed, but they are rather new, not even half a generation old.

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