One of several controversial amendments to the House version of the military spending bill, which passed today in a 269-151 vote, will end all funding for implementation of the 2010 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).
The amendment was introduced by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R – CO), who has been an outspoken opponent of the treaty, and is using recent tensions with Russia over the annexation of Crimea as a pretext to pull out of the pact.
New START replaced the SORT treaty, and limited the number of deployed nuclear warheads of both the United States and Russia.
The treaty was always something of a work in progress, as it left open the question of US missile defense systems in Europe, something Russia continues to oppose. The expectation, however, had been that the relatively modest limits it set would survive any disagreements.
This is a BIG mistake. The US government is being willful, and shows a complete disregard for other nations of the world. This is a no BS indication that the doomsday clock is ticking away. The US is acting like the British did prior to the Revolutionary War . . . this is very dangerous for the world, because we know what happened during the Revolutionary War . . . . . and the weapons we have now are powerful enough to end the human race. I guess that could be a good thing for the Earth itself though, in the long run, if humans became extinct.
Obviously destroying the world just the once is not good enough.
If even a fraction of the current nuclear arsenals were used, the resulting 'nuclear winter' would doom most of the human race to death by starvation. A full-scale nuclear war between the US and Russia would almost certainly lead to the extinction of the human race. If by some chance the human race wasn't entirely wiped out, the chance of rebuilding anything remotely resembling a technological civilisation would be about zero.
Idiots. I'm willing to bet that he's a good Armageddonist and super Christian also. So, checking wiki (I know, I know) indicates that – what do you know… serious ties to the Christian Coalition of Colorado, some speculation that his election was "one of the sleaziest, most dishonest campaigns I've seen in a long time," "…opposing gun control, abortion except when the mother's life is threatened, federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, not providing public benefits to illegal immigrants, and new eminent domain rulings."
Fine, fine specimen of a Conservative UberChristian not above doing whatever it requires to get what he wants.
It really defies any logic whatsoever, how can a supposed Christian be in favour of mass-murder, its preposterous.
they intentionally blur the lines between nationalism and christianity – it's easier on their consciences. But, in the end, it's just bloodlust.
And you thought that only the other side had suicide bombers?
Working for a pay-off in virgins, or maybe Congressional pages, perhaps?
Two problems we have a Pentagon who really thinks that their Anti ballistic missile umbrella will WORK, secondly we have fools in Congress who believe it is their Job to Hurry the second coming of Christ along! A very dangerous combination!
"S-500", anybody? Besides, seriously, what "treaty" has the USA/USG ever NOT broken? … Given the overtly aggressive "East"-ward advances of NATO against Russia (itself) since the negotiated (peaceful!) end of the Cold War and consequent dissolution of the Soviet Union — in addition to the subsequent revision of USA "defense doctrine" that now encompasses the absolute abomination of nuclear "first strike" under the rubric of "full-spectrum warfare" under the pretense of "national security", can it be (even remotely) possible that USA/USG retains any semblance of "credibility" in conducting State-to-State negotiations/agreements/treaties about ANYTHING!? [Nope!] "START" remains a decades-old "political" farce that should have been "defunded" entirely within 5 years (or less) – because USG (White House, Congress/Pentagon — "USG"!) KNEW beforehand it had no chance of ever progressing/succeeding. All it ever generated was "Megatons for Megawatts" — and where has THAT left us now? … As the USA/USG has declared "gloves off" post-9/11, it's purely STUPID to continue to "fund" an obvious absolute non-starter such as "START". DUH! . . . absolute;lyul;yolves off"