Timothy Birdnow

A report says China will build one thousand new nuclear weapons by 2030.

That will increase their nuclear stockpile to approximately 1500, and these will all be new weapons and no doubt superior to our own aging Reagan-era arsenal.

The U.S., by comparison, has 5,428 warheads as esto,ated by the Union of concerned scientists (I've seen lower estimates, as low as 3,000), but many of them are quite old, some predating Reagan, and the missiles still use vacuum tubes, for crying out loud! Our newest weapons were built under Trump,but not that many. I rather suspect China will be our equal with 1500 new weapons as half of ours probably won't detonate when used.

One article from 2015 stated the average age was 27 years,so the U.S. arsenal goes back to the eighties.

Trump tried to reverse that but had to build all new labs and factories to upgrade our weapons systems, and he didn't actually produce many new ones. Sadly Biden killed these programs before they bore fruit (as in mushrooms).

During the obama era Barrack Hussein closed the very last plutonium plant in America, by the way, so we cannot even produce this vital component of nuclear weapons.

BTW the Russian arsenal is 5,580 nuclear weapons and all of them were built in this century, most in 2005 but many later.

Bolth the U.S. and Russia have just 1,600 actively deployed warheads though.

So a Sino-Russian pact could fry the U.S. if it so chose, and we may not be able to shoot back all that well.

This means Trump will have to spend a fortune to retool our nuclear arsenal (along with the fortune he'll spend to deport all the aliens) and hence inflation isn't going away any time soon, alas.

Anyway China is determined to reach parity with the U.S. in terms of nukes and we should be very concerned about that.

How do we stop them? We need to squeeze China economically. Trump's planned tariffs are the key, in my humble opinion.

I've long argued China is a paper tiger that will fold if facing any real competition. Right now it has none,because the Western world likes the cheap goods and likes the pollution being in China and not in THEIR backyards. There was no reason for China to become the behemoth it is now; that was a conscious policy by the internationalists and the Establishment in the West to build a "counterbalance" to the U.S. and to create a cheap manufacturing center. But the Chinese economy has always been a command economy and itt's corporations are not free market at all but owned entirely by the Communists in China. That is not a long-term stable economic model. China itself needs to create millions of jobs each year for those entering the workforce. The whole model is predicated on an ever-expanding economy. If they face true economic hardship they will probably collapse.

Yes,their economy is better than the old Soviet economy, but you may remember there was much talk of the "Soviet miracle" back before WWII too. That was a potemkin village, a mirage, a false front. I think China's economy is as well. We see signs of that now, with the real estate collapse and other such problems. I think one big push will end the Chicom economic dominance. Oh, and India is gunning for them, and they have everything the Chinese had to work with too. India is the coming power in my view and in the view of others.

There is only so much of the pie that Chines enjoys to go around. If India takes a sizable part of China's market shares the Chinese economy will crash.

And that will end their plans for nuking up. Or so we must hope.

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