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Re: The Perception of Weakness Emboldens Our Enemi
JD, we are not only reducing the number we have, we are restricting their use. We are quantifying when and where we will use nukes in limited fashion. We are sending the wrong message to both our friends and enemies. Our friends who depended on our unwavering commitment to protect them when threatened or attacked, our enemies, who you seem to take lightly, may perceive a reluctance from this admin to be strong on defense. It may not result on a the enemy showing up on our shores ready to fight. It may result in other actions that kill our allies, our soldiers or our citizens. The chance that other nations, as Krauthammer points out, will seek to provide their own security through nuclear weapons development, thus defeating the notion that unilateral disarmament will inspire others to follow suit.
And I do not believe the total elimination of nuclear weapons will ever happen.
You still have not answered my question: what have we gained by reducing our stockpile and announcing that we will limit the use of nukes?
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