Russia Now Leads U.S. In Nuclear Weapons

by JASmius

This‘ll get Vladimir Putin’s attention:

The United States is losing the nuclear weapons race to Russia.

For the first time in history, State Department START Treaty documents show, Russia  has more nuclear weapons deployed than the U.S., the Washington Times reports.

Actually, more like the first time since the Carter presidency, actually.  Which shouldn’t be an easy mistake to make, for gapingly obvious reasons.

Russia, in the middle of an upgrade of its nuclear weapons arsenal, now boasts 1,643 nuclear warheads in intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear submarines, and heavy bombers, while the U.S. has 1,642, according to an annual State [Commissariat] report required under the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

The new report shows an increase by Russia of 131 warheads since March 1, while the U.S. inventory increased by 57.

Wait a minute – our total has gone up the last seven months?  How the hell did that happen?  See what happens when O plays too much golf?  He takes his eye off the proverbial ball.  He could have scrapped all of them if he wasn’t so damned lazy.

Don’t worry, though; we’re still down a net of eighty warheads from two years ago, while the Russian nuclear arsenal has burgeoned by 144 warheads over that same time.  In fact, given that these numbers are coming from a Regime that specializes in MSUing, we may in fact have no nukes left while Czar Vlad has thirty thousand at his disposal.  I mean, after all, he actually has a use for them, unlike The One, who is no more likely to launch nukes under any circumstances than to utter the phrase, “long story short”.

Well, no, I take that back – there are still some “red” states left.  They could still come in handy.

The next Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee is not happy:

Senator James Inhofe, R-OK, said, “Not only did Russia violate the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (IRNF) Treaty, signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, it did so while negotiating with the Obama administration over new START, a 2010 arms reduction treaty.”

“The White House was at best naïve to Russian duplicity; at worst, it was complicit,” Inhofe wrote in Foreign Policy. [emphasis added]

Ooooh, that sounds awfully close to an accusation of treason against The One, doesn’t it?  I don’t know that I would necessarily go that far, but I will say that it proves that Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin do have at least one thing in common: Vlad wants to win Cold War II, and Barack Obama wants Vlad to win Cold War II as well.

Exit question for POTUS: Can we call the 1980s and borrow their foreign policy?