@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:I have provided plenty of facts.
Please provide citations of your facts.
oralloy wrote:I have said that trump is going to start producing 455kt warheads for our ICBMs.
You neglected to point out that's part of a proposed budget, subject to Congressional vote. Which, doesn't look likely it will pass.
House panel would bar low-yield nuke deployment, Open Skies Treaty withdrawal
By: Joe Gould June 3
WASHINGTON ― The Democratic-led House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee on Monday released its part of the draft defense policy bill that moves to stop the deployment of a new low-yield nuclear warhead, teeing up a partisan fight over America’s nuclear arsenal.
The Trump administration proposed the low-yield warhead, a modified Trident II D5 ballistic missile, or W76-2. The weapon was expected to be shipped to the Navy this fall. Before the GOP lost control of the House last year, it won a party-line vote that would have restricted funding for the W76-2’s development; $65 million in 2019.
The move comes as Trump administration officials suggest Russia has restarted very low-yield nuclear tests.
A skeptic of the arsenal’s size and cost, committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., is expected to offer still more restrictive language in the days ahead. Meanwhile, the top Republican on the committee, Rep. Mac Thornberry, and Strategic Forces Subcommittee ranking member Rep. Mike Turner ripped into the draft language.
“This is a partisan and irresponsible subcommittee mark that makes us less safe, hinders our ability to defend ourselves, weakens our ability to deter our adversaries, and therefore enables them to challenge us,” the lawmakers wrote. They called it “a significant departure” from the committee’s “tradition of bipartisanship.”
The Senate Armed Services Committee plans to mark up the FY20 National Defense Authorization Act the week of May 20, outpacing the House for the first time in years.
The bill would also bar any withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty, which allows signatory nations to fly over each other’s territory to verify military movements and conduct arms control measures, unless Russia is in materiel breach. For its role, the U.S. operates the OC-135B, an aging airframe that has struggled with maintenance.
In recent years, Republicans have accused Russia of violating the treaty and used control of both chambers to limit funding for the treaty flights. The Trump administration has defended the treaty and the use of funds to upgrade U.S. sensors and aircraft.
The bill would eliminate the requirement for a conventional variant of the Long-Range Standoff Weapon
The bill also proposes a ban on any development of the Conventional Prompt Global Strike Weapon, or CPGS, that is unique to one platform to encourage development of a ship-based weapon. The idea is to reduce the likelihood that U.S. adversaries misinterpret the launch of a missile with conventional warheads and conclude that the missiles carry nuclear weapons.
This category of weapons would allow the U.S. to strike targets anywhere on Earth in as little as an hour.
In April 2019, the Air Force awarded a $928 million contract to Lockheed Martin to design, develop and test the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon by 2022. According to the Air Force, the weapon would employ a hypersonic glider and launch from a B-52 bomber.
I have said that the US' use of the A-bombs saved millions of lives and made WWII half as bad as it would otherwise have been.
oralloy wrote:I have said that the US is the only free country in the world.
That is disputable:
These Are the Freest Countries in the World
The United States isn't even close on a list topped by Hong Kong.
By Rachel Dicker, Associate Editor, Social Media Nov. 29, 2016, at 1:59 p.m.
The United States prides itself on upholding freedom, but recent research indicates America is not as free as many other countries.
In fact, it might be less free now than it was before.
According to the Human Freedom Index, which "presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom," America is the 23rd freest country in the world.
The U.S. fell from 16th place in 2008 and 19th place in 2013.
The index is co-published by the Cato Institute, a libertarian, free-market-oriented think tank based in Washington, D.C., in collaboration with the conservative-leaning Fraser Institute in Canada, and the Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Germany.
"Human freedom is a social concept that recognizes the dignity of the individual. The declining performance of the United States, once considered the bastion of liberty, is worrisome," Ian Vasquez, director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and co-author of the study, said in a press release. "We should all be concerned with the impact on liberty of the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the decline in the rule of law and economic liberty in the United States."
According to the release, the index "ranks 159 countries based on 79 distinct indicators of personal, civil, and economic freedom, using data from 2008 to 2014, the most recent year for which sufficient data is available."
The index found Hong Kong to be the freest country, followed closely by Switzerland.
Other notable rankings include Russia, which ranked 115th, and China, which ranked 141st. Meanwhile, Iran, Yemen and Libya rounded out the bottom of the list.
oralloy wrote:I have said that the right to carry arms is a trait of any free country.
All of those are factual statements.
Please provide a citation.
oralloy wrote:Civilized people have a duty to keep the savages under control.
Please provide cite references to who the civilized people are, who the savages are and which duty you are referring to.
