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| Conventional war THE US AND RUSSIA WANT TO KILL CONVENTIONALLY, BUT ARE SPENDING TOO MUCH ON NUKES. Thomas Speckmann Assistant Lecturer at the University of Bonn, ʻ09] A Nightmare Obama Wants Nuclear Disarmament Atlantic Community, July 17, 2009, http://bit.ly/becfui Barack Obama's plan to create additional intervention units of the US army that can be deployed anywhere around the world will cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Actually deploying these forces will cost billions more. For that reason, the US government is looking to save money on nuclear defense. Similarly, Russia is also worried about being overwhelmed by the costs of its atomic weapons program. Moscow feels like its hand is being forced on defense spending, even though it would like to free up more money for its military reforms. The war against Georgia uncovered the glaring weaknesses of Russia's military, and their eventual win was only possible because of massive advantages in numbers and weapons. The Kremlin now badly needs a professional army capable of meeting the challenges of high tech modern warfare. Thus what Russia and the USA are discussing now is not disarmament, but only shifting armaments. By financing new conventional weapons, Obama's presidency has raised America's already astronomical defense spending even further. In Russia, the defense budget has grown almost 10 times larger in the last 10 years. In 2009 it is slated to grow by a further 27%. Disarmament seems like a necessity in the face of the global finance and economic crises. Download 1.23 Mb. Share with your friends:
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