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Brenda

(1,930 posts) Fri Dec 5, 2025, 05:54 PM Dec 5

Apocalypse Soon?

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I had no idea the Pentagon is using our money to the tune of nearly 2 trillion for nuclear war!

It’s been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak in Colorado. So it was with some nostalgia that I read a recent memo from General Kenneth Wilsbach, the new Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF). Along with the usual warrior talk, the CSAF vowed to “relentlessly advocate” for the new Sentinel ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) and the B-21 Raider stealth bomber. While the Air Force often speaks of “investing” in new nukes, this time the CSAF opted for “recapitalization,” a remarkably bloodless term for the creation of a whole new generation of genocidal thermonuclear weapons and their delivery systems.

So, here we are in a world in which the Pentagon plans to spend another $1.7 trillion (and no, that is not a typo!) “recapitalizing” its nuclear triad, and so in a world that is guaranteed to remain haunted forever by a possible future doomsday, the specter of nuclear mushroom clouds, and a true “end-times” catastrophe

Take it from this retired officer: you simply can’t trust the U.S. military with that sort of destructive power. Indeed, you can’t trust anyone with that much power at their fingertips. Consider nuclear weapons akin to the One Ring of Power in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Anyone who puts that ring on is inevitably twisted and corrupted.

I’ve felt something akin to that as well. When I wore a military uniform, I was in some sense a captive to power. The military both captures and captivates. There’s an allure of power in the military, since you have a lot of destructive power at your disposal.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/03/apocalypse-soon-3/

From the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/10/opinion/nuclear-weapons-us-price.html

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Apocalypse Soon? (Original Post) Brenda Dec 5 OP

2 Trillion TheProle Dec 5 #1

Well, that power has been around for a while, and we are still here, yeah, sure there's been some things that have SWBTATTReg Dec 5 #2

So you didn't read any more of the article Brenda Dec 5 #3

Yeah, you are kind of rude to mock my response. Really classy. SWBTATTReg Dec 5 #4

We're talking about trillions of dollars for US nukes Brenda Dec 5 #5

Here's the nytimes link Brenda Dec 5 #6

World's Getting More Dangerous Every Day OC375 Dec 5 #7

Lie. Brenda Dec 5 #8

Post removed Post removed Dec 5 #9

Good article - I like his other writing as well jfz9580m Dec 7 #10

TheProle

(3,898 posts)

1. 2 Trillion

Reply to Brenda (Original post)

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 06:00 PM

Dec 5

~$6000 for every man, woman, child in the country

SWBTATTReg

(26,026 posts)

2. Well, that power has been around for a while, and we are still here, yeah, sure there's been some things that have

Reply to Brenda (Original post)

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 06:01 PM

Dec 5

happened over the past several decades or more, but still, no nukes since Japan.

My only worry is tRUMP and him getting a thought in his brain to use one or more of these weapons, w/o really a serious reason too, just someone who's insulted his fragile ego.