One of President Donald Trump’s most ambitious goals for the world is now back on the table in his second term. He wants Russia, China, and the US to jointly agree to reduce our nuclear weapon stockpiles and military spending.
This wouldn’t be an overnight thing, obviously. Trump has to calm things down in various hotspots around the world first before that conversation can begin. But to anyone who immediately thinks that is a crazy idea, here’s a serious question: What’s the downside to a less militarized world that has fewer nuclear weapons?
Trump announced this ambitious goal during a press conference this week. The president held his first phone call this week with President Putin about peace talks to end the war in Ukraine. Volodymyr “Midget Hitler” Zelensky was terribly upset that Trump didn’t call him first.
Putin is receptive to the peace talks and bringing about an end to the war, especially since President Trump is open to letting Russia redraw the map and keep much of the territory his country gained.
It’s hard to believe, but this is the first time that Putin has spoken to anyone in the White House since the last time that Donald Trump was in office. The unelected Biden regime never picked up the phone once in the last four years whenever Putin called. They refused to speak with him multiple times when he was trying to avoid the war that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Bolton so desperately wanted.
This weird animosity toward Russia is very confusing to many Trump supporters. I’ve never understood it. The Soviet Union, which we waged a 40-year Cold War with, ceased to exist almost 35 years ago. Russia is a new country with democratically elected leaders. Putin asked Bill Clinton to normalize relations with Russia, to the point where Russia would have become a member nation of NATO.
Clinton screwed him over for reasons that no one has ever been able to explain.
Russia was so well-liked just a few years ago that we used to have a group called the G8. The G8’s member nations were the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and Russia. When the people of Crimea voted on a resolution to become part of the Russian Federation in 2014, it passed overwhelmingly. Putin, reacting to the will of the people, annexed Crimea and welcomed it back into the fold.
Barack Obama and his wicked witch Secretary of State Hillary Clinton kicked Russia out of the G8 for agreeing to the will of the Crimean people.
Trump said this week that it was a mistake to kick Russia out of the G8. He believes the G7 should invite him back in, and that Putin would love to rejoin the group.
Here’s a story about when Trump first entered the White House back in 2017. Barack Obama told him privately that the number one security threat facing the United States was North Korea and Kim Jong Un. Trump asked Obama a simple question that had never occurred to anyone in permanent Washington.
“Have you tried talking to him?”
Trump’s willingness to talk to hostile foreign powers—after a suitable period of insulting their height and intelligence—nearly led to a peace deal and reunification of the Korean Peninsula after 70 years of war.
Now he wants to sit down with Putin and Xi to talk about reducing our enormous military budgets. America, Russia, and China are all spending gobs of money on military budgets and advancements to our nuclear weapons in case we decide to have a big fight with each other that would obliterate the entire world.
The three nations have a lot of trust issues that would need to be resolved, obviously. China seems to be a lot less interested in world peace than Trump and Putin are. Trump’s willingness to start talks like this—the boldness of his vision—is the reason why so many people voted for him. Maybe it’s not an achievable goal, but it doesn’t hurt to try.
Trump: "One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia, and I want to say, 'let's cut our military budget in half.' And we can do that." pic.twitter.com/Z8osuKnHVg
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 13, 2025
