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US President Joe Biden and the ever-present threat
President Biden will inherit the U.S. government's decades-long nuclear policy of flirting with apocalypse.
The 46th president could very well fast-track the global path to doomsday if he chooses not to rejoin nuclear treaties, address international crises, and remove the corporate profit motive from plans to "modernize" our nuclear arsenal.
As the United States accelerates toward Inauguration Day, and as President-elect Biden announces more of his cabinet appointments, we are getting a clearer picture of how the incoming Biden administration plans to manage the
"scorched earth foreign policy" he will be inheriting from Donald Trump. This is a foreign policy designed to create "as many
fires as possible," even when it comes to managing humanity's most dangerous asset: nuclear weapons.
Trump has always maintained
a somewhat strange and concerning
fixation with the use of nuclear weapons. That fixation goes all the way back to the 1980s and 1990s, when Trump was best known as a New York City-based real estate developer who, before the dawn of Twitter, would speak his mind to eagerly scribbling tabloid reporters.
From the 2016 campaign trail to now, Trump's more recent, albeit scattered (and, at times, seemingly contradictory), comments about "
nuclear" have been difficult to parse. What has been evident, however, is that, as a U.S. President navigating the geopolitical terrain, Trump's nuclear sensibilities have combined a Hollywood-style apocalypticism with his patented reality-show, tough-talking approach to any and all conflicts. Recall Trump's casual hinting (via tweet) of the potential nuclear annihilation of both North Korea and Iran. Trump has even gone so far as to ask, more generally, "'
Why can't we use our nuclear weapons?'"
Comment: Some Republicans pointed out the asymmetry, with little effect: It seems repressive tolerance is here to stay for at least the near future...