The political climate of the United States of America has become deplorable. There is no right or wrong, there is only hatred and obstructionism. It has brought the worst possible reality, in that a serious virus is now part of the landscape of the USA because of leadership that is inept and destructive to government infrastructure.
For decades, there was a decorum in the federal government. It is officially under attack at the very least, but, more or less partisan. The new attitude of Trump's administration is a danger to the US Constitution and I do believe that is it's purpose.
I ran across a video of Louis Freeh in Moscow. He is civilized and brought a message to the Russian press that the USA is interested in ending the dangerous Russian gangs in the USA. It was not a secret meeting, it wasn't a handshake meeting, but, it was a meeting to let Russia know there were activities in the USA that were unwelcome. Louis Freeh's demeanor allowed him the freedom and safety to go to Moscow and build an understanding of what the USA intelligence community knew about activities of Russian citizens in the USA and what the USA intended to do to end the presence of these gangs.
The USA has lost that demeanor and is engaged in a relationship between Trump and Russia that strikes at the very heart of our democracy in tainted elections and power players that are other countries long considered our enemy.
The USA's nuclear capacity was known August 6th and 9th in 1945 over two cities in Japan. Four short years later, Russia let the world know there was a counter balance to the ravages of American power witnessed in Japan. It didn't take long and the USA had reason to worry about it's own military strength.
Russia became the world's second nuclear weapon state (click here) after it tested its first device at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan on 29 August 1949.
Today it is one of five recognized nuclear weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), a status which it inherited as the legal successor of the Soviet Union. The Cold War arms race also resulted in the Soviet Union accumulating a vast arsenal of strategic and non-strategic (also known as "tactical") nuclear weapons....
Trump wants to use nuclear weapons and his hesitation to renew the New START Treaty has less to do with reality so much as power.
...Similarly, (click here) some worried that Russia would seize on the treaty’s relaxed warhead-counting rules to significantly increase, rather than decrease, its number of deployed warheads. Instead, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) director Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley Jr. confirmed in May 2019 that Moscow has adhered to the treaty’s limits. Indeed, he warned that were the treaty to lapse, Russia could take advantage of the unused “upload” capacity of launchers to quickly increase its deployed warheads.
Yet it would be a mistake to view the costs and benefits of New START in isolation. Russia might be respecting the treaty’s provisions, but it has treated the rest of the international arms-control architecture with flagrant disregard. Moscow violated the INF treaty, leading to the U.S. withdrawal last year; similarly, it has violated the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Open Skies Treaty and has long failed to implement the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe....
I and many others disagree that the New START Treaty should not be treated in isolation. It most certainly should. These weapons are unique in their power and place within their military use. There is every reason to demand the New START Treaty to be renewed and extended.
The problem with this and over all preparedness of the USA to handle any and every emergency that the American people face, is the FACT that Trump has DISMANTLED the USA's infrastructure to attempt to say, "We don't need all this expense and there is no real need for taxes, except, maybe military preparedness." See, Trump is making friends with all the strong men in the world who are enemies to this country, our traditional allies and NATO. Trump is so sold on his own ability to bring about a world without danger of weapons of mass destruction that he will wager the new "limited nuclear weapon" now deployed in the world, will force all the strong men to bend to his will.
I don't know what kind of fool Donald John Trump is or if there is a classification for him, but, I do know he is a danger to this country TODAY. He has proven he is a danger and that his reduced federal infrastructure is an abject failure. There are people dead of a virus that should have never made it to USA shores. As a matter of fact, if he never placed tariffs on American agricultural goods to China, Covid-19 would never exist because the wildlife market would be unwanted by the Chinese and the virus would never have transferred to human beings and a lot of Chinese citizens would still be alive.
Trump is inept. He should have been removed from office with his current impeachment. If the Republicans didn't see all this coming than it speaks to their ineptness as well.
The USA's dignity is gone and the we need for a new president that actually cares about the USA's STATUS in this world.
There is a culture with every administrator, be it FBI or CIA or the Executive Branch and the idea the USA has to tolerate the free wheeling Trump culture that allows corruption as one of it's core values is outrageous and the Republicans can claim responsibility for the country's COMPROMISED reality!