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“The US has fallen significantly behind Russia and even China for that matter in terms of delivery systems including both intermediate range ballistic missiles as well as intercontinental ballistic missiles,” former US Marine-turned geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic told Sputnik, commenting on the Pentagon’s trillion dollar plus push to modernize its nuclear arsenal, details on which were broken down by a recent Roscongress Foundation report.
“Of course, existing US nuclear arms are more than capable of deterring any attack on the US itself, and instead, the US seeks to enhance its ability to menace other nations with nuclear weapons within their own borders and within their respective region of the world,” Berletic suggested, adding that the move “represents the strategic pivot” by the Pentagon in its “desire to pivot back toward ‘great power’ competition ” after “decades of ‘small wars’.”
“It is unlikely the US will catch up to either Russia or China in many areas of nuclear or even conventional weaponry,” the observer believes, arguing that “the US has confined itself both to an irrational geostrategic doctrine and a dysfunctional economic system incapable of prioritizing purpose over profit even in terms of supposed national security imperatives.”
💬 “The same sort of limitations the US faces in ramping up the production of munitions as simple as artillery shells will avail themselves as the US pursues large-scale modernization of its nuclear arsenal,” Berletic said.
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