President Trump Says He Wants Meeting With China And Russia To Discuss All Three Cutting Military Budgets By 50%

President Trump said Wednesday he wants to meet with both China and Russia to discuss all three countries cutting their military budgets in half.

“I’m going to say there’s no reason for us to be spending almost a trillion dollars on military,” Trump said.

Trump said China is at $400 billion in military spending.

He also wants each country to commit to denuclearization.

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Donald Trump says he wants to, along with China and Russia, halve their military budgets

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“We’re all spending a lot of money that we could be spending on other things that are actually, hopefully much more productive,” Trump said, according to Axios.

“We’re going to have them spend a lot less money. We’re going to spend a lot less money. And I know they’re going to do it. They agreed to it,” he added.

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Trump proposes trilateral agreement with China and Russia to mutually draw down military budgets by 50%

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Per Axios:

Trump said he plans to discuss global defense spending with the leaders of the two countries once “we straighten it all out” in the Middle East and Ukraine.

Trump said he spoke to Putin about denuclearization and claimed they both agreed “to do it in a very big way.”

“There’s no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons. We already have so many,” he added. “You could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over. And here we are building new nuclear weapons, and they’re building nuclear weapons.”

Trump said that if the nuclear weapons were ever used, “that’s going to be probably oblivion.”

Trump: U.S., China & Russia Should Decrease Military Spending By 50%!

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From the Associated Press:

While the U.S. and Russia hold massive stockpiles of weapons since the Cold War, Trump predicted that China would catch up in their capability to exact nuclear devastation “within five or six years.”

He said if the weapons were ever called to use, “that’s going to be probably oblivion.”

Trump said he would look to engage in nuclear talks with the two countries once “we straighten it all out” in the Middle East and Ukraine.

“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. And I think we’ll be able to.”

Trump in his first term tried and failed to bring China into nuclear arms reduction talks when the U.S. and Russia were negotiating an extension of a pact known as New START.

Russia suspended its participation in the treaty during the Biden administration, as the U.S. and Russia continued on massive programs to extend the life-spans or replace their Cold War-era nuclear arsenals.

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