Posted on 10/12/2020 5:05:22 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
President Trump’s long rants and seemingly erratic behavior last week — which some doctors believe might have been fueled by his use of dexamethasone, a steroid, to treat Covid-19 — renewed a long-simmering debate among national security experts about whether it is time to retire one of the early inventions of the Cold War: the unchecked authority of the president to launch nuclear weapons.
Mr. Trump has publicly threatened the use of those weapons only once in his presidency, during his first collision with North Korea in 2017. But it was his decision not to invoke the 25th Amendment and turn control over to Vice President Mike Pence last week that has prompted concern inside and outside the government.
Among those who have long argued for the need to rethink presidents’ “sole authority” powers are former Defense Secretary William J. Perry, considered the dean of American nuclear strategists, who has cited the fragility of a nuclear-weapons control chain and the fear that it can be subject to errors of judgment or failure to ask the right questions under the pressure of a warning of an incoming attack.
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Trump nuked COVID-19.
That sounds an awful lot like the makings of a military coup to me.
Way better to have senile Biden have the nuclear football
ya just gotta love how the leftist fake stream enemedia conflates corticosteriods with anabolic-steriods because they both have the word “steriod” in them, and they KNOW their ignorant followers don’t know the difference, so they can pretend that corticosteriods produce “roid-rage” ...
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