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🇺🇸 United States President Donald Trump has proposed talks with 🇷🇺 Russia and 🇨🇳 China to discuss reducing all three countries’ nuclear stockpiles and slashing their defence budgets in half.

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Thursday, Trump said he hoped to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin “when things calm down”.

“When we straighten it all out, then I want one of the first meetings I have [to be] with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia. And I want to say, let’s cut our military budget in half,” Trump said ahead of a summit meeting with Indian President Narendra Modi.

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

Trump said that there was “no reason” to build new nuclear weapons when existing arsenals could destroy the world “100 times over” and public funds could be spent on “other things that are actually hopefully much more productive”.

Speaking a day after discussing negotiations to end the war in Ukraine in a phone call with Putin, Trump said he and the Russian leader had agreed to pursue arms reduction “in a very big way”.

“And here we are, building new nuclear weapons and they’re building nuclear weapons and China is building nuclear weapons and China is trying to catch up because you know, they’re very substantially behind, but within five or six years, they’ll be even,” Trump said.

Trump said that it would be a “sad day” if Russia & the US ever needed to use its nuclear weapons.

“That’s going to be probably oblivion,” he said.

Russia and the US account for the vast majority of the world’s nuclear weapons stockpile, possessing an estimated 10,805 warheads between them, according to the Arms Control Association, a US-based nonprofit.

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🇷🇺 Russian Member of Parliament & Former Boxer Nikolai Valuev.

Please guys what kind of physiognomy is this?

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The 🇺🇸 USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier collided with a merchant ship near Port Said off the coast of Egypt, the Navy said.

The shock collision occurred late Wednesday evening as both ships were sailing in waters near the port, but the incident did not cause any damage.

The Navy said there are no reports of flooding or injuries as a result of the crash, and there was no damage to the aircraft carrier's propulsion systems, the military branch said in a statement.

A defense official told The Independant that the merchant ship, the 617-foot Besiktas-M, was also not damaged in the incident, and none of its crew were injured.

It is not clear what caused the collision and the military launched an investigation, however an official told CNN that it occurred in an area near the Suez Canal that often sees congested shipping traffic.

The nuclear-powered, 1,100-foot USS Harry S. Truman is typically based in Virginia, but was deployed in September to the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

Its last port call before the collision was reportedly a week ago in Souda Bay, Greece.

The Besiktas-M, which sails with the Panamanian flag, had sailed through the Suez Canal shortly before the collision.

The vessel was on route to Romania before the incident, according to ship monitoring website Marine traffic.

At the same moment, the USS Harry S. Truman was sailing toward the Suez Canal when it crossed courses with the merchant ship.

Former US Navy captain Carl Schuster, an instructor at Hawaii Pacific University, told CNN that heavy shipping traffic around the Suez Canal can leave little margin for error.

'There is not a lot of room for maneuvering in a restricted seaway and both ships require about one nautical mile to stop,' Schuster said.

He said issues such as misreading of another ship's course, delayed decision making from the crew or minor navigational mistakes would have left the aircraft carrier 'with very few viable options.'

The last known collision between a US aircraft carrier and a merchant vessel occured over two decades ago on July 22, 2004, when the USS John F. Kennedy struck a sailing vessel in the Persian Gulf.

In 2017, two aircraft carriers struck cargo ships, first in June of that year when the USS Fitzgerald collided with a cargo ship off Japan.

Two months later, 10 sailors were killed when the USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker off Singapore.

RealLordZeus:
Not surprising

Russia is in a direct war while NATO isnt

SeverusSnape:
Of course till 50 years from now, The GREATEST nation on Earth (USA) will still have more firepower.
Russia is expending all its resources for weapons is not something to be proud of. How is their economy faring?. How are the citizens faring??
Like Russia like North Korea, Like USA like South Korea. Where would you rather be?.