‘There is no reason’ for new nuclear weapons: Trump floats the disarmament of disarmament with China, Russia

President Donald Trump A joint meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin floated, claiming that all countries want to advance towards denuclearization.

Trump told journalists on Thursday that plans Russia and Ukraine are actively chasing negotiations To end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

“There is no reason for us to build new nuclear weapons, we already have so many,” Trump said Thursday at the White House. “You could destroy the world 50 times, 100 times more. And here we are building new nuclear weapons, and are building nuclear weapons.”

“We are all spending a lot of money that we could spend on other things that are actually, hopefully, much more productive,” he said.

The United States is expected to spend approximately $ 756 billion in nuclear weapons between 2023 and 2032, according to a Congress Budget Office reported in 2023.

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In addition, Trump said it was aimed at schedule meetings with XI and Putin at the beginning of their second term and request that countries reduce their military budgets in half. The president said he believes that “we can do that”, and remained indifferent about whether he traveled to Xi or Putin, or if they visited the White House.

Meanwhile, the United States has drastically reduced its nuclear arsenal since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.

The United States maintains 3,748 nuclear eyes as of September 2023, a fall from the Arsenal of 22,217 nuclear eyes in 1989, according to the Department of Energy. The agency reported that the United States had a maximum of 31,255 nuclear eyes in 1966.

In comparison, Russia has an estimated reserve of approximately 4,380 nuclear eyes, while China has an arsenal of approximately 600, according to the Federation of American scientists.

Trump’s comments are based on previous statements that he made in January in the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland, where he pointed out interest in conversations about denuclearization with Russia and China.

“They are spending tremendous amounts of money in nuclear, and destructive capacity is something we don’t want to talk today, because you don’t want to listen to it,” Trump said on January 23.

The previous conversations between the United States, Russia and China failed in 2020 during the first Trump administration after it refused to sign an extension of the new 2010 strategic weapons reduction treaty with Russia to impose limits on the nuclear arsenals of each country . The treaty was finally renewed under the Biden administration and now expires in 2026, but Russia suspended its participation.

On Thursday, Trump accused these negotiations of crumbled due to what he called the “manipulated choice” in 2020.

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Trump also said Thursday that Putin wants peace after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, comments that followed the consecutive calls with the Russian leader and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday. The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, also traveled to Kyiv on Wednesday.

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Trump, who met with Zelenskyy in New York in September 2024, urged Putin to cease war, or face sanctions, in a publication about Truth Social on January 22.

“Lie down now and stop this ridiculous war! It will only get worse,” Trump wrote. If we do not make an “agreement”, and soon, I have no choice but to put high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions to anything that Russia sells to the United States and several other participating countries. “