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How the US prepared for World War III

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Seemingly overnight, the terms #worldwar3 and #NuclearWar are everywhere.

In reality, the US military has been expanding its #NuclearWeapons fight 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 for years.

This 🧵 is a 📰 recap of WSWS articles.

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23 September 2014 - The Obama administration is planning to spend more than $1 trillion over the next three decades to significantly upgrade its nuclear weapons capability.

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30 March 2016 - Stratfor declares that the world is in the midst of a “new arms race,” with major global powers, led by the United States, working aggressively to modernize, upgrade and expand both their conventional and nuclear arms.

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21 June 2016 - With virtually no discussion in the media and no mention in the presidential election campaign, the United States is moving ahead with its trillion-dollar nuclear weapons modernization program.
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20 January 2018 - “Great power competition—not terrorism—is now the primary focus of US national security,” Mattis said in his speech, which accompanied the release of an 11-page declassified document outlining the National Defense Strategy.
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11 October 2018 - The United States is undertaking serious, long-term preparations to restructure the American economy to fight a major war with a “peer” adversary, entailing radical changes to American economic, social and political life.
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17 October 2018 - On Monday, the French daily Libération published an article in its “CheckNews” section claiming that the World Socialist Web Site is exaggerating US preparations for “total war.”
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24 October 2018 - US military planners are intent on not only building, but using, nuclear weapons in combat. They aim to demonstrate to their potential adversaries that that Washington out-does its rivals not just in weapons, but in bloodlust.

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19 January 2019 - Trump has accelerated a $1 trillion nuclear modernization program started under Obama, rushing the development of new US bombers, nuclear submarines and “low-yield” nuclear weapons that are more likely to be used in combat.
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14 December 2019 - The US Air Force has for the first time tested a ballistic missile that violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in a threat to Russia and China.

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5 August 2019 - Within hours of the official withdrawal by the United States on Friday from the world’s most important nuclear treaty, the Pentagon made clear that it intends to ring China with missiles amid a rapidly accelerating nuclear arms race.
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21 February 2019 - A half-century after the Cuban Missile crisis that brought human civilization to within a hair’s breadth of destruction, Washington is fueling a global nuclear standoff that is, if anything, even more dangerous.
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3 August 2019 - Washington formally scrapped the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty Friday, bringing the world a major step closer to nuclear war.

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31 December 2019 - The conflict raging within the state centers on Trump’s decision to temporarily delay a massive weapons shipment to Ukraine. Is there a timetable for using these weapons in combat to fight a war against Russia?

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26 April 2021 - The United States, which spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined, increased its military spending by 4.4 percent compared to the year before. The country outlaid some $778 billion on its military last year alone.
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5 February 2021 - The new administration will not change what many in the US foreign policy establishment see as the Trump's signature policy: the massive buildup of the US military and, in particular, the US nuclear forces. 16/
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9 March 2021 - The US military has asked Congress to double its budget in the Pacific as part of an unprecedented military buildup aimed at China.
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22 August 2020 - Biden/Harris administration will, the attempt to assert US hegemony will be through unprecedented violence. If it is brought to power, it will be committed to a vast expansion of war.
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9 December 2021 - Former President Donald Trump repeatedly boasted of his record military budgets. But this budget is tens of billions of dollars larger than anything ever passed under Trump—a budget far, far larger than even the Pentagon asked for.
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