The US President affirmed that there must be a day to "kill" hot weapons, why does Belarus say Russia acted too late?

US President Joe Biden said the world needs to work to completely eliminate nuclear arsenals, while his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko said Russia's weapons policy "discourages" Western rivals.

The US believes that there is no benefit in hindering the process of reducing nuclear arsenals. (Source: Deposit Photo)

Recently, Sputnik news agency quoted US President Joe Biden as saying: "We must continue to move towards the day when we can finally eliminate nuclear weapons forever in the world. The US is ready to negotiate with Russia, China and North Korea without any preconditions to reduce the nuclear threat."

He stressed that it was in no interest for these countries or the world at large to “impede progress in reducing nuclear arsenals.”

The White House chief's statement was made in connection with the awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Japan's Nihon Hidankyo organization for survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

However, the US President did not mention that the US government continues to actively direct investment resources to strengthen their nuclear weapons triad.

In the 2025 fiscal year, which begins in the US on October 1, the federal budget plans to spend more than $49 billion on developing strategic deterrence forces. Furthermore, according to calculations by the US Congressional Budget Office, spending on US nuclear forces in the period 2023-2032 is estimated at about $756 billion.

Mr. Biden's statement was made in the context that on September 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow was updating its nuclear doctrine, expanding the list of situations in which it could consider using nuclear weapons, including when there is reliable information about a large-scale cross-border attack on the country by aircraft, missiles or drones.

The Russian leader made it clear that Moscow would regard any attack supported by a nuclear power as a joint attack.

Reuters news agency reported that in an interview published on October 13, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Moscow, said that "hot heads" in the West had noticed nuclear signals from Moscow even before the Kremlin leader announced the changes.

“This doctrine should have been updated a long time ago,” said Mr. Lukashenko, who agreed with Mr. Putin to deploy Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus last year.

However, the Belarusian president also said that Western missiles “would have attacked us, especially Russia” but changes in Moscow's nuclear doctrine “would probably have dampened their morale”.

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