{"id":110840,"date":"2021-02-26T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=110840"},"modified":"2021-02-25T20:06:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T01:06:49","slug":"democrats-want-to-remove-bidens-sole-authority-to-launch-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110840","title":{"rendered":"Democrats want to remove Biden’s sole authority to launch nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So it’s not just Republicans that question the mental faculties of Ol’ Joe “Hands” Biden. Dozens of House Democrats have signed a letter asking Biden to relinquish sole nuclear authority, which he has as commander-in-chief of the nation’s military. Frankly, I expected this sort of thing in the Trump Era, but it’s a little surprising that the Democrats here are saying the quiet part out loud.<\/p>\n

Jeff LPH 3 sends in the tip on this story. Fox News<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n

About three dozen House Democrats have signed a letter asking President Biden to renounce his sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, according to reports.<\/p>\n

A promise from the president to give up his nuclear capabilities as commander in chief could take the same power away from future presidents.<\/p>\n

“Vesting one person with this authority entails real risks,” the letter from Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., and obtained by Politico reads. “Past presidents have threatened to attack other countries with nuclear weapons or exhibited behavior that caused other officials to express concern about the president\u2019s judgment.”<\/p>\n

Panetta’s office did not immediately respond to an inquiry from Fox News. The congressman said in a Monday tweet that he is “calling on” Biden “to install checks [and] balances in our nuclear command-and-control structure.”<\/p>\n

The letter continues: “While any president would presumably consult with advisors before ordering a nuclear attack, there is no requirement to do so. The military is obligated to carry out the order if they assess it is legal under the laws of war. Under the current posture of U.S. nuclear forces, that attack would happen in minutes.”<\/p>\n

Democrats offered some alternatives to sole nuclear authority, such as requiring the vice president and House speaker to agree with a launch order from the president before it is executed, according to Politico.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More at the source and at Newsmax<\/a>. I don’t know why the Democrats are of the belief that any<\/em> president can just launch a nuclear war on a whim. I guess when you believe that the military is made up of a bunch of simple-minded drones who will follow any order without thought, that’s what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it’s not just Republicans that question the mental faculties of Ol’ Joe “Hands” Biden. Dozens … Democrats want to remove Biden’s sole authority to launch nuclear weapons<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,472,238,406,241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biden","category-democrats","category-government-incompetence","category-guest-link","category-nukes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110841,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110840\/revisions\/110841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}