Scott Ritter posted an article yesterday on Consortium News in which he argues that arms control under a second Biden (or other DNC-picked Democrat) or under a second Trump administration has no future and that the U.S., therefore, needs an alternative. Regardless of which of these two gets elected, the danger of a nuclear war becomes much greater, Ritter argues, though the predicates are different for each. Unlike Biden, Trump actually articulated a much different policy towards both Russia and North Korea, but was sabotaged by a combination of his own ego and from within his administration. What is needed, Ritter says, is a new standard of arms control, one that breaks through the narrative of the nuclear enterprise which has a corrupting influence on both political parties.
Ritter raises the potential alternative of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who just announced his own candidacy for President. What Ritter says about RFK, Jr. is notable:
