On the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world is closer than ever to nuclear apocalypse, with the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine.
Historian and political scientist Aaron Good joined Multipolarista host Ben Norton to discuss the important lessons to learn from this dangerous historical episode:
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“US Nuclear Forces Chief Says ‘the Big One Is Coming’,” Antiwar.com, Dave DeCamp, November 6, 2022
The US Department of Defense reported on November 3, 2022:
The current conflict in Ukraine is not the worst that the U.S. should be prepared for. Around the corner, said the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, the U.S. must be prepared for much more.
“This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup,” Navy Adm. Charles A. Richard, commander of Stratcom, said. “The big one is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested a long time.”
“US to send hi-tech nuclear weapons to Nato bases amid rising tensions with Russia,” The Telegraph, October 27, 2022
US to send hi-tech nuclear weapons to Nato bases amid rising tensions with Russia
Deployment of B61-12 tactical bombs to Europe comes after Moscow held military exercises showcasing its own ballistic capabilities
🧵⬇️https://t.co/3qYXR00eQY pic.twitter.com/vyXPJUxjSI
— Telegraph World News (@TelegraphWorld) October 28, 2022
“Finland May Allow NATO to Place Nuclear Weapons on Border With Russia,” Newsweek, October 26, 2022
"The U.S. already has around 100 nuclear weapons in Europe, positioned in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey"
"The Polish government said it had held discussions with the U.S. government about hosting U.S. nuclear weapons"https://t.co/aajILTBF24
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) October 30, 2022
“US Air Force to deploy nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Australia as tensions with China grow,” ABC News, October 30, 2022
No debate, no discussion — democracy shelved.
‘No nukes’ policy trashed — US is making northern Australia prime targets for their planned war with China.Military madness is fanning tensions with China. US to deploy nuclear B-52 bombers to Australia. https://t.co/FrbMKHosG8
— Peter Cronau (@PeterCronau) October 30, 2022
“US general on rare visit to nuclear-armed sub in Arabian Sea,” Associated Press, October 19, 2022
The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East boarded a U.S. ballistic missile submarine in the Arabian Sea on Wednesday, a rare move that highlighted U.S. nuclear undersea capabilities during tense times with #Iran and #Russia.https://t.co/6QkYAfcfJQ
— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) October 20, 2022
In October 2022, Ukraine’s NATO-backed leader Zelensky called for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Russia:
"President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called on NATO to launch a preemptive strike against the Russian Federation in the event of a threat from its side to use nuclear weapons. He stated this during a video interview with the Lowy Institute" #Ukraine 1/https://t.co/0IvVX5e2n2
— Ivan Katchanovski (@I_Katchanovski) October 6, 2022
A CIA/Pentagon veteran at NATO’s powerful Atlantic Council think tank published an article in elite Foreign Policy magazine calling for US war on China & Russia, including “threatening nonstrategic nuclear strikes”
(This was before Russia invaded Ukraine)https://t.co/fqgbGjZYu5
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) May 5, 2022
Neoconservative pundit Anne Applebaum wrote in The Atlantic magazine: “Fear of Nuclear War Has Warped the West’s Ukraine Strategy: Leaders shouldn’t give in to Putin’s nuclear rhetoric”
The US Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles wanted to drop nuclear bombs on China and Vietnam: “When Ike Was Asked to Nuke Vietnam,” Washington Post, 1982
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (a leader of the Cold War, architect of the US national security state, and brother of CIA director Allen Dulles) declared in a meeting with fascist-supporting NATO that nuclear bombs were now "conventional" weapons and would be used on China pic.twitter.com/LgUVq3vccz
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 15, 2021
Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at the United Nations General Assembly in September stressed that “China is the only country in the world that pledges to keep to a path of peaceful development in its constitution,” and “is the only one among the five nuclear weapons states [the permanent members of the UN Security Council] that is committed to no first use of nuclear weapons”:
"China is the only country in the world that pledges to keep to a path of peaceful development in its constitution"
"It is the only one among the five nuclear weapons states [the permanent members of the UN Security Council] that is committed to no first use of nuclear weapons" pic.twitter.com/JImgLCPOie
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) September 24, 2022
Tom pain
2022-11-15 at 19:07
You believe China?
Lez
2022-11-15 at 20:44
Very unlikely, but the prospects for a Nuclear Exchange have a way of sobering up everyone.
Factually, The United States, vectorizing its force projection via its US-NATO-UK Ukrainian War on Russia, is lost.
All they ever had was threatening and destroying weaker states.
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Not their planned outcome as their plans principally included bringing down China more than a peg or two.
But first start with Russia, ostensibly to cut off China’s principal energy and materials sources.
Just did not work out. An outcome diametrical to their planning.
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What Washington and their London vassal has left as a strategy is all that had from the start of this most recent Campaign – the threatening of weaker, third world states.
Russia is hardly that and to act as they are reflects a deep strategic planning failure, comparable to the The Western Civilizational Failure of deindustrializing and shifting most of it to China, an irreversible outcome.
That brought China up and the US and The West down. Threaten all they like. Saner minds know a nuclear exchange would finish them off for to take on either Russia or China is to take on both.
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In this present state of affairs – God Favours Russia . . . https://les7eb.substack.com/p/ukraine-long-proxy-war-vi-god-favours