ISSUE #87: ARE WE HEADING TOWARDS A NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON?
This is the question that keeps bothering me the more I pay attention to what’s happening around the world. From what I’m seeing, the answer seems to be….. “probably, yes”. It is not an exaggeration to say that each passing day may be bringing us closer to a day that could end all life on this planet.
If there’s something more shameful than the fact that we are going to end all life on this planet, it’s the reason why we are willing to end all life on this planet. “What’s the reason?” you asked out of curiosity. Well, to put it simply, it’s the most powerful government on this planet fighting tooth and nail to maintain its unipolar hegemony over the world by making efforts to NOT let the mutually beneficial multipolar world become a reality while ignoring the real risk of nuclear annihilation. Yes, you read that correctly. The US is willing to kill you, me, plus 8 billion others, and other non-human species just to ensure that it remains the bully of the world. Do you see how ridiculous it sounds?
Only seven months of 2022 have passed and the US is already flirting with two nuclear powers - Russia and China.
First, it provoked Russia to invade Ukraine while constantly ignoring Moscow’s “red lines” on Ukrainian neutrality and taking them too lightly. Not only did they provoke Russia but funded the war like never before providing $60 billion to Ukraine, and providing intelligence to the Ukrainian army to kill Russian generals and sink the Russian ship Moskva.
Now, China is issuing the same “red lines” about Taiwan after Pelosi’s planned visit to Taiwan was revealed.
"We have repeatedly made clear our firm opposition to Speaker Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan. If the US side insists on making the visit and challenges China’s red line, it will be met with resolute countermeasures," China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijiang said Wednesday. "The U.S. must assume full responsibility for any serious consequence arising thereof."
Chinese state media Global Times said last week that "visiting Taiwan is definitely a red line that Pelosi must never cross."
And Washington seems to be ignoring these red lines as the sentiment has become such that if Pelosi doesn’t visit Taiwan that means “Communist China is winning.”
Political pressure is growing and nobody in Washington seems to have learned anything from the consequences of ignoring Moscow’s red lines.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a press release that the chances of nuclear war happening now are higher than even during the peak years of the Cold War.
Even the British National Security Advisor Stephen Lovegrove warned about the same:
“The cold war’s two monolithic blocks of the USSR and NATO – though not without alarming bumps – were able to reach a shared understanding of doctrine that is today absent,” he said. “Doctrine is opaque in Moscow and Beijing, let alone Pyongyang or Tehran.”
He added that during the Cold War there was an “understanding of Soviet doctrine and capabilities, and vice versa. This gave us both a higher level of confidence that we would not miscalculate our way into nuclear war.”
“Today, we do not have the same foundations with others who may threaten us in the future – particularly with China.”
Nine countries around the world have nuclear weapons and the US doesn’t have good relations with four of them. All it needs is a slight lack of communication and we would be staring at a ravaged world, or we might not be here to stare at a ravaged world. Nobody is gonna win this thing. There would be no “winners of Third World War.” But one thing that I’m certain about is that we as a species are going to lose if WWIII ever takes place.
Literally, the entire world is at stake right now and we are acting as if everything is fine.
The sociopaths at the top are making decisions without the consent of the public and manipulating them into accepting those decisions so that people don’t realize that the decisions our rulers are making are NOT in anybody’s interests and are going to kill us all.
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