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The aggressive and mindless stance that Washington’s warmongers have taken toward Russia and China have shattered the accomplishment of Reagan and Gorbachev.
Reagan and Gorbachev ended the cold war and removed the threat of nuclear armageddon. Now the neocons, the US budget-dependent (taxpayer dependent) US military/security complex, and the US politicians dependent on campaign funds from the military/security complex have resurrected the nuclear threat.
The arrogant fools in Washington, wallowing in their hubris as “the indispensable nation,” have provoked Moscow to the point that Russia now has more deployed nuclear weapons than the US. As a result of Washington breaking its word and putting ABM missile bases on Russia’s border, Russia has developed supersonic ICBMs that can rapidly change their trajectory and cannot be shot down by any missile defense system. Of course, the US corporations making billions of dollars selling Washington a useless ABM system will deny this.
It is not only Russia’s strategic nuclear forces that the fools in Washington have revived and activated, but China’s as well. Last year China released a pictorial description of how China’s nuclear forces could destroy the US. This was China’s response to Washington’s insane plan of building new air and naval bases from the Philippines to Vietnam in order to control the flow of resources in the South China Sea. What kind of idiotic government does America have that thinks China is going to put up with this kind of interference in China’s sphere of influence?
China has now added to its nuclear arsenal a new variant of one of its mobile ICBMs. Washington does not know much about this new missile, because the CIA is too busy arranging protests in Hong Kong.
So if WIII happens in the future you know who instigated it and was responsible to the run up of things, no point in denying what the idiots in Washington are doing anymore.
So the actions by Washington (the military industrial complex) are not the cause of a new nuclear arms race ?
From what I have seen he`s spot on with that analysis, but if you have proof other wise I would like to see it.
I have read numerous of accounts about people doing the same marginalizing in the 20s and 30s in Germany about what a threat Hitler was towards people who warned about what was going to happen.him.
And the only action I have seen coming from Washington lately are not to defuse tensions but to raise them for profit, I don`t see that as something which can be ignored so easily and as not being dangerous.
So he`s a bitter old man because he`s critical of America, but if he was critical about Putin was he was just gentle old man of course.
I agree with his assessment they are both.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
The following is my opinion as a member participating in this discussion.
I read the BLOG and I read up on the author. He's just a far left college prof who does a lot of writing that can be summarized as 'America = bad, everyone else = innocent'. He uses loaded language to try to pad his myopic world view. For a supposed smart guy, he isn't so smart. No world power - be it political or religious - is innocent. Washington isn't destroying the world ... basic worldwide human stupidity is.As an ATS Staff Member, I will not moderate in threads such as this where I have participated as a member.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: BornAgainAlien
If it wasn't DC or America doing this, some other country would be doing it. History is riddled with empires that try to influence the world with might and war.
Today Russia is surrounded by US and NATO military bases, with more to come in Ukraine (part of Russia for centuries), Georgia (part of Russia for centuries and the birthplace of Joseph Stalin), Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and perhaps also Azerbaijan.
A large land expanse that was formerly part of the Soviet Empire is now part of Washington’s Empire. The “coming of democracy” simply meant the changing of masters.
originally posted by: BornAgainAlien
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: BornAgainAlien
If it wasn't DC or America doing this, some other country would be doing it. History is riddled with empires that try to influence the world with might and war.
You`re right about history being riddled with empires who did that, but that can`t be an excuse for Washington to act in the same manner, now can it ?
There have also been countries who acted quite differently regrading other countries in the past. So that can be just as an excuse to act in the opposite way.