Erm I Know You Are Busy But Nuclear War Is Getting Increasingly Likely by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-11-22 at 23:35:46 )

Erm I Know You Are Busy But Nuclear War Is Getting Increasingly Likely by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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While mainstream western media have been spending their time concern trolling about a "missing" Chinese tennis player who is not actually missing, hardly any coverage has gone toward NATOs announcement that if the new German government does not continue to allow United States nuclear weapons on its soil those weapons will be relocated to the east of Germany. This would put them closer to Russias border, a major provocation of Moscow and yet another step forward in the western empires steadily escalating game of nuclear brinkmanship.

"Germany can, of course, decide whether there will be nuclear weapons in (its) country, but the alternative is that we easily end up with nuclear weapons in other countries in Europe, also to the east of Germany," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said last week.

"Should NATO decide to move United States nuclear weapons to Poland, for example, that would likely be seen as a step towards angering Moscow by bringing them closer to the Russian border," Reuters reports.

Meanwhile the United States is considering sending more weapons to Ukraine as tensions mount between Moscow and Kiev, and Vladimir Putin is warning that western powers are ignoring Russias red lines which are meant to serve as a deterrent to prevent escalation into full-blown nuclear war. The cold war against China has been continually ramping up as well and appears likely to continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Half of United States of Americans would now reportedly favor going to war against Russia in defense of Ukraine and a majority would now favor going to war with China in defense of Taiwan.

These drastic spikes in opinion are not an accident; the consent has been forcefully manufactured by an aggressive propaganda campaign against those two nations. They are not manufacturing that consent for fun; they are doing it for a reason.

A majority of Americans support going to war with Russia over Ukraine, and to war with China over Taiwan. Church attendance may be down sharply, but millenarian dreams are stronger than ever here. And who can blame us? Shit jobs, shit lives-who wants to go on living like this?-Mark Ames (MarkAmesExiled) November 22, 2021

And I just keep tripping on how weird it is that so few people see the United States empires headlong charge into cold war conflict with two separate nuclear-armed nations as the single most urgent concern of our day.

It probably does not even make most peoples top ten.

Very few people seem to believe the most pressing threat to humanity might be all those armageddon weapons we have been stockpiling and how increasingly irresponsibly our leaders are treating them.

I write about this issue a lot because to me it seems obvious that when you really look at the facts of the matter it is the most worrying thing of all worrying things in this world.

It is entirely possible that climate chaos causing heat spikes and flash freezes which destroy plant life could be the thing which sends us the way of the dinosaur, or it could be the reckless development of weaponized artificial intelligence, but those fates are a bit further down the track.

There is only one threat facing us which could technically wipe us all out tomorrow, and it is the rapidly increasing likelihood of boring old nuclear holocaust.

I write about it a lot, but it is never shared particularly well.

I could get a lot more traction telling people the most urgent threat of the day is government abuses related to Covid, or white supremacists, or one of the two mainstream political factions which so much energy goes into amplifying the enmity between.

But when I write about what I see as the actual greatest threat to our world it is like yelling into the wind. People do not want to hear it. My words get swallowed up by a big black hole in the ground and their energy just kind of fizzles.

A big part of it is probably due to the fact that this is not something which fits neatly into any of the partisan filters we have been trained to view the world through.

Detente is no longer an issue promoted by the mainstream parties which present themselves as the "left" end of the spectrum; when aggressions against Russia or China come up it is usually in an argument over which one we should hate more.

Nobody is self-reinforcing ideological social media echo chamber is going to help them amplify the message that we are getting way too close to nuclear war; it is even a back burner issue for most socialists and anti-imperialists.

Detente: The Vital Word Missing From Discourse On Russia And China

A recent 60 Minutes interview with Tony Blinken illustrates the way the concept of detente (the easing of hostilities between nations) is being deliberately hidden from public awareness.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) May 5, 2021

Another reason is that people simply are not being told about the rising threat of nuclear war with any regularity. Western mass media exist first and foremost to protect and promote the interests of the United States-centralized empire, and it is in that empires interests not to have the public too keenly aware of the fact that it is gambling the life of every terrestrial organism on geostrategic agendas of unipolar global domination.

Another part of it is just garden variety psychological compartmentalization from an uncomfortable idea; nobody likes to think of everyone they know and love being vaporized or dying of nuclear radiation.

Another part might be because people simply cannot wrap their heads around the idea of billions of people dying and what that would mean.

It has been pointed out that most people lack an intuitive understanding of how much more a billion is than a million, which is often cited to highlight the extreme difference between a billionaire and a common millionaire.

But it also applies to human lives; we can barely wrap our minds around the idea of a million lives having been snuffed out in the Iraq invasion, much less billions perishing in nuclear war.

People do not have a strong intuitive sense of how much bigger 1 billion is than 1 million. 1 million seconds is about 11 days. 1 billion seconds is about 31.5 years.-Paul Franz (Paul Franz) August 3, 2018

Perhaps the biggest part of it, though, is the fact that this threat has been around a long time. I can not tell you how many older people I have had pish-poshing my concerns saying "Bah, I remember doing duck-and-cover drills as a kid! Turned out to be a whole lotta nothing."

But it was never nothing. We came extremely close to wiping ourselves out multiple times in the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union because nuclear brinkmanship is an inherently unpredictable affair with far too many small moving parts to control, any one of which could set off an apocalyptic chain of events due to something as simple as miscommunication, technical malfunction, or misinterpretation by any of the thousands of individuals involved amid the chaos and confusion of escalating aggressions.

It just does not sit well with peoples understanding of the world that it could all end through the same nuclear armageddon scenario their grandparents used to worry about.

If two men were holding guns to each others heads it would be experienced as very dangerous at first, but after a while if nobody pulled the trigger the emotional tension would begin to diminish.

If years went by and the men got older it would diminish even further. If they got so old they could not hold the guns anymore and had their children take over for them, and then their childrens children years later, the emotional experience of the standoff would be all but forgotten.

But the guns never got any less deadly. And now the grandchildren of those who initiated the standoff are starting to get careless.

The Day The World Ended

"Then it happened. A nuclear weapon was deployed by one side, setting off a chain reaction that had been set in place ready to be triggered long ago, from which there was no coming back.

And the funny thing is, it was an accident."-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) April 27, 2021

I keep having this scene go through my head where something happens and the nukes start flying and everyone is surprised, because of all the things they have been herded into worrying about the idea that actual nuclear war could happen was nowhere near the forefront of their awareness.

And someone looks out the window and sees a mushroom cloud growing on the horizon and says "What?? This is how it all ends? With all those weapons we have been deliberately building with the full knowledge that they can end it all?"

I mean, how stupid would we feel for having missed that one?

And now there is a massive push to weaponize space to stay ahead of Russia and China, opening up a whole new dimension of unpredictable moving parts where things can go cataclysmically wrong.

You would think our place on such a precipice would be drawing us all together, but because we are so manipulated by such deeply malignant forces, we are instead more divided than ever.

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