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The world won’t survive a nuclear W.W.III.

A Nuclear War Would Be Insane, OpEdNews  3/18/2014  By Dave Lefcourt Let’s get to the point fundamentally and unmistakably, a nuclear war would be insane.

Ever since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, President Kennedy knew it and so did his counterpart Nikita Khrushchev in the Soviet Union. Even Stalin, probably the most brutal man ever never considered it.

That’s why in the cold war between the U.S. and the USSR, MAD, mutually assured destruction were the operative words and the primary reason a nuclear conflagration never occurred because such a war was unwinnable and to contemplate winning such a war was insane.

Yes tough guy Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense talked of using tactical bunker busting nuclear weapons but the use of any nuclear weapons began and ended with the U.S. dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, whose writings I follow and greatly admire and has been prescient from the beginning of all the events in Ukraine before and after the coup of Viktor Yanukovych, has written, “If Putin lets Washington retain the Russian provinces of eastern Ukraine, he will have demonstrated a weakness Washington will exploit. Washington will exploit the weakness to the point that Washington forces Putin to war. The war will be nuclear.

Dr. Roberts has alluded to today’s world conditions as reminiscent to the time prior to W.W.I writing, “the entirety of the western media are repeating the path to war that led to World War I” [1] – a point this writer alluded to writing, “2014 is somewhat reminiscent of 1914 prior to the outbreak of W.W. I”only in 1914 no country possessed nuclear weapons, which is not the case one hundred years later. [ii]……….

As for the U.S. and the E.U. the latest has them placing sanctions on some 21 Russian and Ukrainian political figures, which apparently was met with derision and mockery in Moscow with one of them saying, “This is a big honor for me”.

However if hard sanctions by the U.S. and the E.U. are applied on Russia it will only provoke Russia to counter with its own actions which likely would include restricting the flow of natural gas it supplies to Europe, particularly Germany, the economic powerhouse in the E.U.

At this point with events happening rapidly its hard to know what tit for tat “games” are in store and what further developments may be happening on the ground in Ukraine.

Eventually, the threats and bombast will subside and real diplomacy will come to the fore.

Only the continental U.S. and its population were spared with no domestic losses and no infrastructure damage from the war.

Now unless the U.S. government has completely lost its sanity it won’t provoke and push Putin and Russia into a corner.

World War I was a monumental horror. W.W. II happened as a direct result of W.W.I The world won’t survive a nuclear W.W.III.

March 19, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general