{"id":19142,"date":"2016-03-24T18:58:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T23:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19142"},"modified":"2016-03-24T18:58:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T23:58:04","slug":"the-real-likelihood-of-a-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19142","title":{"rendered":"The Real Likelihood of a Nuclear War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2016\/03\/24\/the-real-likelihood-of-a-nuclear-war-paul-craig-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Real Likelihood of a Nuclear War\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"single_page_entry_meta\">\n<div class=\"\">Sputnik News.com interview with PCR<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, who served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration, shares his view that there is a real likelihood of a nuclear war breaking out. Below are the main points covered in this radio programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirstly there is the Wolfowitz doctrine, which basically makes it clear that the United States should prevent the rise of\u00a0any state that could present sufficient power to\u00a0threaten American unilateral action. Russia has risen and has displayed such power. This is the reason for\u00a0the constant demonisation of\u00a0Russia\u2019s leader. We have the number one candidate for\u00a0the democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, who now compares the President of\u00a0Russia with\u00a0Hitler. So what has happened is that every American president during\u00a0my lifetime, especially Nixon and Reagan, worked to\u00a0create trust between\u00a0the two major nuclear powers. But beginning with\u00a0the Clinton regime, the trust that had been achieved was progressively destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you destroy trust between\u00a0nuclear powers you recreate the possibility of\u00a0nuclear war, either by\u00a0intent, or miscalculation. So this is a reckless and irresponsible act on\u00a0the part of\u00a0Washington. The information war that is going on\u00a0now is to\u00a0prepare the American population and NATO allies for\u00a0military conflict with\u00a0Russia. We now have high level people in\u00a0the US government and military who go to\u00a0Congress and say that Russia is an existential threat. This is rubbish! You have to\u00a0remember that before\u00a0the wars started in\u00a0Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, it was the constant demonisation of\u00a0the leaders of\u00a0the governments, against\u00a0the Tailban, Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi and Assad. When you see these kinds of\u00a0demonisation it fits a pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real Likelihood of a Nuclear War\u00a0 Sputnik News.com interview with PCR Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, who served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration, shares his view that there is a real likelihood of a nuclear war breaking out. Below are the main points covered in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,1683,1120,11279,553,2055,581,2951,10476,694,827,862,5375],"class_list":["post-19142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-assad","tag-gaddafi","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-hussein","tag-nato","tag-nixon","tag-nuclear-war","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-reagan","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-wolfowitz-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19143,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions\/19143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}