{"id":23537,"date":"2017-04-10T20:24:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T01:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23537"},"modified":"2017-04-10T20:24:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T01:24:35","slug":"trump-plunges-toward-world-war-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23537","title":{"rendered":"Trump Plunges Toward World War III"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trump Plunges Toward World War III<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Months of Democratic Russia-bashing and Trump-baiting achieved their predictable result as the thin-skinned and rash President is now proving his \u201ctoughness\u201d by firing off missiles and risking World War III, warns Norman Solomon.<\/p>\n

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Vast efforts to portray Donald Trump as Vladimir Putin\u2019s flunky have given Trump huge incentives to prove otherwise. Last Thursday, he began the process in a big way by ordering a missile attack on Russia\u2019s close ally Syria.\u00a0In the aftermath of the attack, the\u00a0cheerleading<\/a>\u00a0from U.S. mass media was close to\u00a0unanimous<\/a>, and the assault won lots of praise on Capitol Hill. Finally, the protracted and fervent depictions of Trump as a Kremlin tool were getting some tangible results.<\/p>\n

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Illustration by Chesley Bonestell of nuclear bombs detonating over New York City, entitled \u201cHiroshima U.S.A.\u201d Colliers, Aug. 5, 1950.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

At this point, the anti-Russia bandwagon has gained so much momentum that a national frenzy is boosting the odds of unfathomable catastrophe. The world\u2019s two nuclear superpowers are in confrontation mode. It\u2019s urgent to tell ourselves and each other:\u00a0Wake up!<\/em><\/p>\n

The dangers of a direct U.S.-Russian military conflict are spiking upward. After the missile attack, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that it was suspending a memorandum of understanding with the United States to prevent mid-air collisions over Syria. And Russia\u2019s prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, issued a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0referring to \u201cour now completely ruined relations\u201d and declaring that the United States was \u201con the verge of a military clash with Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n

These ominous developments are a longtime dream come true for ultra-hawks like Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who\u2019ve gained leverage in an alliance with numerous congressional Democrats. The neocons and the \u201cliberal interventionists\u201d really have something going now, after propagating the meme that Trump is a Putin puppet.<\/p>\n

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Trump Plunges Toward World War III Months of Democratic Russia-bashing and Trump-baiting achieved their predictable result as the thin-skinned and rash President is now proving his \u201ctoughness\u201d by firing off missiles and risking World War III, warns Norman Solomon. Vast efforts to portray Donald Trump as Vladimir Putin\u2019s flunky have given Trump huge incentives to […]<\/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":[6963,7844,15099,694,776,827,891,1823],"class_list":["post-23537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-norman-solomon","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23537","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=23537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23538,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23537\/revisions\/23538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}