{"id":26769,"date":"2017-10-12T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26769"},"modified":"2017-10-12T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T23:26:10","slug":"trumps-scary-nuclear-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26769","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Scary Nuclear Doctrine\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trump\u2019s Scary Nuclear Doctrine\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Pleasing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and terrifying almost everybody else, President Trump is threatening nuclear war against North Korea and, by implication, war with Iran, as ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke explains.<\/p>\n

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There are acres of print analyzing \u201cwill he, or won\u2019t he\u201d in respect to President Trump taking military action in North Korea. And equally, volumes on what Trump may intend to do in respect of Iran: Is he engaged primarily in rhetorical \u201ctheatre\u201d to please his base, and earn press plaudits; or is he girding up for attrition (hot or cold) against Iran?<\/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

The unanswered question is: does President Trump regard North Korea and Iran as somehow connected (albeit that Iran has no nuclear weapons, and no nuclear weapons program)?\u00a0Certainly one person \u2013 one who talks to the Trump family a lot \u2013 does think the two are directly linked.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Sachs, who listened to Trump\u2019s speech at the United Nations, in which the President said he was ready to \u201ctotally destroy\u201d North Korea, tells us about the audience reaction<\/a>: \u201cWell, you could hear shuffling, chuckles, amazement, gasps, a few applause.\u00a0There was Netanyahu enthusiastically applauding.<\/em>\u00a0It was a very odd scene. I am still a bit shaken by it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some neoconservatives, a U.S. attack on the Korean nuclear program sets a wonderful precedent for Iran \u2013 for now or for the future.<\/p>\n

We just do not know.\u00a0Trump\u2019s former career as a reality TV host has left him with a predilection for teasing and hype (\u201cjust tune in again next week, to learn more\u201d). What is increasingly plain is that those on the inside \u2013 such as the Chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee \u2013 are equally unsure whether President Trump is about to unleash \u201cWorld War III\u201d <\/a>\u2013 or not.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s Scary Nuclear Doctrine\u00a0 Pleasing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and terrifying almost everybody else, President Trump is threatening nuclear war against North Korea and, by implication, war with Iran, as ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke explains. There are acres of print analyzing \u201cwill he, or won\u2019t he\u201d in respect to President Trump taking military action in […]<\/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":[14457,3910,6963,7844,441,1049,2006],"class_list":["post-26769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alastair-crooke","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-consortium-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769","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=26769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26770,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769\/revisions\/26770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}