{"id":27730,"date":"2017-11-08T07:18:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T12:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27730"},"modified":"2017-11-08T07:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T12:18:32","slug":"heading-toward-nuclear-war-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27730","title":{"rendered":"Heading Toward Nuclear War: Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/11\/08\/heading-toward-nuclear-war-why\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Heading Toward Nuclear War: Why?<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>That\u2019s what I hold quite likely in case the present US administration under Donald Trump\u2019s formal leadership continues down the path its in-fighting militarist fractions seem to have chosen.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re in the worst, most dangerous situation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sitting down and hoping for the best is neither responsible nor viable or wise.<\/p>\n<p>I can only hope that I will be proved wrong. That the present extremely dangerous tension-building will die down by some kind of unforeseen events or attention being directed elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The world could quite well be drifting toward what Albert Einstein called \u2019unparalleled catastrophe\u2019. It\u2019s something we may \u2013 or may not \u2013 know more about when President Trump returns from his trip to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam (APEC where he also likely to meet Russian President Putin) and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Except for 93-year old Jimmy Carter offering to go to North Korea, we witness nobody taking any mediation initiative \u2013 not the UN\u2019 S-G Guterres, not the EU, not European NATO countries, not BRICS, not single countries like Sweden, not\u2026 well, you name them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about denial, about heads deep down in the sand, people hoping for the best at the moment when humanity\u2019s future is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/these-psychiatrists-say-trump-poses-an-imminent-threat-to-humanity\/\">in the hands of a couple of leaders<\/a>\u00a0from whom they would probably not buy a used bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>That this silence all around is a roaring fact, is about as tragic and dangerous as the situation itself.<\/p>\n<p>What most people don\u2019t recognise \u2013 mainly thanks to the Western mainstream media \u2013 is that this is an\u00a0<em><strong>a<\/strong><\/em>-symmetric conflict, an extremely a-symmetric conflict at that. For instance, North Korea\u2019s military expenditures compared with those it must see as its adversaries in case of war is about 1:100, China excluded.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the present situation so dangerous?<\/p>\n<p>Why are we facing, seriously and for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, an increasing risk of nuclear war?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading Toward Nuclear War: Why? That\u2019s what I hold quite likely in case the present US administration under Donald Trump\u2019s formal leadership continues down the path its in-fighting militarist fractions seem to have chosen. We\u2019re in the worst, most dangerous situation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sitting down and hoping for the best is neither [&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":[5493,7844,16507,525,581,827,862],"class_list":["post-27730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-jan-oberg","tag-military","tag-nuclear-war","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730","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=27730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27731,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730\/revisions\/27731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}