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The Increasing Likelihood Of Nuclear War Should Straighten Out All Our Priorities<\/a><\/h3>\n
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A Russian pilot has been killed<\/a> by US-armed terrorists in Syria. The Ron Paul Institute<\/em>\u2018s Daniel McAdams writes the following<\/a> about this new development:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scenario where a US-backed, US-supplied jihadist group in Syria uses US weapons to shoot down a Russian plane and then murders the pilot on the ground should be seen as a near-nightmare escalation, drawing the US and Russia terrifyingly closer to direct conflict.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

McAdams is not fearmongering; he is stating a plainly obvious fact. The Trump administration has just announced<\/a> that it is restructuring its nuclear weapons policy to take a more aggressive stance toward Russia than that which was held by the previous administration. This is coming after this administration\u2019s decision to arm Ukraine against Russia<\/a>, a move Obama refused to take for fear of escalating tensions with Moscow, as well as its decision to continue to occupy Syria<\/a> in order to effect regime change, along with numerous other escalations<\/a>. The Council on Foreign Relations, which is without exaggeration as close to the voice of the US establishment as you can possibly get, is now openly admitting<\/a> that the \u201cUnited States is currently in a second Cold War with Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a recent interview<\/a> with The Real News<\/em>, leading US-Russian relations expert Stephen Cohen repeated his ongoing warning that \u201cthis new Cold War is much more dangerous, much more likely to end in Hot War, than was the 40-year of Cold War, which we barely survived.\u201d In a previous interview<\/a>with the same outlet, Cohen elaborated more extensively:<\/p>\n

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The Increasing Likelihood Of Nuclear War Should Straighten Out All Our Priorities A Russian pilot has been killed by US-armed terrorists in Syria. The Ron Paul Institute\u2018s Daniel McAdams writes the following about this new development: \u201cThe scenario where a US-backed, US-supplied jihadist group in Syria uses US weapons to shoot down a Russian plane […]<\/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":[17039,18364,581,14830,694,776,827,862],"class_list":["post-30553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-daniel-mcadams","tag-nuclear-war","tag-ron-paul-institute-for-peace-and-prosperity","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30553","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=30553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30554,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30553\/revisions\/30554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}