{"id":39841,"date":"2018-10-29T06:19:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39841"},"modified":"2018-10-29T06:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:19:15","slug":"americas-nuclear-death-wish-europe-must-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39841","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Nuclear Death Wish \u2013 Europe Must Rebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"America\u2019s Nuclear Death Wish \u2013 Europe Must Rebel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/10\/29\/or-41637.jpg\" alt=\"America\u2019s Nuclear Death Wish \u2013 Europe Must Rebel\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/10\/29\/america-nuclear-death-wish-europe-must-rebel.html\">America\u2019s Nuclear Death Wish \u2013 Europe Must Rebel<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s declared scrapping of a crucial arms control treaty is putting the world on notice of a nuclear war, sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p>Any such war is not winnable. It is mutually assured destruction. Yet the arrogant American rulers \u2013 some of them at least \u2013 seem to be deluded in thinking they can win such a war.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the American position even more execrable is that it is being pushed by people who have never fought a war. Indeed, by people like President Donald Trump and his hawkish national security advisor John Bolton who both dodged military service to their country during the Vietnam War. How\u2019s that for macabre mockery? The world is being pushed to war by a bunch of effete cowards who are clueless about war.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-45939544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-45939544\">announced<\/a>\u00a0last this week that the US was finally pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a move confirmed by Bolton on a follow-up trip to Moscow. That treaty was signed in 1987 by former President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It was a landmark achievement of cooperation and trust between the nuclear superpowers. Both sides removed short and medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe.<\/p>\n<p>With Trump intending to rip up the INF Treaty, as his predecessor GW Bush had done with the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 2002, Europe is now facing the disastrous prospect of American missiles being reinstalled across its territory as they were in the 1980s. However, a big distinction between then and now is that after years of expansion by NATO, European territory is at an even sharper interface with Russia\u2019s heartland.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Nuclear Death Wish \u2013 Europe Must Rebel The Trump administration\u2019s declared scrapping of a crucial arms control treaty is putting the world on notice of a nuclear war, sooner or later. Any such war is not winnable. It is mutually assured destruction. Yet the arrogant American rulers \u2013 some of them at least \u2013 [&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":[149,7844,281,16113,22461,1925,553,581,2583,3098,694,8203,827,862],"class_list":["post-39841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cold-war","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-finian-cunningham","tag-intermediate-range-nuclear-forces-treaty","tag-mikhail-gorbechev","tag-nato","tag-nuclear-war","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39841","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=39841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39842,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39841\/revisions\/39842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}