{"id":42164,"date":"2019-01-01T08:15:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42164"},"modified":"2019-01-01T08:16:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T13:16:16","slug":"us-rage-for-endless-wars-threatens-world-peace-in-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42164","title":{"rendered":"US Rage for Endless Wars Threatens World Peace in the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlendman.org\/2018\/12\/us-rage-for-endless-wars-threatens-world-peace-in-the-new-year\/\"><b>US Rage for Endless Wars Threatens World Peace in the New Year<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Washington\u2019s hegemonic aims, under Republicans and undemocratic Dems, represent the greatest threat to world peace and humanity\u2019s survival.<\/p>\n<p>At his annual marathon Q &amp; A news conference last week, Vladimir Putin warned about possible nuclear war, a growing threat because of Washington\u2019s reckless geopolitical agenda, including withdrawal from the Iran (JCPOA) nuclear deal and INF Treaty, as well as its reluctance to negotiate extending New Start (April 2010) on reducing and limiting strategic weapons, expiring in February 2021 if not renewed.<\/p>\n<p>Based on bad advice from regime hardliners, Trump falsely called New Start a bad deal favoring Russia. It\u2019s nothing of the kind. It\u2019s even-handed, shifting things to less war and more peace globally.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, John Bolton called for withdrawing from New Start. He convinced Trump to abandon the JCPOA and INF Treaty. He advocates greater US toughness against all sovereign independent countries.<\/p>\n<p>Before becoming Trump\u2019s national security advisor, he urged terror-bombing Iran and North Korea, sanctions not enough, he said, diplomacy \u201ca waste of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He claimed \u201cIran will not negotiate its (nonexistent) nuclear (weapons) program.\u201d He urged \u201cmilitary action like Israel\u2019s 1981 attack on Saddam Hussein\u2019s Osirak reactor in Iraq\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201c(t)he way to end (North Korea\u2019s nuclear program) is to end the North.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New Start calls for reducing the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers by half. It limits the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads to 1,500.<\/p>\n<p>It also limits the number of ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missile launchers, and nuclear capable heavy warplanes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It calls for satellite and other monitoring, as well as annual on-site inspections to assure both sides comply with terms agreed on.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton, Pompeo, and other Trump regime hardliners want restraints on its weapons development and deployments eliminated, part of Washington\u2019s permanent war agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Rage for Endless Wars Threatens World Peace in the New Year Washington\u2019s hegemonic aims, under Republicans and undemocratic Dems, represent the greatest threat to world peace and humanity\u2019s survival. At his annual marathon Q &amp; A news conference last week, Vladimir Putin warned about possible nuclear war, a growing threat because of Washington\u2019s reckless [&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":[1467,3391,11161,827,857,862,865],"class_list":["post-42164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-hegemony","tag-peace","tag-stephen-lendman","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42164","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=42164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42165,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42164\/revisions\/42165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}