{"id":5136,"date":"2015-02-01T10:26:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T15:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2015-02-01T10:26:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T15:26:36","slug":"how-to-start-a-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5136","title":{"rendered":"How to Start a Nuclear War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"blog-title\"><a title=\"How to Start a Nuclear War\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2015\/01\/eric-margolis\/how-to-start-a-nuclear-war\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to Start a Nuclear War<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The United States has just made an exceptionally dangerous, even reckless decision over Ukraine. Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, warns it may lead to a nuclear confrontation with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Rule number one of geopolitics:\u00a0 nuclear-armed powers must never, ever fight.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Washington just announced that by spring, it will deploy unspecified numbers of military \u201ctrainers\u201d to Ukraine to help build Kiev\u2019s ramshackle national guard. Also being sent are significant numbers of US special heavy, mine resistant armored vehicles that have been widely used in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US and Poland are currently covertly supplying Ukraine with some weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The US soldiers will just be for training, and the number of GI\u2019s\u00a0 will be modest, claim US military sources. Of course.\u00a0 Just like those small numbers of American \u201cadvisors\u201d and \u201ctrainers\u201d in Vietnam that eventually grew to 550,000. Just as there \u00a0are now US special forces in over 100 countries. We call it \u201cmission creep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Start a Nuclear War The United States has just made an exceptionally dangerous, even reckless decision over Ukraine. Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, warns it may lead to a nuclear confrontation with Russia. Rule number one of geopolitics:\u00a0 nuclear-armed powers must never, ever fight. Yet Washington just announced [&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":[149,1610,3104,581,1046,694,827,844,862],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cold-war","tag-kiev","tag-mission-creep","tag-nuclear-war","tag-poland","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-us-military","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","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=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5137,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}