{"id":60687,"date":"2021-11-27T07:09:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T12:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60687"},"modified":"2021-11-27T07:09:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T12:09:37","slug":"were-sleepwalking-into-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60687","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/11\/26\/were-sleepwalking-into-nuclear-war\/\">We\u2019re Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10817\" class=\"post-10817 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-china tag-nuclear-war tag-russia\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-2-4.jpg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-2-4.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-2-4-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-2-4-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-2-4-1024x597.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"630\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/were-sleepwalking-into-nuclear-war\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1167501511&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Every day there\u2019s more propaganda banging the drums of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/11\/23\/erm-i-know-youre-busy-but-nuclear-war-is-getting-increasingly-likely\/\">war between nuclear-armed nations<\/a>\u00a0a little louder. Western media are churning out reports about Russia preparing to invade Ukraine any minute now and China preparing to invade Taiwan any minute now, saying the response to each is obviously to move a lot of high-powered weaponry to both of those locations, and\u00a0<strong><em>none<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0of them are questioning whether these allegations are true or whether those responses are wise.<\/p>\n<p>This is so dangerous. This whole two-front nuclear brinkmanship game is so very, very dangerous, and they keep finding ways to make it\u00a0<strong><em>more<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0dangerous. And hardly anyone notices it, because the news media outlets that people look to to understand the world aren\u2019t telling them it\u2019s dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The only danger you\u2019re allowed to discuss in mainstream western reporting about Russia and China is their scary aggressive expansionism, like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/if-china-invaded-taiwan-would-it-stop-there-1651051\">this new Newsweek propaganda piece here<\/a>. Nowhere are you allowed to question if it\u2019s true, or to even breathe a word about the possibility of detente.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1464315088643534848&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F11%2F26%2Fwere-sleepwalking-into-nuclear-war%2F&amp;sessionId=52d763e2ab9c7a0b6527ec04a11619d9d11204ac&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=f001879%3A1634581029404&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1464315088643534848\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s official empire doctrine that the borders of Russia and China will necessarily keep expanding unless militantly held in place by The Good Guys. It\u2019s taken as a given that those nations are essentially mindless cancers that can only metastasize to other parts of the body unless aggressively treated.\u00a0At no point is it permissible to ask if perhaps we are heading in a direction that could literally end the world and if that could not be easily avoided by simply working to scale down tensions.\u00a0At no point is it permissible to question if these nations might be\u00a0<em>reacting defensively<\/em>\u00a0to western aggressions and discuss the possibility of working toward detente.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 Every day there\u2019s more propaganda banging the drums of\u00a0war between nuclear-armed nations\u00a0a little louder. Western media are churning out reports about Russia preparing to invade Ukraine any minute now and China preparing to invade Taiwan any minute now, saying the response to [&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":[17039,130,14545,581,655,694,32226,827,862],"class_list":["post-60687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-china","tag-narrative-control","tag-nuclear-war","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-sleepwalking","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60687","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=60687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60688,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60687\/revisions\/60688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}