{"id":64906,"date":"2023-01-30T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64906"},"modified":"2023-01-30T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:15:08","slug":"escobar-the-doomsday-clock-is-speeding-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64906","title":{"rendered":"Escobar: The ‘Doomsday Clock’ Is Speeding Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Escobar: The ‘Doomsday Clock’ Is Speeding Up<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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The\u00a0Doomsday Clock<\/a>, set by the US-based magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has been moved to 90 seconds to midnight…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s the closest\u00a0ever<\/em>\u00a0to total nuclear doom, the global catastrophe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Clock had been set at 100 seconds since 2020. The Bulletin\u2019s Science and Security Board and a group of sponsors \u2013 which includes 10 Nobel laureates \u2013 have\u00a0focused on \u201cRussia\u2019s war on Ukraine\u201d (their terminology) as the main reason.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet they did not bother to explain non-stop American rhetoric (the US is the only nation that adopts \u201cfirst strike\u201d in a nuclear confrontation) and the fact that this is a US proxy war against Russia with Ukraine used as cannon fodder.<\/p>\n

The Bulletin also attributes malignant designs to China, Iran and North Korea, while mentioning, only in passing, that \u201cthe last remaining nuclear weapons treaty between Russia and the United States, New START, stands in jeopardy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless the two parties resume negotiations and find a basis for further reductions, the treaty will expire in February 2026.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As it stands, the prospects of a US-Russia negotiation on New START are less than zero.<\/p>\n

Now cue to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov making it very clear that war against Russia is not hybrid anymore, it\u2019s \u201calmost\u201d real.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost\u201d in fact means \u201c90 seconds.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

So why is this all happening?<\/p>\n

The Mother of All Intel Failures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former British diplomat Alastair Crooke has\u00a0concisely explained<\/a>\u00a0how Russian resilience \u2013 much in the spirit of Iranian resilience past four decades \u2013 completely smashed the assumptions of Anglo-American intelligence.<\/p>\n

Talk about the Mother of All Intel Failures \u2013 in fact even more astonishing than the non-existent Iraqi WMDs (in the run-up to Shock and Awe in 2003, anyone with a brain knew Baghdad had discontinued its weapons program already in the 1990s.)<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Escobar: The ‘Doomsday Clock’ Is Speeding Up The\u00a0Doomsday Clock, set by the US-based magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has been moved to 90 seconds to midnight… That\u2019s the closest\u00a0ever\u00a0to total nuclear doom, the global catastrophe. The Clock had been set at 100 seconds since 2020. The Bulletin\u2019s Science and Security Board and a group […]<\/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":[7],"tags":[14457,18187,8206,281,553,4076,33233,694,821,4318],"class_list":["post-64906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-alastair-crooke","tag-bulletin-of-the-atomic-scientists","tag-doomsday-clock","tag-europe","tag-nato","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-presstv","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64906","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=64906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64907,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64906\/revisions\/64907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}