Reflections on Nuclear War and Immigration
Those who scoff at the notion that nuclear war between the United States and Russia is an increasing possibility have an advantage in the argument. If they prove to be correct, they will be able to crow, “See, I told you worrywarts that there was nothing to be concerned about. Putin wasn’t about the start a nuclear war no matter how much we pushed, provoked, and dared him.”
On the other hand, if there is a nuclear war, those of us who warned about that increasing possibility won’t be around to exclaim, “We told you so. You should have listened to us.” Well, at the very least, we won’t be able to do it on X given the shortage of wi-fi during such a war.
What is fascinating is that the U.S. national-security establishment and its supporters are actually willing to risk such a war. They were so certain that, with the help of the United States, Ukraine would easily defeat Russia in a war that U.S. officials provoked with their NATO antics. Today, realizing that they were wrong, the Pentagon, CIA, and NSA, which are the ones who are really calling the shots in the Ukraine operation, are willing to do anything to prevent a Russian victory, even if it entails pushing, provoking, and daring Vladimir Putin to do something drastic. A U.S.-Ukraine defeat at the hands of their decades-old official enemy Russia, coming on the heels of the catastrophic results of their military escapades in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam, is just too hard a pill to swallow.
Proponents of increasing provocations against Russia are quick to point out that the naysayers were wrong about nuclear war in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Everything worked out, they say, and so the fears of all-out nuc
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