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Nuclear Rhetoric Resurfaces
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| Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report, Cold War 2.0 Heats Up. | |
| Last week, the nuclear rhetoric between the U.S. and Russia made some of us feel like we were back in 1962. | |
| Back then, Soviet moves to place nuclear-capable missiles 90 miles off our coast in Cuba led to the greatest crisis of the Cold War. | |
| The United States and its president, John F. Kennedy, could not tolerate such weapons placed by a hostile power on its doorstep, and the world only knew years later how close we were to nuclear war. | |
| Thankfully, both Khrushchev and Kennedy backed down, with the Soviet leader removing the missiles from Cuba and the U.S. president agreeing to remove some missiles from Turkey. | |
| Both men realized the folly of playing with mutually assured destruction, and this compromise likely paved the way to future U.S.-Soviet dialogue from Nixon to President Reagan and finally to end of the Cold War. | |
| Fast forward more than 60 years later, and we have a U.S. President Donald Trump, who last week stated that he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions nearing nearly to Russia. | |
| Had Russia attacked the U.S. or an ally? | |
| Threatened to do so? | |
| No. | |
| The supposed repositioning of the U.S. strategic military assets was in response to a sharp series of posts made by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on social media that irritated President Trump. | |
| The war of words started earlier when neocon U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham's endless threats against Russia received a response and a warning from Medvedev. | |
| Graham, who seemed to love war more than anything else, posted, to those in Russia who believe that President Trump is not serious about ending the bloodbath between Russia and Ukraine, you will also soon see that Joe Biden is no longer president. | |
| Get to the peace table. | |
| Medvedev responded, it's not for you or Trump to dictate when to get at the peace table. | |
| Negotiations will end when all the objectives of our military operation have been achieved. | |
| Work on America first. | |
| That was enough for Trump to join in to defend his ill-chosen ally, Graham. | |
| It ended with Medvedev alluding to Soviet nuclear doctrine, which provided for an automatically nuclear response to any first strike on the USSR by U.S. or NATO weapons. | |
| The message from the Russian politician was clear. | |
| Back off. | |
| It was hardly Khrushchev banging his shoe at the UN screaming, we will bury you. | |
| But it was enough for Trump to make a rare public pronouncement about the movement of U.S. nuclear submarine. | |
| Trump is understandably frustrated that his promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours has not been fulfilled after six months in office. | |
| President Trump doesn't seem to understand that you cannot arm one side in a war and then demand that the other side, the side that's winning, stop fighting. | |
| That has never happened in history. | |
| What is most tragic is that the war in Ukraine could have likely been ended, if not in 24 hours, then surely in six months, if Trump simply ended Joe Biden's policy on Ukraine. | |
| It is continued U.S. support for the war that keeps the war going. | |
| Even the U.S. mainstream media admits that Ukraine will lose. | |
| But Trump seems under the spell of the neocons who can never reverse a failed policy. | |
| Hopefully, the return of nuclear rhetoric will awaken some in D.C. to the danger that the neocons pose to our country. | |
| We are no longer in 1962. | |