NUCLEAR WAR WITH RUSSIA IF GOP GETS SENATE?
Posted on October 20, 2014 by Eric Zuesse.
INTRODUCTION by Hugo Adan, October 20, 2014
This title suggests a political scenario in the US (mere propaganda in favor of democrats in electoral time) and the content refers a Nuclear
Confrontation (NC) that could derive from the geo-political crisis in Ucraine. The topic is peace vs. war, but when
dealing with nuclear war the real issue is not war, it is instead how to build peace,
that is, how to dismantle the whole paraphernalia
of nuclear war in existence today. Why? Because
1st, if NC comes, the nuke power
accumulated at this point in time will not leave winners, and 2nd because the social costs
and destruction left overran any possible gain that the shortest NC can provide
temporarily.
NC will be the end of history. If some people survive, think
about the level of Radioactive contamination and/or Nuclear fallout, also
known as Black Rain, that is the residual radioactive material propelled into
the upper atmosphere following a nuclear
blast. Nothing will remain alive, not person, not animal,
after one single day of nuclear confrontation. (check The Effects of Nuclear
War, Office of Technology Assessment (May 1979), (Available Online) ,or the Radiation Research, 2006, 47
by T. Imanaka, et.al, or NATO
Handbook on the Medical Aspects of NBC 1996, (Available
Online).
The myth of 1st nuke strike = winner, does not exist
anymore, what exist is the simultaneous mutual disaster in both sides, the US-NATO
allies and Russia-China block, and that involve effects on the whole world. The
tech advances are set for mutual nuke-destruction, whoever launch the 1st
strike will be responded immediately, it is already set for automatic response and the
whole humanity will perish, that will be the end of history.
In rational terms, war is obsolete. However, there is
irresponsible people among the military in both sides, this also includes some psychopaths
among civilians, all of them still believing in “militaristic supremacist
idiocy”, such idiots exist and so the dangers of NC exist, if they get access to nuclear arms. Under this
scenario let’s check the logic of Eric Zuesse.
At political level, Eric’s title suggests that NC is
possible if GOP get the Senate in the coming elections. In my opinion they are
going to win the election but that won’t
change nothing because the Senate do not decide on wars, though legally it is
said so. What about other ifs? What if the senator of Vermont or Ran Paul leads
a United Front against fascism in America, that means Peace among other things?. Too late? Then what if the United Front call for abstention
against both parties’ candidates because they are involve in fascistic wars and
demand the pull back of troops and the close of US military stations worldwide?.
That will pave the route for a 3rd option in the next election.
There are more ifs, but let’s go to
Zuesse’s logic:
a- “Rep not Dem creates the chances for NC, so if the GOP
wins the Senate we’re voting for NC”. The fact is that both Dem & Rep were
involved in unjust type of wars
(imperialist fascistic wars) and these unjust
wars have created and feed the “militaristic supremacist idiocy” that supports
the NC.
b- If NC is an effect of changes in the Senate, then the
Senate precedes and causes wars, suggest Eric. The fact is that most US imperialistic and
fascistic wars (including the drone wars) have not been decided by the Senate. One
more fact: the Hiroshima and Nagasaki
nuclear attack the days 6 and 8 of August, 194, was decided by Democrats in the Government,
not by Rep or GOPs. The same with the war in Vietnam, everybody knows that the American
involvement began to escalate under President John F. Kennedy’s administration.
c- If the GOP get the senate, even with senates like the
warmonger McCain- they won’t decide war, unless they impeach the President and
the VP submits to them. Even though, US wars are decided by the Deep State not by the entire government. "The Deep State is a hybrid of National
Security Council and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the State
Department, the Homeland Security, the CIA and the Justice Department. I also
include members of the Department of the Treasury because of its jurisdiction
over financial flows. All these agencies
are coordinated by the Executive Office of the President via the National
Security Council. Certain members of
the judiciary belong to the Deep State, such as the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court, whose actions are mysterious even to most members of
Congress. Also included are a handful of vital federal trial courts, such as
the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Manhattan, where
sensitive proceedings in national security cases are conducted. The final
government component is a kind of rump Congress consisting of the congressional
leadership and some (but not all) of the members of the defense and
intelligence committees". http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/ Seen this way, wars are decided at the
Presidential level, not at the Senate level.
d- What about the ruling classes in America, Do big corporations and bankers agree with nuclear war? It is clear that they profit
from wars, but while wars do not involve nuclear confrontation or NC. Will they
finance senate candidates and Presidency later on –with their super packs- knowing that NC implies
their destruction?. What about the yuppies, the upper middle class who run
small business, including some of the speculators in Wall Street? The later of
course profit from crisis as long as the Central Government allows their nasty
business, will they be happy to know that the Senate will declare nuke war with
Russians and China? I don’ think so. There are more chances that they support
the 3rd option for democracy and peace.
The logic used by Eric has not bases at all, anyway here it goes, Open it :
The logic used by Eric has not bases at all, anyway here it goes, Open it :
Posted on October 20, 2014 by Eric Zuesse.
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