But Doing So Would Involve Recognizing America Helped Create And Sustain This Tragedy, And Should Reexamine NATO (And The CIA). But the Deep State Would Fly Into A Rage At Anyone Who Tried This.
Hundreds of physicians from around the world have gathered in Nagasaki, Japan, this week, to discuss our shared belief that we can and should abolish all nuclear weapons.
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) has won a past Nobel Peace Prize for this sort of work. In particular, the scientific arguments of the world’s doctors about the species-level threat of a nuclear war made a profound impression on Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, and convinced those Cold War leaders to jointly declare that “nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”
Many eyes here are on the situation in Ukraine, where, after nearly four years of war, the American regime continues to flirt with the unthinkable: a blundering escalation into the use of nuclear weapons.
This week, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the American regime will help Ukraine strike deep inside Russia with long-range missiles. President Donald Trump also just told a gathering of top American generals and admirals that this summer he ordered two nuclear-armed submarines “over to the coast of Russia, just to be careful.” The Trump White House is even considering arming Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles (which in theory can carry nuclear weapons).
It all sounds like the opposite of progress. Not so long ago, President Trump claimed that he could end the war quickly, as long as Ukraine recognized the war was over and agreed to let go of its long-lost territory. He now has changed his mind, and says he believes Ukraine could win it all back.
“Why not?” he said in one of his legendarily grammar-torturing social media posts:
“Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win … [Ukraine] has Great Spirit, and only getting better … In any event, I wish both Countries well. We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them. Good luck to all!”
So much of this is bizarre, not least Trump’s suggestion that NATO is something separate and autonomous from the American empire’s security state.
But the president is clearly frustrated. Probably he thought the Russians launched the war because they wanted land, and were only complaining about NATO as a cover story. Actually it’s the other way around: the Russians wanted NATO out, and occupied land as a means to that end.
Trump could move forward with a peace process, but to succeed, he’d have to face down a rage-filled American national security establishment. Remember how all of Washington pilloried President Joe Biden over the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistan? Trump knows he would face at least as much bipartisan fury if he were to announce that Ukraine will never join NATO.
Yet such an announcement is exactly what peace will require. As the Russian government has made plain for years, and has reiterated in its officially published memoranda, all sides must agree that Ukraine will forever be a militarily neutral state. This is clearly non-negotiable for the Kremlin.
Russia will thus continue to fight the war until this goal is accomplished, or until so much of Ukraine gets annexed that it matters little what any Trump regime controlled state does.
Rather than accept peace on these terms — renouncing NATO expansion to Ukraine — our collective leaders have decided we’ll have more war. Is NATO expansion worth so much death and destruction? Is it worth continuing to risk a blunder into all-out nuclear war?
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