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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: People Don't Think Hard Enough About What Nuclear War Is And What It WouldMean
Published: 2022-06-22
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOOXB0te0g
Title: People Don't Think Hard Enough About What Nuclear War Is And What It WouldMean
Published: 2022-06-22
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBOOXB0te0g
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people don't think hard enough about what nuclear war is and what it would mean there's a john mearsheimer video clip from 2016 that's going viral on twitter right now as old john mearsheimer clips tend to do in the year 2022 when his predictions that western actions would lead to the destruction of ukraine are coming horrifyingly true in response to a question about what the worst u.s2/12
foreign policy disaster has been mirsheimer agreed with a fellow panelist that at the moment iraq looked like the worst but said he believed u.s policy on ukraine would prove much worse in coming years he spoke of the fact that russia has thousands of nuclear weapons and that it's entirely possible those weapons will be used if russia feels threatened because the cold war is in the distant3/12
past most people especially younger people haven't thought a lot about nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence and they tend to be quite cavalier in their comments about nuclear weapons and this makes me very nervous mirsheimer said it makes me nervous too especially when we've got a steadily escalating proxy war which the standoff in lithuania could easily see spin out into a direct hot war between russia and4/12
nato powers and when we hear the uk's top army general telling troops to prepare for world war iii most of what i see in public discourse about escalating aggressions between the u.s power alliance and russia reflects the cavalier attitude mirsheimer spoke of in 2016. as do my own interactions with people online most of what i'm seeing in the behavior of nato powers indicates this cavalier attitude5/12
about nuclear weapons as well people from the rank and file public to the upper echelons of empire management don't seem to be thinking very hard about what nuclear war is and what it would mean as meersheimer said this does seem to be because we're so removed now from the days when everyone was acutely aware that missiles could start flying at any time it just doesn't sit6/12
well with people's understanding of the world that it could all end through the same nuclear armageddon scenario their grandparents used to worry about if two men were holding guns to each other's heads it would be experienced as very dangerous at first but after a while if nobody pulled the trigger the emotional tension would begin to diminish if years went by and the men got older it7/12
would diminish even further if they got so old they couldn't hold the guns anymore and had their children take over for them and then their children's children years later the emotional experience of that standoff would be all but forgotten but the guns never got any less deadly the fact that nuclear war hasn't happened yet means only that that it hasn't happened yet things that have never8/12
happened before happen all the time there didn't used to be nuclear weapons now there are earth is currently a habitable planet one day soon it may not be we came within a hair's breadth of wiping ourselves out during the last cold war not just once but many times any amount of nuclear brinkmanship opens up the possibility of nuclear war erupting in ways that are too hard9/12
to anticipate and plan for because there are too many small moving parts too many ways a nuke could be detonated as a result of technical malfunction miscommunication miscalculation and or misunderstanding the further things escalate between the world's two nuclear superpowers the greater the likelihood of this happening and of course the powerful have every reason to encourage this way of thinking to continue if a critical critical10/12
mass of the population really understood that their lives are being threatened with nuclear war for no other reason than the u.s empire's willingness to risk everything to secure planetary hegemony they would immediately become hard to deal with empire managers plan on not just engaging in nuclear brinkmanship but also making things much harder on the public financially in their long-term agendas against russia and china and the11/12
only way everyone plays along with this is if they are kept from understanding what's being done to them this is why the media have been acting so strange in recent years agendas are being rolled out which no sane person would consent to if they fully understood them so their consent needs to be manufactured with massive amounts of propaganda it's also why internet censorship has taken a12/12
high priority during that same period of time can't have people using their newfound information sharing capability to interfere in the narrative manipulations of that empire we are being sedated into a propaganda-induced coma while immensely powerful people play profoundly dangerous games with our lives it is in our interest to find a way to awaken as soon as possible
