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As West's ruling class leads us closer to the brink of nuclear conflict with Russia, dissent can barely be heard
That's a shelf in my bathroom here in Budapest. Got my potassium iodide pills (antidote to radiation poisoning of the thyroid) right next to a vial of holy water. Such is life these days in my part of the world.
Yesterday I wrote about how Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said the West's sending tanks to Ukraine is another sign that we are in a real war with Russia. To be clear, Orban thinks this is an extremely bad idea! His point is that led by the United States, NATO countries are bumbling into an honest-to-God war with nuclear-armed Russia, over Ukraine.
I can't get this out of my mind ... because it's true. There is no other way to understand America and Germany (under intense US pressure) sending advanced tanks to Ukraine, other than the West inserting itself into a war, on behalf of one party. (A party who, by the way, seems to be run by people who steal our money.) Whatever the morality of the Ukrainians cause, the fact remains that Russia has nuclear weapons. Get it? Russia has nuclear weapons. We used to live in a world where that horrible fact meant something. It meant that our policymakers had to be extremely careful, as did theirs, so the entire world didn't go up in a quick series of flashes and mushroom clouds.
Apparently all of that has been pushed aside. We provoked this stupid war with Russia -- which, let there be no doubt, needs to turn around and go home. And now we're in it to win it, though what "win" looks like in a conflict with a nuclear-armed country is madness. Why aren't we talking about that? Why aren't we talking about that a lot, given the stakes? Here in Europe, Viktor Orban is the only European leader willing to raise the question, but he's a pariah. I don't follow the networks in the US from afar, but I do read the newspapers and the print press online, and as far as I can tell, this is a forbidden topic. If anything, the Democratic Party is more hawkish than the Republicans. For someone who remembers the way the disastrous Iraq War was sold to the American people, this is infuriating and depressing -- and even back then, there was more critical discussion of that war in advance than this one, despite the stakes here being infinitely higher.
Continued below.
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That's a shelf in my bathroom here in Budapest. Got my potassium iodide pills (antidote to radiation poisoning of the thyroid) right next to a vial of holy water. Such is life these days in my part of the world.
Yesterday I wrote about how Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said the West's sending tanks to Ukraine is another sign that we are in a real war with Russia. To be clear, Orban thinks this is an extremely bad idea! His point is that led by the United States, NATO countries are bumbling into an honest-to-God war with nuclear-armed Russia, over Ukraine.
I can't get this out of my mind ... because it's true. There is no other way to understand America and Germany (under intense US pressure) sending advanced tanks to Ukraine, other than the West inserting itself into a war, on behalf of one party. (A party who, by the way, seems to be run by people who steal our money.) Whatever the morality of the Ukrainians cause, the fact remains that Russia has nuclear weapons. Get it? Russia has nuclear weapons. We used to live in a world where that horrible fact meant something. It meant that our policymakers had to be extremely careful, as did theirs, so the entire world didn't go up in a quick series of flashes and mushroom clouds.
Apparently all of that has been pushed aside. We provoked this stupid war with Russia -- which, let there be no doubt, needs to turn around and go home. And now we're in it to win it, though what "win" looks like in a conflict with a nuclear-armed country is madness. Why aren't we talking about that? Why aren't we talking about that a lot, given the stakes? Here in Europe, Viktor Orban is the only European leader willing to raise the question, but he's a pariah. I don't follow the networks in the US from afar, but I do read the newspapers and the print press online, and as far as I can tell, this is a forbidden topic. If anything, the Democratic Party is more hawkish than the Republicans. For someone who remembers the way the disastrous Iraq War was sold to the American people, this is infuriating and depressing -- and even back then, there was more critical discussion of that war in advance than this one, despite the stakes here being infinitely higher.
Continued below.
Shhh! Nobody Talk About World War III
As West's ruling class leads us closer to the brink of nuclear conflict with Russia, dissent can barely be heard
