Let's have a nuclear war — wouldn't that be great?

© 2018 Peter Free

 

22 October 2018

 

 

Gosh, Mr. President, do you really think this is a good idea?

 

President Trump wants to rescind the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). He says the Russians have been violating it.

 

Concealed under this allegation is the fact that NATO has provocatively been encroaching on Russia's sphere of influence for some time. Throw in our attempts to put anti-missile defenses in Poland and Romania, and you arrive at some understanding of Russia's understandably irritable position.

 

 

Ordinarily

 

A capable strategist would recognize that motivated diplomacy is in order. Especially so, given the potential for catastrophic war. But (apparently) not so our Chief Nihilist. Ignoring global warming was not enough. Enhancing the risk for nuclear devastation has joined the Bubble Pot.

 

 

To be fair to the President

 

Democrats created this nonsense with their concocted Trump's-a-Putin-puppet nonsense. Forced into a political corner, our feisty Commander in Chief has had to diligently work at being anti-Russian.

 

For those wondering how damagingly this Democratic Party (and Deep State) ploy has worked, see Caitlin Johnstone's profane takes, here and here.

 

 

The moral? — Bring it on?

 

We know that foresight is an especially un-American trait.

 

So I suspect — from the perspective of History's farseeing eye — that the United States would morally and strategically benefit from nuclear devastation.

 

Perhaps afterward, a fragment of our population of aggressively ignorant dumbheads would learn what Germans, eastern Europeans, and Russians all know. War at home is bad. Provoking it is stupid. Electing warmongers to executive leadership is a mistake.