Joachim Hagopian Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1991 marking the end of the Cold War, the United States and NATO have demonstrated a fixed pattern fomenting conflict opposing their “axis-of-evil” enemy Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. The year prior on February 9th, 1990, US Secretary of State James Baker under President George H.W. Bush delivered the reneged promise to the last Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move “one inch eastward.” But since that fateful historical deception, the NATO alliance has busily doubled…
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Paul Craig Roberts, One Mistake Before Armageddon
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Each of us faces each day threats to our health, happiness, and life. Overarching it all, we collectively face death from nuclear weapons. The development of nuclear weapons was a human stupidity. They cannot be used, but their existence threatens the life of the planet. So why have them? Accident, emotional response, loss of reason are all human faults that can come into play at any time. During the 20th century Cold War these dangers were underlined by the Cuban Missile Crisis. President Nixon led the way…