“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
JUL 14, 2024
The presumed 2024 presidential candidates. Not good choices for nuclear politics/
LLAW’s NUCLEAR ISSUES & COMMENTS, Sunday, (07/14/2024)
This well-said commentary and his concerned point of view by a knowledgeable American citizen from Santa Maria, California, has for several months been a serious, but only hinted at situation in my own comments. I have long hoped that an alternative choice of action would be selected by President Joe Biden, but the evidence of increased upgrades and modernization of nuclear weapons along with political oversights concerning more open and peace-seeking discussions and actions has gone by the wayside over the years of Biden’s presidency. These mistakes are well pointed out in the commentary, and are, indeed, contradictory to what we citizens are led to believe. America has succumbed to the same old belief that only ‘nuclear deterrence’ or, the ‘nuclear superiority’ of war-threats propagandizing ‘fear’, directed at our worldly neighbors, is the only way to prevent WWIII.
But, as the last lonely sentence in Mr. Scott Fina’s commentary points out, without Biden we are left with the likely alternative presidency of one d.j. trump who must never be allowed to be the lone American who can push the nuclear football button, because he would do so without a 2nd thought if that thought told him his own life was threatened.
So, fellow Americans, “we have a problem”. And with Putin’s position on nuclear warfare always conveyed in angry ‘deterrent’ threats plainly equivalent to just-plain lies keeping the world at bay, the Middle East atrocities, and the newly America/South Korea ‘nuclear threat’ we have issued to a rabid North Korea, there almost seems to be “no way out”.
Take your pick: Biden or trump where nuclear war is involved? It seems these days that there is no difference. Neither will flinch at the idea of “nuclear armageddon”. ~llaw
Stumbling down a path toward nuclear armageddon | Guest Commentary
- Jul 13, 2024
In recent times, have there been more troubled regions bearing conflicts with potential to instigate nuclear war, than Ukraine in Eastern Europe and Palestine in the Middle East?
As Commander in Chief, Joe Biden has overseen the U.S. arming of Ukraine and Israel in their respective conflicts with Russia and Hamas, and in effect, helped prolong them. He has also committed to modernizing U.S. nuclear weapons, over which he has singular authority to order their use in a conflict.
In this international context, Biden’s leadership has been abysmal from the perspective of peace.
Sadly, he once offered promise in seeking nuclear disarmament.
Days before the inauguration of President Trump, then Vice President Biden called for the U.S. to adopt a “no-first use” of nuclear weapons policy. He believed such weapons should only be used as a deterrence against other nuclear nations from employing them.
Biden went further, claiming:
“If we want a world without nuclear weapons — the United States must take the initiative to lead us there. Moreover … as the only nation to have used nuclear weapons, we bear a great moral responsibility to lead the charge.”
Biden reiterated his no-first use and deterrence-only positions for nuclear weapons as a candidate in the 2020 presidential Democratic primary. These were among his many concerns for international peace that he published in an article in Foreign Affairs.
In fact, his article called for fundamental change in U.S. foreign policy, noting that our nation has “too often … relied solely on the might of our military instead of drawing on our full array of strengths,” that “the use of force should be the last resort, not the first,” and that “diplomacy should be the first instrument of American power.”
But oh where, oh where, has that Joe Biden gone?
In 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense released its Nuclear Posture Review under Biden’s leadership. The document in no uncertain terms reaffirmed a first-use of nuclear weapons policy, and disclosed that the U.S. might use such weapons to counter even a non-nuclear attack.
What a remarkable — and unfortunate — shift in Biden’s position.
During one week in May this year, Ukraine used drones to attack two long-range radar facilities hundreds of miles within Russia. The facilities are part of Russia’s early warning system for incoming, nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.
From Russia’s perspective, the drone assault was an attempt to compromise its defense against a nuclear attack: a provocative poke in the eye of the key nuclear opponent of the U.S.
The U.S. has been no less reckless with, nor insensitive to, Russia’s potential to use nuclear weapons.
Within one week this recent June, the U.S. launched two (unarmed) intercontinental, ballistic missiles from Vandenberg Space Force Base, sending them 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
The U.S. Air Force Strike Command proudly referred to the missile testing as “showcasing its readiness” to employ U.S. nuclear missiles.
Was this not the U.S. flexing its nuclear muscle before its nuclear opponents? Shouldn’t our president and the military he commands, watch their step in such hazardous international tensions?
Then there’s Israel and Gaza.
Israel is the only nation in the Middle East to have nuclear weapons. While the U.S. brags about its nuclear arsenal and delivery systems, Israel refuses to admit it has them.
Nonetheless, it’s widely known that Israel has as many as 90 nuclear war heads. American leaders, including President Biden, have facetiously kept this “false secret,” even though two elected officials in Israel have openly suggested their country use its nuclear weapons on Gaza.
It’s baffling how Biden has tolerated Israel’s nuclear program and Israel’s refusal to disclose it.
How can he not have second thoughts about this exception the U.S. extends to Israel?
It’s unfair to measure Joe Biden’s competence to serve a second term on the basis of his performance in a single 90-minute debate. However, Biden’s failure, over nine months, to intervene in the slaughter of thousands of innocent Palestinians in Gaza and destruction of their homes, schools, hospitals, water and power systems — enabled by American munitions — speaks volumes to our current president’s questionable judgment and morality, especially concerning nuclear war.
And how tragic for Americans and the world, that currently, the leading alternative candidate for president seems no more rational or trustworthy.
Scott Fina is a Santa Maria resident.
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Stumbling down a path toward nuclear armageddon | Guest Commentary – Santa Maria Times
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