Is the US Heading Towards Suicidal Clash With Russia?

Date: 20 February 2019 - 21:37

News ID: ۶۳۳۸۹

By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Donald Trump’s theatrics have gone too far, and if the quixotic US president doesn’t halt his violations of treaties and accords that have so far curbed the doomsday nuclear arms race, then Washington should be ready to bear the consequences.
Trump the Dotard had once wondered: "Why in the world we make nuclear weapons if we can’t use them”.
He has not ruled out using nukes, and after threatening North Korea with "fire and fury like the world has never seen”; is on record as saying: "It might not be a bad thing for us if Saudi Arabia, Japan, and South Korea all became nuclear powers.
Teamed up with such dangerous lunatics as Mike Pompeo his Secretary of State, and John Bolton his National Security Advisor, he has withdrawn from President Richard Nixon’s Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Moscow, President Bill Clinton’s Agreed Framework with North Korea, President Barak Obama’s deal on Iran’s right to use peaceful nuclear energy, and most recently President Ronald Reagan’s Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, Treaty (a pact that had actually resulted in thousands of ready-to-use nuclear weapons being scrapped).
Trump, who has openly called for a nearly 10-fold increase in the US nuclear arsenal, has gone too far, and has started serious confrontation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
Putin made no nonsense remarks when he recently said: We’ll target the USA if Washington deploys missiles in Europe.
In his toughest remarks yet on a potential new arms race, Putin said Russia was not seeking confrontation and would not take the first step to deploy missiles in response to Washington’s decision this month to quit a landmark Cold War-era arms control treaty, but this does not mean Moscow will turn a blind eye to American provocations in Europe.
Unfortunately, the first new member of Trump’s and Bolton’s nuclear family, is a so-called "low-yield” nuke, with the apocalyptic name, W76-2. It is the most dangerous weapon ever rolled off the nuclear assembly line.
Dubbing some doomsday weapons as "low-yield” based on their destructive energy is actually meaningless, since once damage from radioactivity and atmospheric fallout was taken into account, the result will be catastrophic for the whole world.
In fact, any use of such a weapon against a similarly armed adversary would likely ignite an inevitable chain of nuclear escalation whose end result is barely imaginable.
In other words, a supposedly tactical or surgical strike with atomic weapons could rapidly spiral toward an apocalyptic exchange.
To be more precise, ‘limited nuclear war’, is a fool’s fantasy and would rapidly engulf the entire world.
In view of this undeniable reality, the free world should knit ranks in order to thwart the doomsday intentions of Donald Trump, who should be cut to size at the earliest, for the sake of saving the world.