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There is exactly one nation in the world that nukes other countries, and that would be the United States. It gratuitously nuked Japan, which was ready to surrender anyway, just because it could. It prepared to nuke Russia at the start of the Cold War, but was prevented from doing so by a lack of a sufficiently large number of nuclear bombs at the time. And it attempted to render Russia defenseless against nuclear attack, abandoning the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, but has been prevented from doing so by Russia’s new weapons.

It shouldn't be necessary to take the trouble to remark that the allegations in this paragraph are not only false but they are the opposite of the truth. For example, Japan was not ready to surrender (it took two atomic bombs), the decision was clearly not gratuitous in view of the certainty of the immense casualty estimates on both sides. The United States refrained from using the bomb or even the threat of the bomb against Soviet Russia during the period 1945-1949 when we had a monopoly of the weapon. It can hardly be contented, therefore, that the United States "nukes other countries."

The entire article is filled with deceits such as these compounded by bizarre extrapolations and generalizations. In fact the article is so distorted that it should simply be rejected out of hand by rational people. But what prompts me to even note the article is the fact that so many people here in Germany accept virtually every crazy proposition of this article and actively circulate similar screeds in German throughout their subculture.

I have been warning for a long time now that there is a cosmic shift in alliances and balances of power that pose enormous risks for United States security. Orlov is uniquely coming close to the truth when he knows that Russia and China are in a virtual military alliance and he is also describing Russia's alliances in the Middle East which run from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. The great existential risk for America is not just the breakup of NATO but the alliance of Germany in a kind of a replay of the Ribbentrop/Molotov pact which triggered World War II.

So far the subculture here in Germany is so small and is such a discreditable fringe element that it is unable to exert significant political weight but the potential is always there.


8 posted on 08/28/2016 11:26:28 PM PDT by nathanbedford
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To: nathanbedford

Well said.


9 posted on 08/28/2016 11:31:36 PM PDT by sargon (Anyone AWOL in the battle against Hillary is not a patriot. It's that simple.)
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