With the deterioration of the Russian military position - the outcome of the reactionary strategy underlying the invasion of Ukraine and the general rottenness of the oligarch regime of capitalist restoration - the danger of #nuclearwar is escalating. 1/ #UkraineRussiaWar
Backed into a corner, #Putin's threat to use nuclear weapons should not be viewed as a bluff. The US and other imperialist powers have threatened in the past to use nuclear weapons to avert military defeat. This fact is being ignored by the media. 2/
In 1950 General Douglas MacArthur sought authorization to use as many as 30 atomic bombs against Chinese troops crossing the border into Korea. In 1954 France pleaded with US President Eisenhower to use nuclear bombs to save its encircled troops at Dienbienphu. 3/
In 1962 President Kennedy threatened the use of nuclear weapons during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1973 Israel - facing defeat during the initial days of the Yom Kippur War - came close to using nuclear weapons against the Egypt. 4/
The instigation of the war by the US and its NATO allies has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation. The working class, opposed to the geopolitical aims of US-NATO imperialism and the Russian capitalist state, must demand the immediate end to this reactionary war. 5/5
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