Member of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) | Writer for the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) | Poet
Jul 5, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
"I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity."
The ruling-class, appearing mad, and might possibly be, are willing to sacrifice the lives of millions to secure dominance over the world's resources.
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The following list is incomplete, but blows up the myth that "nuclear war is too great a threat to occur!"
Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945); Gen. Douglas MacArthur argued for the dropping of atomic bombs on China (1950); Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)...
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Jul 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Nuclear war is not too great a threat to occur, it can, and, to a lesser extent, has: Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to brink of nuclear war, as did Nixon's "madman theory," deploying 18 B-52 nuclear-capable bombers north of the USSR.
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Mike Pompeii announced just a couple years ago the US' withdrawal from the INF treaty with Russia; a German Air Force chief called for nuclear war against Russia, and now NATO prepares for “warfighting against nuclear-armed peer-competitors."
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