Does A Hillary Presidency Mean Nuclear War with Russia?

And this from Michael Krieger: We're going to war -- either hybrid in nature to break the Russian state back to its 1990s subordination, or a hot war (which will destroy our country). Our citizens should know this, but they don't because our media is dumbed down in its "Pravda"-like support for our "respectable," highly aggressive government. We are being led, as C. Wright Mills said in the 1950s, by a government full of "crackpot realists: in the name of realism they've constructed a paranoid reality all their own." Our media has credited Hillary Clinton with wonderful foreign policy experience, unlike Trump, without really noting the results of her power-mongering.... Hillary's record includes supporting the barbaric "contras" against the Nicaraguan people in the 1980s, supporting the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia, supporting the ongoing Bush-Iraq War, the ongoing Afghan mess, and as Secretary of State the destruction of the secular state of Libya, the military coup in Honduras, and the present attempt at "regime change" in Syria. Every one of these situations has resulted in more extremism, more chaos in the world, and more danger to our country. Next will be the borders of Russia, China, and Iran.

And this from AndreDamon, national secretary of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality: With virtually no discussion in the media and no mention in the presidential election campaign, the United States is moving ahead with its trillion-dollar nuclear weapons modernization program.... But in what is becoming known in policy circles as the "second nuclear age," the thinking expressed by General Buck Turgidson in Kubrick's film[Dr. Strangelove]--that the consequences of a nuclear exchange are "modest and acceptable," even though the United States might get its "hair mussed"--is becoming mainstream doctrine.... The relentless scheming of US military planners has its roots in deep-going historical process. The American ruling class, facing growing popular opposition at home and the long-term decline of its global economic power, seeks to resolve the intractable crisis it faces through military means. Its reckless actions have already resulted in one disastrous and bloody adventure after another. However, like a gambling addict, it seeks to win by upping the stakes, bringing into its crosshairs not only Russia and China, but the entire planet.

When we speak of "hawks" and "doves" we are speaking in flaccid euphemisms, as though we were discussing opposing football teams. War is death and destruction and horror, it is a tearing down of what civilizations have built - their culture and their history. It is not a football game. When we ask the existential question, "Why war?" we are faced with a jumbled puzzle of power lust, peak oil, greed, and bankers' demands. The book and documentary All Wars are Bankers' Wars gives us insight into why the US has been at war almost constantly since the 18th century. Now, in the nuclear age, the risks clearly outweigh any possible gains.

I will close with a list of duly alarming articles written by actual, not armchair, Russia analysts, all of whom see a global disaster ahead. I urge readers to give these assessments their time and attention. Before you vote.

- Hillary Clinton's Strategic Ambition in a Nutshell: Regime Change in Russia. Diana Johnstone. Counterpunch. click here

- Did the White House Declare War On Russia? American Committee on East-West Accord. Stephen Cohen and John Batchelor, Podcast, The Nation. click here

- Hilary Clinton's Likely Pentagon Chief Already Advocating for More Bombing and Intervention. Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept. click here

- Only Donald Trump Raises Five Urgent Foreign Policy Questions: click here

- The Risks of Clinton's Syrian "No-Fly Zone" Dennis Kucinich at Consortium News. click here

- Escalations in a New Cold War Robert Parry Consortium News click here

- Is Nuclear War Becoming Thinkable? Philip Giraldi. The American Conservative click here

- Hillary, Queen of War: The Roadmap Ahead Pepe Escobar. reprinted at Opednews.com from Sputnik. click here

- More Troubling Evidence that Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3, Michael Krieger. click here

- Stop This Stupid Sabre-Rattling Against Russia: It's not their side that worries me; it's ours . Rod Liddle The Spectator click here

-Hillary Clinton goes to Militaristic, Hawkish Think Tank, (The Brookings Institution) Gives Militaristic, Hawkish Speech . Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept. click here

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