Biden Admits that he has Escalated the Ukraine War to the Brink of Nuclear Annihilation

Ever so predictably, our discretionary adventure in Ukraine has gotten us into this dire situation.

President Joe Biden issued a warning about a potential nuclear “Armageddon” at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on Thursday evening, saying, “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.”

If we had let Americans vote on whether they were willing to risk the instant annihilation of everyone they love and care for in order to get into the middle of a territorial dispute Obama declared to be unworthy of our involvement in 2014-16, 90% of us would have voted Fuck No! But there was no meaningful discussion of the dangers of getting involved militarily. Not in our news media and not on the streets. When organizations refuse to discuss costs and benefits, when they refuse to conduct pre-mortems, they become stupid. That is exactly what our "leadership" has proven itself to be. And even if we survive this nuclear risk, Biden has shown himself to be over his head on energy issues related to Ukraine, another completely foreseeable risk many months ago.

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Increased Risk of Nuclear War over the Donbas

I completely agree with the concerns expressed here by Glenn Greenwald (and Tucker Carlson) on the increased risk of nuclear war over the Donbas. This is insanity that we don't have any meaningful discussions about this risk. And did anyone else notice that Biden just approved of slipping in another $12 Billion in funding to this war to the latest spending bill. This is in addition to the $54 Billion already spent on the war in the Ukraine.

[Added Oct 4 2022]

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Needing More War News, NBC Analyzes Impending War with China

Here's the military-industrial-news-media complex hard at work today, focused on the western flank.  I'm smelling the stink of military manufacturers frightening and corrupting politicians in order to procure more orders for weapons. And why not float the idea of a two-front war with two nuclear armed adversaries, one of whom manufactures much of America's high tech goods?  Trump is mostly out of the news these days than to drum up more warmongering? This will allow NBC to sell more commercials and thus enjoy some largess too.

Caitlin Johnson comments at her website:

NBC's Meet the Press just aired an absolutely freakish segment in which the influential narrative management firm Center for a New American Security (CNAS) ran war games simulating a direct US hot war with China. . . .

As we've discussed previously, citing war machine-funded think tanks as expert analysis without even disclosing their financial conflict of interest is plainly journalistic malpractice. But it happens all the time in the mass media anyway, because the mass media exist to circulate propaganda, not journalism.

This is getting so, so crazy. That the mass media are now openly teaming up with war machine think tanks to begin seeding the normalization of a hot war with China into the minds of the public indicates that the propaganda campaign to manufacture consent for the US-centralized empire's final Hail Mary grab at unipolar domination is escalating even further. The mass-scale psychological manipulation is getting more and more overt and more and more shameless.

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