If all the nuclear weapons in the world were disabled overnight . . .
and could never be used again, what are the chances that the USA and NATO would declare war on Russia?
Posted Aug 29, 2014, 5:22 PM UTC
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and could never be used again, what are the chances that the USA and NATO would declare war on Russia?
Posted Aug 29, 2014, 5:22 PM UTC
Not likely. Why? Going to war with Russia even without a nuclear power threat is still a big deal. Would force European nations to pick a side, and would be a "world war III". IMHO
Everyday citizens are war-exhausted. Maybe Putin recognizes this and uses this to his benefit, but I doubt that even everyday Russians want war with the rest of the world.
Everyday Americans are sick of being taxed to death in support of non-stop war while "enjoying" austerity everywhere else [social programs, education, environment, etc] brought on because of the 2007-2008 Great Global Financial Markets Collapse.
Since the great crash of 2008 and the austerity that followed (instead of the government using its size to help more than those at the top "recover") sure feels like all we are doing is being taxed to support the MIC.
So, my answer is hinged on economics, suffering, and the exhaustion of the average person, who sees the hawks in our government as in some constant worked up state to take war to someone, anyone... even Russia, just to appease the MIC donors who fund them.
So, no.
True, its all about economics and money. Not lack of death as such.
I will even suggest that the austerity imposed on citizens by their governments after the 2007-2008 global crash may have even created a class of people [who feel] they have nothing left to lose.
There is nothing worse in any society than having members who are alienated, disconnected, and without hope.
When a society has young people in particular who cannot support themselves [lack of jobs/opportunity], burdened with student loan debt, and who see government at large fully owned and operated by Predatory Elites [Citizens United], this may make them easy targets of recruitment by cults, drug dealers and/or terrorist organizations who promise them, well, anything, as opposed to the "nothing" they currently "enjoy" via austerity and an economy that hasn't recovered for those at the bottom.
Everyone should care what the youth unemployment rate is everywhere on Earth. As of July 2014, in America, it is 14.3%. It gets worse as you break it down by race.
Is a fine line between keeping the masses busy with economic struggle so they don't have time to question what is going on [government, politiks], but, just happy enough that they don't feel they have nothing left to lose [and are ready for anarchy].
Once we have citizens who fear [constant] suffering [economic, spiritual, politikal] more than death, then anything goes.