by Matt Taibbi In an irony so miserable it must be true, widespread belief that peace talks are coming under after Donald Trump’s inauguration is pushing Russia and the U.S. into a game of nuclear chicken, leaving us with “60 days to decide on World War,” as one Russian newspaper put it this week….
It is downright puzzling that millions of people aren’t protesting in the streets every day to deescalate the crisis between Russia and the West and pull civilization back from the brink. CHRIS WRIGHT Common Dreams of June 9, 2024 The world is at its most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962….
Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belgium, and the Netherlands … with more on the way? I wouldn’t put it past Biden to eventually include Ukraine in this list of nuclear armed NATO countries. Because of the nukes, Putin has reason to worry about Ukraine in NATO. He always had reason to worry about Ukraine in NATO….
Biden continues to flirt with disaster. At least — as Tom Lehrer said — “we’ll all go together when we go.” Not the sort of togetherness Biden supporters hope for, I suspect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs I heard Professor Jeffrey Sachs, in an interview yesterday, point out that Ukrainians, with U.S. help, are shelling parts of Russia’s…
Reprinted from Common Dreams under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Each of the last five presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, have brought us closer to the brink. We desperately need leaders with a knack for peace who can steer the nation, and the world, toward a more secure and less dangerous future….