Sleepwalking to the Apocalypse

Where are the anti-nuke protesters when WWIII is actually on the horizon?

We are closer today, this week, to a nuclear war with Russia — to the Third World War — than we have ever been since the United States dropped two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 and changed the world forever. NATO continues to bait Russia with more shipments of weapons to Ukraine and is now, actively promoting the concept of NATO troops directly intervening in the war with the inevitable and now imminent collapse of Ukrainian forces.

This is a plea for peace from a man who proudly served in the military, opposed communism his entire adult life but who believes nuclear war is never a solution — it is a suicide pact.

-David Krayden

The United Kingdom has already talked about raising a “citizen army” to fight the Russians. France’s mentally enfeebled President Emmanuel Macron has also urged his countrymen to defend democracy by waging war in Ukraine. Of course it’s all madness; but NATO doesn’t seem to get the point. Russia will not tolerate NATO’s direct intervention in this war and will ultimately use nuclear weapons to deter further Western escalation.

There is little point in noting that Ukraine is not characterized by any kind of democratic government but by being the most corrupt nation in Europe. NATO cannot be said to be fighting for democracy when Ukraine cancels presidential elections and persecutes the political opponents of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The hundreds of billions of dollars that delusional politicians from Washington to London have sent to Ukraine have only served to prolong the war, kill Ukrainian soldiers, finance the Military-Industrial Complex and enrich the venal politicians and oligarchs who rule Ukrainian society.

NATO is a military alliance without a clear military or political objective; a club of fools that used to be a stolid and singular partnership resolved to contain the Soviet Union and communism; a gang of knaves bent on preserving its privilege. But it has become little more than a catalyst for conflict and a vested interest whose leadership believes the organization requires no justification beyond its own continued existence. It lost its way decades ago and should have been buried with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disbandment of the Warsaw Pact.