Nick Waters +SK Media+🇺🇦🌻 And this one where he and a buddy discussed “heading over” to a DC think tank and committing arson?

The war in Ukraine could lead to nuclear war jacobin.com/2022/10/ukrain… Anatol Lieven speaks with Branko Marcetic

The cost of underrating the threat of nuclear war is so much greater than the cost of overrating the threat of nuclear war. This was how foreign policy was conducted among superpowers in the second half of the 20th century and it's terrifying that lesson is getting lost now.

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The risk of nuclear conflict in Ukraine is real and seems like THE thing we ought to be talking about if we care about the future of civilization

it’s been nice knowing you all

I am begging people to please, please share this interview with Anatol Lieven as widely as they can.

Anyone ok with risking nuclear war 'has lost touch with certain elements of basic reality and sanity but also certain aspects of basic morality.'
jacobin.com/2022/10/ukrain…

'Can we not swallow two great Russian defeats and say now it’s time to bring all this fighting to an end? I think it is still the legacy of US wars on Native Americans, Mexicans, World War II, that the only acceptable thing is total victory.' jacobin.com/2022/10/ukrain…

just reported these #NAFO guys for threatening to kill me and my colleagues! very cool behavior

We need more elected officials making this point, beating the drum for de-escalation and saying plainly nothing is worth nuclear war. Please Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley Jamaal Bowman Ed.D, Cori Bush - we need your voices here.

Look at that, holding two positions simultaneously is possible after all

but sure, restrainers and realists at QI are the heartless ones for even questioning US policy vis a vis Ukraine

Farley thinks this is a laughing matter for some reason

Make no mistake, that is what Petraeus et al are proposing: retaliating by eg. writing down Russia's Black Sea fleet, and/or striking any conventional target in theatre, it is raising the risk of an all-out struggle. 2/

Haven't yet heard a compelling case as to why, for the west, Putin's use of tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine turns Ukraine from its status now - a cause worth a proxy war - with limited some risk into a major war with significantly elevated risk of the worst outcome. 1/

We are told by proponents that the use of a nuke would be futile, atrocious and self-defeating, turning Russia into an international pariah. Yet we are also told that its nuclear use *must* be met by a conventional war, lest unthinkable consequences flow. This is incoherent. 3/