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Russia could launch NUCLEAR strikes using Belarus for cover from West as world now in first days of WW3,… – The US Sun

Posted: October 15, 2022 at 4:11 pm

RUSSIA could use Belarus to launch nuclear strikes as the world enters what could be the early days of World War 3, a Putin foe has warned.

Kyiv would be destroyed in minutes if Belarus followed Mad Vlad's orders to nuke it with Moscow's missiles, warned Dr Yuri Felshtinsky.

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Dr Felshtinsky, author of Blowing Up Ukraine, told The Sun Online: "We are in 1939, 1940 now and February 24 will be written in history books as the beginning of [World War 3]

"This was our September 1, 1939.

"The question is, how will this war continue and how much will we pay for it?"

The Russian-born academic, who now lives in the US, said Putin is too scared to take on Nato head-to-head in a confrontation.

So he would instead force Minsk into launching a nuclear strike as a proxy - testing the resolve of the West.

Russia is feared to turn the war nuclear, but has been warned by Nato it would face a colossal response from the West.

"Knowing Putin and knowing how he looks for unconventional ways to deal with it, he probably would try to move nuclear weapons to Belarus," Dr Felshtinsky told The Sun Online.

"No one is talking about Belarus and the reason why I think no one is talking about Belarus is, because there is of course an order not to talk about it, but also because Putin has plans to use nuclear weapons to strike from there."

So far, Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko - known as Europe's last dictator - has stopped short of joining Moscow in Ukraine.

But it has allowed Russia to launch drones, fighter jets and troops from within its territory - including being one of the staging areas for the initial assault on Kyiv at the start of the war.

And that could soon change after the Putin's close pal announced Minsk and Moscow would deploy a "joint military group" - and Ukraine claims Russia plans to move up to 20,000 troops into the Belarus.

And in a blow to the West in August, Lukashenko said his country's warplanes had been modified to carry nuclear weapons from Russia - and earlier this year Russia vowed to send him Iskander nuclear-capable missiles.

Lukashenko has also sparked panic among Western leaders when he baselessly accused Nato of mulling over a nuclear attack on Minsk - a comment many see a pretext for Belarus joining the war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian intelligence has reported that Putin is attempting to pressure Lukashenko to join the war in Ukraine.

And earlier this year, Belarus announced it was lifting a ban on nuclear weapons - further stoking fears.

Both the Russian and Belarus governments allow themselves to frighten and blackmail the entire Europe and Ukraine first of all with nuclear strike

Dr Felshtinsky told The Sun Online: "Russia has no conventional army and the only way to lift the nuclear threat, the West or NATO or both, must concentrate on Belarus because I don't believe Putin will use nuclear weapons from Russian territory.

"This would be absolutely suicidal for him.

"I would concentrate on Belarus and try to take Belarus out of Putin's control."

It comes as Putin and his bumbling entourage were left red faced when his prized Crimean exploded into a fireball on Saturday.

The bridge, which connects Crimea to mainland Russia and is a vital supply route for Putin's troops in southern Ukraine, partially collapsed after an explosion rocked a section of the bridge in an attack believed to have been carried out by Ukraine's secret service.

In response, Putin unleashed a flurry of rockets across Ukraine, hitting critical civilian infrastructure in a bid to "wipe Ukraine off the map", according to President Zelensky.

Putin called Kyiv a "nuclear terrorists" and warned it would hit with more devastating attacks.

He said: "If attempts to carry out terrorist attacks on our territory continue, Russia's responses will be harsh and, in terms of their scale, will correspond to the level of threats posed by the Russian Federation.

"Nobody should have any doubts about this," he said.

Dr Felshtinsky said Putin is looking for a "quick win" in Ukraine to prove to ordinary Russians that the army was in control and winning on the battlefield following a string of embarrassing losses.

"Putin is trying to claim some victory and does it mainly for Russians and to support this idea that you cannot try to take back Russian territories. It's a kind of a childish game but that's where he is at this point.

"So, he will try to annex more territory and occupy more territory. It's questionable whether he would be able to do this because after seven months of war, he has no conventional army or forces available to fight in Ukraine."

Dr Felshtinksy said the only way to stop Putin was to deliver Russia a "decisive defeat".

"When I say decisively, I mean the level of capitulation which Germany faced in 1945 or which Japan faced in 1945."

He said Ukraine has "all rights to strike preventively against Belarus and Russia" while the war is going on, especially when "both the Russian and Belarus governments allow themselves to frighten and blackmail the entire Europe and Ukraine first of all with nuclear strike".

He said: "This war for Putin is against EU, Nato, Europe and the USA. In order to stop it within Ukrainian borders, we need to help Ukraine as much as we can with weapons and money.

"We need to give the Ukrainian army free hands to conduct this was the way which leads to the victory over Putin."

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How to Fix Error Code 40302 in World War 3 – Followchain

Posted: October 6, 2022 at 12:31 pm

Are you getting an error code 40302 in World War 3?

Heres the second part of the error message, CHANGENAME.USER NOT AUTHORIZED.

Followed by, THE TOKEN IS INVALID.

WW3 turned into a free-to-play game in September 2022.

As a result, it attracted a ton of new players which contributed to server issues.

The game is available on the official website and on Steam.

In this guide, youll learn why youre getting the error code 40302 in World War 3 and how to fix it.

Youre getting the error code 40302 in World War 3 because the server is currently full.

If the server is full, youll be restricted from joining it until its less crowded.

Many users are reporting the error on social media and forums.

By trying to remove half-filled servers, youve unintentionally limited the number of servers available for players, now theres a queue of thousands of players trying to get into your game. You should revert it to how it was.

Hello WW3, your game is really cool but Ive some problems (40302 ) (151 something went wrong). Can you help me ?.

6 hours to download the game, 3 hours waiting for the server to start up because due to technical issues. Another 3 hours of playing this game over and over again. Then there is an authorization problem that made me quit the game and wait in line.

How to fix error code 40302 in World War 3, you need to spam-click the Try Againbutton until you can access the server.

Otherwise, you need to wait until the server is less crowded before joining it.

If the game is under maintenance, you need to wait for the in-game maintenance to complete.

You can check if the game is under maintenance by following @ww3thegame on Twitter.

The games official blog stated that you might experience certain gameplay and technical issues.

This is due to the overwhelming number of players due to the free-to-play release of the game.

The increase in the player count has overloaded the games servers.

If youre still having trouble, you can contact MY.GAMES support here: https://support.my.games/ww3.

Alternatively, you can contact them on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/MYGAMES/.

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‘NATO would have to respond’: WW3 fears ramp up over worries of ‘Russian attack’ on Poland – Express

Posted: at 12:31 pm

Since Vladimir Putin's annexation of four Ukrainian regions to Russia, military experts have warned an attack with NATO equipment on one of the regions could be interpreted as an offensive on Russia's territorial sovereignty. The West's continuous supply of NATO weapons to Ukraine could then plunge the military alliance into a direct conflict with the Russian Federation. US Senator Marco Rubio said his main concern is that Russian troops could target a distribution point in a NATO country like Poland, raising the prospect of a Third World War.

Senator Marco Rubio said: "I think that is quite possible that he could end up striking some of these distribution places where these supplies are coming through, including inside Poland.

"A lot of talk about nuclear, but I think the thing I worry most about is a Russian attack inside NATO territory for example aiming at the airport in Poland or some other distribution point."

CNN's Dana Bash asked: "Would NATO have to respond?"

"Well, I think it would depend on the nature of the strike and how the other allies within NATO would respond," Senator Rubio said.

"There certainly would be an attack on one.

"And therefore, certainly NATO would have to respond to it.

"How will it respond? I think a lot of it will depend on the nature of the attack and the scale and scope of it."

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Nuclear bunker in Britain on sale for just 28,000 as Putin pushes the world to the brink of WW3… – The Sun

Posted: at 12:31 pm

A NUCLEAR bunker in Britain is up for grabs for just 28,000 as Putin pushes the world to the brink of WW3.

The former ROC Nuclear Monitoring Post in Quadring Eaudyke, near Peterborough, is one of 1,500 spread across the UK.

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The bunker was bought by Phillip Frostick, 56, in 1993 after it was spotted by his friends dad in a newspaper.

He and a pal bought it with big plans to do it up - but gave up on the idea when they realised the full extent of the cost and effort it would take.

While it lay abandoned for the last thirty years, it was broken into, trashed and burned - with valuables lost including an award won for the best kept bunker.

But Phillip believes that it could take just a few weekends of hard work to bring it back to fighting shape.

He said: "At the time it was really bought as a bit of a folly, but we never knew what it might become.

We thought we could do great things with it - and over the years I cant lie and say that Ive never dropped it into conversation.

At the back of my mind its not getting better - hopefully there will be a club or a history buff that has got a bit more enthusiasm and energy than I have to bring it back to what it would be like."

Many of the monitoring posts were built to a standard design consisting of a 14ft access shaft with a toilet and a monitoring room.

Officers stationed at the posts would forecast which areas would be in danger from nuclear fall out in the case of an attack.

They were built underground with many still intact nearly 70 years on from when they were first commissioned in 1955.

With a guide price of 21,000 to 28,000, potential buyers can view the bunker on Unique Property Bulletin.

Russ McLean, who set up Unique Property Bulletin in 1987, says a surge of Brits are considering bunkers as tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine continue.

Many fear the crisis inUkrainecould develop into a wider armed conflict or evolve into World War 3.

Mr McLean, who served in the police and the Royal Navy, claims to have fielded more than 3,000 calls, emails and texts from Brits terrified by what Putin might do.

He said: It bothered me. I was almost in tears and losing my bearings at times.

"It is not a small number - there is a huge national distress of people that are worried.

Now in Britain people are either building it or when these things come up - your click rate goes through the roof.

No telephone was provided, but the posts had a Warning receiver to know when to sound the hand operated siren, and the master post in each area had a radio for a backup to the landline intercom device.

The 63-year-old continued: There are seven bunkers we have sold in the past 10 years.

When Putin invaded, our clucks started going up significantly and noticeably in the two weeks that they invaded.

They have never really come back down.

My phone goes at least twice a day where you have a conversation with someone about nuclear bunkers.

I get at least two a day - it averages at three and you can add another thousand on for good measure.

Thats phone calls - thats not emails, thats not texts, so you can double that figure.

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‘Irregular presence’: Putin sends bombers to nuclear weapons base as fears of WW3 rise – Express

Posted: at 12:31 pm

Vladimir Putin has sent a fleet of bombers to a military base housing a large supply of nuclear weapons, sparking fears of World War 3. The Russian President has upped the stakes in his war in Ukraine, after illegally annexing four new provinces. During a carefully choreographed ceremony in Moscow, Putin announced on Friday that the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia would now be formally considered part of Russia.

He emphasised that the Kremlin would "use all means" at its disposal to protect the newly incorporated territories.

Analysts interpreted the phrase as yet another threat by Putin to deploy his nuclear arsenal, if the West continues to support Kyiv's army.

Newly released satellite images appear to show that the Russian President may be prepared to make good on his threats.

Israeli intelligence firm ImageSat International (ISI) said they had detected an "irregular presence" of Russian TU-160 and TU-95 strategic bombers at the Olenya Airbase near Finland.

Satellite photos taken by the company revealed the presence of four TU-160s at the base on August 21 and three TU-95s on September 25th.

The military base is located on the Kola Peninsula near Murmansk and houses a number of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, as well as Russia's Northern Fleet.

Around 5,000 Russian soldiers are believed to be stationed in the city.

Serhii Cherevatyi, a spokesperson for Ukraines eastern forces, told Reuters: "Lyman is important because it is the next step towards the liberation of the Ukrainian Donbas.

"It is an opportunity to go further to Kreminna and Sievierodonetsk, and it is psychologically very important."

Images on social media depicted Ukrainian soldiers raising a Ukrainian flag on the outskirts of the city.

Luhansks governor, Serhiy Haidai, said on his Telegram channel: "The occupiers trapped in Lyman asked the Russian command to allow them to leave the city, but were refused."

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Here’s where you should live if World War III happens – msnNOW

Posted: September 27, 2022 at 9:06 am

It is possible that Russia could launch nuclear missiles at London, a former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed.

On whether nuclear missiles could come to London, Russian political scientist Sergei Markov claimed on BBC Radio 4s Today programme yes, it is possible.

He said the situation could be created if Great Britain continue to be aggressor against Russia, if Prime Minister of Great Britain Liz Truss still has plans to destroy Russia.

He added: People in London should understand that this threat comes from Liz Truss, who is the aggressor. Stop the war against Russia on the Ukrainian territory.

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In light of that, weve collected a list of ten countries you should probably high tail it to if a third world war was to break out.

Weve based them on the Global Peace Index 2017, and a video which you can see below, that resurfaced online about the best countries to be in a WW3 situation.

Here's the top ten counties:

Ireland practises military neutrality, and has been internationally neutral since the 1930s. If WW3 does break, it will probably keep that neutrality.

Switzerland has the oldest history of military neutrality, established during the Treaty of Paris in 1815. They have not participated in a foreign war since then. Its mountains are also fortified against foreign invasion, making it an ideal place to stow away in the event of a world war.

When it comes to self-sustainability, Slovenias developing thermal, solar and hydroelectric power sources mean that if there is an international conflict, they dont need to rely on another country for energy. Coupled with the fact that they largely managed to stay out of both WW1 and WW2, we can only assume theyll continue this isolationist behaviour and steer clear of global conflicts.

An island in the south pacific ocean, Fiji is geographically in an isolated, and therefore fairly safe place. It isnt landlocked, and the government has traditionally kept out of global conflicts.

Denmark is an outlier in this list: though it may get dragged in to a war via their status in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (on the side of Europe), it has a trump card: Greenland. The region is non-politically unaligned and fairly remote.

Austria ranks 4th out of 163 countries on the Global Peace Index 2017. If that isn't enough to entice you, note that in the areas of conflict, militarisation and society and security, it scored below 1.5 out of five.

Coming in at third in the Global Peace Index, Portugal has become, according to Politico, an oasis of stability.

Far-right populism, which is sweeping across Europe, remains largely absent in the country and they have kept out of most conflicts since the WW2, making them stable internally and externally.

One of the best things going for this country is its commitment to self-sustenance: it gets over half of its electricity from hydroelectric power, and has fertile land, making crop production possible in the event that theyre cut off from the rest of the world.

As well as its remote location, New Zealand is a solid choice for a home in the event of a world war.

Canada is the 8th most peaceful country in the world according to the Global Peace Index 2017. It scored a 1.1 out of five for domestic and international conflict, making it one of the least involved countries when it comes to war.

Iceland scored a one on the Global Peace Index, making it the most peaceful country in the world.

In addition, the country is geographically far away from powers involved in global conflict (such as America, North Korea, Russia and Iran), making it the best hiding place.

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China sending thousands of troops to RUSSIA for massive war games amid fears Putin & Xi are plotting WW3… – The US Sun

Posted: August 22, 2022 at 11:49 pm

CHINA is set to pour thousands of troops into Russia to stage huge war games as tensions with other countries hit boiling point.

It comes amid fears Russia and China's leaders Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are plotting for World War 3 to break out with the West.

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Both countries have made repeated chilling threats to blast the UK and US as tensions simmer over Ukraine and Taiwan.

Just this month, China extended its largest-ever exercises around Taiwanbeyond the four days originally scheduled in retaliation over Nancy Pelosi's visit - including rehearsing sinking US submarines.

The country hadalso bragged about its ability to sink US aircraft carriers using hypersonic missiles.

Meanwhile, Russia has issued a string of threats to the West during its invasion of Ukraine.

One of Putin's cronies previously boasted Moscow's Satan-2 nuke can demolish "half of the US coast".

In another warning, Russian state TV said Britain could be bombed "back to the stone age" in ten minutes usingPutin's "unstoppable"7,000mph hypersonic nuke missiles.

But China's ministry yesterday insisted Beijing's participation in the latest joint exercises was "unrelated to the current international and regional situation".

Last month, Moscow announced plans to hold exercises from August 30 to September 5, even as it wages a costly war in Ukraine.

China's ministry said: "The aim is to deepen practical and friendly cooperation with the armies of participating countries, enhance the level of strategic collaboration among the participating parties, and strengthen the ability to respond to various security threats."

Under Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Putin, Beijing and Moscow have grown increasingly close.

A year ago, Russia and China held joint military exercises in north-central China involving more than 10,000 troops.

In October, Russia and China held joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan.

Days later, Russian and Chinese warships held their first joint patrols in the western Pacific.

Shortly before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Beijing and Moscow announced a "no limits" partnership.

It comes as Putin also cozies up to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Putin has written to the tyrant to form a pact to unite the pariah nations against the "hostile" West.

The concerning kinship has stoked fear among security agencies who fear their alliance could result in disastrous consequences.

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Russia and China ‘prepared to go further’ with AI weapons for WW3 advantage, expert says – Daily Star

Posted: August 8, 2022 at 12:16 pm

Russia and China will be more willing to push the boundaries of AI weaponry, a drone warfare expert claimed in a chilling warning.

Professor Peter Lee, a military drone and automation expert at the University of Portsmouth, has warned that although today's AI weaponry is still a way off the sci-fi films, when it does arrive some countries will likely be prepared to let them run riot more than others.

He says the big question is: "How much permission will you give it to think for itself?"

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Professor Lee said: For example, you cant give a drone full autonomy, I mean absolute human autonomy, because it might decide to change sides.

If something is fully autonomous in theory that is what they can do.

Increasingly autonomous weapons will bring some benefit, but the UKs current position is it will not develop fully autonomous drones.

Autonomous weapons as they are being conceived at the moment are very far short of the science fiction that we see in iRobot and Terminator and similar films.

The expert added that while some aspects of autonomous weaponry are developing faster than others, at some point a difficult decision will need to be made about how much freedom countries give it.

He said: The thing that will be politically controversial, at least in the UK and the West, is what level of autonomy do you give the weapons systems to select its own targets without a human authorising.

At the moment that's not been decided and is still being discussed."

In theory, the more AI makes its own calls the more scope there is for things to go badly wrong, the expert believes.

Professor Lee continued: At some point in the next 10 to 30 years, there will be a divergence between those countries that are willing to allow machines to make more decisions and machines that will be more constrained.

The UK for example would be on the more constrained side because of its international legal commitments, I'm confident of that.

Russia, I am less confident of. China, Im less confident. So those are some of the big challenges."

Discussing why Russia and China might be more prepared to give autonomous weapons more freedom he said: They appear not to be constrained in what they are willing to do.

"Look at Russia, it has bombed a hundred hospitals and military hospitals and medical facilities [in] Ukraine deliberately. You don't hit that many by accident.

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You have to say that is a country that is not very concerned about the well-being of civilians in a war zone.

Therefore when you translate that approach to the use of autonomous weapons it does suggest there will be fewer constraints."

Professor Lee compared it to how eager President Joe Biden was to claim no-one else was killed in the recent assassination of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

He added: If you think about the effort that President Biden went to last night to explain how carefully planned the strike against Zawahiri was not to hit civilians [and] avoid collateral damage you can see politically thats obviously important."

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Taiwan is part of China? I think Taiwan might disagree.

There is no official entity called Taiwan, not even on that island itself. That island is the home to the Republic of China, while the mainland is the People's Republic of China. Both governments claim the other party as theirs.

The US and the rest of the international community have also acknowledged the One China policy, and almost all recognize the PRC as "China", because it represents 98.6% of Chinese population and 99.4% of Chinese territory, rather than the 1.4% who live on the small island near the mainland and represent the other political entity.

Whether out of shortsightedness, ignorance or shear exceptionalist arrogance, politicians like Pelosi as well as Rep. chickenhawks in the McCain/Cheney mold have been pushing the ROC to officially relinquish its status and become an independent republic of Taiwan. This is going to automatically trigger the invasion of this island by the PRC, a war where the US will have to be involved more directly than in Ukraine, in a conflict that could easily spiral into WW3.

It's also a war that the PRC has been preparing for for the last several decades, and a war that they will absolutely win, regardless of what it might cost them in human life or economic loss, or how many American aircraft carriers they will have to sink in the process.

So once again, idiots people are leading Taiwan down the primrose path, which would result in them being wrecked. The parallels with Ukraine are striking...

To the extent that anyone can "win" a war between the US and China it wouldn't be China that comes out ahead. Even the Chinese would admit that.

How many wars has China fought lately? I think they will find themselves woefully unprepared compared to the US which has been fighting wars across the globe for the better part of last century and all of this century.

Obviously if there is a "war" between China and Taiwan, China will have its way. And historically China has run wild over its population with reckless disregard and fairly little pushback but a lot has changed in the last few decades. The rise of the Chinese middle class has been incredible and made it harder for the CCP to have its way without worrying about blowback. To be clear, the CCP needs to worry about what Chinese people think about before invading and destroying Taiwan and the US can influence that state of affairs if it should so choose.

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This simplistic view of Chinese public opinion is off base. People in China have diverse and well-formed views on a wide range of public policy issues. Not all citizens are supportive of current government policies, nor do all their views reflect state propaganda. And, despite the risks, they are willing to share their opinions.

By contrast, Pan and Xu's research shows that, on average, wealthier and more educated Chinese are more, not less likely, to hold politically liberal, pro-market, and non-nationalistic views. This is particularly significant at a time when the government is taking an increasingly illiberal, statist, and nationalistic turn. While not a sign that China is on its way to democratization, the data indicate that the party-state must contend with well-formed ideological views among its citizens that diverge with its own and is pursuing policies that face substantial, even if quiet, public opposition.Pan and Xu argue that plenty of Chinese are very patriotic but very few are supportive of war in pursuit of those goals. This is especially true for wealthier, more educated respondents. This finding echoes the results of a survey from two decades ago, which showed that China's emerging middle class was far more internationalist and opposed to militarism than other social groups.

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Nancy Pelosis stopover in Taiwan may be brave or foolhardy, but the Chinese reaction so far (lots of live-fire weapons drills close to the island nation, along with acts of cyber-sabotage) suggests how threatened the government of the Peoples Republic of China feels.

The New York Times columnist Tom Friedman even suggested that her visit could touch off WW3. Its a measure of the strangeness of political face (we denigrate the Chinese preoccupation with face, as if our credibility did not amount to exactly the same thing) when the diplomatic visit of a lone government official can become the kind of spark that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand played in setting off WW1. But almost any inadvertency could start WW3, because deterrence, to work (until it doesnt work that is) requires hair-trigger preparedness.

Its an outrage, its evil, its incredibly stupid, and it ought to be illegal under international law. Oh, wait a minute, it isillegal under international law. See the Kellogg-Briand pact against war, in force since 1929; the treaty on Nuclear Weapons Proliferation (NPT), in force since 1971; and also the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in the process of being ratified by a majority of the worlds nations and having the force of international law applicable to allsince 22 January 2021.

Democratic nuclear powers rationalize their weapons as good because their governments are representative, but in reality, world-ending weapons are all world-ending, not good nuclear weapons because they are in the hands of good people or bad nuclear weapons because they are in the hands of totalitarian dictators. The catastrophe resulting from escalating into even a limited nuclear war would render such a distinction meaningless.

Nobody, including both the non-democracies and the democracies, wants war. Meanwhile the deterrence system remains a holocaust waiting to happen that would dwarf the Nazi Holocaust. Nuclear policy consists of mulish refusal of nuclear nations to come together in their own self-interest and move beyond obsolete, unworkable games of chicken. All these smart people interested in wielding power seem blind to the reality that it is perfectly feasible technologically to verifiably, reciprocally reduce nuclear weapons to zero, thereby raising humankind's chances of survival considerably.

The merciless and pointless invasion of Ukraine and the equally pointless war China threatens to make on Taiwan (or the second Gulf war for that matter) indicate a profound sickness in power dynamicsthe failure to act upon the truth that we are all in this together on one small planet, and we either are going to destroy everything or learn to get along and save everything. The cries of the hungry and displaced are not cries for trillions of dollars to be spent in endless arms renewal.

President Biden is a good, decent public servant, but he presides over what Elaine Scarry calls a thermonuclear monarchy, identical to the nuclear monarchies of oligarch-dictators like Putin and Xi Jinping.

Where is citizen mobilization around a larger vision of self-interest that would yield servant leadership at the top? Limitless egocentricity insists that the whole nuclear system continue merely for a few men to preserve their power. In the U.S. this egocentricity manifests of course in the phenomenon of Trump, who identifies with dictators and wouldnt mind being one.

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The misunderstanding of power dynamics on the part of these leaders, the utter failure to see past the short-term to the actual state of the Earth at this moment in the great unfolding story of the human experiment, is breathtaking.

Mulishness, even if it is an insult to mules, may be the word to describe this complete misunderstanding, this narrowness of focus on remaining in power at all costs, including the casual willingness to use even nuclear threats in defense of that power. When leaders try to maintain a deterrent system which can fail at any moment for the flimsiest of reasons, the far, far greater power of nuclear weapons is going to inevitably come back to bite us all in our collective butts with its poisonous fangs.

When it comes to the environment, the reality of our oneness as a species has begun to penetrate, but not nearly far enough into the collective soul to make the necessary difference. The ecophilosopher Thomas Berry asserts that this moment on the planet, the radical degradation of our oceans, our air, our soil, along with the rapid extinction of thousands of species of birds and insects and other forms of life, represents the end of the 65 million year period of the Cenozoic, which began with the demise of the dinosaurs.

Our energy as a species must now be focused upon bringing the whole Earth community together into a new moment of creative collaboration, which Berry has called the Ecozoic. That task far transcends the obsolete power dynamics, based in fear, hate and helplessness, that energizes not only the leaders of too many nations but too many of their followers as well.

Ultimately nuclear weapons and environmental disaster represent an identical misunderstanding of our interdependence with each other and the biosystem.

We are, as Berry says, at the end of an old, unworkable story. The new story, whatever form it may take, involves the harnessing of our creative energies in the context of forces infinitely larger and more mysterious than the political ego.

As one example of what might encourage us to move safely into the future, we need look no further than the Webb telescopeto the cooperative spirit displayed by scientists from 14 nations who realized the project. Even more importantly, let us look to the vision the Webb reveals of our place among hundreds of billions of galaxies. We humans are an integral part of 13.85 billion years of creativity. We are the universe looking at itself in wonder. That wonder has the potential to dissolve our obstinate mulishness, re-energizing our politics, our economics, our religious convictions, and our understanding of self-interest.

Crossposted from PeaceVoice

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