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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 5242713" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>Ralph Nader: We had an interview with Ted Postol, the expert on nuclear warfare, professor of</p><p>engineering at MIT, emeritus, and he said that this could rapidly spin out of control. That if you</p><p>put the nuclear weaponry on alert the way Putin did, and they only have radar ground technology</p><p>that can see that can see supposedly what's coming at them, they can make a mistake, as they did</p><p>a couple times. Luckily, the ground person decided not to give the retaliation signal. And the US</p><p>can determine any firing from any international ballistic missile anywhere in the world; it's more</p><p>advanced. And he says that this could lead to an accidental launch or the Russians seeing</p><p>something that isn't coming at them because of deficiency of their detection system. So this</p><p>could be a modern version World War I, the assassination of the grand duke in Sarajevo, leading</p><p>to a clash of egos of the monarchs of Russia, Germany, France, England, Austro-Hungarian</p><p>Empire. And you know how that turned out. So what do you think people in this country should</p><p>be doing?</p><p></p><p>Chris Hedges: Well, I've covered war, of course, and any time you open that Pandora's box of</p><p>war, you don't control it; it controls you. So you just look at the way the kind of bizarre situations</p><p>that we've maneuvered ourselves into in the Middle East. So there is this insane idea of arming</p><p>moderate rebels. Again, this comes from the neocons who, by the way, work in either</p><p>administration. Victoria Nuland was Cheney's chief foreign policy advisor, worked for Obama,</p><p>and now works for Biden. And her husband is Robert Kagan. It's kind of a family business. Fred</p><p>Kagan, is the one told us we better build up our military so we can fight both Russia and China.</p><p>These guys are just nuts. So you saw in Syria where we spent $500 million arming, quote-</p><p>unquote, "moderate" rebels, whatever they are. That creates the Caliphate; they decide to destroy</p><p>it, so they're bombing the forces Assad is attacking. They end up acting as Assad's de facto air</p><p>force. This is what happens in war. You just don't want to go there. And World War I is a good</p><p>analogy. Europe stumbled blindly into this suicidal slaughter. Nobody expected it; nobody</p><p>understood it. They were still kind of mentally locked in the 19th Century Haig. The field</p><p>marshal who led the British forces was convinced that his cavalry forces would deliver the</p><p>crowning defeat to the Germans in the age of machine guns and heavy artillery etc. So yeah, it's</p><p>very, very, very dangerous. You don't want to do this. The whole idea that they have dismissed</p><p>diplomacy and imposed draconian sanctions that are clearly designed to bring Putin down means</p><p>Putin is cornered. And you don't want to corner a nuclear superpower</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.111/c03.434.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Ralph-Nader-Radio-Hour-Ep-423-Transcript.pdf[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 5242713, member: 56035"] Ralph Nader: We had an interview with Ted Postol, the expert on nuclear warfare, professor of engineering at MIT, emeritus, and he said that this could rapidly spin out of control. That if you put the nuclear weaponry on alert the way Putin did, and they only have radar ground technology that can see that can see supposedly what's coming at them, they can make a mistake, as they did a couple times. Luckily, the ground person decided not to give the retaliation signal. And the US can determine any firing from any international ballistic missile anywhere in the world; it's more advanced. And he says that this could lead to an accidental launch or the Russians seeing something that isn't coming at them because of deficiency of their detection system. So this could be a modern version World War I, the assassination of the grand duke in Sarajevo, leading to a clash of egos of the monarchs of Russia, Germany, France, England, Austro-Hungarian Empire. And you know how that turned out. So what do you think people in this country should be doing? Chris Hedges: Well, I've covered war, of course, and any time you open that Pandora's box of war, you don't control it; it controls you. So you just look at the way the kind of bizarre situations that we've maneuvered ourselves into in the Middle East. So there is this insane idea of arming moderate rebels. Again, this comes from the neocons who, by the way, work in either administration. Victoria Nuland was Cheney's chief foreign policy advisor, worked for Obama, and now works for Biden. And her husband is Robert Kagan. It's kind of a family business. Fred Kagan, is the one told us we better build up our military so we can fight both Russia and China. These guys are just nuts. So you saw in Syria where we spent $500 million arming, quote- unquote, "moderate" rebels, whatever they are. That creates the Caliphate; they decide to destroy it, so they're bombing the forces Assad is attacking. They end up acting as Assad's de facto air force. This is what happens in war. You just don't want to go there. And World War I is a good analogy. Europe stumbled blindly into this suicidal slaughter. Nobody expected it; nobody understood it. They were still kind of mentally locked in the 19th Century Haig. The field marshal who led the British forces was convinced that his cavalry forces would deliver the crowning defeat to the Germans in the age of machine guns and heavy artillery etc. So yeah, it's very, very, very dangerous. You don't want to do this. The whole idea that they have dismissed diplomacy and imposed draconian sanctions that are clearly designed to bring Putin down means Putin is cornered. And you don't want to corner a nuclear superpower [URL unfurl="true"]https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.111/c03.434.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Ralph-Nader-Radio-Hour-Ep-423-Transcript.pdf[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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