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The greatest tragedy of the entire nuclear period was, and still is, that no massive buildup was happening in the storehouses of good will on which our security and existence depended, as it still does. To the contrary, the United States of America, which is extremely exposed to the nuclear dangers of its own creating, is now threatening almost the entire world in numerous different ways. America has begun to threaten many nations' existence under the doctrine of preemptive regime change by the force of subversion and war. On this warpath, which also has a strong economic equivalent, America has sadly become the most hated nation on the planet. This, all by itself, is a great tragedy if one considers what America once represented.
While a replay of the Cuban Missile Crisis is no longer on the horizon, the type of existential threat that is now sweeping the world has caused an actually deeper crisis that has grown in leaps and bounds. We see a new rise of fascism in the world that becomes increasingly centered in America's. We also see with sense of horror, the world's growing reaction against it. However, we simply don't know at which point the threshold will be crossed when the atrocities of fascism can no longer be endured and someone, somewhere, begins to react in earnest against the existential threats as did Russia in 1962.
The principle for such a reaction to happen is anchored in America's own history. We find it prominently laid out in America's Declaration of Independence.
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
Regime change has become the modern watchword probably on both sides of the fence, and the nuclear weapon has once again put into the forefront of the arena as the Nuclear Posture Report for the New American Century clearly indicates.
Before Russia had developed nuclear weapons, which occurred in 1949, demands had had been made in western policy circles, that the USA wipe Russia off the map preemptively. Luckily this policy thrust had been resisted. The policy of preemption, however, has been revived in recent years, and with it the old ghost has been brought to life again. The target is again Russia, which is surrounded with American bases, with China added. The slogan, "After Baghdad, Beijing!" is already being heard.
Regime change by the power of massive military force has already been achieved in the case of two of the weakest nations on earth. Regime change is also being pursued by means of genocide as in the Middle East wars against Palestine. America's Middle East focus is also rapidly widening, so that a new watchword has been coined, "The Greater Middle East." The new watchword reflects somewhat "The Greater Israel" policy that also originated from American policy circles. We may soon reach the point at which nuclear weapons play a role again, which Israel has already threatened to use against Iran. America too, has officially taken its nuclear arms out of the strategic strong box and placed them on the shelf with three new planning groups assigned for devising strategies for their use.
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