US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin Photo: REUTERS
The Coming Nuclear War With...The Soviet Union? -- Tom Nichols, National Interest
The Syrian regime has now almost certainly attacked its own people with chemical weapons. Tens upon tens of thousands have died over the two years of the Syrian civil war, easily making it one of the largest conflicts in the region since World War II. And yet, although Syria is a close friend, if not ally, of Russia, there has been no major military crisis between the former Cold War rivals, no impending clash of the great powers over Damascus; instead, the United Nations is ensnared, as usual, in its own bureaucratic bumf.
Calls for intervention against Syria, particularly in the United States, are met with grim warnings about the difficulties and complications of intervening against a third-string Middle Eastern power. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, for example, reportedly confronted Secretary of State John Kerry over striking Syrian air bases. Dempsey told Kerry such an effort would require some seven hundred sorties, and then, according to a report last June, “threw a series of brushback pitches at Kerry, demanding to know just exactly what the post-strike plan would be and pointing out that the State Department didn’t fully grasp the complexity of such an operation.”
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My Comment: The only way that such a conflict could break out is through an unbelievably horrific sequence of accidents, errors, and miscalculations .... otherwise .... nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia is not going to happen. Unfortunately .... this mindset has not impacted their defense budgets .... the money is still being spent on nuclear weapons .... and on both sides.
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