Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
Hillary Clinton\u00a0on many occasions and consistently<\/span><\/a>\u00a0said that as President she would impose a no-fly zone over Syria, as she and President Obama had done in 2011 in Libya. She said this though Russian planes and missiles have been flying over Syria since 30 September 2015, at the invitation of the legitimate and universally recognized government of Syria, whereas the U.S. and its allies are only invaders in Syria and in that country would be killing not only Syrians but also Russians. (By contrast: Russian planes weren\u2019t<\/i> defending Muammar Gaddafi\u2019s government.) She said this though America\u2019s imposing a no-fly zone anywhere in Syria would mean the U.S. shooting down Russian planes and missiles, and Russia shooting down American planes and missiles, thus constituting the first-ever direct warfare between Russia and the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n What would happen once one side or the other is about to be defeated in that conventional air-war? Would the soon-to-be-defeated side surrender, or would it instead initiate a nuclear attack against the prospective winner of that conventional war, which would be the only way to avoid<\/i> defeat?<\/span><\/p>\n Obviously, the likely outcome if Hillary Clinton were to have been elected President would be nuclear war between Russia and the United States. Her policy to impose a no-fly zone over any portion of Syria would almost certainly have led to nuclear war. Nuclear weapons exist in order to prevent defeat, and this is the reason why there has never yet been a conventional war between nuclear powers \u2014 but Hillary Clinton was committed to starting a conventional war between the two nuclear superpowers.<\/span><\/p>\n Consequently, the 47% of American voters who voted for Hillary Clinton were voting for (regardless of whatever else<\/i> they were voting for) nuclear war against Russia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Who, then, were those voters who voted for World War III? Let\u2019s look at\u00a0<\/b>the exit-polls and see whom the voters were who were voting for nuclear war:<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 54% of women were.<\/span><\/p>\n 88% of Blacks were.<\/span><\/p>\n 65% of Hispanics were.<\/span><\/p>\n 65% of Asians were.<\/span><\/p>\n 55% of ages 18-29 were.<\/span><\/p>\n 58% of postgraduate-degreed voters were.<\/span><\/p>\n 53% of voters under $30,000 income were.<\/span><\/p>\n 59% of urban voters were.<\/span><\/p>\n 89% of Democrats were.<\/span><\/p>\n 84% of liberals were.<\/span><\/p>\n 71% of Jews were.<\/span><\/p>\n 68% of non-religious voters were.<\/span><\/p>\n 59% of non-evangelical Christians were,<\/span><\/p>\n 55% of married voters were.<\/span><\/p>\n 78% of GLBT voters were.<\/span><\/p>\n 90% of voters who said the country is going in \u201cgenerally the right direction\u201d were.<\/span><\/p>\n 60% of voters whose most important issue was \u201cForeign policy” were.<\/span><\/p>\n 84% of voters who approve of Obama\u2019s job-performance were.<\/span><\/p>\n 90% of voters whose \u201cmost important candidate quality\u201d was \u201chas the right experience\u201d were.<\/span><\/p>\n 82% of voters who said Hillary Clinton would be the \u201cBetter commander in chief\u201d did.<\/span><\/p>\n 59% of voters who expect the next generation to have a \u201cBetter life than today\u201d were.<\/span><\/p>\n Either those voters didn\u2019t know what they were doing when they voted, or they actually wanted nuclear war.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And Hillary Clinton wasn\u2019t just pro-nuclear-war in only<\/i> the matter of a no-fly-zone over Syria; she also consistently supported\u00a0two other policies that would greatly increase the probability of nuclear war against Russia<\/span><\/a>, but neither of those policies would virtually assure a nuclear war, like the U.S. imposition of a no-fly zone in Syria would. Donald Trump stood opposed to Clinton on all three<\/i> of her policy-positions that would have been leading us into a nuclear war. No major-Party U.S. Presidential candidate has ever been even nearly<\/i> as fully committed to a U.S. invasion of Russia as Hillary Clinton was, but she almost won the U.S. Presidency, despite that fact.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n One therefore must wonder: if the voters for Hillary Clinton had known that they were voting for nuclear war, would they have voted for her? Do they simply not care whether there will be a nuclear war within the next few months or years? And how could they say that Hillary Clinton would make the \u201cBetter commander in chief\u201d and say that the next generation would have a \u201cBetter life than today\u201d if she were President, than if Trump were? Did somebody tell them that type of foolishness? Who told them that? Why did they tell them that?<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse Hillary Clinton\u00a0on many occasions and consistently\u00a0said that as President she would impose a no-fly zone over Syria, as she and President Obama had done in 2011 in Libya. 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