{"id":379558,"date":"2018-10-04T00:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T23:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/one-click-closer-to-annihilation\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T00:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T23:59:16","slug":"one-click-closer-to-annihilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/one-click-closer-to-annihilation\/","title":{"rendered":"One Click Closer to Annihilation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The nuclear war doomsday clock maintained on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists website\u00a0has advanced to<\/a>\u00a0two minutes before midnight, the closest point to possible atomic apocalypse since the end of the Cold War. In 1995 the clock was at fourteen minutes to midnight, but the opportunity to set it back even further was lost as the United States and its European allies took advantage of a weakened Russia to advance NATO into Eastern Europe, setting the stage for a new cold war, which is now underway.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to imagine how the United States might avoid a new war in the Middle East given the recent statements that have come out of Washington, and, given that the Russians are also active in the region, a rapid and massive escalation of something that starts out as a minor incident should not be ruled out.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump set the tone when he harangued the United Nations last Tuesday, warning that the United States would go it alone in defense of its perceived interests, with no regard for international bodies that exist to limit armed conflict and punish those who commit war crimes.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s\u00a035-minute speech<\/a>\u00a0featured an anticipated long section targeting Iran. He commented that:
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\u201cIran\u2019s leaders sow chaos, death, and destruction.<\/em>\u00a0They do not respect their neighbors or borders, or the sovereign rights of nations. Instead, Iran\u2019s leaders plunder the nation\u2019s resources to enrich themselves and to spread mayhem across the Middle East and far beyond\u2026 We cannot allow the world\u2019s leading sponsor of terrorism to possess the planet\u2019s most dangerous weapons. We cannot allow a regime that chants \u2018Death to…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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The nuclear war doomsday clock maintained on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists website\u00a0has advanced to\u00a0two minutes before midnight, the closest point to possible atomic apocalypse since the end of the Cold War. In 1995 the clock was at fourteen minutes to midnight, but the opportunity to set it back even further was lost as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}