Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #NuclearWar

Seshadri Kumar

@KumarSeshadri

There Will Be No #WWIII !!!

Headlines in the Western media suggest that the US is determined to impose harsh #economicsanctions on China for allegedly "planning to supply Russia with weapons."

This is actually great news. A 🧵 to explain why. (1/n)

China has denied the allegations, which only say that China is "planning to supply Russia with weapons," not that they have actually supplied weapons. But the US doesn't care about reality, only about its own decisions. Ask #Iraq . There were never any #WMD (2/n)

If China is not supplying weapons to Russia, why sanction China? Because China is an economic lifeline for Russia. China buying Russian energy and natural resources is what helps Russians get everything they need in return. As long as this goes on, sanctions will fail. (3/n)

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🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋

@DeepBlueCrypto

The truth is nobody wins in wars except the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex and the #WarMachine financing banking systems sucking in billions of taxpayer dollars into the coffers of weapons manufacturers, infra builders and corrupt politicians.

A thread 🧵👇

Here’s a prev thread on wars and the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex

https://twitter.com/DeepBlueCrypto/status/1616096612027334656

#MilitaryIndustrialComplex #Warmongers #UkraineRussiaWar #MoneyLaundering #UkraineBioLabs

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hem_day

@hem_day

🇷🇺⚡️Oleg Morozov, a member of the State Duma in Russia, said that statements about confrontation between NATO and Russia could lead to a nuclear collapse.
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#russia #ukrainewar #nato #ukraine #nuclearwar

He added that this type of rhetoric would not change the goal of a special operation and called the statement by Admiral Rob Bauer, the chairman of NATO's military committee, "monstrous."
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Earlier, the chairman of NATO's military committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, noted that the alliance is ready for a direct confrontation with Russia.
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Lori Spencer

@RealLoriSpencer

At the height of #ColdWar tensions with #Russia, the Soviets might have been pleased—or understandably frightened—to know that #JFK distrusted America’s military and intelligence establishment almost as much as they did. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Kennedy had barely settled into the Oval Office when Admiral Arleigh Burke planned to publicly assail “the Soviet Union from hell to breakfast” in a speech.

#JFK ordered the admiral to back off & required all military officers to clear any public speeches with the White House!

President Kennedy’s biggest worry about the military was not the personalities involved but rather the freedom of field commanders to launch nuclear weapons without explicit permission from the commander in chief.

So he issued orders that no nuclear launch without POTUS approval

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Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇦

@ZarinaZabrisky

☢️ #Putin did not just speak of #DirtyBomb now. From day one, seizing #Chornobyl, and March 3, seizing #Zaporizhzia #nuclear #PowerPlant, the #Kremlin keeps threatening. Usually, they follow up on what they say. 🧵⬇️ #NuclearWar (1/?)

"on 6 March, RIA Novosti quoted a representative of the Russian Federation who declared: 'Kyiv used the Chornobyl nuclear power plant zone for work on the manufacture of a ‘dirty’ bomb and the separation of plutonium.' bylinetimes.com/2022/03/28/cho…

I reportedly repeated from both #Chornobyl and #Zaporizhzhia. Here is from #Zaporizhzia, live, explaining what may happen:

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

@BulletinAtomic

THREAD: In a nuclear war, hundreds or thousands of detonations would occur within minutes of each other. Smoke from mass fires after the detonations would inject massive amounts of soot into the stratosphere.

As this simulation from @AlanRobock illustrates, a nuclear war between the US & Russia, could waft more than 150 Tg of soot into the stratosphere, leading to a nuclear winter that would disrupt virtually all forms of life on Earth over several decades.

Injecting this much soot into the stratosphere could make global temperatures drop by 8 degrees Celsius—3 degrees lower than Ice Age values.

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Graviola Finland

@GraviolaDOTfi

#MinskProtocol.. say what?
#Azov -Press
ATTENTION! #Mobilization starts on 26 September!
Join the new #recruits! | 04.10.2016

https://twitter.com/GraviolaDOTfi/status/1500208303925870597

The #MinskProtocol, was drafted in 2014 by the #Trilateral Contact Group consisting of #Ukraine, #Russia, and #OSCE.
- The agreement failed to stop fighting, and was thus followed with a revised and updated agreement, Minsk II, signed on 12 February 2015
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agr…

The conflict in #Ukraine was not opened by #Russia on Feb 24, but by Ukraine a week before.
- The #OSCE #France is a witness to this:

https://twitter.com/GraviolaDOTfi/status/1573228682000449537

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David North

@DavidNorthWSWS

The @nytimes reports that President Biden told a group of billionaires at a fundraising event last night:“We have not faced the prospect of #Armageddon since Kennedy and the #CubanMissileCrisis.” #nuclearwar 1/

Biden continued: “We are trying to figure out: What is Putin’s off ramp? Where does he find a way out? Where does he find himself where he does not only lose face but significant power?” These are questions that Biden should ask himself. 2/

Having instigated the US-NATO proxy war, provided #Ukraine with unlimited weapons and money, pledged the reconquest of Crimea, and called for regime change in Russia, what is Biden's "off ramp"? How can he deescalate "where he does not only lose face but significant power?” 3/

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Raver: NAFO's official polemist, Slava Ukraini!

@JBelcourt73

Do people have the right to secede from the nation they belong too without there being some extreme factors in play like say a genocide? After all East Timor, Eritrea and Kosovo recently separated (among others). Who should get a vote in such referendums?

Another example is the Scottish referendum held just before Brexit. How often do separatist minded desires get a vote? One and done, generationally, yearly? Then there was the dissolution of the USSR and a US court case from the immediate post civil war era where secession

required the will of all the citizens of the state to be split to enact such a split. I am sure there are other examples as well but I am going to dig into the cases listed above to explore the idea of secession.

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generalsvr_en

@generalsvr_en

Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! Over the last few days, #Russian President Vladimir #Putin has been combining business with pleasure. Since Saturday, Putin has been relaxing, visiting "places of power" and admiring the Siberian landscapes...
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while holding two meetings with "shamans" and actively preparing for a #nuclearwar. Yesterday's meeting of #Putin with the shamans, the 2nd in such a short vacation, paradoxically took place during the meeting of the same President with the head of the Ministry of Culture.
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Shamans, of course, could quote the postman Pechkin from the famous cartoon “What technology has come to, your mother (in this case the President) is shown here and there!” But there is no mystery.
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Andre Damon

@Andre__Damon

Stop the war in #Ukraine!

Not since October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, has the world come so close to nuclear war as today. 👇

Please share this 🧵

#Nuclear #Nuclearwar #Nuclearstrike #Crimea #UkraineWar #Russia #nowar #antiwar #worldwarIII

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It is not necessary to glorify the Stalinist leader Nikita Khrushchev, let alone the imperialist president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, to recognize that there is a glaring difference between the reaction to that crisis and the one gripping the world today.

In a recently-published book on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Nuclear Folly, historian Serhii Plokhy writes that, “The crisis did not develop into a shooting war because Kennedy and Khrushchev both feared nuclear weapons and dreaded the very idea of their use.”

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David North

@DavidNorthWSWS

With the deterioration of the Russian military position - the outcome of the reactionary strategy underlying the invasion of Ukraine and the general rottenness of the oligarch regime of capitalist restoration - the danger of #nuclearwar is escalating. 1/ #UkraineRussiaWar

Backed into a corner, #Putin's threat to use nuclear weapons should not be viewed as a bluff. The US and other imperialist powers have threatened in the past to use nuclear weapons to avert military defeat. This fact is being ignored by the media. 2/

In 1950 General Douglas MacArthur sought authorization to use as many as 30 atomic bombs against Chinese troops crossing the border into Korea. In 1954 France pleaded with US President Eisenhower to use nuclear bombs to save its encircled troops at Dienbienphu. 3/

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Raver: NAFO's official polemist, Slava Ukraini!

@JBelcourt73

The Ukrainian drive to liberate her people and her lands continues unabated. Putin's illegal annexation and the speech that translates a declaration of war against the world be dammed. In fact, part of Ukraine's efforts were a deliberate counter-troll by Zelensky with the

announcement that Ukraine would seek fast track approval to join NATO. This puts a serious a kink in Russia's plans to escalate to de-escalate in order to achieve a frozen conflict that Putin can spin into some semblance of victory. Now he has to worry that Ukraine has its own

umbrella because the West did not back down. It puts him in a box that a prideful man will have a hard time escaping. Sunken costs fallacies are a bitch when you are trapped in them. The smart move is to take the loss, but he can't. He might be willing to burn the world over it,

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Raver: NAFO's official polemist, Slava Ukraini!

@JBelcourt73

So in todays awesome sauce news roundup. I have two things to report, one is local-ish awesome sauce the other is spicy awesome sauce. First the local.

https://twitter.com/NealeZeringue/status/1575688249724456962?s=20&t=5PltpuhWrEgHjrAxN8bv6w

This local news report and the follow on comments on twitter show at least 3 other Arkansans who are #Fellas other than me. That warms my heart and adds weight to my daily reminders to @JohnBoozman, @SenTomCotton, and @RepFrenchHill that #NAFO

is alive and well in the Natural State: WPS! It's also a message to people like @lavern_spicer that we vote for Ukraine, not against it. America has a moral duty to oppose fascism and genocide, its a promise our grandparents made to the World when we fought Hitler and Tojo.

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Andreas Umland

@UmlandAndreas

THREAD: Could #VladimirPutin repeat the 1999 apartment bombings scenario in 2022? /1
#UkraineRussiaWar #Ukrainekrieg #nuclearwar #nuclearattack #WarInUkraine #RussiaUkraineWar #Putin #War_in_Ukraine #UkraineWar
#atomkrieg #RussiaisATerroistState

One of the possible escalation scenarios in the next weeks or months is a repetition, on larger scale, of the 1999 apartment bombings that brought #Putin his first presidency in 2000-2004. /2

In September 1999, the #FSB blew up four residential buildings in #Moscow, #Volgodonsk and #Buinaksk thereby killing about 300 #Russian civilians. /3

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Newsweek

@Newsweek

Biden thinks non-nuclear threats will stop Putin. His military doesn't...

Sources have lifted the lid on the divide between Biden's administration and his military advisers over nuclear weapons and Putin.

#Newsweek exclusive THREAD: 🧵

🧷: newsweek.com/2022/10/14/bid…

Civilians fear "It's the closest we've been to the use of nuclear weapons in over 50 years"
#JoeBiden #NuclearWeapons

"But I'm not so sure that we are communicating the right thing to deter Putin," says one civilian working at the Omaha, Nebraska-based Strategic Command.
#VladimirPutin #Putin

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Raver: NAFO's official polemist, Slava Ukraini!

@JBelcourt73

Johnny Rico was once asked by Jean V Dubois how many lives were worth fighting for. It's an important question given today's climate. BTW, if you don't know who Mr. Rico and Mr. Dubois are, well you are missing out on one of the great philosophical works of the modern age.

Although the question posed to Mr. Rico was about the fate of POW's after a fictional WWIII it bears on the world we live in today exactly because we may be on the cusp of WWIII. Putin appears to be betting the fate of humanity on a deadly serious question. Will the US respond

with force if I use nuclear weapons. There are only 3 possible answers to that question. 1. Yes, so I might as well go all in ad initio and cue REM to play one last time.

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Raver: NAFO's official polemist, Slava Ukraini!

@JBelcourt73

@mtracey, to answer your question in a longer more conversational format, yes I do see some issues here. Ok if anyone wants to follow along his post is here.

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1574191739358830592?s=20&t=4hQGy4kaN0VCDWKKPj4NVg

1. The first major issue is of course that 7 months in, Zelensky still does not have all the arms he needs to make sure his nation can fight and win a war against imperial aggression in order to stop a #GenocideOfUkrainians

2. The second major issue, Russia is moving to annex territories that she herself vouchsafed multiple times. Other than the genocide this is the big issue. If Russia cannot be a reliable partner because she steadfastly adheres to her legal obligations then she is at best a rouge

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Cordell Gascoigne

@CordellSEP

"I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity."

The ruling-class, appearing mad, and might possibly be, are willing to sacrifice the lives of millions to secure dominance over the world's resources.

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The following list is incomplete, but blows up the myth that "nuclear war is too great a threat to occur!"

Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945); Gen. Douglas MacArthur argued for the dropping of atomic bombs on China (1950); Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)...

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... Operation Giant Lance (1969); Able Archer (1983); Chernobyl Disaster (1986); Fukushima Disaster (2011); and a German Air Force chief's call for nuclear assault on Russia (2022).

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John Stauber ☮️

@JohnStauber

Billionaire-funded “independent” media are getting worried about #NuclearWar, so are uniting for collective peace-posing and handwringing. Nukes go off in Europe, #fallout and #NuclearWinter go global - very inconvenient! 🙄🇺🇸🇺🇦👎

https://twitter.com/QuincyInst/status/1535253172398194688

.@ggreenwald posted this on @theintercept in 3/2014, #Ukraine coup time, defending @pierre. The news release and webpage are now gone.

indianarrative.com/world-news/con…

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NOWARFORISRAEL

@NOWARFORISRAEL

@sharonmeter1 @POTUS Because the Federal Reserve (and other central banks) will first go after #Bitcoin in order to replace it with #CBDC (#Fedcoin in the #USA) in accord with #KlausSchwab's #WEF communist/fascist '#TheGreatReset':

@rustyrockets- The #GreatReset: A Warning: