{"id":1239788,"date":"2023-10-02T05:59:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T05:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=296076"},"modified":"2023-10-02T05:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T05:59:36","slug":"the-slow-motion-equivalent-of-a-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/02\/the-slow-motion-equivalent-of-a-nuclear-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slow-Motion Equivalent of a Nuclear War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me, what planet are we actually on? All these decades later, are we really involved in a \u201csecond\u201d or \u201cnew\u201d Cold War? It\u2019s certainly true that, as late as the 1980s, the superpowers (or so they then liked to think of themselves), the United States and the Soviet Union, were still engaged in just  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/02\/the-slow-motion-equivalent-of-a-nuclear-war\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/02\/the-slow-motion-equivalent-of-a-nuclear-war\/\">The Slow-Motion Equivalent of a Nuclear War?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/02\/the-slow-motion-equivalent-of-a-nuclear-war\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me, what planet are we actually on? All these decades later, are we really involved in a \u201csecond\u201d or \u201cnew\u201d Cold War? It\u2019s certainly true that, as late as the 1980s, the superpowers (or so they then liked to think of themselves), the United States &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266,204],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239789,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239788\/revisions\/1239789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}