{"id":87067,"date":"2021-03-20T16:27:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T16:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=176634"},"modified":"2021-03-20T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T16:27:55","slug":"britain-threatens-humanity-with-nuclear-winter-without-explaining-why-it-foresees-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/20\/britain-threatens-humanity-with-nuclear-winter-without-explaining-why-it-foresees-war-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain Threatens Humanity with Nuclear Winter without Explaining Why It Foresees War \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Both before the First World War and before the Second World War, the world public basically simply watched the arms build up and other preparations for war. This lackadaisical blandly interested public attitude seems to be present again. Criminally insane investors in war openly race forward with the inventing and manufacturing of ever new and novel weapons of mass destruction, while planning and propagandizing a need for war. From time to time, spokespersons for their political, media and military lackeys discuss their prerogatives for war as if the rest of us didn\u2019t matter a hoot.<\/p>\n

CNBC published an article headlined: \u201cBritain changes policy so it can use nuclear weapons in response to \u2018emerging technologies\u2019<\/a>\u201d on 17 March.<\/p>\n

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The U.K. has changed its defense policy which may enable it to use nuclear weapons in response to \u201cemerging technologies.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

The country\u2019s 111-page Integrated Defense Review, published Tuesday, included a subtle line on when the U.K. \u201creserves the right\u201d to use nuclear weapons.<\/i><\/p>\n

It says the U.K. could use nuclear weapons if other countries use \u201cweapons of mass destruction\u201d against it. Such weapons include \u201cemerging technologies that could have a comparable impact\u201d to chemical, biological weapons or other nuclear weapons. [italics added by author]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So if the British feel or think they feel an attack of whatever sort, they have the right to cause the possible destruction of all life on the planet.<\/p>\n

The U.K.\u2019s nuclear program, known as Trident, was established in 1980. The Integrated Defense Review confirmed that the U.K. is allowing a self-imposed cap on its nuclear weapon stockpile to rise to 260, abandoning the previous cap of 225 warheads as well as the current reduction target of 180 by the mid-2020s.<\/p>\n

A single Trident II submarine can inflict more death than all prior wars in history. Twenty-four missiles, launched while submerged, each with seventeen independently targeted, maneuverable nuclear warheads five times more powerful than the atom bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, can travel 5,000 nautical miles to strike within 300 feet of 408 predetermined targets. Nuclear winter<\/a> might very well follow even if no other weapons are used. <\/p>\n

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No nation or individual should be permitted to possess the power to destroy the world. An imperative need is for an informed and active public to struggle for its right to survive.
\u2014 Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark<\/sup> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Is it not a crime to claim a right to endanger all life on Earth?<\/b><\/p>\n

Is there no legal authority to sanction the UK and its officials involved in threatening humanity \u2014 the UN Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission, the IAEA, the WHO, the International Criminal Court? Is it not a crime to claim a right to endanger all life on Earth?<\/p>\n

Shall we all ignore the fact that the officials of the United Kingdom claim Britain to be threatened by China, Russia and Iran without giving any evidence for this claim, or what could possibly be a motive to attack Britain. And what simple-minded tough talk leaves out mention of the incoming nuclear missiles that would be in response to Britain\u2019s Trident missiles.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Boris Johnson informed Parliament<\/a> that the UK will now expand its nuclear arsenal. <\/p>\n

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The 100 page report titled \u2018Global Britain in a Competitive Age,\u2019 is the product of an integrated review of security, defence and foreign policy designed to refocus British policy in the face of perceived threats from Russia, China, and other adversaries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Do humans just sit around and merely listen to the officials of the former #1 genocidal colonial powered British Empire citing imaginary threats from Russia and China and calling them adversaries? Neither the Chinese nor Russians refer to Britain as an adversary. It is up to us observant bystanders to call a spade a spade, and expose such braggadocio from a apparent bunch of jerks. <\/p>\n

The same CNBC article<\/a> seemed to report a British plan to return to world empire status.<\/p>\n

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Indo-Pacific tilt<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Integrated Defense Review also outlined a new \u201ctilt\u201d toward the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy 2030, we will be deeply engaged in the Indo-Pacific as the European partner with the broadest, most integrated presence in support of mutually-beneficial trade, shared security and values,\u201d the document reads.<\/i><\/p>\n

It says the U.K. will the push into the Indo-Pacific region<\/i> partly in response to \u201cgeopolitical and geoeconomic shifts\u201d including China\u2019s global \u201cpower and assertiveness,\u201d as well as the growing importance of the region to \u201cglobal prosperity and security.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report references partnerships with countries including India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. [italics added by author]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another headline reads<\/a>, \u201cUK seeks more influence in Indo-Pacific as \u2018moderating impact\u2019 on China\u201d: <\/p>\n

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Calling the Indo-Pacific \u201cincreasingly the geopolitical centre of the world\u201d, the government highlighted a planned British aircraft carrier deployment to the region and said a previously postponed visit to India would go ahead in April.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Chinese and Indians, representing two fifths of the population of planet Earth, have not forgotten the long murderous British military occupation of their lands. Does PM Boris Johnson imagine the rest of us have? The UK will push back<\/em> into the Indo-Pacific region? We assume that those who wrote the Integrated Defence Review mean for Britain to \u2018push back in\u2019 Asia by riding on the coat tails of the American Empire\u2019s killing machine, similarly as it has done in Afghanistan and Iraq. <\/p>\n

Whew! It is sad to see such preposterous tough-guy war talk go unanswered by our leading alternate media anti-imperialist journalists. This nonsensical, boisterous, almost childish posturing of grown men (and some women) may be puerile, but they are curiously officials representing a nation with the sixth most powerful economy in the world. This is regardless of the fact that it be ever so dwarfed by that of China.<\/p>\n

This author, awaited some response to the British announcement of its increasing its number of nuclear warheads, but to date, has not read any published response.<\/p>\n

Postscript<\/b><\/p>\n

There is presently a renewed Western media frenzy over a hyped up demand for North Korea to give up its (defensive) nuclear weapons even after having been threatened by at least three US presidents with atomic attack (Truman, Eisenhower, and Trump, who threatened nuclear annihilation). Meanwhile Britain announces plans to increase its nuclear arsenal, claims a right to use nuclear weapons, and at the same time calls for China to reduce its nuclear arsenal<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Cosmic insanity! North Korea, a tiny nation of twenty-five million has its citizens of all ages punished with cruel economic sanctions by the United Nations because it finally has a few nuclear weapons as a deterrent, after having been threatened for years with nuclear destruction. Meanwhile officials of the government of the United States of Americans, which once destroyed every North Korea city and town with napalm and bombs before threatening to use atomic bombs, regularly discusses how and when it might use its tens of thousands of nuclear tipped missiles in wars without referring to what would happen to the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

It was the Americans, after dropping two atomic bombs on Japanese cities, who then targeted Soviet cities before the Soviets got their own nuclear bombs and were able to reply in kind. Yet, there is never even a polite request from the mass of Americans to destroy their vast nuclear arsenal \u2014 an arsenal of apocalyptic proportions!<\/p>\n

Last, but not least, is it apropos to mention the probability that humankind can no longer afford to have so much of its financial and human resources used for weapons and wars, and still have enough to avert a cataclysm by climate change and the abysmal ongoing degradation of Mother Nature.<\/p>\n

Jay Janson, spent eight years as Assistant Conductor of the Vietnam Symphony Orchestra in Hanoi and also toured, including with Dan Tai-son, who practiced in a Hanoi bomb shelter. The orchestra was founded by Ho Chi Minh,and it plays most of its concerts in the Opera House, a diminutive copy of the Paris Opera. In 1945, our ally Ho, from a balcony overlooking the large square and flanked by an American Major and a British Colonel, declared Vietnam independent. Everyone in the orchestra lost family, “killed by the Americans” they would mention simply, with Buddhist un-accusing acceptance. Jay can be reached at: tdmedia2000@yahoo.com<\/a>. Read other articles by Jay<\/a>.<\/div>\n

This article was posted on Saturday, March 20th, 2021 at 9:27am and is filed under Anti-war<\/a>, Nukes<\/a>, Opinion<\/a>, United Kingdom<\/a>, Weaponry<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

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