EXCERPT:
The very existence of these weapons of mass destruction has posed the grave danger that at some point, in a time of intense crisis, they would be used, against foreign foes or even domestic opposition.
The anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing and the release of Oppenheimer, which has obviously struck a disturbing chord with audiences (the film has passed $550 million in global box office), have to be seen in the context of present-day developments.
The Biden administration and its NATO allies have all but openly repudiated the MAD doctrine, repeatedly arguing that they will not be “deterred” by the danger of nuclear war. This goes unchallenged, it is even applauded, by the US and European media. Such pronouncements came in response to concerns that the US was “so worried about nuclear weapons and World War III that we have allowed ourselves to be fully deterred,” in the words of Philip Breedlove, a retired four-star US Air Force general who led US forces in Europe and served as NATO’s supreme allied commander from 2013 to 2016.
The notion that the US is no longer “worried about nuclear weapons and World War III” can only mean, if language has any significance, that the American ruling elite intends to pursue its ruthless, predatory objectives regardless of the consequences. Not merely the possibility, but the inevitability of nuclear annihilation will not forestall the US government, or the governments of France, Britain and the NATO powers.
Total recklessness now prevails in ruling circles.
This is where we have arrived, 78 years after the Hiroshima catastrophe. In terms of bourgeois society, there is vast social, political and moral regression. The alternatives today are socialism or barbarism, the working class taking power or capitalism putting an end to human existence.
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