Putin A Cornered Rat With Nuclear Rabies! No Obvious End Yet

By Donald A. Collins | 18 August 2022
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Page one August 17th Washington Post story tells US intelligence knew almost without doubt that Putin would invade Ukraine.

Read here.

This comprehensive Washington Post account of US efforts to stop the Ukraine invasion you will find heart wrenching.

The article’s title tells its main point: “Road to war: U.S. struggled to convince allies, and Zelensky, of risk of invasion”.

The fact of nations going to war by inadvertence or missed diplomatic signals is historic, but never before in a nuclear age.

Wars in the past before nuclear weapons were often started by inadvertence. The lead up to the Civil War for example makes riveting reading. By the time Lincoln was faced with the secession of South Carolina followed by 6 other Southern states, the first shots fired by the rebels at Fort Sumter in 1861 was decades in the making.

Read that sad story here.

Read here some quotes from this Ukraine-Russian history as the roots of this war had substantial precedence.

Biden, who had taken office promising to keep the country out of new wars, was determined that Putin must either be deterred or confronted, and that the United States must not act alone. Yet NATO was far from unified on how to deal with Moscow, and U.S. credibility was weak. After a disastrous occupation of Iraq, the chaos that followed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and four years of President Donald Trump seeking to undermine the alliance, it was far from certain that Biden could effectively lead a Western response to an expansionist Russia.

Ukraine was a troubled former Soviet republic with a history of corruption, and the U.S. and allied answer to earlier Russian aggression there had been uncertain and divided. When the invasion came, the Ukrainians would need significant new weaponry to defend themselves. Too little could guarantee a Russian victory. But too much might provoke a direct NATO conflict with nuclear-armed Russia.

This brilliant account of the lead up to the first big war after WWII where nuclear powers are engaged provides a story which should be a must read for us all.

What will this cornered rat do? Tactical nukes use is almost unthinkably dangerous and the current story of the Russian’s use of the Ukrainian captured nuclear power plant as an army defense base posits anther dire risk.

Read about that here.

The gauntlet against Russian/Ukrainian negotiation has been clearly put down by both sides.

The need for the grain production from both countries makes peace mandatory.

The carnage from the American Civil War and every world war since would be minor compared to what a nuclear war would bring.

My recent book, ‘Can Homo Sapiens Survive” suggests many ways we might initiate the 6th Extinction. Any thoughts?

Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Washington, DC, has spent over 50 years working for women’s reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of “From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”, “Trump Becoming Macbeth: Will our democracy survive?”, “We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”, “What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”, “Vote” and “Can Homo Sapiens Survive?”.

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