SACHS: We're normalizing the path to nuclear Armageddon
What did the U.S. bombing of the nuclear sites achieve?
President Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel’s unprovoked war against Iran and his comments likening the B-2 bomber raid to the U.S.’s decision to use nuclear bombs on Japan at the end of WWII is essentially “normalizing the path to nuclear Armageddon,” Jeffery Sachs, the Columbia economist told Judge Andrew Napolitano’s “Judging Freedom.”
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“If there were going to be historians after the next war, and there won't be because there will be no civilization left, they would look at all of these events and there would be a chapter written about how the situation became completely destabilized in the leadup to the great disaster,” he said. “The next war, though, isn’t going to have historians after it because this would be the war that ends everything.”
Trump compared the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear sites to the Truman administration’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII.
Trump told reporters that he was hesitant to compare the two, but they were “essentially the same thing.”
“That ended that war; this ended the war,” he told reporters at the NATO summit in The Hague. “If we didn’t take that out, they would have been, they’d be fighting right now.”
The Trump administration has been making its case to the news media that the B-2 strikes on the Iranian nuclear sites were 100 percent effective and that the sites were completely “obliterated.”
It is widely believed that these sites were damaged, but there is no consensus about the extent of the destruction. About 400 kg of 60-percent enriched uranium, which would be enough to make 10 nuclear weapons, is unaccounted for.
Trump, without providing evidence, told reporters that nothing was removed from these sites and said the idea that the uranium would be removed is impossible to contemplate.
“Would take too long, too dangerous, and very heavy and hard to move!” he said.
(Scott Ritter, the UN weapons inspector, told The Trends Journal in an interview that moving the uranium is not a “herculean task.”)
The Trump administration has tried to go on the offensive against the media that questioned his narrative about the strikes.
He called top news outlets in the U.S. like The New York Times and CNN “scum” for reporting about the lingering questions.
Pete Hegseth, the head of the Defense Department, confronted a Fox News reporter, Jennifer Griffin, who asked about the uranium and how he could determine that the uranium was not moved. She told Hegseth that satellite images showed “more than a dozen trucks” at the site a few days before the U.S. launched the blitz.
“Of course we’re watching it. Jennifer, you’ve been about the worst. The one who misrepresents the most intentionally,” he told his former colleague.
Officials in Japan voiced their outrage over Trump’s decision to invoke the 1945 bombing in Japan. On 6 August 1945, the U.S. dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima and, three days later, the Truman administration dropped “Fat Man” on Nagasaki. (The “Fat Man” was considered 40 percent more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima.)
This was the only time a nuclear weapon was used in war, and it caused up to 80,000 immediate deaths in Hiroshima and up to 75,000 immediate dead in Nagasaki, not including those who died from the impact of long-term radiation.
“As survivors of the atomic bombings, we cannot approve any statement that justifies the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We protest with great fury,” the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations said in a statement.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander, wrote in his 1963 memoir that he voiced his opposition to carrying out the bombing because the war was already decided.
“I voiced to [Secretary of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives,” he wrote.
Hiroshima was the first "Shock and Awe" attack intended to instill fear and hopelessness on a global scale. Had there not been only two fission bombs, British spokesman Bertrand Russell might have gotten his way, nuking the Russians! But General Eisenhower was right about Japan.
Japan's military was beaten and no longer able to continue its offensive. But Japan's military leaders lived by a code of honor that demanded death before surrender! They were determined to defend Tokyo to the last man. Therefore, they vehemently opposed any attempt by Emperor Hirohito to surrender. Had these brave but fatalistic warriors known that their Emperor was secretly negotiating a surrender in Rome, they probably would have deposed him. For, Hirohito had sent his personal envoy to Vatican City to discuss terms of surrender with representatives of the American OSS. But the Truman-Churchill faction won out with their argument that dropping nuclear bombs would force Japan to surrender, preventing the need for an Allied invasion.
Eisenhower wasn't the only one who argued against dropping bombs on Japan. Generals MacArthur and Marshall were also against it. At least at first. For these senior military Generals, just the thought of killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians would be a cowardly act. The US had the Japanese Island blockaded and surrounded. Nothing was going in or coming out of the Island. Yet Churchill and Anglophiles in the Truman administration pressured Truman to drop two nuclear bombs on unsuspecting Japanese civilians, killing hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children to frighten and panic the world into accepting a unipolar new world order laced with hardship and deprivation.
As citizens of the Republic of the United States of America, we must make it our mission to see that the financial imperialists who cling to their cashets of gold and bit coin, are defeated in the coming days and weeks of heated battles over foreign and domestic policy. We can and must win the battles that will shape the future. If we do that, then the British Financial Empire will disintegrate. The opportunity to do that is now, while the empire is at its weakest moment in history, ever!