The fading of nuclear fears today is a testament to the skills of Western leaders who have downplayed the imminent danger, writes LindaMcQuaig.
And, while Americans may believe those missiles were withdrawn due to John F. Kennedy’s stand-firm resolve, what really convinced the Russians to remove their missiles was Kennedy’s promise that, in exchange, Washington would remove U.S. missiles from Turkey.
Schwarz and Layne note that compromise worked and insist that avoiding nuclear war today may require compromise over Ukraine—such as guaranteeing Ukraine’s neutrality, similar to Austria’s neutrality during the Cold War. Instead, Western leaders seem determined to humiliate Putin—exactly what JFK warned against when he said: “Above all… nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.”
But back to Olivia Chow, the spa and the submarine. Washington’s war planners—and their supporters, including the Canadian government—want us to focus on anything but what could happen if, say, a hyper-nervous superpower mistakenly concluded it was under attack and unleashed its nuclear arsenal, blowing up the world.© 2023 TheStar.comLinda McQuaig is an author, journalist, and former NDP candidate for Toronto Centre in the Canadian federal election.
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