{"id":1428689,"date":"2023-09-21T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1428689"},"modified":"2023-09-21T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T03:40:00","slug":"on-the-idiotic-notion-that-its-brave-to-support-nuclear-brinkmanship-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/on-the-idiotic-notion-that-its-brave-to-support-nuclear-brinkmanship-in-ukraine\/1428689\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Idiotic Notion That It’s Brave To Support Nuclear Brinkmanship In Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

On The Idiotic Notion That It’s Brave To Support Nuclear Brinkmanship In Ukraine<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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During a\u00a0Sunday appearance on Face the Nation<\/a>\u00a0to plug his new Zelensky movie, actor Sean Penn decried the \u201ccowardice\u201d of the US government in its caution around provoking a nuclear exchange with its proxy warfare in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my absolute feeling that the caution with which the United States has pledged support, which seemed, in my reading of February 2022 was a, like a lean on in the fear of nuclear conflict, <\/strong>something I think all of us should look very carefully at and understand that, of course, is possible,\u201d Penn\u00a0said<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s to be concerning. The likelihood is extremely low. And as one of our witnesses in the film says, you know, are we going to let a gangster with nuclear weapons dictate the way we live?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Penn emotionally lamented the fact that the Biden administration did not pour F-16 warplanes into Ukraine from the very beginning of the conflict, initially fearing the move to be too escalatory. Describing this hesitation, Penn said that \u201cat some point, caution becomes cowardice.\u201d<\/p>\n

As you might expect, the interviewer refrained from challenging Penn on his claim that the likelihood of nuclear war is \u201cextremely low\u201d in spite of his acknowledgement that it\u2019s a real possibility, or on his claim that resisting increasing the likelihood of nuclear war is an act of cowardice.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sean Penn has been one of Hollywood\u2019s most egregious empire apologists for some time now (in 2020 he\u00a0told CNN<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthere is no greater humanitarian force on the planet than the United States military\u201d), but even by his standards these comments about nuclear brinkmanship are remarkably odious.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s this obnoxious idea that comes up in mainstream political discourse about Ukraine that an aversion to nuclear brinkmanship is somehow cowardly, and that being willing to risk the life of every terrestrial organism advancing US strategic objectives is somehow an act of courage.<\/p>\n

We saw this back in July from\u00a0Paul Massaro<\/a>, an advisor to the US government\u2019s Helsinki Commission and a minor celebrity in online Zelenskyite circles. During\u00a0this year\u2019s \u201cCaptive Nations Summit\u201d<\/a>\u00a0with the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Massaro mocked westerners for being \u201cfearful\u201d of proxy warfare in Ukraine leading to nuclear warfare.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the biggest thing is fear, I think we\u2019re fearful,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Massaro\u00a0said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s very funny to me, because you meet Ukrainians, not a single Ukrainian is fearful. You talk to Ukrainians it\u2019s like \u2018What if the Russians use nuclear weapons?\u2019, they\u2019re like \u2018We\u2019ll keep fighting, we\u2019ll win.\u2019 You know it\u2019s only the westerners that are like \u2018Oh my god, I\u2019m over here in California and what if the Russians use nuclear weapons?\u2019 You know, it\u2019s almost pathetic.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Fear of nuclear war is a pathetic Western phenomenon, says cheerleader for WW3 and NAFO e-celebrity @HelsinkiComm<\/a> advisor Paul Massaro, gleefully amped-up about the war in Ukraine at this week’s “Captive Nations Summit” held at the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington. pic.twitter.com\/FX8kKqRO9H<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Moss Robeson (@mossrobeson__) July 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a common theme. Any time you talk publicly about the risk of the\u00a0continually escalating war in Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0leading to nuclear catastrophe you\u2019ll get empire apologists calling you a coward and saying we all need to be brave and stand up to the big bully Putin. And it\u2019s just such a disgusting perversion of what courage actually is and what it looks like.<\/p>\n

Empire loyalists often talk about nuclear brinkmanship like it\u2019s something courageous that they personally are doing, as though gambling every terrestrial life on strategic grand chessboard maneuverings is a brave risk that could only hurt them. If you think you are brave for risking the life of everyone on earth to advance your personal geopolitical agendas, you might be a malignant narcissist, because you think the world revolves around you, and other lives exist only as props to support your main character adventures.<\/p>\n

Hardly any human on this planet gives a shit who governs Crimea or the Donbass \u2014 and exactly zero of the plants and animals do \u2014 but people like Sean Penn and Paul Massaro think they have every right to not only gamble all their lives on a bid to control that outcome, but to call themselves courageous for doing so. Imagine being so self-absorbed you think you\u2019re a brave hero for putting the lives of Africans, Asians, and South Americans on the betting table who\u2019ve never even heard of Donetsk or Luhansk and don\u2019t care who governs them, as well as every non-human life on earth.<\/p>\n

I mean, the absolute arrogance. The fucking gall. It\u2019s as emotionally stunted and infantile a perspective as you could possibly come up with, but these are the people whose worldview is shaping outcomes on this planet. These are the sort of people who are setting the trajectory of our species as a collective.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mainstream western political consensus is a sickness of the mind. Its existence should make us all want to fall to our knees and beg the forgiveness of every life on this earth that it imperils.<\/p>\n

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Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 09\/21\/2023 – 19:40<\/span><\/p>\n

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