'Waging war, or not, is a choice. Mainstream geopolitical reporting pretty much ignores this miniscule reality and covers the ever-simmering possibility of war.'
Guess what? I direct the following insight to, among others, the U.S. Congress, which annually and without comment, with only a few objectors, passes a trillion-dollar military budget, by far the largest such budget on Planet Earth., in a letter to a congressman 75 years ago. He adds, pointing out a truth that is still waiting to resonate culturally and politically:"The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage, and resolution than are needed to prepare for war.
I'm not criticizing his political analysis, simply noting his portrayal of the planet's dominant nations as smugly objective forces. For instance:"The pandemic isn't over," he writes,"but it is becoming part of the background noise of international politics, and great powers are recalibrating and reasserting their interests."
The interest of power, when it reaches a certain level of dominance, is more power. Period. And confronting this interest requires the courage Einstein spoke of. Here's an example of the difficulty involved in doing so, even if you are, let us say, president of the United States, and happen to believe in the on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which became international law in 1970.
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