PoliticusUSA reported today:
The last head of Soviet Russia, Former General Secretary of the Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who gave us peace by making Russia less before Vladimir Putin tried to make Russia more by giving us war, warned today that “it all looks as if the world is preparing for war.”
“Politicians and military leaders sound increasingly belligerent and defense doctrines more dangerous. Commentators and TV personalities are joining the bellicose chorus. It all looks as if the world is preparing for war.”
Gorbachev, by the way, like President Obama, has something Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin do not, and will never have: A Nobel Peace Prize. Putin was nominated in 2014. But he didn’t get it because Ukraine.
And there can be absolutely no doubt that if Donald Trump wanted a declaration of war that this is how he would do it, unilaterally and in violation of all accepted norms and without consulting anybody outside of Fox News.
We’ll just wake up one morning and see a tweet – if the bombs don’t wake us up first.
Gorbachev elaborated that both Putin and Trump should approach the UN and say, "nuclear war is unacceptable and should never be fought." However, that might be a bit more complicated than meets the eye due to the fact that Republican Michael Rogers (R-AL) filed legislation a few weeks ago called The American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017 on behalf of himself and at least four other GOP co-sponsors to repeal the United Nations Participation Act signed in 1945. Rogers says that the United States wants to withdraw from the United Nations, ostensibly in protest of Obama's stance on settlements in Israel, but also, purportedly, as a nationalistic stance by Republicans of that stripe.
And then of course you have Mike "End Times" Pence, who believes that Jesus is going to come back in a sky-wide rainbow of glory and remove Pence and his brethren in the Rapture, while the yous and the mes say, "glub glub" as the tsunami hits us, that is, if the first strike H-bombs don't take us out first. I wonder what the scientists at the Doomsday Clock are going to do with this new indicator from Gorbachev? Get a thirty-second egg timer and just wait?