Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Is Hillary Clinton More Likely To Start A World War Than Donald Trump?

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) meets U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton upon her arrival at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok September 8, 2012. REUTERS/Mikhail Metzel

Sean O'Grady, The Independent: Could Hillary Clinton start a world war? Sure as hell she could – and here’s how

You can condemn that semi-isolationist ‘America First'’mindset if you want, but the easiest way to prevent the next world war is simply to let the Russians have what they want, provided it makes no difference to you.

Like Donald Trump or not – and I like him no more than, well, Hillary Clinton – there is one thing he might be good for. Peace. A small matter, I know, when set against his serial (alleged) philandering and worse, but worth pondering for a moment. A hideous, but necessary thought experiment runs something like this.

What is the single most important relationship the United States of America could build to secure world peace? Why, the same one that, when it goes horribly wrong, leaves us all sliding towards testing the doctrine of mutually assured destruction in a nuclear age. Always a bit mad to end up there. Yes, that’s right, the most important relationship is with the Russians, or, as we once knew them, the Soviets. They’re the ones we need to get along with.

Now this is where The Donald scores above his sensible, sane, intelligent and diplomatic Democratic opponent. Donald gets it. He gets that if you decide to run your foreign policy devoid of moral content with the sole guiding principle that “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” (copyright Joseph Stalin), then peace, cooperation, even alliance with Russia is possible, indeed desirable.

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WNU Editor: It takes two to tango .... and while I do not know who will be more likely to start a world war .... Clinton or Trump ....  I do know that U.S. - Russian relations will be entering a deep freeze if Hillary Clinton is President, and that deep freeze will raise tensions that will involve the military. As for Donald Trump .... I think he wants to make a deal with Russia .... but what type of deal is anyone's  guess.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Hillary is a sick woman. Just look at her arms.

Anonymous said...

Best outcome would be a trump victory. If the us and Russia can come to terms or even an alliance both countries could dramatically reduce or eliminate there nuclear stockpiles and use there combined influence and power to eliminate other nuclear states stockpiles as well...

:X

Jac said...

Just take a map of the world: all the north around the planet is where the technology, the economy, the same religion roots, and Caucasian.
All of these people have a lot in common even with different opinion (so what?)but they are only 1 billion people among 7 billions on the planet. When these 6 other billions will have a lot of weapon we shall be happy to have a "North Global Alliance".
And that's we need a good negotiator as Donald J Trump.