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TexasTowelie

(116,783 posts) Wed Mar 20, 2024, 01:53 PM Mar 2024

We Are On The Brink Of (Another) Nuclear Proliferation. - Good Times Bad Times

A New World Order is being forged--this is not a particularly controversial hypothesis today. We are in the midst of a transition from one order to another. This instability is manifesting itself in many places. The current order is being tested. the shaky security architecture creates a temptation or even a demand to seek new responses to the situation.

This is the case among the closest US allies as the Americans are increasingly signaling a willingness to gradually loosen their global commitments in order to focus their limited resources in key directions in accordance with defined interests. When such a process of disengagement begins the political elites of large and medium-sized countries start to worry and then it is only a matter of time.

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We Are On The Brink Of (Another) Nuclear Proliferation. - Good Times Bad Times (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2024 OP

China and Russia are very aggressive, forcing the world to ramp up military spending. Irish_Dem Mar 2024 #1

Don't discount the fact that the US foreign policy has been a disaster walkingman Mar 2024 #2

Worse than proliferation is Putin successfully getting NATO to limit weapons to Ukraine by threatening to use nukes. Martin68 Mar 2024 #3

Irish_Dem

(57,511 posts)

1. China and Russia are very aggressive, forcing the world to ramp up military spending.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2024, 01:55 PM

Mar 2024

They are making the world a much more dangerous place.
And they are doing this in order to shift the global world order.

walkingman

(8,341 posts)

2. Don't discount the fact that the US foreign policy has been a disaster

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2024, 02:14 PM

Mar 2024

since WWII. And the US military has active-duty military troops in 178 countries.

Martin68

(24,611 posts)

3. Worse than proliferation is Putin successfully getting NATO to limit weapons to Ukraine by threatening to use nukes.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2024, 03:09 PM

Mar 2024

There clearly was concern Putin was willing to donate a nuke in Ukraine to get his way. Can we risk calling his bluff?

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