Contemplating War Within and Without
JR Nyquist is a treat for those addicted to geopolitics: Listen to his interview on Geopolitics and Empire. A couple of observations:
Paraphrasing Nyquist: German, France and the US are not ready to go to war against Russia. Aircraft carriers in the age of hypersonic don’t make sense. Three years ago a top General said our nuclear forces were timed-out on service life, yet we are till a long way from recapitalizing the devices . . .
B&F: I said this a few years back — Russians have a window where the US is unable to compete between hypersonics and other advanced weapons. Russia would act during this window. I compared the current situation with Russia to that of the Japanese in
the 1930s and early 1940s leading up to Pearl Harbor. I think that analogy still stands. Japan’s “mistake” was not the attack — it was that it was not big enough. Russias Relationship with the West: Two Centuries of War. This is not a defense of Russia’s position. Wars cannot be avoided. Hand-wringing about “who is right” is silliness.
Paraphrasing Nyquist: Today’s fusion (hydrogen) bombs produce vastly less harmful radiation that the fission bombs on the 1960s. Nuclear War entirely “winnable.” …