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Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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offsite link How Much Does Cancel Culture Harm Academics? Careers? Sat Jul 12, 2025 09:00 | Noah Carl
Cancellation attempts harm academics? careers?even if those attempts fail. A new study finds that targeted academics see a 20% decline in number of papers published and a 4% decline in total citations received.
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offsite link Reform MP Sarah Pochin Accused of Lying About Impact of Illegal Migrants by Labour Council Sat Jul 12, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Runcorn's new Reform MP Sarah Pochin has warned that the town is being ravaged by a high number of illegal immigrants, but the local Labour council accuses her of lying. Steven Tucker investigates for the Daily Sceptic.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Jul 12, 2025 01:46 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link ?Not Clear if Heat Pumps Will Save Money,? Government Adviser Admits Fri Jul 11, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Heat pumps?are not guaranteed to save households money in the long-term, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Dame Angela McLean has conceded.
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offsite link How Britain Sold Itself to the World as Paradise Fri Jul 11, 2025 15:14 | Anonymous former BBC staff member
The government and the BBC have cooperated for decades in an epic advertising campaign to sell Britain to the world as the best possible place to be. No wonder they all want to come here, writes a former BBC staff member.
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All the Evidence Points to World War

category international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Saturday September 07, 2019 15:39author by Peter McLoughlin Report this post to the editors

The pattern of history points to another global, catastrophic conflict*. For a third time in a hundred years imperial government are about to plunge us into total war: this time nuclear war, for the old reason – power.

Power, manifested as interest, has been present in every conflict of the past – no exception. It is the underlying motivation for war. Other cultural factors might change, but not power. Interest cuts across all apparently unifying principles: family, kin, nation, religion, ideology, politics - everything. We unite with the enemies of our principles, because that is what serves our interest. It is power, not any of the above concepts, that is the cause of war.

The lust for power eventually brings every empire to the war it seeks to avoid: total defeat. But leaders and their advisors delude themselves into thinking that fateful war can be avoided, limited in scale or even won.

This has particular relevance today, with much talk of ‘a new Cold War’, and the dangerous mind set it will have the same outcome as the first one. Other terms from that era are being bandied about, such as ‘deterrence’ and ‘nuclear arms race’. Deterrence can only work if it can prevent the scenarios where Mutual Assured Destruction might have to be resorted to. It is becoming increasingly difficult to prevent such situations – Syria, Iran, South China Sea, Ukraine, the Baltic, Moldova to name a few potential flash points, any of which could trigger events leading to world war. We will soon face the scenario where (unlike the Cuban missile crisis or Euro missile crisis) one protagonist will not be able to step back from the brink, stumbling into a crisis they cannot de-escalate. All that is left is Deterrence’s fall-back position – annihilation. The nuclear powers will delude themselves that the outcome of this crisis will be like in 1991: ending without destruction. There’s a difference, the Cold War was the peace, a post-world war environment; we are now in a pre-world war environment.

Nuclear war will happen because governments convince themselves it won’t: it will be prevented because peace-makers convince themselves it will. That is the paradox. Only by accepting its inevitability is there any chance of stopping it; at that, the chances are negligible if they exist at all. Personally, I don’t think they do, but accept others have a more positive outlook. I admire them. But a problem denied can never be solved (however big or small it is). To save the planet, reverse climate change, make a better and just life for all will not be achieved if we walk blindly into a third world war.

*I can’t make statements without providing evidence. My arguments are explored in greater detail on my website, an essay Patterns and Power and a FREE book, Never Forget the Ghosts of History. https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/


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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Cuba missile crisis near castrophere     T    Sat Sep 07, 2019 21:43 
   before you give Kennedy all the credit for saving the world, remember it was his lot who started the escalation.     Bolton's moustache    Sat Sep 14, 2019 01:00 
   Between who? (between which alliances)     Mike Novack    Sat Oct 05, 2019 22:44 


 
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