On Monday, NATO will run annual drills to prepare for nuclear war. The war alliance insists that no real weapons will be used.
The drills will involve over 2,000 military personnel and 60 aircraft from 13 nations. It will be hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands and focus on the region around “the United Kingdom, the North Sea, but also Belgium and the Netherlands.”
The drills, called Operation Steadfast Noon, will last two weeks. New NATO head Mark Rutte indicated that these drills are necessary to respond to a potential Russian nuclear escalation.
“In an uncertain world it is vital that we test our defense and that we strengthen our defense so that our adversaries know that Nato is ready, and is able to respond to any threat,” Rutte said.
In other words: They hope the world watches and that the military exercise is formidable enough to let enemies know that NATO’s defense is “credible and assured.”
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'Eisenhower’s directed plan was for all-out war, in a first initiation of nuclear war, assuming the Soviets had not used nuclear weapons. And that plan called, in our first strike, for hitting every city — actually, every town over 25,000 — in the USSR and every city in China. In the course of doing this there were no reservations. Everything was to be thrown as soon as it was available — it was a vast trucking operation of thermonuclear weapons — over to the USSR, but not only the USSR. The captive nations, the East Europe satellites in the Warsaw Pact, were to be hit in their air defenses, which were all near cities, their transport points, their communications of any kind. So they were to be annihilated, as well… 325 million people in the USSR and China alone… a total of 600 million people. That was a time, by the way, when the population of the world was 3 billion. And that was an underestimate of their casualties — a hundred Holocausts… this was no hypothetical plan like Herman Kahn might have conceived at the doomsday machine that he thought up at the RAND Corporation as my colleague. This was an actual war plan for how we would use the existing weapons, many of which I had already seen at that time.'
A genocidal attack would of course force the Soviet Union and China to launch a nuclear counterattack, with an estimated 600 million more civilian deaths. ‘The Banality of Evil,’ Hannah Arendt called this thoughtlessness, while Harry Mulisch wrote in his unsurpassed book The Case 40/61 in 1961:
'Eichmann has definitively become history. What am I still talking about? People threaten people with annihilation, besides which the murder of the Jews will become a trifle, a memory from the good old days. And no American or Russian who, the order comes, will refuse to throw the bombs into the soft flesh of entire peoples — any more than Eichmann refused. What do we actually have to say about Eichmann? We, who threaten even the unborn: and this war against our offspring has been going on for sixteen years (since Hiroshima)! But something like that is no longer called 'war,' it is called a curse. Here man curses himself, his own children's children, from this speaks a hatred so fundamental that we must fear that we have still overestimated man.'
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