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Now is an Excellent Time to Talk About US Foreign Policy
The US invests more money and energy in killing people than in peace, the public, non-military technology, medical advancements, and our habitat.
One million Americans protested nuclear weapons in 1982, and a year later, three million Western Europeans demanded an end to the Cold War arms race. The movements prompted the US and USSR to sign the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, destroying almost 3,000 missiles with ranges between 500–5,500 km (310–3,420 miles) within four years.
Today, Americans are warmongerers that prefer nukes and wars over de-escalation and peace. Either repression beat us into compliance, or reality has become so distorted that we perceive nuclear weapons as protection instead of what they are; psychopathic, genocidal arsenal capable of annihilating every living species.
Diplomacy enabled us to forget about nuclear war and mutually assured destruction, but that ended when Trump suspended the INF in 2018. The US insisted Russia violated the contract and complained the agreement restricted competition with Chinese missile capabilities. International leaders urged the US to reconsider, but Congress authorized funds for the banned weapons and officially withdrew in…
