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‘Wake Up Before it is Too Late’: Tusk Warns the World Has Come Close to the Brink

Sputnik – June 26, 2019

On 9 August 1945, a US bomber dropped a 21-kiloton atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing approximately 70,000 people and leaving thousands of others injured. Earlier that month, about 140,000 people died following the US dropping a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

In a statement on Wednesday, European Council President Donald Tusk warned G20 members not to lose control over global developments, also calling for joint efforts to resolve crises.

“Even such a short visit has made me forcefully aware of how tragic the lesson of Nagasaki is, and yet, how full of hope it is. Today, two days before the meeting of world leaders in Osaka, it should also be a lesson of responsibility for our common future”, Tusk said after his trip to the Atomic Bomb Museum and the National Peace Memorial in Nagasaki.

Urging G20 participants “to wake up before it is too late”, Tusk stressed that the international stage should not “become an arena where the stronger will dictate their conditions to the weaker without any reservations” and “where nationalistic emotions will dominate over common sense”.

“You should understand: you take responsibility not only for your own interests, but above all, for peace and a safe, fair world order”, Tusk pointed out.

He singled out unstable situations in “dozens of places on all continents” which Tusk claimed indicates “how close to the brink the world has come”.

“We continue to pretend that we are in full control of the dynamics of events and changes, but this is an illusion. The awareness of those risks should guide discussions in Osaka.

“It is you, the leaders of world superpowers, who are responsible for the fact that the lesson of Nagasaki will not be in vain”, he concluded.

The statement comes in the run-up to a two-day G20 summit that will kick off in the Japanese city of Osaka on 27 June.

The final stage of the Second World War saw the US detonate two nuclear weapons in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The bombings killed about 214,000 people.

Around 200,000 people were exposed to radiation and either died of or suffered from related diseases for the rest of their lives, raising the casualties to almost half a million, according to some estimates.

June 26, 2019 - Posted by | Militarism, Timeless or most popular

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  1. We have all been here (a juncture just prior to civilization-destroying nuclear war) before. http://ancientnuclearwar.com

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    Comment by rediscover911com | June 27, 2019 | Reply

  2. The warning has been clear for some time now. https://youtu.be/snX6fptNo3A

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    Comment by rediscover911com | June 27, 2019 | Reply

  3. “The final stage of the Second World War saw the US detonate two nuclear weapons in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The bombings killed about 214,000 people”.

    In the Korean War, the USA’s Military Industrial Complex exceed Japan’s death toll, with General Curtis “Bombs Away” LeMay, bragging that “We destroyed 90% of the Buildings and Killed 20% of the Population”(of Korea)….(The TV Series MASH almost made the Korean War look like a Fun Park).

    And in Vietnam, the American military assault on the Vietnamese people was astonishingly brutal, with Millions of peasants obliterated……..

    And now, The MIC wants War with Iran…….They never get sick of killing people……And they are “JESUS” loving Christians…….Well, most of them, anyway…..

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    Comment by Brian Harry, Australia | June 27, 2019 | Reply


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