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We Need a Peace President

By Ron Paul | June 19, 2023

Most people agree that we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Some would even argue that we are closer now than we were in those fateful days, when Soviet missiles in Cuba almost triggered a nuclear war between the US and the USSR.

In those days we were told that we were in a life-or-death struggle with Communism and thus could not cede a square foot of territory or the dominoes would fall one-by-one until the “Reds” ruled over us.

That crisis was very real to me, as I was drafted into the military in the middle of the US/USSR standoff over Cuba and we could all feel how close we were to annihilation.

Fortunately, we had a president in the White House at the time who understood the dangers of nuclear brinkmanship. Even though he was surrounded by hawks who could never forgive him for aborting the idiotic Bay of Pigs Cuba invasion, President John F. Kennedy picked up the telephone for a discussion with his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, which eventually saved the world.

Historians now tell us that President Kennedy agreed to remove US missiles from Turkey in exchange for the Soviets removing missiles from Cuba. It was a classic case of how diplomacy can work if properly employed.

It is all too clear that we do not have a John F. Kennedy in the White House today. Although we no longer face a Soviet empire and communist ideology as justification for taking a confrontational tone toward Russia, the Biden Administration is still dragging the US toward a nuclear conflict. Why are they putting us all at risk? The same old “domino theory” that was discredited in the Cold War: If we don’t fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian, Putin will soon be marching through Berlin.

This all started with Biden promising to only send uniforms and medical supplies to Ukraine for fear of sparking a Russian retaliation. From there we went to anti-tank missiles, multiple-rocket launchers, Patriot missiles, Bradley fighting vehicles, and millions of rounds of ammunition. The Biden Administration announced last week that it would send depleted uranium ammunition to Ukraine, which poisons the earth for millennia to come. Rumors are that long-range ATACMs missiles are to be delivered soon, which could strike deep into Russia.

Apparently, F-16 fighter jets are also on the way.

The escalation rationale from Washington, we are told, is that since the Russians have not directly retaliated against NATO for NATO’s direct support of Ukraine’s war machine, we can be sure they never will respond.

Is that really a wise bet? It is clear to many that US-built F-16 fighters taking off from NATO bases with NATO pilots attacking Russians in Ukraine – or even Russia itself – would be a declaration of war on Russia.

That means World War III – something we managed to avoid for the whole Cold War.

Congress is silent – or compliant – as we lurch forward toward disaster for no discernable US strategic goal. Biden – or whoever is actually running the show – is forging straight ahead.

As we move into the US presidential election cycle one thing is clear: we desperately need a peace president to do for us what JFK did for the US during the Cuba crisis. Hopefully it won’t be too late!

Copyright © 2023 by RonPaul Institute

June 19, 2023 - Posted by | Militarism, Timeless or most popular | ,

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  1. It is never too late to argue for Peace until it is too late because we did not prevent it. WWI was sparked by the assassination of Arch-Duke Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. WWII was sparked by Hitler’s attack on Poland. But what were the real causes of both world wars? The answer is complex but comprehensible only from understanding the geopolitics and the British Empire.
    British geopolitics today surreptitiously emanates from the military wing of the British Empire in the United States. How could that be? The epistemological worldview of a victorious American people after WWII was superseded by the “empire of the mind” vision of Winston Churchill. It can be traced from the 1950 CIA-funded Congress For Cultural Freedom created to destroy the influence of a classical culture that was predominant in the world at the time. The former Frankfurt School headmaster, Theodor Adorno also worked directly with the British Tavistock Institute to invent what Adorno called “Rock” music. Much has been written about MK-ULTRA and the drugging of American youth. But little has been written about where it originated. The British were adept at using opium to drug up nations, having launched two opium wars against China in the preceding century. By 1962 Prince Philip’s World Wildlife Fund established a beachhead in America to spread the idea that man is an animal and polluting the environment. These were the weapons of psychological warfare Britain would use to assault the minds of the American boomer generation. The chief target was American teens, kids born immediately at the end of WWII. Their minds were to be cleansed of the ideas and culture associated with their parent’s generation. The generation that fought and defeated the Great Depression and German fascism under President Franklin Roosevelt, watched in horror as their offspring were turned into rebellious teenagers who came under the influence of rock and roll music, sung by rock artists Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles who were on full display on CBS’s Ed Sullivan Show. I mention CBS because the President was none other than William Paley former OSS officer responsible for radio communications. Paley understood how the invention of television would become very useful in controlling what people think.

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    Thomas Lee Simpson's avatar Comment by Thomas Lee Simpson | June 20, 2023 | Reply

  2. Sigh — it’s all about the MIC’s, and its WashDC elite [sic] sycophants’, bottom line ($$$$) and the US’ flailing-and-failing attempts at “full-spectrum global dominance.”

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    roberthstiver's avatar Comment by roberthstiver | June 21, 2023 | Reply


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