Unthinking Majority wrote:I dunno. The US has screwed up relations with no many Latin American countries, it will take a long time to repair.
I just can't see the US letting Russia station troops in Nicaragua, which is on the US's doorstep. They would rather pull a Ukraine in Nicaragua.
Anyways, this is not a good development either way. Putin is going to cause WW3. He's so stupid.
Unthinking, why was there the initial motivation for the proliferation of nuclear arms? Mutual deterence. Not one side has all the power.
The arms race has drained tremdnous amounts of resources, money, time and efforts on making sure other more powerful nations don't invade you. Ukraine gave up its missiles, etc with assurances of peace and so on.
In the end? Albert Einstein needs to be quote for truth. What did that old physicist socialist man say eh?
May 21, 1952. "I made one great mistake in my life, when I signed a letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made." Albert Einstein.
Although he never worked directly on the atomic bomb, Einstein is often incorrectly associated with the advent of nuclear weapons. His famous equation E=mc2 explains the energy released in an atomic bomb but doesn't explain how to build one.Einstein was a lifelong pacifist and believed that wars stood in the way of human progress. He believed that wars were the result of natural aggressive tendencies found within all organisms and that the aims and causes of war were simply justification for these tendencies.Socialism. In 1918, Einstein was one of the founding members of the German Democratic Party, a liberal party. However, later in his life, Einstein was in favor of socialism and in opposition to capitalism.You can be a socialist, a pacifist and a scientist. You can be a Jew and a violinist. You can be many things.
To equate all socialists with warmongering and with authoritarianism is not accurate or fair. But we are living in a world that rarely studies history and if they do? In a cursory fashion. And without much analysis.
War is indeed an impediment to human progress. And it should be avoided at all costs.
Intervening unless it is a Rwandan genocide situation is wrong. However? If you intervene with the sole purpose of wanting to preserve human life and restore justice and democracy and are truly thinking that the nations you intervene in are your equals and deserving of respect and aid without strings attached or manipulations and deceptions? In the end, you will win them over.