Hawks up the ante: China is now a nuclear threat, too
What’s clear from their overheated rhetoric is they desperately want there to be an arms race. To what end, we can only imagine.
Daniel Larison is a contributing editor at Antiwar.com and former senior editor at The American Conservative magazine. He has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. Follow him on Twitter @DanielLarison
What’s clear from their overheated rhetoric is they desperately want there to be an arms race. To what end, we can only imagine.
There’s an attempt to harken back to the good ole days of the USSR rivalry in the context of competition with Beijing. That’s dangerous.
For 60 years party leaders have internalized hawkish assumptions and the fear of being called “weak” in the face of threats.
His new book, ‘The Stupidity of War,’ points out just how destructive US ‘counter-proliferation’ wars have been.