MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Trump’s ambassador to NATO sets off diplomatic incident with a nuclear edge
By artappraiser on Tue, 10/02/2018 - 10:44pm |By Michael Birnbaum & Paul Sonne @ TheGuardian.com, October 2 at 3:59 PM
BRUSSELS — The U.S. ambassador to NATO set off alarm bells Tuesday when she suggested that the United States might “take out” Russian missiles that U.S. officials say violate a landmark arms control treaty.
Although Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison’s comments were somewhat ambiguous, arms control experts said they could be interpreted to mean a preemptive strike. Such a move could lead to nuclear war.
Only after the comments drew a furious response from the Russian Foreign Ministry did Hutchison clarify on Twitter that she “was not talking about preemptively striking Russia.” But the diplomatic damage was already done [....]
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/did-trumps-ambassador-to-nato-threaten-russia-with-preemptive-strikes/2018/10/02/243c5ba2-c664-11e8-9c0f-2ffaf6d422aa_story.html?utm_term=.101dfe94f29d
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