'We
could have exterminated the whole planet'
During the
Cold War, the US secretly installed nuclear weapons at a launch pad
in Okinawa. Most of them were aimed at China. One of the American
servicemen whose job was to fire the Mase missiles, has since
revealed that China was a nuclear target during the Cuban missile
crisis in 1962.
John Bordne
reveals:
We were
told we had to launch all the missiles, but we only had one missile
headed towards Russia and we did not see why we should have to
involve the other countries. The captain suggested that everybody
crack the doors open, so it would take less time to launch the
missile if the doors were cracked open.
One
of the launch crews was on the point of firing their missiles when a
duty officer suspected the order was false.
Bordne
describes how close the US had come to launch nukes against China:
The
launch officer on the B-side was told to send two men over there with
45s and to shoot anybody that tried to launch until the situation was
resolved. It would only take 15, 20 seconds to run the distance
between the two command centers. So, those two men kept that whole
crew at bay while we made a decision as what to do. And it wasn't
very long, maybe two or three seconds later, where a very nervous
major came over the intercom issuing the stand down order. And then
we just kind looked at each other, like we could have exterminated
the whole planet.
The
major who had given the launch order was quietly court-martialed and
dismissed from the air force.
Taken
from John Pilger's new documentary The
Coming War on China
***
The
revelation brings on surface another barely known moment where the
world had come close to a nuclear disaster that could start, again,
due to the US carelessness and aggressiveness.
It
also shows that China was a primary US target since the Cold War 1.0.
After
9/11 attacks, the Chinese government kept the exchange rate of the
country at a low level. Therefore, the Chinese products became cheap
and flooded America. And to pay for them, the US dollars flooded
China. But rather than spend this money for the population, the
Chinese leaders loaned them immediately back to America by buying
government bonds. It was a perfect system of cheap goods and cheap
money inflow in the US, all controlled by the Chinese political
power. And that's what created stability. From this, came an orgy of
lending from banks to even most unreliable borrowers in the US.
Although this time, the deregulated market had been stabilized thanks
to the political intervention of China, the bankers wanted to make
more money.
So,
when the 'party was over' with the big crisis of 2007-08 because of
the Western financial mafia, the US discovered again the evil China.
China has become again the scapegoat to blame for all the bad things
happening with US economy and loss of jobs.
Donald
Trump is targeting China continuously. Either is doing it on purpose,
following the neocon agenda to provoke China, or, he has absolutely
no idea of the rapid transformation of the global economy due to
hyper-automation. If the later is true, someone has to tell Donald
that even US companies are coming back to the US from China, but they do not offer new jobs because they have fully
automatised production. Which means that, someone has to tell him
that China and Chinese workers are not the real enemies. The enemies
of the US workers are the robots and their masters!
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