Will the Real General Ripper Please Stand Up

Renegade Eye posts on Histologion:

The Guardian reports that five prominent military officers have submitted a “manifesto for a new NATO” which advocates that

The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the “imminent” spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction…

he manifesto as presented by the Guardian is like something out of an updated Dr. Strangelove movie. It purports to defend the West’s values, lamenting that “the west is struggling to summon the will to defend them”. The particular subset of the West’s values being defended hails from the colonial era, with a healthy dose of the “shoot first and see who’s dead later” ethos which has endeared billions of the unfortunate portion of humanity to the West and its values for some centuries now…

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