Biden’s first executive orders have done a lot, but he can’t order away all Trump’s cack-handed legacy – or silence the anger of neoliberalism’s losers.
North Korea is rebuilding its ability to launch missiles and the US has got a spy plane in place to watch them – and the Americans are quietly continuing their military exercises with the South too.
Through aggressive rhetoric and miscalculations nuclear war can happen by accident. As the Trump-Kim circus founders, escalating military action between India and Pakistan suggests urgency for global denuclearization.
NATO’s current nuclear strategy is untenable. Crises during the Cold War reveal that nuclear strategies become dangerous exactly in the circumstances they are intended to deter, in political confrontations.
