The Editorial Board of Wall Street’s leading daily, the Wall Street Journal, heartily endorses the latest, enthusiastic “let’s all gear up for nuclear war!” statement uttered by the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, Adm. Charles Richard. In the middle of a strategic crisis now more dangerous than that of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Richard argued in his Nov. 3 speech to the Naval Submarine League’s 2022 Annual Symposium & Industry Update, that the United States today needs to mobilize to produce new nuclear warfare capabilities the way “we got to the Moon by 1969.”
As if Kennedy’s mobilization of the nation to take the first steps in leaving Earth and start exploring our Solar System could be equated with mobilizing to better carry out “nuclear coercion” against Russia and China!
According to the Defense Department report on his speech, in Richard’s view:
“This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup. The big one is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested [for] a long time. We have to do some rapid, fundamental change in the way we approach the defense of this nation….
