Garland Nixon, a radio talk-show host and participant in various Schiller Institute conferences, was invited to address the UN Security Council on Oct. 13, on the issue of pulling the world back from a thermonuclear confrontation. Nixon explained what level of maturity and responsibility was demanded of a UN Security Council in a nuclear weapons world, and in particular one facing an “extinction-level” crisis. The world has no choice but diplomacy, he told the Council, lest “our beautiful planet” be turned “into an icy, uninhabitable rock.”
Otherwise, Nixon excoriated the perverse ideological sickness of such as U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who glories in the cheapness of expending Ukrainian youth to take down Russians. He emphasized that, with the number of Ukrainian deaths exceeding in four months the number the U.S. lost in a decade in Vietnam, it is unconscionable to send off ill-prepared new cannon fodder. He called it a “reckless disregard” for the lives of Ukrainian people.
