The road to nuclear armageddon

The Black Spy Podcast

The road to nuclear armageddon

The Black Spy Podcast, Season 17, Episode 0004

This week's Black Spy podcast is a continuation of last week's but with the direct reflection on the present situation in the world as we actually travel on a road that almost inevitably leads to thermonuclear war. Hence, last week's explanation of our present situation and the geo-politcs of war still holds true for this week's episode:

The First World War broke out due to competing empires lobbying for power.

A waning British Empire sought to maintain its number one position in the world, The Russian Empire, seeking to maintain its position in the East vis-a-vis the Austro-Hungarian Empire, supported Serbia.

An industrially expanding German Empire, which had come late to the imperial game, provided Austro-Hungary with a blank check to draw on Germany's resources and military power to hold Serbia and hence Russia in check, limiting Russia's power throughout Eurasia.

France, noting with alarm the increasing German power, sought British assistance to outmanoeuvre the German Reich.

Hence, when expansion from limited war to an all embracing conflict appeared inevitable; the patch work of alliances still held strong and the various guarantees of mutual support came into play.

So, it was, that in July 1914 war on a global scale broke out, as after all, warfare is nothing more than diplomacy by other means as noted by German General Carl Von Clausewitz.

In Britain, this war to end all wars, was sold to the masses as a conflict to prevent the expansion of negative forces set on dominating the free world.

So the question was, who were these negative forces?

In an imperial world, which empire’s subjugation of other peoples and countries, was in any way benign?

Where not all empires negative and exploitive?

And indeed, by definition, wasn't the biggest empire the most exploitive.

Finally, why did these empires believe that the threat of the use of arms against a competing empire/nation, would prevent armed conflict, rather than stoke it?

Hence, a hundred years later, we can see the same mechanisms at play as in 1914, only this time, there is one major difference.

Any armed conflict between the major powers and their allies, is highly likely to lead to thermonuclear war, thereby threatening the very existence of human kind!

Consequently, this week's Black Spy Podcast continues the theme of how nuclear war could/will occur in the very near future and next week's episode will try to provide an fully assessed view of what the aftermath of a nuclear exchange might well be like.

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