Countering the Argument that We are Headed for Nuclear War-My Take on: "WHILE AMERICA SLEEPS: Risking Nuclear Armageddon" By Stephen Lendman

" WHILE AMERICA SLEEPS: Risking Nuclear Armageddon » |: "By Stephen Lendman

Risking Nuclear Armageddon

Irresponsible leaders risk the unthinkable. Media scoundrels cheerlead mindlessly. So do neocon think tanks. Ordinary people are more concerned about mundane trivia than survival.   Nero didn’t fiddle while Rome burned. The violin wasn’t invented for another 1,500 years. Today’s officials go where earlier ones wouldn’t dare. They risk regional or global disaster. War on Syria and/or Iran may ignite more than leaders bargain for."

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 I agree with the risks, but I am somewhat hopeful as far as the involvement of China and Russia are concerned.
   Russia talks a good game, but they have made constant excuses for years delaying promised missile and other technology to Iran. Russia has an Islamist extremist problem of their own and they don't want them to be just across the border from a nuclear-armed country with leaders who support the ideology of the extremists.
   We have China-specifically their leadership-over a barrel: Much of the banking industry in China is controlled by government  officials-we can blackmail them two-fold: By saying we won't pay back the $1+trillion we owe them and by closing our markets to them. One of the things about President Obama pushing an increase in exports is the rebuilding of our manufacturing base so as to threaten China. Our base has been on the down-slide for decades and is ripe for a bottom-up rebuilding. Such a rebuilding would make it the newest -and perhaps most current-in the world. On top of that, Mexico and Central America have also lost millions of jobs to China and Asia-they would greatly benefit from trade sanctions with China....or even an enforcement of current agreements. These things would harm the current leadership of China more than the people, the untapped consumer market in China is huge-they would recover, their leaders would not. That in combination with the fact that the two top Chinese banks recently did a huge survey of their millionaire customers and found that 60%  (that equates to approximately 600,000) want to move to the US because their money is safer here (from government confiscation and corruption) and they prefer our style of education for their children.
So, trying to look on the bright side these are the factual things I know about....I have limited time for footnoting, her, place a query in the comment box and I will source it for you or tell you where to look.
On the personal opinion front this is what I see:
The Chinese especially are competing with us for resources to fuel their economy Russia is less vulnerable, but still has needs. Philosophically as much older countries both nations take a much longer-term view of the world. They see how top-heavy we are in military spending and unwise fiscal and taxation decisions. They would prefer for us to collapse under our own weight and not have to actually fight any wars over it. As evidence the rumors that they are building hospitals and schools in Africa to curry favor instead of dumping boat and planeloads of cash into governments who's politicians just steal it.
Our long game consists of turning the Chinese into a foreign mining subsidiary of the US empire. Rumors that many US Forces and military contractors are guarding the Chinese mining operations in Afghanistan have been circulating for a while.