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A Ukrainian military tank is seen on a road in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 24, 2022.FADEL SENNA / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES BYC.J. Polychroniou, Truthout PUBLISHED March 24, 2022 Originally From: https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-lets-focus-on-preventing-nuclear-war-rather-than-debating-just-war/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=b83aa008-f6fe-475b-a204-1c3157a6e6b2 NATO leaders announced Wednesday that the alliance plans to reinforce its eastern front by deploying many more troops in countries like Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia — including thousands of U.S. troops — and sending “equipment to help Ukraine defend itself against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.” And while the NATO alliance itself is not directly providing weapons to Ukraine, many of its member countries are pouring weapons into Ukraine, including…

Daniela Edburg (Mexico), Atomic Picnic, 2007. MARCH 10, 2022 Originally Published on: https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/nuclear-weapons/ Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 27 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin met the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov and the Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. ‘The top officials of the leading NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organisation] countries have made aggressive statements against our country’, Putin said. Therefore, he told his top officials ‘to transfer the deterrence forces of the Russian army to a special mode of combat duty’. The last phrase, reasonably cloaked in…