Taking into account the events of recent days around Syria, we can confidently say that it is time to move the Doomsday clock one more minute ahead.
Since the beginning of 2015, the doomsday clock is three minutes to midnight. However, the expert council issuing the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists decided in January 2018 to move the clock forward one minute. Representatives of this authoritative organization explained that this position of the shooters is due to the fact that in 2017 all the world nuclear powers were actively investing in the development of their arsenals.
Among them is also North Korea, which constantly conducts missile and nuclear tests. Scientists are also alarmed by the US nuclear force configuration program, which leaves room for an increase in the role of atomic and hydrogen weapons.
HISTORY OF THE QUESTION
For the first time, the Doomsday clock began to function in 1947. During the 71-year history of the project, the hands of the clock changed their position more than twenty times. During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the world was on the verge of a nuclear war, the watch did not have time to react to the situation, since the situation was resolved within 38 days.
The current figure is one of the closest to nuclear midnight, signifying the possible approach of a nuclear cataclysm. The doomsday clock showed the same time in 1953 after the first test of the hydrogen bomb.
They fled the farthest from the catastrophe on a wave of optimism in connection with the end of the Cold War in 1991. Then, according to scientists, humanity was separated from a nuclear cataclysm by as much as 17 minutes.
One of the main reasons for such a decision should be the concentration of heavy weapons of the nuclear powers near the coast of Syria.
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Ships of the Russian Navy began to conduct exercises near the coast of Syria, it follows from the international notice to aviation personnel (NOTAM) and navigation warning for mariners. The messages give the coordinates of the closed area, and also talk about the conduct of shooting exercises there.
Currently, about 15 warships and support vessels of the Black Sea Fleet are operating as part of the permanent operational formation of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea, including the carriers of cruise missiles "Caliber" frigates "Admiral Grigorovich" and "Admiral Essen", as well as submarines, which repeatedly struck terrorist targets in Syria.
Military experts believe that these exercises are nothing more than a US decision to bring the destroyer Donald Cook to the Russian military base Tartus 100 km away. According to Turkish media reports, Russian combat aircraft rose to meet the ship. They flew over him at least four times.
It also became known that a similar destroyer, the Porter, could soon join the Donald Cook. It takes him only a few days to get to the shores of Syria, writes Wall street Journal.
It is worth noting that Washington also assesses the situation as critical, this is especially clear in the decision to take the Doomsday plane into the air. The Boeing E-4B Nightwatch, a command post in case of a nuclear war, took off in Indiana. In addition to the president, the plane may have the command of the US Armed Forces.
In the event of a nuclear war, the flying command center can be in the air for a long time. There are 4 such aircraft in the USA and they can be used in emergency situations.
Who needs an escalation of the conflict?
Under these conditions, it is difficult not to assume that the military lobby, or the "deep government" of the United States, is once again doing everything to provide key military corporations (Lockheed Martin, etc.) with new orders.
These corporations control the US government and NATO. And understanding how they do this is necessary in order to assess America's foreign policy, that is, which countries are the "allies" of the US government (such as Saudi Arabia and Israel) and which countries are its "enemies" (such as Libya and Syria) and, therefore, are suitable for the invasion of America or the overthrow of the government of this country through a coup. The head of state is demonized, then an invasion or coup occurs. That's all.
Since America has privatized the defense industry, in America investors will be able to profit from the invasion and occupation of foreign countries, and the billionaires who control these corporations are buying Congress and the President to keep the proceeds for themselves.
This is the essence of the military business, since its markets are governments, but not those governments that the aristocracy wants to overthrow and replace. The foreign governments to be overthrown are not markets, but targets. These unfortunate countries are heading towards bloodshed and poverty. But if you control these corporations, you need these invasions and occupations, and of course you don't care about any of the victims that (as opposed to the profits) have nothing to do with your business.
In fact, the killing of people and the destruction of buildings is what you, as a billionaire with a controlling stake in one of the top 100 contractors in the US government, sell to your government and all other governments that the country's propaganda will present as "enemies" - Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, etc. - and definitely not as "allies" such as foreign markets: Saudi Arabia, EU-NATO, Israel, etc.
As for your largest foreign markets, they will be "allies" so that you (ie the national aristocracy that owns the media, etc.) will protect them, and you will need the US military (taxpayers and troops) to protect them. It is protecting your market, even though you, as the owner of the corporation, pay for nothing.
This is the unique nature of military business and unique opportunities for investors.
Thus, on May 21, 2017, US President Donald Trump sold the Saud family, which owns Saudi Arabia, the products of American arms manufacturers for a record $ 350 billion, which they are now required to buy over the next ten years with a down payment of $ 100 billion in the first year alone. … This deal is by far the largest piece of Trump's incentive for American manufacturers. However, it concerns only military manufacturers, who are almost entirely dependent on sales to governments, in particular to “friendly” governments: “allies” such as the Saud family.