Opening guns of World War III get louder – The Militant

[....]  What looms now isn’t a new Cold War but the growing inevitability of new, and more threatening, “hot” wars around the world.

From Romania to Bulgaria, the capitalist rulers are taking steps to line up with Washington. Those of Sweden and Finland dropped their professed neutrality to join NATO. The Polish rulers are negotiating to host U.S. nuclear weapons. Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey all have U.S. tactical nuclear weapons based on their soil.

At the same time, as Barnes said in his 2022 statement, “Putin’s efforts to excuse his bloodthirsty invasion of Ukraine on grounds of moves by Washington and other NATO governments are as cynical as they are false. A sovereign and independent Ukraine poses no military threat to Russia of any kind.”

The threat to humanity of escalating conflicts leading to another world war where heavily armed nuclear powers face off against each other poses the need to build a leadership that can mobilize working people in their millions to take political power from the capitalist warmakers into our own hands.

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Opening guns of World War III get louder – The Militant