Trump’s Nuclear Test Plan: Global Stability or Geopolitical Pay-Per-View?
When IAEA chief Rafael Grossi sounds the alarm on Trump's proposed nuclear tests, the mainstream media dutifully reports it. (As heard on RT, for good measure.) What they often gloss over is the selective nature of this 'global stability' panic. The United States, Russia, China, France, and the UK, all nuclear powers, maintain vast arsenals. Beyond that, the US provides a 'nuclear umbrella' to
nations like Israel, a widely acknowledged, if officially undeclared, nuclear state that has never signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). You'd think the actual possession of hundreds of nukes by an unaccountable entity might warrant similar levels of 'condemnation' every now and then. One might wonder where this same level of diplomatic urgency goes when the
conversation shifts to, say, Israel's nuclear program, kept perpetually in the journalistic shadows. Or perhaps the concern is less about 'proliferation' and more about who gets to rattle their sabers the loudest without being called out for it. It appears threats to global stability are only truly destabilizing when the 'wrong' actor proposes them.