It is old news that the U.S. declares it may use nuclear weapons in a
first strike for so-called deterrence (which sounds like a
contradiction, but who says imperialists care about logic?). From five
years ago:
U.S. Keeps First-Strike Strategy
By Jonathan Weisman And Peter Spiegel, Wall Street Journal, April
6, 2010
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration will release a new national
nuclear-weapons strategy Tuesday that makes only modest changes to U.S.
nuclear forces, leaving intact the longstanding U.S. threat to use
nuclear weapons first, even against non-nuclear nations. But the new
policy will narrow potential U.S. nuclear targets, and for the first
time makes explicit the goal of making deterrence of a nuclear strike
the "sole objective" of U.S. nuclear weapons, a senior Obama
administration official said Monday.
...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304620304575166263632513790
The headline by David North's sect is just the opposite of what L.P.
calls it ("Any normal person looking in on the latest WSWS
<http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/05/ukra-j05.html>would pee in
their pants. US officials consider nuclear strikes against Russia? Holy
shit, this is serious business."). It is not a "pee in your pants"
falsehood but rather hype: something blared as new and awful is
actually old-hat awful.
That's the kind of dispute you get when you put together almost any two
persons who make a principle of anti-"Stalinism."
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