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  • Nuclear equality?

    A Logical Blog asking Logical Questions

    The Equality of no Nuclear. Over the early months of the year 2025 by the Gregorian calendar, President Trump raised the subject of nuclear weapons, saying, ‘There’s no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons. We already have so many. You could destroy the world 50 times over.’

    In February statements spoke of America, Russia and China, and the idea of nuclear arms control, and that was said from the American President, not from Russia and China, but it was put out there. Where is ‘out there’? Well, that is into the modern digital tech world, entirely dependent on electricity from big power stations down to the i-phone charger, and without which nothing now would run, not that world leaders consider that real baseline.

    But out there it was stated, and then in early March President Trump told reporters that he was in favour of denuclearization amongst global powers. That would be the global powers who ‘have nuclear’, being the nine of America, China, Russia, France, the ‘UK’, North Korea, Israel, Pakistan and India.

    The nuclear spectre raised its head as Pakistan and India faced each other, the world held its breath, which of course is a meaningless term because the natural world never follows news events on a digital screen and it is only the human stuck is this strange in between, and President Trump again took the role of a leader and some talking was done, and the nuclear button was not pressed over on the complicated border region between Pakistan and India. Phew.

    Now the matter of nuclear weapons has swung the other way, not among the top dogs in the global realm who have this nuclear facility, but looking down the ladder, the same President Trump took on Iran with a smaller than could have been missile lobbed over, and Iran responded with a smaller than could have been, and possibly the heat was taken out of the explosive situation, for the time being. That’s clever leadership tactics too, because leaders should be engaging with each other in that mixture of talking for mutual benefit or engaging in a kind of thinking martial arts tactics because leadership is a difficult role, and for us masses, it is none of our business to sit and opinionate all day when we don’t have any responsibility.

    This blog is not an opinion but a measurement, and as the question of nuclear arms has appeared in these various ways in the first half of this year, it would be a very good idea to freeze the frame and keep both directions on view, before they sink beneath the daily new events in this tragic human world. As 9 countries have nuclear weapons, and they are meant to be a deterrent, why should Iran not have one, or a few, too? The west says nuclear weapons aren’t safe in countries not part of the civilized western world, and already views North Korea as somewhere far out on the fringes of inclusion. But if nuclear weapons are a deterrent should not every jurisdiction have a nuclear? Then it would be an equal safety for all.

    Looking the other way, up the ladder, to return to President Trump’s radical statements on denuclearisation made only a few months ago, will this be the paradigm missed in the modern era? If, on paper, a little diagram was doodled of the lower orders, seen as mad, bad and dangerous and who must at all costs be prevented from gaining these dangerous nuclear facilities, up through the perceived order of things to the major powers who believe they and their nukes hold the balance of peace, why can we not start at the top line instead of the bottom line?

    As the ‘UK’ gears up to invest more in missile and arms manufacture, and talks of security in this dangerous age, yet at the same time relies on manufactured goods from all those countries who come in for the stinging criticism from the pious ‘UK’, and as gun boats were despatched to the Channel Islands to scare France, not so many years ago over fishing questions, the existence of nuclear weapons designed to obliterate the enemy only stands like a great towering mountain, brooding over the daily life below.

    If President Tump followed though on his statements given out a few months ago on denuclearization amongst the global powers, what would the world look like, the human world that is? Or rather, if it was followed through to actual denuclearization? If no country has any nuclear weapons the top slice of stress would be evenly sliced off, the line brought down evenly instead of the see-saw reactions and this Russian roulette of friend or foe. If all jurisdictions were nearer ground level and the nuclear deterrent became a nuclear equality of no one has nuclear, how much aggravation would evaporate in international relations?

    It would a really good weekend event if the leaders of the 9 met for a serious chat. Are we going to actually use a nuclear? If not, just come down and start the dismantling process. Such a move would show that global co-operation is possible, and maybe the best proof of all, and really there’s nothing to lose because no world leader would really want to go down in history as the one who pressed the button, not that anyone would know about it anyway after that, but still…not great if there is any posterity. But if a summit of 9 came out and announced that hereinafter the line of this towering aggravation will be now calmly taken down quite a few notches, what is there to lose? And there would be a lot to gain.

  • A Logical Blog

    Trump -v- Iran – a Disaster Day for Logic?

    Trump -v- Iran on Summer Solstice 2025 – a Disaster Day for Logic? What on Earth has happened this weekend? As Solar time remains the same as ever, human time has now gone mad. The news of a rapid escalation of ‘events’ in the ‘middle East’, the term given by the west because of the spin of the earth, spinning into Sunrise and where there is no middle because there is no beginning or end of a spin, is this the last nail in the coffin of logical government? Or, has President Donald Trump massively shot himself in the foot?

    Is it the same man who somewhere back in February of this year said words to the effect that the USA had plenty of nuclear missiles ‘which could destroy the world 50 times over’ so why add more, and were there not noises of talks between President Trump, Russia and China about ‘de-nuclearization’? No more missiles is one thing, but a coming down, a de-nuclear, is, or was, possibly the most Logical action anyone could take in the human world in this present time. An open-handed action to bring a line down would have filtered down a great deal of other matters, like the biological world has a vast network of seen and unseen processes going on in the zone around one fact, and which the modern humans have well lost sight of.

    In this muddling of geography, ethnicity, belief, historical let’s call them ‘matters’, not to mention the climate disaster (some call it change), and the imminent collapse of supply chains, water supply, etc., if President Trump had followed through on that comment of de-nuclearization, how much would that have filtered on down through the chaos going on? Intention is like the subtle zone in the biological realm, it is not quantifiable yet has a profound factual outworking.

    The ‘middle East’ is geographically and ethnically neither western Europe nor the USA, which is its own landmass with ocean on both sides. It could be said that the nuclear issue is the nastiest of all controversies between the different political zones on Earth. In this crazy age of globalism where the ‘west’ seeks to bring (or impose) democracy and individual values on just about everywhere from North to South Pole and all around Earth, the nuclear issue stands totally opposite to that, the nuclear powers retain the right to err.. retain their nuclear weapons, while telling other countries (and where the divisions are already there in history, religion, culture) that they are very, very bad for wanting a nuclear weapon.

    If nuclear weapons are so bad that some countries cannot have them, and the USA, or President Trump himself ordered, that Iran should be attacked without warning, then Logically the only solution is that probably now throw-away phrase (because it has been thrown away) of “de-nuclearization”. Why has this President who was overwhelmingly voted in for the hope that some common sense can be slotted into the last days of human existence on earth committed this completely idiotic act?

    As well as heightening the nuclear issue with these ‘bad Iranians’, the credibility which President Trump had in restoring some common sense to trade (and apologies to all the hard working trades people who are affected by tariffs but overall, that is common sense and a pity the UK doesn’t have a leader who thinks of its own security) has now evaporated. Any people or any country which is humiliated, as Iran now is, doesn’t bow the knee and accept their wrongdoing, it only makes bad matters so much worse.

    Nearly there was a nuclear button pressed between Pakistan and India, so recently, and it was the same President of the USA who quickly stepped in, and the world breathed a sigh of relief, disaster averted. Now the same President does this inflammatory and idiotic action in the middle East like a bull in a china shop.

    As the UK does not have any, or not nearly enough, young people who could turn up to even train for a fighting army let alone go off and actually do it, and as there are nuclear weapons in the UK, this would be such a very good opportunity for the UK government to show it had some teeth and unilaterally announce that it is to disarm its nuclear weapons. Hypocracy is just the worst situation of all and on the principle of ‘if you don’t use it, then lose it’ which is usually used for cognitive brain exercises that if you don’t keep active then you lose your faculties, but applying that to nuclear weapons, if the UK are not intending to actually use the nuclear weapons then what’s the point of all that time, money and effort to maintain them, and the UK could be the first to both announce and act – the two together – that it is beginning to dismantle all nuclear facilities.

    A long time ago philosophers from Damas, Cairo, Paris, London, would meet and discuss, and a long time ago the trading network on the major ports and inland networks from there, all took full account of difference in geography, culture, belief, language, the long history, and it was a vibrant and engaged world. That time has passed and will never again be possible, because the west has burnt the bridges behind and in front, but of all the actions which could put the widest and most pervasive signal that this high tide mark is very very bad, if President Trump had continued on the de-nuclearization idea and even if just an idea, instead of what has happened this Summer Solstice weekend, then maybe the tide would have turned back and something of a normal ebb and flow just might have held. Instead we have a tsunami of god knows what, and the concept of governance in shreds.

    Thank goodness Solar times does still hold. The northern hemisphere on Earth is now going into shorter days, less Light, down to the Winter Solstice, from where the baby Light will be born and the days slowly slowly lengthen again. No hope of such predictability for the human realm now.