War hawks reset the Doomsday Clock

Nothing is sacred to preserve US supremacy in the world of politics and economics.

Not even the possibility of a nuclear war!

Postscript

My colleague, Carl Vadivella Belle provided the following comment on a draft of this

In this context you might be interested in an article that appeared in the 19 January issue of the London Review of Books entitled "Friends with Benefits" and written by Tom Stevenson. The two books reviewed are "The Secret of the Five Eyes" (Richard Kerbaj), and "Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International Era" (Clinton Ferdandes). The books reveal, inter alia, how deeply Australia is enmeshed in the world of US intelligence, and how, in effect, any deeper Australian independence is a nonsense. We are inexorably wedded to the US, whether we like it or not. The fate of the Whitlam government stands as a warning to any Prime Minister who might decide to pursue an independent line. The recent Aukus submarine deal was justified to the Australian public as required to protect Australian trade - however, to quote Stevenson: "There is an irony here. Since China is Australia's major trading partner, Australia is in effect claiming to be 'protecting trade with China from China.'" It's all like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan.