OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #247, SEPTEMBER 17, 2025.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #247, SEPTEMBER 17, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett. 

 

Scott Ritter.  “Putin’s Gambit” for Arms Control.
Bill McKibben.  Here Comes the Sun and Renewed Hope.

Trump Truthteller?  The DOD Is What It Always Was—the DOW.

Putin's Gambit by Scott Ritter.  Sept. 22, 2025. There has never been a more important time for arms control. And the US government has never been so ill-prepared to meet this challenge. Enter Project 38.   Scott Ritter                                                                                                                     Project 38 is a campaign that seeks to promote effective arms control and disarmament policy and, in doing so, avoid the dangers of a new nuclear arms race by promoting an alternative policy approach toward arms control and disarmament between the United States and Russia focused on the absolute need to keep the limitation on the sizes of the US and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals imposed under the New START treaty intact. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently opened the door to such a possibility. It is Project 38’s mission to help US President Donald Trump pass through this door. . . .MORE click on title [Nuclear arms abolition should be our ultimate goal, and the UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has made that goal more reachable.  But the subsidiary goal of controlling the number and kinds of nuclear weapons produced by the nuclear nations is essential to maintain the control that has so far prevented nuclear holocaust. That is the goal of Ritter’s Project 38 and the Poughkeepsie Peace Initiative.   Ritter concludes his essay:  “Failure is not an option, because the security and safety of the US, Russia and the world depend on keeping the last vestiges of arms control intact while US and Russian leaders struggle with how to sustain decades of nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament polices that have prevented nuclear war between our two nations.”   --Dick]

 

From Sun Energy to Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
BILL MCKIBBEN.  HERE COMES THE SUN: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization.  W. W. Norton, 2025.
Publisher:   . . .how solar power is more than just a path out of the climate crisis: it is a chance to reorder the world on saner and more humane grounds. 

Trump Returns the War Department
President Trump has ordered the Department of Defense to resume its original name, Department of War.   Department of “Defense “ has always been absurd since we have never fought an entirely defensive war.  Our wars have been the reverse: wars of US on the offense, or at least with provocation, though always falsely justified as defensive.   So let’s give Trump our thanks for at last ending that deceptive doublespeak.   Trump can tell the truth!   Though not because he wishes to avoid doublethink’s doubletalk.  --Dick