The US military is currently talking about tangling with China and Russia. ‘Limited’ nuclear war, a real-life fantasy if there ever was one, is being tossed around by the military once again (with the assistsnce of crazy John Bolton). At least cooler heads prevailed last time around.

U.S. General Considered Nuclear Response in Vietnam War, Cables Show

WASHINGTON — In one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam War, the top American military commander in Saigon activated a plan in 1968 to move nuclear weapons to South Vietnam until he was overruled by President Lyndon B. Johnson, according to recently declassified documents cited in a new history of wartime presidential decisions.

The documents reveal a long-secret set of preparations by the commander, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, to have nuclear weapons at hand should American forces find themselves on the brink of defeat at Khe Sanh, one of the fiercest battles of the war.

With the approval of the American commander in the Pacific, General Westmoreland had put together a secret operation, code-named Fracture Jaw, that included moving nuclear weapons into South Vietnam so that they could be used on short notice against North Vietnamese troops.

Johnson’s national security adviser, Walt W. Rostow, alerted the president in a memorandum on White House stationery.

The White House national security adviser, Walt W. Rostow, alerted President Lyndon B. Johnson of plans to move nuclear weapons into South Vietnam on the same day that Gen. William C. Westmoreland had told the American commander in the Pacific that he approved the operation.

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“Johnson never fully trusted his generals,” said Mr. Johnson, who is of no relation to the president. “He had great admiration for General Westmoreland, but he didn’t want his generals to run the war.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/world/asia/vietnam-war-nuclear-weapon...

Unlike then, we have a lazy clown in the Oval Office who’s biggest (only?) talent is running around the planet making nonsensical and speeches that embarrass those of us with a basic grasp of logic and the English language. For example:

He’s turned his freaks loose and they’re running our current ‘wars’. That definitely makes me nervous. I’m not saying that the Clinton Creature would have been any better. In fact, I think she and her neocon/neo-liberal buddies would have had us in this position within her first couple months in office. It’s not like there was a ‘peace’ candidate running, so it was lose-lose no matter how you look at it.

Like Yogi Berra said, "It's déjà vu all over again."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/world/asia/vietnam-war-nuclear-weapon...

EDIT: forgot link