THE BIG THREE – Ray McGovern and Peter Kuznick on THE WORLD THIS WEEK

This Thursday will be the first world summit meeting between the three major world powers since Yalta. Both Russia and China have issued very positive statements about its importance, and so does Ray McGovern here. He thinks that between them, they may be able to talk Trump into not doing something really stupid, such as restarting the war with Iran. The Trump administration has announced that a subject of discussion will be de-nuclearization – the reduction and elimination of all nuclear weapons, as proposed by Gorbachev to Reagan in Reykjavik back in 1989. The idea proposed by historian Peter Kuznick is that the US and Russia could begin by agreeing to limit their nuclear weapons to 600 each, which is about how many China now has. Then the three powers could negotiate the reduction of all nuclear weapons to zero. Most people would laugh at the idea that Trump could be serious about such a thing, but Kuznick is optimistic that it could be the start of a real nuclear disarmament process. I would say that even if Trump does try to go for a real peace process, the CIA and the neocons and Zionists all around him would likely assassinate him as soon as they did Kennedy after his famous peace speech in the summer of 1963. They would blame it on Iran, of course.