There are not many issues that are a greater waste of time and money in our era of AI and political polarization domestically and globally than efforts to reverse the nuclear arms race - without first addressing the root causes of most local, national and global threats. For at least 5 decades Peace movement investments have mostly failed to reverse the Nuclear Arms Race. Great reductions were once made, yet nuclear armed nations (US, Russia, Israel, China, India, Pakistan, N. Korea) have starting wars with other nations. This is an incentive for any non-nuclear nation to protect their territory and people - by getting one or more. Worse yet, some of the nations that have already given up their nuclear weapons now regret doing so.
Mayors have many other seriously disruptive domestic issues they need to deal with; debt, jobs, housing, inflation, food & energy costs, health care, education, crime, murder rates, drug addiction, violent extremist groups, cyber security... in addition to other other global disruptive forces like pandemics, extreme weather events, violent religious extremists, wars, genocides, refugee flows, and the evolution of other forms of WMD that are now cheaper, easier to make and move, anonymous, and more deadly than a nuclear weapon.
Today's United for Peace & Justice www.actionnetwork.org (June 24, 2026) action alert... asks people to “Organize Locally for Peace and Justice”. Like that's going to make any difference at all, but in the spirit of their fundraising campaign.
U.S. Conference of Mayors Urges the United States to Lead a Global Effort to Halt and Reverse the Nuclear Arms Race
In a time of growing tensions among nuclear-armed states, at the close of its 94th Annual Meeting the final business plenary of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) unanimously adopted a bold new resolution, “Urging the United States to Lead a Global Effort to Halt and Reverse the Nuclear Arms Race.” The USCM is the official nonpartisan association of more than 1,500 American cities with populations over 30,000. Resolutions adopted at its annual meetings become USCM official policy. The 2026 USCM Mayors for Peace resolution was sponsored by Mayor Lacey Beaty, of Beaverton, OR, and cosponsored by Mayors Larry Agran, of Irvine, CA, Martha Guerrero, of West Sacramento, CA, Adena Ishii, of Berkeley, CA, Elizabeth Kautz, of Burnsville, MN, Chris Koos, of Normal, IL, and Barbara Lee, of Oakland, CA...
What is the cause of those "tensions among nuclear-armed states"? The entire progressive peace movement has ignored the inherent UN flaws within the Security Council, that keep the protection of national severity and wealth above the protection of human rights and the environment. The consequences of this are clear in last year's statistics - with 65 active conflicts now using far more powerful weapons. That was more conflicts than any time since World War II. Nations (some with nukes, some without) squaring off against other nations doubled in just one year. More than in any year since 1946. Russia -Ukraine, Israel – Iran, US - Iran, Israel - Palestine, India - Pakistan, Thailand - Cambodia, Afghanistan-Pakistan, Syria - Yemen, and US/Great Britain - the Hootie’s in the Red Sea.
These were the deadliest conflicts on Earth since the 1994 Rwanda genocide, where in just 100 days about 800,000 people were slaughtered - mostly with clubs or machetes. Now anything can be weaponized (social media, courts, cars, drones...), making disarmament delusional and a waste of nonrenewable time and donated cash demanding it. Virtually ignoring all the other real threats people, nature, and nations face daily.
Without global justice there will be no peace. The 'Peace through strength" movement (now most popular among the most powerful governments) is even more delusional. Israel's genocide in Gaze, war crimes in Lebanon, and crimes against humanity in the West Bank have sealed the fate of any Jewish people (both Zionists and non-Zionists) globally. Political borders are simply indefensible all the time. Now all Jews have a target on their back now...in an endless war because some Zionist Jews strongly believe the bible is a real-estate manual - and are willing to kill and even die in mass numbers -defending this delusional concept.
This delusion, and every other motivation for war, genocide, or collective mass murder is fundamentally a mental health problem. These mental concepts (religion, nationalism, capitalism...communism) are not in our social species DNA. They were concepts our minds created about 10,000 years ago when they aided in bonding our tribes and growing growth. Unfortunately, our thumbs enabled the evolution of weapons as tools, then aided by extremely intelligent human minds. And now we have multipul forms of WMD that will NEVER go away...
Not until we realized AI's exponential growth into AGI, might decide humans are the problem. And its own survival is at stake. We are gambling with the chances AI, AGI, or humans will achieve wisdom in time.
Don't bet on it. But AI/AGI might decide we are worth keeping around for entertainment.
If these progressive Peace do-gooders were serious about reducing conflicts they would unite with other progressive movements (Environment, economic/social Justice) and advocate for businesses funding the SDG ASAP. By investing in human health, economic, and environment sustainably at local community levels - those businesses, billionaires, and trillionaires might have a chance of making capitalism and profit making sustainable.
But if progressive movements continue to refuse to unite...to stop this insanity. It would be wise to start preparing for the consequences. If you've read yesterday's blog post, you'll notice the coming chaos is inevitable.
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