In a new chapter of his media show, U.S. President Donald Trump went up to the roof of the White House last Tuesday with an entourage of bodyguards and the press.
It seems that he wanted to change the scenario of his repeated appearances in front of journalists, and to joke about nothing less than the nuclear issue, missiles, war, or perhaps the end of humanity.
He did so in the midst of a heated atmosphere, in which not only nuclear weapons are being talked about, but two U.S. nuclear submarines are being launched into the water, close to Russian territory, accompanied by their respective media coverage, and their recycled threats, both to President Vladimir Putin, as well as to the entire Slavic nation.
Trump took a break from his favorite show - the tariff war - and made his way to the rooftop of his presidential lair, to appear defiant and agile, walking from one side of the stage to the other, and ready to answer the reporter who asked him: "What are you going to build here, President?". Trump already had the answer at the tip of his tongue: "Missiles, nuclear missiles," and concluded the presentation by gesturing as if he were launching one.
This fact, which is not at all insignificant, occurs when a toxic and dangerous environment is taking hold of this planet, the same planet that observes peacefully - and even irresponsibly - how war fronts are opening up and in any of them, the "nuclear solution" is not discarded.
A review of history tells us that the United States has been the only one to use nuclear weapons. The inhabitants of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the victims. It is now 80 years since that criminal action, which killed thousands of people and made the buildings of both cities radioactive dust.
And it was precisely Donald Trump, in his first presidential term, who broke several of the nuclear agreements that, at least, seemed to guarantee international tranquility, so that events such as those would not occur.
On October 20, 2018, Trump threw away the agreement that had been signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev on December 8, 1987, which was called the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. In 2019, the United States fully suspended its obligations to that agreement.
Russia continued to respect the pact, until Monday, August 4, when the Russian Foreign Ministry communicated that Moscow no longer self-imposes restrictions regarding the deployment of medium- and short-range missiles, after continuing to respect the INF unilaterally, following Washington's abandonment of it.
The Russian Foreign Ministry explained that this decision has been taken due to the fact that "the situation is developing towards the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region."
The world, as we see, is not for Donald Trump's "rooftop performance", and even more so when the nuclear issue is a sword of Damocles, about to deal a final blow to humanity.
