Pentagon Safety Essay

Pentagon Safety Measure Requires President To Identify Nation On Map Before Nuking It is the title of a short article found on the Christian satirical news website babylonbee.com. This short article may be just a joke, but it addresses a very important topic that affects our nation and the world as a whole. It addresses the very nature of our president Donald Trump. Specifically, his unpredictability and views in regard to international matters and nuclear weapons. This article shows this by coming up with a way the pentagon has prevented Trump’s attempts to nuke our enemies. While some people think nuking our enemies is the answer, the fact is it would likely plunge the world into a nuclear war and greatly harm the environment of Earth and

Once again, the unnamed author has made a valiant effort toward ethos. There may be no names involved, but it could also be interpreted that the author didn’t want to give away the identity of the “Pentagon insiders” (babylonbee.com). The pathos in this is once again urgent and concerning. The author uses the words “grim” and “death via nuclear winter” to establish this (babylonbee.com). The author uses these words to push his or her scare tactic further to get the audience to recognize the importance of the message being presented. The logos in this statement is still seen in regard to nuclear weapons and Trump. The words “death via nuclear winter” establishes the threat to our safety and the claim that the new defense has stopped Trump “’at least five times already’”, brings the message that this threat to our lives could result from an action from President Trump (babylonbee.com). Trump has been in office less than a year and he has supposedly tried to launch nuclear weapons a minimum of five times already. That seems like a lot for such a short period of time, and gives Trump an image of unpredictability in the use of nuclear weapons. Given that the only thing that stopped him is an “unlabeled map of the world”, his unpredictability is concreted because

After doing some research it becomes apparent that this concern is well founded. An article on the Washington Post, written by senior political author Aaron Blake, and titled Trump’s loose talk on nuclear weapons suddenly becomes very real, does a good job of expanding upon concerns regarding Trump. The first thing to pay attention too is that the article claims, “Trump had spoken openly in the preceding meeting with national security leaders about a return to a Cold War footing with nuclear weapons — what would amount to about a tenfold increase” (washingtonpost.com). The article also talks about Trump’s adoption of the “’madman strategy’ in which you make your foes believe you are capable of pretty much anything” (washingtonpost.com). Trump wants to increase nuclear stockpile, and be unpredictable towards international conflicts, the problem with these things is that it raises tensions around the world and goes against progress that had been made towards world peace and lowering nuclear stock piles. How does this affect Southerners though? It is really simple: the rising of international tensions and the idea of a larger nuclear stockpile could lead us closer to a major war that would result in the complete mobilization of our military and the possibility of the draft. A major war would greatly impact our