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Interior Life Is a Clown Car of Neurotic Conflicts—And So We All Must Suffer"><img role="img" type="lazy-image" alt="President Trump Speaks Alongside Tesla Vehicles At The White House" aria-label="President Trump Speaks Alongside Tesla Vehicles At The White House" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1245 700'%3E%3C/svg%3E" data-runner-src="https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/president-trump-speaks-alongside-tesla-vehicles-at-the-white-house.jpg?id=59747119&width=1245&height=700&quality=90&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54" style="object-fit: cover;" class="rm-lazyloadable-image" width="1245" height="700"/></a></div><div class="widget__body clearfix sm-mt-1"><h2 class="widget__headline h2"><a class="widget__headline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-is-wrong-with-trump" aria-label="Trump's Interior Life Is a Clown Car of Neurotic Conflicts—And So We All Must Suffer" data-type="text"> Trump's Interior Life Is a Clown Car of Neurotic Conflicts—And So We All Must Suffer </a></h2><div class="widget__subheadline"><h3 class="widget__subheadline-text h3" data-type="text"><p>Everyone is so used to Trump’s compulsive sense of grievance and defensive arrogance that it no longer seems to be the impairment that it actually is.</p></h3></div><div class="social-author clearfix"><div class="social-author__avatar image"><div class="cover-all image" style="background-image: url("https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy81OTc0NzEwNi9vcmlnaW4ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc2NzY4NTQzMn0.pV8O8V-Xw74dk5deYKmhdV5xrkvQN7fDXb3g1oYpSYA/image.png?width=210")"></div></div><a class="social-author__name" href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/michael-bader" data-type="text">Michael Bader</a></div><div class="social-date"><span class="social-date__text">Mar 28, 2025</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2671628802" data-headline="Trump's Interior Life Is a Clown Car of Neurotic Conflicts—And So We All Must Suffer"><div class="body-description"><div class="widget__brief"><p>A senior consultant in Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation used to teach progressive leaders that there is a necessary difference between the values and functions of public vs. private relationships. In private life, relationships are ends in themselves. For public actors, relationships are appropriately more instrumental and transactional. Self-sacrifice is normal in personal relationships, while self-interest guides public action. For political leaders, personal gratification should take a backseat to public service. Of course, there is often a blurring of these boundaries, but, in general, when these domains overlap too much, the consequences are usually disastrous. We see in <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> an extreme example of what happens when someone in public is unable to have any guard rails between the pressures of his or her private psychology and public actions.</p><p>In Donald Trump’s world, the political is <em>always</em> personal. Barriers between the two worlds, the sort of censorship and self-restraint that effective leaders are obligated to exercise in public life, have completely collapsed. Instead, Trump’s policies are suffused with his personal and private needs, defenses, and insecurities. His tariff policies seek to punish Canada for being “nasty” and resistant to his bizarre agenda of making Canada our 51<sup>st</sup> state. He wants to hobble Ukraine because Zelensky was disrespectful to him. With Musk’s help, he spins and distorts reality in order to punish the “deep state” that he feels sought to undermine him. He notoriously goes to extreme lengths to try to punish his prior and current political enemies, targeting lawyers and journalists and threatening to ‘primary’ disloyal legislators. His ignorance about policy reflects the fact that he recklessly acts on private impulses and not thoughtful reflection. He lies compulsively and continually, and always in the service of bombastic claims of perfection and self-exoneration. He frees criminals and criminalizes dissent, not out of high-minded principles and commitment to the public interest but out of base impulses involving his personal narcissistic needs and vulnerabilities.</p></div><div class="content-container"></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand"><template><p>Obviously, public figures and leaders are human beings with personal psychologies that invariably influence their public political actions. Effective leaders, however, learn to subordinate or at least sublimate personal psychological conflicts in the interests of being politically strategic, negotiating compromises, and focusing on desirable political outcomes that serve a broader good. No one is saying that politicians leave their egos at the door, but, instead, the best ones seek to restrain these egos in order to achieve their political goals. </p><p>Trump is the opposite. He acts (out) entirely on the basis of personal animus and internal conflicts and then, only retroactively, spins a tale that paints his words and actions as principled or visionary. He will act on a small-minded personal impulse like humiliating Zelensky in the Oval Office, but then argue that what was clearly an idiosyncratic personal response was <em>really</em> part of his efforts to single-handedly solve the Ukraine/Russian war and ensure world peace. He feels slighted by other world leaders and trash talks them in public, implying that his derogatory language and claims are really part of his efforts to make America great again and to promote a high minded “America First” agenda without a hint of awareness that the real psychic motivation behind his actions involve making Trump “great” and “first.”</p><p>The characteristics that drive Trump to constantly leak his personal issues into his public political postures, the real reasons he simply cannot keep the seamier sides of his personality from flooding his actions as President, all stem from the precise nature of his psychological makeup. Trump’s psychology is hiding in plain sight. He is driven to avoid or refute any situation, any moment, in which he might potentially feel or be seen as at a disadvantage, inadequate, inferior, or otherwise a failure. He lives in dire fear of such feelings and instinctively, automatically, and desperately has to go out of his way to communicate the opposite. We don’t have to be Freud to know this. We see it every day in Trump’s constant clownish boasting and self-aggrandizing arrogance.</p><p>Everyone is so used to Trump’s compulsive sense of grievance and defensive arrogance that it no longer seems to be the impairment that it actually is. No one blinks an eye when he makes remarks, barely concealed within his word salad, about “having the best words,” being “the best President for black people since Abraham Lincoln,” or knowing more about taxes, the military, climate change—well, pretty much everything—than the world’s experts. Even when the conservative Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal had the temerity to remark that the positive business sentiment seen months before the election had shifted in response to Trump’s tariffs, Trump couldn’t tolerate the implied criticism and fired back with this tweet: “The Globalist Wall Street Journal has no idea what they are doing or saying,” he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114155230513269064" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">declared</a>. “They are owned by the polluted thinking of the European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of ‘screwing the United States of America. Their (WSJ!) thinking is antiquated and weak, and very bad for the USA. But have no fear, we will WIN on everything!!!”</p><p>My point here is that Trump has no choice, no freedom at all, to edit or censor remarks like these because the psychic threats they seek to mitigate—feelings of shame, inferiority and/or failure—are so threatening to him that they leave him no room at all to be cautious, modest, or to seek common ground. While all politicians, like all people, bring their personal psychologies into their public work lives, Trump’s interior life is a clown car of neurotic conflicts that have seized control of his executive functions and shape his every public statement and action. Unfortunately the fact that these conflicts are playing out publicly in the head of the most powerful person in the world threatens economic and political stability worldwide. WE can only hope that there are still some adults in the room that can restrain him.</p></template></div><div class="widget__show-more with-primary-color js-keep-reading js-page-view-and-reload-embeds"><span class="show-more js-expand">Keep Reading</span><span class="show-less js-contract">Show Less</span></div></div></div><span class="" data-elid="2671628802" data-post-url="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-is-wrong-with-trump" data-authors="Michael Bader" data-headline="Trump's Interior Life Is a Clown Car of Neurotic Conflicts—And So We All Must Suffer" data-page-title="Trump's Interior Life Is a Neurotic Clown Car | Common Dreams"></span><a class="widget__section js-load-brick-on-click" href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion">Opinion</a><div class="post-tags-primary"><a class="post-tags-primary-link" href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/donald-trump">donald trump</a></div><div class="widget__shares share-panel"><a 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McChesney"><img role="img" type="lazy-image" alt="Robert McChesney and John Nichols" aria-label="Robert McChesney and John Nichols" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1245 700'%3E%3C/svg%3E" data-runner-src="https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/robert-mcchesney-and-john-nichols.jpg?id=59742414&width=1245&height=700&quality=90&coordinates=55%2C0%2C56%2C0" style="object-fit: cover;" class="rm-lazyloadable-image" width="1245" height="700"/></a></div><div class="widget__body clearfix sm-mt-1"><h2 class="widget__headline h2"><a class="widget__headline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/robert-mcchesney-media-democracy" aria-label="In Defense of Media and Democracy: The Inspiring Work and Life of My Friend Robert W. McChesney" data-type="text"> In Defense of Media and Democracy: The Inspiring Work and Life of My Friend Robert W. McChesney </a></h2><div class="widget__subheadline"><h3 class="widget__subheadline-text h3" data-type="text"><p>Just like Tom Paine, and until the very end, Bob saw hope in the people who were rising up and demanding a future defined by their humanity, as opposed to corporate power.</p></h3></div><div class="social-author clearfix"><div class="social-author__avatar image"><div class="cover-all image" style="background-image: url("https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMTk4NzcyOS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc4NzE4OTkwMH0.YIMivyk0yZ48ESpbqCtu78LxR8Uew9vlTWPCF7qXCb0/image.jpg?width=210")"></div></div><a class="social-author__name" href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/john-nichols" data-type="text">John Nichols</a></div><div class="social-date"><span class="social-date__text">Mar 28, 2025</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2671627272" data-headline="In Defense of Media and Democracy: The Inspiring Work and Life of My Friend Robert W. McChesney"><div class="body-description"><div class="widget__brief"><p>Bob McChesney, who died on Tuesday at the age of 72, first introduced himself to me almost 30 years ago, on the set of a public television news program in Madison, Wisconsin. Bob was a distinguished University of Wisconsin professor who was gaining an international reputation for his groundbreaking analysis of the threat to democracy posed by corporate control of media. Raising his arguments in books, speeches, and frequent C-Span appearances, he was well on his way to becoming one of the great public intellectuals of his time. I was a young newspaper editor who had earned a slim measure of recognition for my advocacy on behalf of investigative journalism and press freedom.</p><p>The program was framed as a debate about the future of journalism. Bob was positioned as the doomsayer, warning about how media consolidation was killing journalism. I was expected to counter that the future was actually bright. As it turned out, neither of us wanted to follow the script. Instead of arguing, we both agreed that profit-obsessed corporations were destroying American journalism, and that this destruction would pose an ever more serious threat to American democracy. </p></div><div class="content-container"></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand"><template><p>It wasn’t a particularly satisfying exchange for our hosts that evening, but it was the beginning of a collaboration that would span three decades. Bob and I cowrote half a dozen books and dozens of articles, joined <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/bill-moyers">Bill Moyers</a> for a series of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj9u6M0hdBw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PBS interviews</a> that would examine threats to journalism and democracy, and did our best, with more allies than we could have imagined in those early days, to stir up a reform movement that recognized the crisis and endeavored to set the stage for media that serves people rather than corporate bottom lines.</p><p>Bob, with his remarkable intellect and even more remarkable capacity for communicating his vision of a media that served citizens rather than corporations, was always the driving force. His research and his insatiable curiosity helped him to see the future more clearly than any scholar of his generation, with such precision that Moyers would compare him to both Tom Paine <em>and</em> Paul Revere. As new political and societal challenges arose in an ever more chaotic moment for America and the world, Bob explained how they should be understood as fresh manifestations of an ancient danger: the concentration of power—in this case, the power of the media, in the hands of old-media CEOs and new tech oligarchs, all of whom cared more about commercial and entertainment strategies than democratic and social values.</p><p class="pull-quote">Bob, with his remarkable intellect and even more remarkable capacity for communicating his vision of a media that served citizens rather than corporations, was always the driving force.</p><p>Bob took the “public” part of “public intellectual” seriously. You knew he wanted to swing into action when he’d say, “We need to put our heads together…” That was his call to write another book, organize another national conference on media reform, or rally another movement to defend the speak-truth-to-power journalism that the founders of the American experiment understood as the only sure footing for representative democracy.</p><p>Bob kept issuing the call, even as a series of health challenges slowed him down. He was still doing so a few days before his death following a year-long fight with cancer. His was a life fulfilled in the best sense of the word. He died a happy man, holding the hand of his beloved wife, Inger Stole, and reflecting on time spent with his daughters, Amy and Lucy.</p><p>Our last conversations recalled friends and colleagues who had answered his calls to save journalism and renew our democracy: Craig Aaron, Victor Pickard, Josh Silver, Kimberly Longey, Russell Newman, Derek Turner, Ben Scott, Joe Torres, Tim Karr, Matt Wood, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Michael Copps, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/noam-chomsky">Noam Chomsky</a>, Amy Goodman, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/bernie-sanders">Bernie Sanders</a>, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/ralph-nader">Ralph Nader</a>, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and too many others to name. Bob loved scholarship, loved activism, and loved collaborating with people who made connections between the two—sharing writing credits with former students at UW-Madison and later at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working with unions of media workers and, perhaps above all, strategizing with the team at <a href="https://www.freepress.net/blog/crisis-journalism-underpins-crisis-democracy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Free Press</a>, the media reform group he co-founded in 2003 to advocate for diversity in ownership, robust pubic media, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/net-neutrality">net neutrality</a> and always, always, democracy. Bob was frustrated by the oligarchical overreach now on display in the Washington of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> and Elon Musk—a development he had predicted with eerie accuracy. Yet he remained undaunted to the end, still spinning out fresh ideas for upending corporate control of media, getting Big Money out of politics, and ushering in a new era of freewheeling debate and popular democracy.</p><p>That was the essence of <a href="https://robertmcchesney.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Waterman McChesney</a>. He was a globally respected communications scholar who was wholly welcome in the halls of academia, yet he was never satisfied working within an ivory tower. He was a rigorous researcher into the worst abuse of corporate and political establishments. Yet he refused to surrender his faith in the ability of people-powered movements to upend monarchs and oligarchs and, in the words of Tom Paine, “begin the world over again.”</p><p>Bob regarded Paine—the immigrant pamphleteer who rallied the people of his adopted country to dismiss King George III and the colonial enterprise, and who spent the rest of his life demanding that this new United States live up to the egalitarian promise of liberty and justice for all—as the essential founder of the American project. Like Paine, Bob believed that with information and encouragement, grassroots activists could carry Paine’s legacy forward into the 21st century. Countless people heeded his call.</p><p>“Bob McChesney was a brilliant scholar whose ideas and insights reached far beyond the classroom. He opened the eyes of a generation of academics, journalists, politicians, and activists—including mine—to how media structures and policies shape our broader politics and possibilities,” explained Craig Aaron, the co-CEO of Free Press. “While McChesney spent much of his career charting the problems of the media and the critical junctures that created our current crises, he believed fundamentally in the public’s ability to solve those problems and build a media system that serves people’s needs and sustains democracy. His ideas were bold and transformative, and he had little patience for tinkering around the edges. Rather than fighting over Washington’s narrow vision of what was possible, he always said—and Bob loved a good sports metaphor—that we needed to throw the puck down to the other end of the ice.”</p><p>Bob examined the relationship between media and democracy with scholarly seriousness. Yet he coupled that seriousness with a penchant not just for sports metaphors and references to rock-and-roll songs but spot-on cinematic analogies, which invited Americans to recognize the crisis. Speaking to Moyers about how America’s media policies were forged behind closed doors in Washington, by lobbyists and politicians, <a href="https://billmoyers.com/episode/how-dollarocracy-is-destroying-america/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bob succintly defined that process</a>: “Pure corruption. This is really where Big Money crowds everything else out. The way to understand how policymakers make media in this country [is to watch] a great movie: <em>The Godfather: Part II</em>. There’s a scene early in the movie where all the American gangsters are on top of a hotel roof in Havana. It’s a classic scene featuring Hyman Roth and Michael Corleone. They’ve got a cake being wheeled out to them. And Hyman Roth is cutting up slices of the cake. The cake’s got the outline of Cuba on it, and they’re giving each gangster a slice of Cuba. And while he’s doing this, Hyman Roth’s [talking about how they can work with government to carve up Cuba in ways that make them all rich]. That’s how media policy is made in the United States.”</p><p>The accessibility of his speech—the way it turned something as potentially obscure as communications policy into a readily understandable issue—was Bob’s genius. He wanted to upend the money power and tip the balance toward systems that would empower working-class people—as opposed to billionaires—to shape the future of media: with strategies for giving citizens democracy vouchers that they could use to support independent media, and a host of other remedies. Like his friend Bernie Sanders, Bob believed it essential to have a media free enough from corporate influence to speak truth to economic and political power, boldly critique the excesses of capitalism, and raise the alarm against creeping oligarchy.</p><p class="pull-quote">The accessibility of his speech—the way it turned something as potentially obscure as communications policy into a readily understandable issue—was Bob’s genius.</p><p>This was the premise that underpinned an academic career that saw Bob author or co-author almost 30 books—including the groundbreaking <em>Rich Media, Poor Democracy</em>, his 1999 manifesto on how the decay of journalism would lead to a collapse of democratic norms, and 2013’s <em>Digital Disconnect</em>, his essential assessment of the danger of allowing Silicon Valley billionaires to define online communications. Many of the same themes ran through examinations of the shuttering of newspapers by corporate conglomerates that left communities as news deserts, of the destructive influence of political advertising on the national discourse, and of the failure of political and media elites to bring citizens into debates about automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Noam Chomsky, whose own work on the media’s manufacturing of consent had profoundly influenced Bob’s scholarship (along with that of Ben Bagdikian, the journalist who wrote <em>The Media Democracy</em>), became Bob’s most ardent champion. “Robert McChesney’s work has been of extraordinary importance,” <a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/communication-revolution" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">explained Chomsky</a>. “It should be read with care and concern by people who care about freedom and basic rights.”</p><p>Bob’s research—and the books, lectures and activism that extended from it—earned him Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize, the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, the Newspaper Guild’s Herbert Block Freedom Award (for “<a href="https://robertmcchesney.org/about/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">having done more for press freedom than anyone</a>”), and the International Communications Association’s C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy. It also gained him a hearing from thoughtful members of Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission. Even if they did not always follow his advice, progressive officials recognized the wisdom of his analysis and incorporated it into their work. That’s one of the reasons why, in 2009, <em>Utne Reader</em> named Bob as one of “50 visionaries who are changing your world.” Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity, simply referred to Bob as “<a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/communication-revolution" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the conscience of the media in America</a>.”</p><p class="pull-quote">Bob’s last words to me, though they were a bit more labored due to his illness, were a repeat of his constant call to action: “Let’s put our heads together…”</p><p>Lewis wrote those words the better part of two decades ago. Bob remained that conscience, even as “media deserts” spread their arid path across America, as disinformation and misinformation overwhelmed the Internet, as propagandistic advertising warped our politics and as democratic expectations were undermined. It was all as he had predicted. But he was not inclined toward “I told you so” rejoinders.</p><p>Rather, Bob kept the faith that popular movements would push back against the decay, and the chaos, just as they had in the Progressive Era, the New Deal years, and the 1960s. “You’ve got to look in the mirror and understand that, if you act like change for the better is impossible, you guarantee it will be impossible,” he would say. “That’s the one decision each individual faces.”</p><p>Bob looked in that mirror confidently and courageously throughout a life of scholarship and activism. Some of our last conversations were about the huge crowds Bernie Sanders was attracting for his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, and the thousands of Americans who have been showing up to challenge Republican members of Congress at town hall meetings. Just like Tom Paine, Bob saw fresh hope in the people who were rising up and demanding a future defined by their humanity, as opposed to corporate power. This might, he suggested, be the opening for a new surge in activism for journalism and democracy, a surge that might “begin the world over again.” </p><p>Bob’s last words to me, though they were a bit more labored due to his illness, were a repeat of his constant call to action: “Let’s put our heads together…” In other words, let’s make a plan. Let’s do something. That was his charge to those of us who cherished Bob McChesney’s mission and his spirit. 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That ‘We Can’t Lose’"><img role="img" type="lazy-image" alt="Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons" aria-label="Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1245 700'%3E%3C/svg%3E" data-runner-src="https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/treaty-on-the-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons.jpg?id=56531697&width=1245&height=700&quality=90&coordinates=0%2C201%2C0%2C202" style="object-fit: cover;" class="rm-lazyloadable-image" width="1245" height="700"/></a></div><div class="widget__body clearfix sm-mt-1"><h2 class="widget__headline h2"><a class="widget__headline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/no-one-wins-nuclear-war" aria-label="No One Wins When Nuclear-Armed States Believe That ‘We Can’t Lose’" data-type="text"> No One Wins When Nuclear-Armed States Believe That ‘We Can’t Lose’ </a></h2><div class="widget__subheadline"><h3 class="widget__subheadline-text h3" data-type="text"><p>Any conflict risks going nuclear if one of the belligerent parties choses to use their ultimate weapon rather than accept the possibility of defeat. </p></h3></div><div class="social-author clearfix"><div class="social-author__avatar image"><div class="cover-all image" style="background-image: url("https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy81ODY3MDEzOS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc3MzA2NzE4OH0.qUmskHabaHmj75gFa_f8-MwhuDI3tpqVJ-QVnixLca8/image.jpg?width=210")"></div></div><a class="social-author__name" href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/curtis-bell" data-type="text">Curtis Bell</a></div><div class="social-date"><span class="social-date__text">Mar 28, 2025</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2671435264" data-headline="No One Wins When Nuclear-Armed States Believe That ‘We Can’t Lose’"><div class="body-description"><div class="widget__brief"><p>Nations engaged in wars with conventional weapons are not likely to hold back from using their most powerful weapons if they believe they are losing the war, and for too many countries in our world the most powerful weapons are nuclear. Countries committed to fighting a conventional war are also likely to be committed to the meme of “We Can’t Lose.” </p><p>A nuclear war could begin with the losing side in a conventional war making use of a small local tactical nuclear weapon to destroy the supply lines of its enemy. But once one side uses such a weapon the other side will feel that it too must engage with its most powerful weapons. Frustration is likely to set in when it appears that restricting such weapons to the immediate battlefield of the war is not sufficient to win. It might then be seen as necessary to destroy the enemy’s airfields and the power centers in its capital with longer range, more powerful nuclear weapons. </p></div><div class="content-container"></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand"><template><p>Just such a sequence of escalation in the use of nuclear weapons from tactical use in a local battlefield to strategic use in the destruction of an enemy’s cities was shown to be likely in a 1983 simulation described in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/magazine/nuclear-strategy-proud-prophet.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>a recent article by William Langewiesche</u></a> in <em>The New York Times Magazine</em>. The simulation was large scale and involved much of the U.S. defense establishment. The simulation began with a conventional war between Russia and the West on the fields of Poland and East Germany. As it began to appear that the West was losing and the Netherlands was threatened, the West initiated the use of small tactical nuclear weapons that it fired onto the enemy’s supply lines in the local battlefield. Russia followed suit. Within a few days the airfields behind the frontlines from which the planes dropping the tactical weapons took off were struck with larger nuclear weapons. Finally, strategic weapons were used against the capitals of Western Europe and Russia.</p><p class="pull-quote">One fears the near inevitability that one or more of the current wars in our world will end in nuclear war, the accompanying nuclear winter, and the possible end of human life on Earth.</p><p>The results surprised those who participated in the simulation. The conclusion was that a nuclear war cannot be controlled. </p><p>Our world has many local conflicts such as the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East that involve nuclear powers. This is in addition to major geostrategic conflicts between the nuclear powers of U.S., Russia, and China. All of these conflicts have the potential of becoming nuclear. </p><p>Russia, for example, has warned the West that it will use a nuclear weapon in its war with Ukraine if it believes it is losing the current war with conventional weapons. Russia is thus telling the west that “we can’t lose.”</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/israel">Israel</a> has warned that it will exercise <a href="https://progressive.org/latest/the-samson-option-israels-plan-to-nuke-its-opponents-dilawar-20240624/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>“The Samson Option”</u></a> if it is in a war with its neighbors and believes it can no longer defend Israel with conventional weapons. The Samson Option involves the nuclear bombing of cities such as Damascus, Bagdad, or Cairo with nuclear weapons. More recently, Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu has raised the possibility of <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-minister-says-nuking-gaza-an-option-pm-suspends-him-from-cabinet-meetings/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza</u></a>. Israel too is thus telling the world that “we cannot and will not lose.”</p><p>It is likely that the United States too believes that “we cannot lose.” If it is in a war with China using conventional weapons and China is gaining the upper hand then it is quite possible that the U.S., with its triad of nuclear-armed submarines, bombers, and land-based missiles, would use these nuclear weapons. In fact, many in the U.S. defense establishment believe that a <a href="https://thebulletin.org/2022/02/us-defense-to-its-workforce-nuclear-war-can-be-won/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>nuclear war with China</u></a> can be fought and won by the U.S. Thus, the U.S. too believes that “we cannot lose.” Similar considerations by the U.S. would apply if it were losing a war with Russia. </p><p>Other states with nuclear weapons may also believe they cannot lose. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>North Korea has stated</u></a> that it would not use nuclear weapons in a preemptive strike but would use its nuclear weapons if attacked, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW8lVuRStEE" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>recent events on the Korean peninsula</u></a> suggest that war between the two Koreas is a real possibility. It also seems likely that if Pakistan or India were engaged in a conventional war and one side was losing, that that side would believe they could not lose and would initiate a nuclear exchange. </p><p>The likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons becomes still greater if other nations such as Japan, Brazil, Iran, or <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/saudi-arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> join the nuclear club in the interest of deterrence (no nuclear armed country has ever been invaded) and adopt the meme of “we cannot lose.”</p><p>All this makes one pessimistic. One fears the near inevitability that one or more of the current wars in our world will end in nuclear war, the accompanying nuclear winter, and the possible end of human life on Earth. </p><p>What can be done? It seems the only solution is the complete abolition of nuclear weapons as proposed in the <a href="https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/treaty-on-the-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons/#:~:text=The%20Treaty%20on%20the%20Prohibition,nuclear%20weapons%20under%20international%20law." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons</u></a> that has now been signed by 93 non-nuclear states. Unfortunately, the nuclear states have not signed onto this treaty but should be encouraged to do so.</p><p>Skeptics will say that nuclear powers might sign on to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons but would hold in secret a few nuclear weapons so as to be able to dominate their enemies in a conventional war. 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" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1245 700'%3E%3C/svg%3E" data-runner-src="https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/a-maersk-vessel-with-shipping-containers.jpg?id=59701620&width=1245&height=700&quality=90&coordinates=0%2C350%2C0%2C350" style="object-fit: cover;" class="rm-lazyloadable-image" width="1245" height="700"/></a></div><div class="widget__body clearfix sm-mt-1"><h2 class="widget__headline h2"><a class="widget__headline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/shipping-industry-climate" aria-label="Polluters Must Pay: A Shipping Levy for Climate Justice" data-type="text"> Polluters Must Pay: A Shipping Levy for Climate Justice </a></h2><div class="widget__subheadline"><h3 class="widget__subheadline-text h3" data-type="text"><p>It is time to hold global shipping corporations accountable for burning heavy fuel oils and putting profits before the well-being of people and the planet. </p></h3></div><div class="social-author clearfix"><div class="social-author__avatar image"><div class="cover-all image" style="background-image: url("https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy81OTcwMjIwNi9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc1NzgxNjk4Mn0.SQbHpbpyrMLkaaGBeGnkF-C5BgWfa5d3LVTfnf2B39U/image.jpg?width=210")"></div></div><a class="social-author__name" href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/jamie-yates" data-type="text">Jamie Yates</a></div><div class="social-date"><span class="social-date__text">Mar 28, 2025</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2671616544" data-headline="Polluters Must Pay: A Shipping Levy for Climate Justice"><div class="body-description"><div class="widget__brief"><p>In April, the International Maritime Organization has a critical opportunity to put shipping on a path toward real climate action. A levy on shipping emissions would not only hold major polluters accountable but also generate billions in funding to support a just transition—one that helps vulnerable nations, accelerates zero-emission fuel production, and breaks shipping’s dependence on fossil fuels.<u></u><u></u></p><p>Adeboye Joseph Oluwadamilare, a Nigerian climate advocate who called for a levy at last year’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) meeting, said, “If we don’t act now, climate change could cost the global economy $38 trillion every year.”<u></u><u></u></p></div><div class="content-container"></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand"><template><p>If the levy is adopted, the revenues could be used to support the most vulnerable countries towards transitioning their shipping fleets and port infrastructure to zero-emission technologies. It would rightly force the biggest polluters to pay the true cost to our planet and health to continue to pollute and would set the industry on a path to a just and equitable transition.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="pull-quote">While some in the shipping industry may resist the financial burden of upgrading fleets, the alternative—a world plagued by climate-fueled disasters, serious threats to public health, and economic instability—is far worse.</p><p>Top shipping companies like Maersk and CMA CGM have made billions of dollars in revenues over this past year—more than $100 billion combined in 2024. Both companies have taken steps to transition their fleets to zero emissions but not on pace to meet the timeline of the Paris agreement or the IMO’s own 2023 greenhouse gas reduction strategy. Nicole Morson, a climate activist from Dominica, also pushed for a levy of $150 per metric ton of greenhouse gas emissions last year in London. She told <em></em><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/407307b7-2056-41af-ac8f-27bc7b08bff0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Wall Street Journal</em></a> that the push for the tax is “a movement of the climate underdogs.”<u></u><u></u></p><p>It is time to hold global shipping corporations accountable for burning heavy fuel oils and putting profits before the well-being of people and the planet. The majority of Americans recognize that global warming is happening; a recent study from Yale and George Mason University <a href="https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/climate-change-american-mind-beliefs-attitudes-fall-2024.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">found</a> that 73% of Americans recognize that global warming is happening, including 60% who say that it is caused mostly by human activities. The good news is that the cost of clean shipping is negligible—one study shows that using e-fuels adds just 8 cents to a pair of Nikes. <u></u><u></u></p><p>As the world’s shipping regulator, it is time that the International Maritime Organization take action to adopt a levy to hold the sector accountable. Olumide Idowu, another climate activist from Nigeria and known as <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/oidowu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Mr. Climate,”</a> said: “One of the best ways to clean up shipping and avoid huge climate bills is by pricing its emissions. A global levy on shipping emissions will help get ships off faster off fossil fuels while generating finance worth billions of dollars to upgrade shipping to zero emissions and make the sector more resilient, especially in the most vulnerable and developing countries.”<u></u><u></u></p><p>Revenue could also be used to reward the needed production of zero-emission fuels and required infrastructure upgrades in climate vulnerable countries. The World Bank estimates that around <a href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/448008b9-3964-492b-bf25-50c2c4b05c62/content" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">$60 billion</a> could be generated annually, based on a price of $100 per metric ton per greenhouse gas emissions. It would be a drop in the bucket for the industry but would help accelerate shipping decarbonization around the world and in the most vulnerable countries.<u></u><u></u></p><p>The cost of inaction is far greater than the price of transition. Climate change threatens global supply chains, coastal infrastructure, and economies, with damages projected to reach trillions of dollars annually. While some in the shipping industry may resist the financial burden of upgrading fleets, the alternative—a world plagued by climate-fueled disasters, serious threats to public health, and economic instability—is far worse. 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