The "status quo", if we define "status quo" as the world created by US hegemony/international capitalism and not just the world as us peons see it through CNN, has no answer to nuclear weapons since the only options are disarm or wait and see if we all kill each other. Since the first option isn't on the table the second option becomes do we cross the aisle and shake hands with countries opposed to our hegemony or do we maintain our hegemony and gamble on the world. America has shown consistently that we are going to gamble on maintaining hegemony so if Trump shaking hands was ever a serious threat to that then we might very well see a wild Oswald appear. But nothing came of it so it's reasonable to assume the status quo saw no real threat. It was just media memes. Just like how Obama making seeming overtures to Cuba didn't actually do anything to change our relationship to the Castros.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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