Conor here: While Axworthy tries to lay the blame at the feet of the authoritarian governments, it’s hard to see any progress being made until the US regains some semblance of sanity—if that happens. The bipartisan elite desire in The Blob to dismantle certain nuclear states tends to make that difficult, as does launching wars on non-nuclear states, which only increases desires for the bomb. Even if Axworthy’s cause diagnosis is off, his warning about the current situation is worth listening to. Lloyd Axworthy is a Canadian statesman, academic, and former Liberal cabinet minister who served as Canada’s Minister of…