Is
Washington Planning a Nuclear First Strike on
Russia?
By Richard
Edmondson
May 13,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- Despite
a seemingly cordial meeting Wednesday between
Trump and Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov,
tensions between the two countries remain high.
Reports have come out in recent weeks (see
here for
instance) that Russian military officials
are now
convinced the US is planning a nuclear first
strike against Russia.
Obviously we are in dangerous times. Articles
demonizing Russia are churned out by the media
each day. The deep state in Washington (which I
would argue includes the owners or CEOs of the
major media conglomerates) clearly is trying to
incite and foment a conflict. Spreading chaos
throughout the Middle East has been their modus
operandi for many years now, but the ultimate
chaos, of course, would be a nuclear war. And
that very much seems to be their fondest fantasy
and desire at present. Do they think they can
win it? Possibly so. This is what the second
article, by
Conn Halinan, gets into.
The
insanity has of course spread to the UK, where
Defense
Secretary Michael Fallon recently
stated that under certain circumstances
Theresa May’s
government would consider launching a nuclear
first strike–even if Britain was not under
attack. Fallon’s idiocies are discussed in the
third article, by
Felicity Arbuthnot.
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Interestingly, Arbuthnot also poses the
possibility that the current showdown over North
Korea is a “red herring.” While I’m not going to
excerpt it, I will provide a link–here–to
an analysis on the confrontation with North
Korea published by Roberts just over a week ago.
The
writer opines that the THAAD anti-missile system
Trump is deploying to South Korea has nothing to
do with North Korea, and is really intended to
target China. A comparable analogy would be the
US ballistic missile defense system deployed in
Eastern Europe. That “missile shield” supposedly
was to protect Europe from Iran, though most
astute observers knew at the time that the real
target was Russia. The system was first
announced more than 10 years ago and finally
went operational–in Romania–last
year. The theory is that the shield now
makes it possible for the US or NATO to carry
out a surprise nuclear first strike against
Russia, and then take out any Russian ICBMs
which may be launched in retaliation. THAAD
will presumably give them the same capability
with regard to China.
Richard
Edmondson is a novelist, poet, journalist, and
peace activist. https://richardedmondson.net
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