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On May 1, on Russian TV, the media executive often called “Putin’s mouthpiece” urged the Russian president to launch a Poseidon underwater drone with a “warhead of up to 100 megaton”. The detonation, said Dmitry Kiselyov, would create a 1,640-foot tidal wave that would “plunge Britain to the depths of the ocean”. The wave would reach halfway up England’s tallest peak, Scafell Pike.
“This tidal wave is also a carrier of extremely high doses of radiation,” Kiselyov pointed out. “Surging over Britain, it will turn whatever is left of them into radioactive desert, unusable for anything. How do you like this prospect?”
“A single launch, Boris, and there is no England anymore,” said Kiselyov, addressing the British prime minister.
Its bad enough to have China and Russia threatening. But our own government is controlled by traitors who are hard at work destroying us, without any help from our enemies.
One of his points is that a nation will choose the war option if they believe that the balance of power is turning against them. This may well be the situation now: The US cannot defend against Russian hypersonic missiles, but at the moment the Russians probably don’t have enough to ensure an overwhelming first strike victory, but they probably will have before the US can develop an effective defence. So, for the US the best option is to strike now, or arrange for the conditions leading to a Russia/NATO (US) conflict to develop quickly, so providing the excuse for a first strike.
On the Russian side, moves to incorporate Georgia, Ukraine, Finland, Sweden, etc. into NATO are seen as a cover to move US strike capability right up to Russia’s borders, just a few minutes of missile flight from Moscow and other Russian cities. So it is logical to strike now, when Russia’s defences are at their strongest.
This is an insane situation, that we have brought to by the hubris, ambition, and megalomania, of some world leaders, but principally in the Washington DC swamp.
It is just a matter of time; we are dead if we don’t get this under control.
I like the Gatestone Institute, but political reality dictates that the other fellow’s position has to be considered as well. Articles like this are not very helpful. It is basically an essay excusing the US and NATO of any responsibility for the dangerous tension in the world today.
In fact US/NATO aggression is the driving force behind most of these problems.
There is a large clique in Washington DC that is fanatical about US supremacy. If they are not brought under control it is quite likely that they will get us all killed.
Threats of nuclear horror can be met with counter threats of nuclear horror. That is the principle of MAD. That is how nuclear deterrence works.
Russia’s “escalate to deescalate” doctrine applies only to the nuclear war of words. It is Russia authorizing itself a “first use” of nuclear threats. Putin has already applied this propaganda doctrine: within a few weeks of the invasion, when the attack on Kyiv was stalled, he warned that he had put his forces on nuclear alert, precisely to stoke the fire of the anti-war - or more precisely, the anti-aid-to-Ukraine - propaganda efforts. The US, the UK, and Russia have their nuclear arsenals constantly push-button ready at the command of the c-in-c. Putin’s doctrine results in the horror of the nuclear clock’s minute hand being moved closer to midnight. Doomsday soon, forever.
Meanwhile, back in reality, the war in Ukraine continues, conventionally, becoming a war of attrition, despite - thanks to? - the supply of weapons to the Ukrainians by the US and UK.
It is not a war of Atrition C Gee:
Zelensky would have agreed a ceasefire and a settlement, except that the crazies threatened to kill him if he agreed a treaty with Russia.
The cynicism of the West is absolutely beyond comprehension: The People of the Ukraine are having their (modest enough) lives and livelihoods destroyed. For What?
It is sickening; there is no compassion, no appreciation (apparently) of the damage that has been caused.
It makes me cry over the circumstances of Ukrainian mothers seeing their children threatened by this entirely unnecessary conflict. Can you imagine the anguish of Ukranian women; their (very modest) Apartment blocks being subject to artillery fire and attack by armed strangers?
And nobody in the west wants to stop it. More weapons, as if that is going to solve anything!
I write to my Congressman and Senators. They don’t give a damn what I think.
