Ukraine is now firing US ATACMS long range missiles into Russia. They’re also firing long range UK Storm Shadow missiles into Russia. Ukrainians push the bottoms but US and UK military do the programming and technical support, without which no buttons can be pushed.
That puts Russia at de facto war with the US and UK, NATO as well for that matter.Russia made that point by unleashing a new hypersonic nuclear capable long range missile, Oreshnik, which obliterated a strategic Ukrainian military target. The point was that the Oreshnik, which can destroy any target with unstoppable speed, can pulverize high value NATO targets throughout Europe. Compared to Oreshnik, US ATACMAS and UK Storm Shadows are like bottle rockets. Their sole military use appears to be provoking all out war.
In spite of the Russian warning, France’s Foreign Minister Jean –Noel Barrot just announced France will allow its SCALPS version to the UK Storm Shadows bottle rocket to be fired by Ukraine into Russia.
This is beginning to resemble the colossal, senseless escalations of European powers that stumbled the world into WWI. That war ignited due to incredible denial and lack of serious thought by leaders of all initial belligerents. There was virtually no diplomacy to turn back the rush to senseless world war that killed over 16 million.
The same senseless escalations with no prospect to prevent all out war are being conducted by a mentally diminished President Biden in his last 60 days. He’s virtually disappeared from public view. Biden never once engaged his Russian counterpart since he provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine 34 months ago. Nor are any in his war cabinet.
The absence of communication and diplomacy, alongside attacking Russian targets using Ukraine proxies, poses a perilous descent into nuclear war.
Sixty-two years ago Cold Warrior John Kennedy learned a tough lesson from the Cuban Missile Crisis. Lack of communication and understanding of the Soviet Union’s security needs was a prescription for nuclear war. JFK understood that Russian missiles in Cuba were response in part to US missiles near Russia in Turkey. He wisely removed them in the negotiated settlement to withdraw from the brink. He established a Hotline to prevent future misunderstandings that could blow up peoplekind.
Joe Biden ether never learned that lesson in his youth, or worse, has forgotten it from diminished capacity.
In 55 days Biden, if hasn’t blown up the world, will turn over the war to his successor nearly as old and quite likely mentally diminished as well.
At the rate a befuddled Biden, desperately seeking to avoid a well-earned defeat in Ukraine is escalating, we’re going to need more luck than a wise, clearheaded JFK had in ’62 to survive this 21st century version of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Walt Zlotow became involved in antiwar activities upon entering University of Chicago in 1963. He is current president of the West Suburban Peace Coalition based in the Chicago western suburbs. He blogs daily on antiwar and other issues at www.heartlandprogressive.blogspot.com.
"As America Barrels Toward War With Russia… Where’s Biden?"
Stomping on the accelerator, insanely hell-bent on WWIII !
Trump has doubled down. His next suggestion for Pentagon chief is said to be major neocon DeSantis. DeSantis would likely be unanimously approved. Early on DeSantis said the magic words: "Putin is a war criminal." If DeSantis had been the anti-war candidate he would've won, but he was the opposite.
DeSantis also strongly supported, and signed, Florida legislation requiring all state contractors to sign loyalty oaths to the Israeli regime.
Yes, the main election options provided no real distinction regarding foreign policy and his second term executive team choices seem just a variation but not a change on the first term picks. War is the health of the State; militarily or economically and neither peace nor prosperity appear evident in the forecast for the near future.
Biden's brain is MIA or KIA, the rest of his body is planning for the war. War is one of the few things he is alert about and he lies by saying he needs to weaken Russia to end the war.
Where is President Bye-done?!
Bit of a sticky wicket….?!
Well if we Can survive thru the next 55 days we have a better chance of surviving through the next five years, too.
The idea of Putin and Trump being friendly is infinitely better than that of dying in a nuclear war.
Biden seems a sadistic sociopath, unaware and unempathetic about his part in the greater whole of humanity.
Landmines? Only sadists could approve.
Putin and Trump being "friendly" didn't stop Trump from sanctioning Russia worse than Obama, and bragging about it, or sending lethal arms to Ukraine that Obama refused to send, and bragging about it, or dropping out of nuke treaties with Russia (and Iran).
I hate to argue with Wars because unlike me, he knows what he is talking about.
Putin and Trump will be on friendly terms when Trump goes back to the INF and Open Skies treaties, lifts sanctions he put on Russia that were kept in place during the Biden administration. And stop the flow of money and weapons to Ukraine.
Trump and Putin being "friendly" is totally invented. Trump was worse to Putin and Russia by far than Obama. Don likes to brag that they're friends even though Don threatens to bomb him. Don nor media never mention that in Aug. 2017 congress removed Don from all Russia matters and gave them to the Senate. Medvedev commented at the time that Trump had been totally humiliated, that there was no chance for a relationship betw. US and Russia while he was in office. Congress then passed permanent sanctions v Russia left over from Obama. Don even met with Poroshenko in 2017 and did nothing to stop Poroshenko speaking at West Point in 2017. Don knew if he wanted to stay in politics he had to surrender to Lindsey Graham and be a worse neocon than McCain.
“did nothing to stop Poroshenko speaking at West Point in 2017”
Yes, so terrible to not prevent someone from speaking.
Sleeping! November 29, 2024 US-NATO Led Wars:“When the Cold War Turns Into Hot”
To prevent the emergence of an economically prosperous Eurasian land space after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Washington and its NATO allies fostered separatism across the former parts of the Soviet dominated Eurasia. They did so by wooing countries, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and others to join NATO, feeding tension between those states and Russia.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-freedoms-greatest-evil/5873872
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Global Research is the best! Good information!
Absolutely so Donna, I have been reading the globe here a little before the 9/11 shock the awe war fraud.
Have a great and blessed weekend!
”Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming! We’re finally on our own! This summer I hear the drumming! Forget it Ohio! Forget it Ohio!”
The escalation is always bad, still we need not exaggerate the danger of a full scale nuclear war. If American leaders don't start it themselves, it'll never happen. Putin is not a man who would gamble with lives of millions of his people. He may order first disarming nuclear strike on U.S. only in case he is absolutely sure that the full scale nuclear war is unavoidable. At the moment we are far from the point of no return.
Well said and we certainly hope so…