Indications that the U.S. Is Planning a Nuclear Attack Against Russia
By Eric Zuesse (about the author) PermalinkOn Wednesday, June 11th, CNN headlined "U.S. Sends B-2 Stealth Bombers to Europe," and reported that "they arrived in Europe this week for training." Wikipedia notes that B-2s were "originally designed primarily as a nuclear bomber," and that "The B-2 is the only aircraft that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration."
In other words, the primary advantage of the newer, "Stealth,"
version of B-2, is its first-strike (or
surprise-attack) nuclear capability. That's the upgrade: the weapon's ability
to sneak upon the target-country and destroy it before it has a chance to fire
off any of its own nuclear weapons in response to that "first-strike" attack. The advantage of Stealth is creating and stationing a nuclear arsenal for the purpose
of winning a nuclear war, instead of for the goal of having continued peace via
"Mutually Assured Destruction," or MAD.
Some historical background is necessary here, so that a reader can understand why this is happening -- the switch to an objective of
actually winning a nuclear war (as opposed to deterring one). One cannot
understand what's happening now in Ukraine without knowing this bigger picture.
(This account is written under the assumption that the
reader already knows some of the allegations it contains, but not all of them,
and that the reader will click on the link wherever a given allegation requires
documentation and support.)
I have previously reported about "How and Why the U.S. Has Re-Started the
Cold War (The Backstory that Precipitated Ukraine's Civil War)," and, "Do We Really Need to Re-Start the Cold War?" I
pointed out there that we don't really need to re-start the Cold War, at all,
since communism (against which the Cold War was, at least allegedly, fought)
clearly lost to capitalism (we actually won the Cold War, and peacefully) but
that America's aristocracy very much does need to re-start a war with Russia --
and why it does. (It has to do
with maintaining the dollar as
the world's reserve currency, something that benefits America's
aristocrats enormously.)
Consequently, for example, a recent CNN Poll has found that Americans'
fear of Russia has soared within just the past two years. Our news media
present a type of news "reporting" that places Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin,
into a very bad light, even when it's unjustified
by the facts.
The situation
now is thus rather similar to that right before World
War I, when the aristocracy in America decided that a pretext
had to be created for our going to war against Germany. That War had already started in Europe on 28 July 1914, and
President Wilson wanted to keep the U.S. out of it, but we ultimately joined it
on the side of J.P. Morgan and Company. This was documented in detail in an important
1985 book, Britain, America and the Sinews of War, 1914-1918, which was
well summarized in Business History Review, by noting that:
"J.P. Morgan & Co. served as Britain's financial and purchasing agent,
and the author makes especially good use of the Morgan Grenfell & Co.
papers in London to probe that relationship. Expanding British demand for U.S.
dollars to pay for North American imports made the politics of foreign exchange
absolutely central to Anglo-American relations. How to manage those politics
became the chief preoccupation of Her Majesty's representatives in the United
States," and most especially of Britain's financial and purchasing agent
in the U.S.
In 1917,
after almost two years of heavy anti-German propaganda in the U.S. press that
built an overwhelming public support for our joining that war against Germany, Congress found that, in March 1915, "J.P. Morgan interests had bought 25 of America's
leading newspapers, and inserted their own editors, in order to control the
media" so that we'd join the war on England's side.
Whereas back then, it was Germany's leader who was being goaded into providing
a pretext for us to declare war against his country, this time it's Russia's
leader (Putin) who is being demonized and goaded into providing such a pretext,
though Putin (unlike Germany's Kaiser) has thus far refrained from providing
the pretext that Obama constantly warns us that he will (a Russian invasion of
Ukraine). Consequently, Obama's people are stepping up the pressure upon Putin by bombing the areas of neighboring Ukraine where Russian
speakers live, who have family across the border inside Russia
itself. Just a few more weeks of this, and Putin's public support inside Russia
could palpably erode if Putin simply lets the slaughter proceed without his sending
troops in to defend them and to fight back against Kiev's (Washington's surrogate's) bombing-campaign. This would provide the pretext that Obama has been warning
about.
I also have reported on "Why Ukraine's Civil War Is of Global
Historical Importance." The article argued that
"This civil war is of massive historical importance, because
it re-starts the global Cold War, this time no longer under the
fig-leaf rationalization of an ideological battle between 'capitalism'
versus 'communism,' but instead more raw, as a struggle between, on the
one hand, the U.S. and West European aristocracies; and, on the other
hand, the newly emerging aristocracies of Russia and of China."
The conflict's origin, as recounted there, was told in its highest detail in
an article in the scholarly journal Diplomatic
History, about how U.S. President George H.W. Bush in 1990 fooled the
Soviet Union's leader Mikhail Gorbachev into Gorbachev's allowing the Cold War
to be ended without any assurance being given to the remaining rump country, his
own Russia, that NATO and its missiles and bombers won't expand right up to
Russia's doorstep and surround Russia with a first-strike ability to destroy
Russia before Russia will even have a chance to get its own nuclear weapons
into the air in order to destroy the U.S. right back in retaliation.
That old system -- "Mutually Assured
Destruction" or MAD, but actually very rational
from the public's perspective on both sides -- is gone. The U.S. increasingly
is getting nuclear primacy. Russia, surrounded by NATO nations and U.S. nuclear weapons,
would be able to be wiped out before its rusty and comparatively
puny military force could be mustered to respond. Whereas we
are not surrounded by their weapons, they are surrounded by ours. Whereas they
don't have the ability to wipe us out before we can respond, we have the
ability to wipe them out before they'll be able to respond. This is the reason
why America's aristocracy argue that MAD is dead. An article, "Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War" was
published in the December 2008 Physics Today, and it concluded that,
"the indirect effects ['nuclear winter'] would likely eliminate the
majority of the human population." (It would be even worse, and far
faster, than the expected harms from global warming.) However, aristocrats
separate themselves from the public, and so their perspective is not
necessarily the same as the public's. The perspective that J.P. Morgan and Co.
had in 1915 wasn't the perspective that the U.S. public had back then, and it
also wasn't the perspective that our President, Woodrow Wilson, did back then,
when we were a democracy. But it's even less clear today that we are a
democracy than it was in 1915. In that regard, things have only gotten worse in
America.
So, President Obama is now trying to persuade EU leaders
to join with him to complete this plan to replace MAD with a first-strike
nuclear capability that will eliminate Russia altogether from the world stage.
As I also documented, the IMF is thoroughly supportive of
this plan to remove Russia, and announced on May 1st, just a day prior to our massacre
of independence-supporters in the south Ukrainian city of Odessa on May
2nd, that unless all of the independence supporters in south and eastern
Ukraine can be defeated and/or killed, the IMF will pull the plug on
Ukraine and force it into receivership.
Obama clearly
means business here, and so the government that we have installed in Kiev
is bombing throughout southeastern Ukraine, in
order to convince the residents there that resistance will be futile. Part of
the short-term goal here is to get Russia to absorb the losses of all of
Ukraine's unpaid debts to Russia, so that far less of Ukraine's unpaid debts to
the IMF, U.S. and E.U., will remain
unpaid. It's basically an international bankruptcy proceeding, but without an
international bankruptcy court, using instead military means. It's like creditors
going to a bankrupt for repayment, and the one with the most gunmen gets paid,
while the others do not. This is the reason why the IMF ordered the leaders in
Kiev to put down the rebellion in Ukraine's southeast.
What's important to the IMF is not land, it's the Kiev government's continued
control over the assets in the rebelling part of Ukraine -- assets that will be
worth something in a privatization or sell-off to repay that debt. However, for
Obama, what is even more important than repaid debts is the continued dominance
of the U.S. dollar. Wall Street needs that.
Among other indications that the U.S. is now preparing a
nuclear attack against Russia is an article on May 23rd, "U.S. Tests Advanced Missile For NATO
Interceptor System," and also a June 10th report
from a website with good sources in Russian intelligence, which alleges that
Ukrainian President Petro "Poroshenko secretly met with ... [an] American delegation
headed by the Director of ... the CIA's National Clandestine Service,
Frank Archibald, which also included former CIA chief in Ukraine
Jeffrey Egan, the current -- Raymond Mark Davidson, Mark Buggy (CIA,
Istanbul), Andrzej Derlatka, a CIA agent in the Polish intelligence
Agency, and member of CIA Kevin Duffin who is working as senior Vice
President of the insurance company Brower. Poroshenko and Archibald
signed a paper entitled an 'Agreement on Military Cooperation between
the U.S. and Ukraine'"
Furthermore, barely a month before the CIA and State
Department overthrew the previous, the pro-Russian, President of Ukraine,
Viktor Yanukovych, the government of Netherlands decided, after 18
years of "dithering," to allow the U.S.
to arm our F-35 bombers there with nuclear weapons. And this was already after
Holland's "Parliament in November signed off on
a government plan to purchase 37 F-35As to replace the Dutch air
force's aging fleet of nuclear-capable F-16s. The Netherlands is
widely understood to host about two dozen U.S. B-61 gravity bombs at the
Volkel air base, as part of NATO's policy of
nuclear burden-sharing."
Moreover, Obama isn't only beefing up our first-strike nuclear capability, but is also building
something new, called "Prompt Global Strike," to
supplement that nuclear force, by means of "a precision
conventional weapon strike" that, if launched against Russia from
next-door Ukraine, could wipe out Russia's nuclear weapons within just a minute
or so. That might be a fallback position, for Obama, in case the EU's leaders
(other than Netherlands and perhaps one or two others) might happen to decide
that they won't participate in our planned nuclear invasion of Russia.
Certainly, Obama means business here, but the big question is
whether he'll be able to get the leaders of other "democratic"
nations to go along with his first-strike plan.
The two likeliest things that can stop him, at this stage,
would be either NATO's breaking up, or else Putin's deciding to take a
political beating among his own public for simply not responding to our increasing
provocations. Perhaps Putin will decide that a temporary embarrassment for him
at home (for being "wimpy") will be better, even for just himself, than the
annihilation of his entire country would be. And maybe, if Obama pushes his
indubitable Superpower card too hard, he'll be even more embarrassed by this
conflict than Putin will be. After all, things like this and this aren't going to burnish Obama's
reputation in the history books, if he cares about that. But maybe he's
satisfied to be considered to have been George W. Bush II, just a far
better-spoken version: a more charming liar than the original. However, if
things come to a nuclear invasion, even a U.S. "victory" won't do much more for
Obama's reputation than Bush's "victory" in Iraq did for his. In fact, perhaps
Americans will then come to feel that George W. Bush wasn't America's worst
President, after all. Maybe the second half of the Bush-Obama Presidency will
be even worse than the first.
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most
recently, of They're Not Even Close: The
Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created
Christianity.
