U.S. Government Inadvertently Confirms Goal to Conquer Russia and China

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)

The best-selling new book by Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario, realistically describes what a nuclear war between America and Russia would be like, though her “scenario” for it is wildly unrealistic. It starts with a North Korean missile that does exist, dropping onto the Pentagon a North Korean 1-megaton nuclear warhead that doesn’t exist — one megaton is at least four times more powerful than any that North Korea has yet even tested. She then follows with North Korea dropping another one in California. Then, America launches hundreds of missiles at North Korea, and Putin misinterprets it as being aimed at Russia, and so releases onto all of the U.S. and NATO, Russia’s thousands of nuclear weapons and brings the entire world to an end.

In other words: this book is U.S. Government propaganda, and assumes that North Korea and maybe Russia too, aim to conquer America and are the aggressors, and/or are outright fools, and that America either is far less aggressive or even entirely defensive — not at all aggressive. Based upon the historical record of NATO’s hyper-aggressive expansion up to Russia’s very borders, this book can be read only as partially informative but wildly misinforming fiction that is based upon its author’s interviews with only U.S. nuclear-war planners and who are hardly non-biased regarding Russia, North Korea, and China. So, it might be considered as being a novel — specifically a propaganda novel, about “us” against “them.”

Her book starts off describing what a 1-megaton bomb dropped on The Pentagon would do immediately, but avoids mentioning the crucial fact, which is that it would immediately kill almost all of the U.S. Government’s top decision-makers — whomever happens to be about 10 to 15 miles from that blast. This would be the reason why the capital city would have been chosen, but she’s apparently ignorant of that geostrategic fact, because she says nothing about why Washington DC would likely be the first target to be hit by an enemy in WW3. The White House and Congress are about 3 miles from The Pentagon; and, so, of course, if the President happens to be there at the time, and any members of Congress are, they’ll be dead immediately, and who will then possess the authorization to set off the thousands of U.S. nuclear missiles against the attacker? It would be chaos. But, then, if North Korea would do such a thing, what sense would there be for its NOT following that up with a release of yet other nuclear missile against the Strategic Air Command Headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska? Yet, in her “scenario,” that doesn’t happen. Instead, California gets hit.

The book’s readers are given no idea of why the first target of a nuclear attack against America would likeliest be Washington DC, but perhaps one or more of her interviewees had indicated to her that a nuclear war would start with an attack whose goal would be to decapitate the targeted Government. If so, she simply didn’t understand what that had meant. In the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. President JFK was determined to prevent the Soviet Union from positioning a nuclear-tipped missile in Cuba because then the Soviets could blitz-nuke America’s central command in Washington DC (only 1,131 miles away from Cuba) within only 30 minutes, perhaps too fast for him to be able then to verify the launch and press the nuclear button. Jacobsen seems ignorant both of history and of geostrategy. However, her having started her scenario with a nuclear missile hitting Washington DC does suggest that perhaps one or more of her sources indicated to her that this would be the way a nuclear war — any nuclear war, actually — would likeliest be launched — i.e., against the opponent’s capital city.

However, why does the U.S. recognize that this is the case, and yet still insist that Putin allow the U.S. to place Ukraine, a mere 300 miles away from Moscow, into NATO, so as to place an American nuclear missile there, a mere 5-minute’s flying time away from obliterating Russia’s central command?

Apparently, one of the U.S. nuclear-war planners whom Jacobsen spoke with had let slip to her the reality that WW III would probably start with a nuclear missile hitting the opponent’s capital city — which is precisely what motivated U.S. President Obama to take over Ukraine in 2014: to do precisely that to Russia. And finally (after all of Russia’s eight-year-long efforts since Obama’s February 2014 coup in Ukraine, to negotiate with the U.S. regime about that, received on 7 January 2022 a clear and absolute refusal from the U.S. regime, and from its NATO anti-Russian military alliance NATO, ever to negotiate about it), Russia invaded Ukraine, on 24 February 2022, in order to end U.S. rule over Ukraine (the one nation whose border is the nearest of all to Moscow, just 300 miles away). This was then an urgent necessity for Russia’s national security. And, yet, the U.S. and its colonies (‘allies’) have the nerve to say that the aggression in that matter was by Russia against NATO, instead of by NATO against Russia, which was the actual situation. And Jacobsen now has the nerve to produce her WW3 propaganda that reverses the historical truth of whom is the aggressor, and of whom is the defender of its own national security, against that aggressor. And, since her book’s audience is the U.S. and its colonies, it’s selling very well here. But its sloppiness and pro-U.S., anti-Russia, prejudices, misinform more than inform its readers. Nonfiction isn’t supposed to do that.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.