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Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)
All U.S. plans to win World War Three (or WW III or WW3) start with a blitz nuclear attack against The Kremlin. It has to be within less than ten minutes in order to decapitate Russia’s ability to respond to it before being annihilated (and so responding). The ideal location from which to launch this weapon would be Ukraine, because Ukraine is far closer to The Kremlin (in Moscow) than is any other country — Moscow is only 317 miles away from Ukraine’s town of Shostka and only about 300 miles away from the Ukraine-Russia border near Shostka, which would be less than a 5-minute missile-flight time during which that launch would have to be detected, confirmed, and then Putin press the button to release all thousand-plus nuclear weapons against the United States and its allies in retaliation. So, this would be checkmate; but, since it would be done entirely in secret, it would actually be “capturing the king,” because the ‘king’ won’t receive any warning. It would instead be “pulling the trigger.” If it works entirely, it would capture Russia — all of it — by destroying only Moscow. (If it fails entirely, it would destroy the world: within two years, an estimated five billion people will have starved to death.)
As Carlton Meyer noted in this superb explanation of the U.S. plans, the attack would not require that Ukraine be a member of NATO but would require that Ukraine still be — as it has been ever since 2014 — a U.S. colony at the time that this one-punch knock-out missile is launched. He refers to America’s recent development of the “Dark Evil” missile for a surprise attack, and that’s also labelled the “LRHW” weapon. which the U.S. Government is committed to start producing before the end of this year. This system is carried on a normal-looking truck, which will stop at the intended launch-location and suddenly erect vertically the launch-cylinder and fire its missile, which will be hypersonic and “reach the top of the Earth’s atmosphere and remain just beyond the range of air and missile defense systems until they are ready to strike, and by then it’s too late to react.” That is how the U.S. Congress’s Congressional Research Service describes it. This is a surprise-attack weapon, for a WW3 that might start and end within just five minutes, if everything functions as planned.
Russia’s response to this has been to develop a “dead hand” system to retaliate even if a U.S.-and-allied blitz nuclear attack to annihilate Russia’s central command succeeds, but it has never been tested in-toto; so, the U.S. attempt to achieve what Hitler had failed to achieve (to grab Russia) could work, if the U.S. and its allies (or vassal-nations) turn out to be phenomenally lucky. For them, it’s a high-stakes game that they insist upon playing, and one they play 100% as win-lose, no win-win. So far, they’ve been ignoring that, in reality, the only alternative to playing it as win-lose would be to play it as win-win — an alternative that the U.S. and its ‘allies’ have thus far provided no indication that they are even considering. In any case, the “dead hand” approach is extremely risky; and, even if it succeeds, then the entire world would end up being destroyed; so, that is hardly any solution to the problem that Russians could be facing as soon as this year.
The only credible solution — if it can be completed fast enough so as to be in place before America’s “Dark Evil” missiles (or equivalents) become emplaced and launch — would be, as I headlined on 5 April 2023 when Finland joined America’s NATO anti-Russian military alliance, “RUSSIA’S ONLY SAFE RESPONSE TO FINLAND IN NATO IS TO MOVE RUSSIA’S CAPITAL TO NOVOSIBIRSK”, “which is Russia’s third-largest city (after Moscow and St. Petersburg) and which is located midway between NATO and Beijing, so that the nearest U.S. missile would then be placed (in NATO, of course) approximately two thousand miles away from Russia’s central command there, instead of approximately 500 miles away in Finland, as would otherwise be the case, which latter situation would virtually invite Russia’s being invaded by the voracious U.S. Government and its European allies.” For some reason (which I still cannot understand), this is not being done; and, furthermore, no Russian is even speaking out in favor of that proposal (so far as I am aware).
If this is done, then all of the U.S. regime’s scheming, over many decades, and expenditures of trillions of dollars in order to trap and grab Russia, will instantaneously become waste. Whereas a missile having to traverse 500, or even (if Ukraine) 300, miles in order to blitz-destroy Russia’s central command, would be fast enough to preclude any realistic defense, 2,000 miles would not. Moreover, the likelihood is slight if at all that missiles will become developed which would be twice the speed of the fastest today; and, so, America’s trying to blitz-attack Novosibirsk will probably never be safe for the attacker, no matter how much improved missile technology becomes. All of those trillions of dollars in U.S. Governmental expenses would simply have gone to waste. In that eventuality, the termination of the U.S. empire would be virtually assured. The entire world (except for America’s super-rich) would benefit from that. Why Russians exhibit no interest in applying this defense is one of the great mysteries of our time, in my opinion. And it would be far less costly than what Russia’s Government now is doing against America’s aggression.
NOTE: many of the sites that used to carry some of my reporting have been shut down by the U.S. Government, and one more just did today: I received this from SouthFront, as I finished this article on August 18th:
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Here is our official appeal — https://southfront.press/southfront-org-blocked-by-u-s-controlled-global-internet-supervisor/
We met that challenge as well. Now, our official website is southfront.press
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new 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.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.


America’s infrastructure is falling apart, and I suspect their Nuclear Arsenal is in the same sorry state of decay.
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The USA is spending a trillon dollars on these new nukes, which is why America’s infrastructure is falling apart.
Eric,
Your suggestion is so logical that I cannot imagine Russia never having thought of it. (Also, for all we know, they may already have, or are in the process of setting up, a backup command center somewhere east.) The only downside I see is the optics (“Russia on the run”), but it would be well worth the tangible gains.
Thank you for the South Front update, bookmarked.
Thanks, Steve. I simply can’t understand why no one in Russia has publicly said anything about the need to relocate the capital. For decades, the American strategy has been to decapitate Russia. This is what motivated the expansion of NATO (https://archive.is/strHp), which the U.S. had promised Gorbachev not to do (https://archive.md/nSOHw), and it’s what made Ukraine the ultimate expansion goal to achieve (as Brzezinski said). Bill Clinton started the process in 1999, though Yeltsin told him not to. When Putin came into power in 2000, he spoke against it, but likewise weakly. He didn’t recognize what the U.S. objective was.… Read more »
Perhaps they do see it and are acting on it,
but not making it known yet so it will be a surprise.
However, as the film Dr Strangelove showed,
surprise plans don’t always work out well.
I concur with Photios speculation. A likely corollary is that Russia might act on President Putin’s philosophy of preempting an inevitable conflict. Since this has not yet happened, one might presume that the Russians can see exactly what’s going on and have it all in hand. In any case, various mystics over the past couple of centuries have warned that a huge war involving bombs of enormous power will eventually engulf the entire Northern Hemisphere – so we can surmise that American plans of a sneak attack on Moscow won’t be successful. If and when they “pull the trigger”, the… Read more »
So, in essence, Russia needs to roll up the entire 404 country for its own self preservation. Otherwise any “frozen” lines would only end up later as being the starting line for the inevitable confrontation that follows.
None of us are privy to Russia’s top military plans and strategies. The Russian military seems to have incredible security discipline. No one would or could discuss these matters publicly. I have an intuition that Russia is very well ahead of the U.S. nuclear plans. I also think that the ongoing drone attacks by Ukraine on Moscow are a way to test their nuclear defenses, “piercing the veil”, as it were.
What absolute BS. How big do you think Russia is? Do you honestly believe that Russia’s nukes are all in Moscow? Taking out Moscow will not stop a massive strike back on America. Killing Putin will just mean that the strike will naturally fall to the General staff of Russia who are well spread out all over Russia. Furthermore a large amount of Russian nukes are not silo based but mobile and are moved around quite a bit. If this is the plan then I have to say that American leaders are morons.
“What absolute BS”—I agree. Eric Zuesse is clearly raving, to suggest that “RUSSIA’S ONLY SAFE RESPONSE TO FINLAND IN NATO IS TO MOVE RUSSIA’S CAPITAL TO NOVOSIBIRSK”, “For some reason (which I still cannot understand), this is not being done;” Because Russia has the S-500 Prometheus missile system, which can destroy incoming hypersonic missiles, and it can also target and neutralise Nuclear Ballistic missiles at an altitude of up to 125 miles, and Space starts at an altitude of 62 miles. The S-500 Prometheus can also target the so called “Dark Evil” missile. Why on earth would Russia want to move their… Read more »
Of course, I wasn’t assuming that “Russia’s nukes are all in Moscow.” I was assuming that The Kremlin is the brain-center of the Russian Government, and that to nuke Moscow would behead it. This fact is well understood by America’s Government and is the reason why NATO expanded and why Ukraine was considered the crown jewel for it to acquire. However my article said this, and you apparently chose not to understand what it said. So, if you choose not to understand it, that is your decision, and it has nothing to do with the article, which was entirely clear… Read more »
“Russia would collapse as their military is weak and russians would depose of Putin”. Its all bullshit. Russia knows exactly what is shipped from Jewmerica to Europe. Or from NATO bases to Ukraine. Russia knows the nuke plan. They will decapitate it before it comes to fruition. The Russian nuclear subs are lying dormant for Cheasapeak Bay. 2 minutes flytime to DC.