Eric Zuesse
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According to Newsweek, on October 26th, “Finland Will Allow NATO to Place Nuclear Weapons on Border With Russia”. They cite Finnish media reports. Allegedly, a condition that NATO had placed on Finland to join NATO was to allow America’s nuclear missiles to be positioned on Finland’s Russian border, which is closer to Moscow than any other except Ukraine’s. Whereas Ukraine’s would be 5 minutes from blitz-nuking Moscow so as to preemptively decapitate Russia’s retaliatory command, Finland’s would be 7 minutes — only around 120 seconds longer for Russia to be able to launch its retaliatory strikes. Finland now is to vote on the bill joining NATO, on that basis (i.e., to become America’s spearhead to defeat Russia in WW III). Obviously (assuming that NATO had, indeed, given Finland’s leaders to believe that saying yes to this would increase NATO’s likelihood of expediting Finland’s application to join), NATO is set upon checkmating Russia into capitulation if Finland does join.
Newsweek reports also that “The U.S. already has around 100 nuclear weapons in Europe, positioned in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey according to the Federation of American Scientists. Britain and France, both NATO members, also maintain their own independent nuclear arsenals.”
None of those countries borders Russia. They’re all much farther away.
During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK refused to allow the Soviet Union to place its missiles only 1,131 miles away from Washington DC and warned that the U.S. would launch WW III if they did; so, the Soviet Union decided not to.
The Finnish border reaches as close as 507 miles away from Moscow, at the Finnish city of Kotka. The Ukrainian border reaches significantly closer: 317 miles from Shostka to Moscow, and 353 miles from Sumy to Moscow — as being the Russia-bordering nation that would pose the biggest danger to Russia if added to NATO. Finland is #2 — only Ukraine is even worse in a Russian view.
Russia invaded Ukraine in order to be able to move that potential 317 miles back to at least the 1,131 miles that everyone in 1962 agreed would be too close to Washington DC and therefore justification for America to launch WW III to prevent.
The reason why the difference between 317 miles versus 507 miles is only around two minutes, is that the slowest part of the flight is the earliest, while accelerating. Practically speaking, for Washington to position its nuclear-warheaded missiles 507 miles from The Kremlin is virtually the same as to position them at the nearest point on Ukraine’s border. One can already see that Russia actively resists this.
In 1962, missiles were far slower than they are today. So, in order for there to be an equivalency between the 1,131 miles from Cuba in 1962, Russia would need to keep U.S. missiles about 2,000 miles from America’s closest land-based nuclear missiles today. The present situation is considerably more dangerous to Russia than the Cuban Missile Crisis was to America in 1962.
According to leading American scientists who specialize in evaluating such matters, America’s recent nuclear-weapons policy “creates exactly what one would expect to see, if a nuclear-armed state were planning to have the capacity to fight and win a nuclear war by disarming enemies with a surprise first strike.”
Newsweek’s disclosure on October 26th suggests that this is, indeed, what the U.S. Government has been, and is, planning for: “to fight and win a nuclear war by disarming enemies with a surprise first strike.” (That meta-strategy is called “Nuclear Primacy,” and in America it replaced the “M.A.D.” or Mutually Assured Destruction meta-strategy in around 2006.)
During WW II, Finland was on the Nazi side and participated with the Germans in their “Operation Barbarossa invasion of the Soviet Union.” If it joins NATO, Finland would be repeating that now, but only against Russia.
All U.S. foreign polices, in both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, are “neocon,” and that means funded by and for U.S.-and-allied billionaires and centi-millionaires — not for ANY public — in order to increase yet further the scope of their global empire.
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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.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty forbids nuclear powers to share their nuclear weapons with non-nuclear powers. I am at a loss to see why the US putting nuclear weapons in Finland (or Germany, for that matter) is not a flagrant breach of the NPT.
The U.S. can withdraw from that Treaty on one day and soon thereafter position nuclear-warheaded missiles in or around Kotka and simultaneously demand Russia to withdraw from all of Ukraine including even Crimea or else “face the consequences” if Russia doesn’t do so within 90 days (see https://archive.ph/FFcAJ#selection-1013.1-1019.358).
FINLAND IS LOST !
That’s the Rules Based Order in action.
Yes, demand Russia withdraws or launch a nuclear missile. That, I doubt will work with the present Russian Federation. And, if Russia called their bluff it remains a terrible war crime. I have no doubt that Russia would respond in kind, and that I beleive is the right thing to do. One should never permit totalitarianism. Need some concerted efforts from mainstream media to cover that up a first nuclear strike – though I wouldn’t put it past them – they would if they thought they could block all other reports. Perhaps the nasty ones will elect to use hypersonic… Read more »
This was Washington goal all along. The neocons are talking of a first strike on Russia for decades now. The original story was placement of missile defense system in Poland, Romenia aimed at Iran remember? Finland is a bit too far from Iran
Don’t say “the neocons,” because all U.S.-and-allied billionaires are behind this, all of them are “neocons,” and (despite what seems to be a common line of bigots to the contrary) not all Jews are neocons, but all U.S.-and-allied billionaires (most of whom are NOT Jews) ARE. The money behind this isn’t religious, nor is it ‘racial’, nor is it even any other sort of ethnic; it is all of the super-rich in U.S.-and-allied countries. Many of them have already purchased luxurious deep-underground bomb-shelters. The neocons who AREN’T super-rich are being paid by the organizations that are controlled BY the super-rich.… Read more »
Someone downmarked my reader-comment reply to “Tom” but I would ask of that person: would you blame “neoconservatism” on Jews such as Jerry Seinfeld and Billy Crystal, or on billionaires like David Rockefeller and Jeff Bezos?
ALL FOUR ARE JEWS
Neither Bezos nor Rockefeller are/were, but bigots against Jews think that all Jews are evil. And why do you blame Crystal and Seinfeld, who ARE Jews? Does either of them fund people such as John Bolton — or do you think that Bolton also is a Jew, because he certainly is a neocon?
How you call these and is there any chance in your mind that THEY are running U.S. ? LESS THAN 2% OF AMERICAN CITICENS ARE JEW, SO WHAT THE HECK IS THIS ?!! Jews who Joe Biden has tapped for top roles in his administration 1) Doug Emhoff (JEW), Husband of Kamala Devil Harris 2) Janet Yellin (JEW), Secretary Treasury 3) Anthony Blinken (JEW), Secretary of State 4) Robert Klain (JEW), Chief of Staff 5) David Cohen (JEW), Deputy Director CIA 6) Merrick Garland (JEW), Attorney General 7) Alejandro Mayorkas (JEW), Secretary Homeland Security 8) Avril Haines (JEW), Director National… Read more »
For clarity, how about if we start to call them who they really are, as NON of those are real Jews but Khazars.
The Khazars were originally semi-nomadic Mongolians and Turks who occupied much of the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan from 6-11. century and “converted” to Judaism in the 8th century, and todays calling themselves European Jews and Abrahamic Bloodline/Israels descendant Jews, which they are not.
No need to muddy the waters, “WE” know who they are.
Bingo
One more small nuance Mr. Eric
Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen aka Jeff Bezos’ father Miguel Bezos is Cuban Sephardic JEW, but again, not real Jew but Khazarian “jew”.
Don’t know about Crystal (but I do know about Bill Kristol) and Seinfeld is certainly a Jewish Nazi. I guess you never watched his show.
Please “DON<T” refer these parasites to nazis its an insult.
Everyone in Seinfeld was a Jew. Try having a show on TV with all white Christians!
More provocation and threat. Why threaten? Coercion. Aimed at a Federation of nations. Also, because the Russian Federation own natural resources that a group who do not represent any nation think they should own.
Finland says yes.
Russia says no.
I wonder who will win that argument.
Probably Erdogan will win it, for whichever side he opts for, and this would then be the biggest decision in his life.
In that part of the world he better opt for Russia.
I can tell you that before that happens Russia will SMO Finland. NATO for all its bluster will do nothing. America willing to fight Russia to the last Ukie and once they are done down to the last Finn. The Finns deserve it for being enamoured with a childish leader who is not fit to run the local green grocer.
You seriously believe that Klaus Schwab’s rear end licking peemeat have been chosen by Finns, when GOLDMAN SACHS owns the company that count votes ?
NO WAY, elections stealing happens everywhere.
I do not buy that because I have never seen any demonstrations against Marin.
Maybe you should look somewhere else than Finnish MSM, owned by jews btw.
5 minutes or 5 seconds, as long as the West is fried, who cares?
The Finns still have a lot of butt-hurt (literally) from all those Finnish Holidays in Leningrad. And if you think those folks have changed take a good look at their PM. So does Joseph Bor El of the EU/Fourth Reich though his humiliation in the deviant dens of anal iniquity probably took place in Moscow.
I think Russia will win this nuclear war.