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13 November 2024, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
UPDATE: Russia’s RT News made the Russian Government’s warning to The West about this crystal clear later today (November 13th), when it quoted Maria Zakharova, Spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry:
“If the Kiev regime gets permission for the aforementioned strikes, we will treat it as NATO de-facto entering a direct conflict with Russia,” Zakharova said. “A response to the use of Western long-range weapons against the territory of our nation would be imminent and devastating.”
Moscow has stated that it believes longer-range Western-supplied weapons cannot be operated by Ukrainian forces on their own. These weapons systems require the presence of NATO specialists as well as intelligence data obtained through the bloc’s satellite systems, Russian officials have said on several occasions.
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The position of National Security Advisor (NSA) is among those that don’t require Senate confirmation; and, therefore, Trump himself will have to fire his appointed NSA, Mike Waltz, for dangerous incompetence, since Waltz is advising Trump to allow Ukraine to bomb The Kremlin with American weapons, and since Russia has already warned the Biden Administration that if the U.S. will allow that, then Russia won’t wait for the almost inevitable hit (since Ukraine’s President Volodmyr Zelensky has made clear that he wants to do this), but Russia will instead initiate World War Three against the U.S. and Ukraine, because that U.S. authorization would be an act of war by the U.S. — not ONLY by Ukraine, which has been urgently requesting this authorization — against Russia, and Russia has made clear that they would respond to it as being an act of war by both. President Biden, after having initially favored providing that authorization to Ukraine, reversed himself after the Administration of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin made this fact clear to the Biden Administration.
On November 12th, NPR headlined “Trump names Rep. Mike Waltz as national security adviser”, and reported that “Waltz, 50, suggested the U.S. would have leverage over Russian President Vladimir Putin” and that Waltz said “We have leverage, like taking the handcuffs off of the long-range weapons we provided Ukraine.”
He doesn’t understand that Ukraine has the border that is the nearest of any country’s to The Kremlin, a mere 300 miles, which is a mere 5-minute missile-flight time away; and, so, Putin, whose top obligation to the Russian people is to NOT allow his country’s central-command in The Kremlin to become beheaded in such a blitz-attack, can’t allow that. This is why he warned Biden on September 25th — and why Biden decided on October 10th NOT to approve Zelensky’s urgent request.
I, just an ordinary American, knew this even before Putin warned it, because I have followed for years his statements on such matters, and the rationales behind those statements, and if anyone who becomes the National Security Advisor to my President was so stupid and ignorant of this — which is the most-basic understanding of what is happening in national security, not only from the standpoint of Americans, but from the standpoint of the countries such as Russia that might be in the gunsights of the U.S. Government and therefore reasonably worried about their own national security being endangered by such a hyper-aggressive U.S. Government as Waltz seeks to help to lead — then the result could very likely be WW3, for no other reason than the U.S. regime’s craving to control the entire world, and not ONLY to control itself.
Every American — and not ONLY this one — ought to be appalled that Trump has selected this blazing idiot to be his National Security Advisor, and must protest publicly against this catastrophically dangerous incompetent appointment to such a crucial position. Trump needs to be publicly shamed into canceling that appointment, because, otherwise, a WW3 will likely result. I cannot think of anyone more unfit to serve as National Security Advisor, than someone who could so casually say, in public, the astoundingly stupid, “We have leverage, like taking the handcuffs off of the long-range weapons we provided Ukraine.” It’s psychopathic. And that’s the worst type of stupidity.
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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.
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I’m more worried that Waltz will push for war with Iran. I don’t think Trump will buy off on direct attacks on Russia, but Iran is another matter. Russia and Iran are tightly connected. And the Israelis are doing everything possible to involve America against Iran.
I hope the Trump Administration does not fall for that.
It’s not bad enough that Trump has selected as his NSA someone who wants him to okay Ukraine to use American weapons to bomb The Kremlin? Even Biden finally turned away from that idea. To me, this is as unqualified as one can even IMAGINE a National Security Advisor to be! Trump’s picking Waltz for that post proves Trump himself to be incredibly ignorant and stupid — creepy. The American people should be shocked and outraged, but I am the ONLY journalist who is following this chain of events — nobody else is noticing it at all. That’s simply disgusting!… Read more »
This is real simple folks. No matter who is in office, the Zionists own them. What ever the US government does, it is by orders of AIPAC and the Israeli government.
Every US politician that is under the thumb of Israel is a traitor. You enemy is your own government, the same people you voted for…. regardless of who you voted for. It is all a scam.
If it is that simple, woudn’t America have already bombed Iran back into the stone age? What is the holdup?
I wrote on this subject five years on this site “The United States Will Not Attack Iran” (June 2019) and although the article is somewhat dated — even if currently relevant — I think my article entitled “US Power is Waning” from 2019 states it best. (Can’t post URL’s here so please search for steve brown in the search bar) Point being that the US has become just another failed “empire” that “…struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying… Read more »
Israel just tried to do that, using some of the latest and greatest US weaponry. The first phase (suppression of air defence) failed miserably, and the ensuing phases were quietly aborted. Then they claimed victory, as usual. If the USA itself tries to “bomb Iran back to the Stone Age”, it will get a bloody nose. Any naval units within a few thousand kilometres will be sunk, and dozens of virtually defenceless US bases will be struck. Thousands of US soldiers and sailors could die. Try to escalate, and Russia and China will come in on Iran’s side. Incidentally, the… Read more »
Aka Persians. Anyway, I believe you are right and perhaps humans can try to live up to their billing as an “Intelligent” species who don’t attempt to solve problems with bombs and bullets.
“No matter who is in office, the Zionists own them”.
Why? How? There should be a large and attractive prize for the first person to make the American people understand the answers to those simple questions.
I wouldn’t get too concerned about Trump challenging Putin on that red line. If you watch closely, you will see how effective Trump is as a negotiator. “The Art of the Deal.” He needs leverage against both sides in this upcoming mediation. Zelensky is no problem, because he cannot survive without strong US support. But he has no leverage over Putin. So he needs to create it. When he had the ULTRA Neo-Con John Bolton on his staff, he used him, brought him into tough meetings, threatening to unleash his dog. But he ALWAYS did the exact opposite. Of course,… Read more »
“…the U.S. regime’s craving to control the entire world, and not ONLY to control itself“.
Unfortunately the real situation is exactly the opposite. The US regime wishes to control the entire world EXCEPT itself. Normal for a 3-year-old…