Nukes And Medium-Range Missiles For Neo-Nazi Junta, Perfect Recipe For WW3

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Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst

As I was writing my piece on the dangers of thermonuclear warfare, I came across some disturbing news regarding the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict. The first was that the world’s most vile racketeering cartel’s Parliamentary Assembly adopted Resolution 494, which focuses on “future-proofing the alliance and supporting Ukraine until victory”. The wording itself screams “global war”, but what’s in the document (PDF) is actually far worse. Namely, in order to achieve “victory”, NATO essentially wants to implement Volodymyr Zelensky’s “victory plan”. Remember, the one that the United States called “totally unfeasible”? Well, it seems it’s not that unfeasible after all, particularly if an organization such as NATO is making this an official policy.

The Kiev regime is specifically asking for the American “Tomahawk” cruise missiles, which, depending on the variant, have a range of up to 2,500 km. What this means in practice is that not only would virtually the entire European part of Russia be in range, but even some major cities beyond the Ural mountains (namely Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg). It should be noted that the Russian military’s Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) are divided into three guards armies, two of which would be in range of these NATO-sourced medium-range missiles. Specifically, those are the 27th Guards Missile Army headquartered in Vladimir and the 31st Guards Missile Army headquartered in Orenburg (the third that’s not in range is the 33rd Guards Missile Army headquartered in Omsk).

Thus, for Russia, this is a matter of strategic security. In fact, one of the missiles that were eliminated by the 1987 INF Treaty was precisely the land-based version of the “Tomahawk”, officially designated as the BGM-109G “Gryphon” GLCM (Ground Launched Cruise Missile), a subsonic cruise missile with a range of 2,780 km and armed with a single W84 thermonuclear warhead (yield of up to 150 kt, or approximately 10 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb). Now, the US doesn’t operate this specific missile anymore, but has adopted a land-based variant of the “Tomahawk”. The first test of the previously banned missile was conducted on August 18, 2019, a bit over two weeks after America unilaterally left the INF Treaty (August 2, 2019), proving it never really honored it.

Namely, it takes a lot longer than two weeks to adopt an entire missile class that was banned for over 30 years at that point. But, this is hardly surprising, as the political West is simply incapable of telling the truth and keeping its word. However, the issue in this particular case is that the fate of the world is at stake. The US and NATO are about to deliver these missiles to the Neo-Nazi junta, which is Russia’s neighbor, even though the USSR itself didn’t tolerate them in Germany, a country that’s around 1,300 km to the west of the Russian mainland. The sheer discrepancy in the strategic danger for Moscow then and now simply cannot be overstated. Unfortunately, the political West and its puppets in Kiev keep pushing. However, to make matters worse, this isn’t the end of bad news.

Namely, there are extremely disturbing reports that Washington DC is planning to transfer nuclear weapons to the Neo-Nazi junta. According to the New York Times, American and EU officials discussed “deterrence as a possible security guarantee for Ukraine”, with some of them suggesting “the return of nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union”. The infamous neoliberal mouthpiece argues that would be “an instant and enormous deterrent”, but even they admit that “such a step would be complicated and have serious implications”. However, it would be far worse, as Dmitry Medvedev, the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council and one of Moscow’s top-ranking officials, stated that this move would be “tantamount to an attack on Russia”.

Medvedev explained that this was precisely one of the main reasons for the Kremlin’s updated nuclear doctrine. He also warned that “giving nukes to a country that’s at war with the greatest nuclear power is so absurd that Biden and any of his officials considering it must have massive paranoid psychosis”. It’s virtually impossible to argue against this notion, as the possibility for escalation becomes a guarantee for escalation if something like this ever comes to pass. Medvedev also pointed out that such an act would be “considered as the launch of an attack against our country in accordance with Paragraph 19 of the ‘Basic Principles of State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence'”. And indeed, the full text of the updated document on Moscow’s nuclear doctrine confirms this.

And yet, even though President Putin formally approved lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, NATO and the Kiev regime keep launching long-range strikes deeper within Russia. The NYT says this is because Moscow is supposedly “waiting for Trump to take over” and that this is why it’s “reluctant to significantly escalate the war”. The report further states that “the escalation risk of allowing Ukraine to strike Russia with US-supplied weaponry has diminished with the election of Mr. Trump”, adding that the lame-duck Biden administration is “calculating that Putin of Russia knows he has to wait only two months for the new administration”. I’ve already argued the US believes this “good cop, bad cop” game can actually work and that it can act with impunity in the next two months.

However, if the warmongering oligarchies in Washington DC and Brussels truly believe that Russia is that naive, they should think again. Namely, the Kremlin is certainly aware of the latest statements of the officials Trump selected for his upcoming presidency. For instance, his pick for national security advisor, Mike Waltz, says that “the president-elect and Biden are unified in their approach to Ukraine” and that “US adversaries cannot play one administration off the other”. Well, it certainly seems that Washington DC is trying to play others by presenting the two administrations as enemies, indicating that Trump is not exactly as hostile to the Deep State as he would like everyone to think. This means that Moscow cannot expect there will be any significant changes regarding Ukraine.

Needless to say, it’s an extremely dangerous prospect, as the next two months might not lead to the end of escalation. Interestingly, the NYT reports that even American officials “who were briefed on the intelligence community’s assessments” said that “[medium-range] weapons will not alter the challenging situation that Kiev is currently facing”. In other words, the stated goal of these deliveries, the Neo-Nazi junta’s “victory”, cannot be achieved, but the political West will still go ahead with it.

Thus, the only logical conclusion from all this is that the deliveries of medium-range missiles and nuclear weapons are actually designed to cause an escalation with Russia regardless of the results of the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict. In simpler terms, all this is just pure insanity.

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