Biden's neocon-inspired embrace of preemptive nuclear strikes — looks to be forcing Russia into doing the same

© 2022 Peter Free

 

13 December 2022

 

 

Savor the aroma of nuke-barbecued flesh?

 

With the Ukraine War (which the United States instigated) burbling in the background — the brainlessly violent neocon goons, who rule the US — added the following provocation in March 2022:

 

 

Senior U.S. officials said that Biden has decided not to follow through on his 2020 pledge to declare that the sole purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter a nuclear attack against the United States or its allies.

 

Instead, he approved a version of a policy from the Obama administration that leaves open the option to use nuclear weapons not only in retaliation to a nuclear attack, but also to respond to non-nuclear threats.

 

© Daryl G. Kimball, Biden Policy Allows First Use of Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control Association (April 2022)

 

 

This policy abrogated America's previous insistence that it would use nuclear weapons, only when attacked with the same.

 

 

The US policy change has forced Russia . . .

 

. . . to reevaluate its own defensive posture:

 

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia might give thought to borrowing some US ideas on how to ensure its security, including the tactic of delivering a disarming strike.

 

"First, the United States has a pre-emptive strike theory," Putin told the media on Friday.

 

"Second, they are developing a disarming strike system. What is that? It is a system of attacking command and control centers with modern high-tech means with the aim to incapacitate them, and so on."

 

"[I]f a potential adversary thinks that it is possible to use the theory of a preventive strike, while we do not, then this prompts us to give thought to the threats that such ideas in the defense doctrines of other countries pose to us," Putin concluded.

 

© 2022 TASS, Russia may borrow US idea of disarming strike — Putin, tass.com (09 December 2022)

 

 

Paul Craig Roberts summed the situation

 

He wrote that:

 

 

The insouciance of Washington and its European puppets toward the dangerous situation they are provoking with Russia is frightening.

 

The Western world is now led by people who have made it clear that they will risk nuclear war in their pursuit of American hegemony.

 

Evil has clearly triumphed in the Western world. We are now on the brink of a nuclear holocaust.

 

One false warning of nuclear attack, believed to be true, could cause Russia to launch a full-scale nuclear attack against the US and Europe.

 

The expressed willingness of Finland, Sweden, Poland, and Romania to accept US nuclear weapons in their countries, together with the ability of the US to launch against Russia from the Black and Baltic seas, greatly heightens anxiety in Russia.

 

Unlike the Cold War period, in the 21st century Washington has worked overtime to destroy all trust.

 

© 2022 Paul Craig Roberts, A Hair Trigger on Endgame, Unz Review (12 December 2022)

 

 

The moral? — When y'all become crispy critters . . .

 

. . . you will know whom to blame.

 

Rationally speaking, the culprit will not have been Russia.

 

How does it feel to be governed by satanically inspired American fools?