Pentagon-NATO Blowback in Nicaragua? by Jacob G. Hornberger
(2022-06-14 at 04:52:16 )

Pentagon-NATO Blowback in Nicaragua? by Jacob G. Hornberger

In what is obviously a tit-for-tat response to the Pentagons role in ginning up the Russia-Ukraine war, Nicaraguan officials have announced that they have invited Russian troops to visit the country for "humanitarian" and "training" purposes. They are saying that the visit will be "routine," but there is actually nothing routine about it.

It will be fascinating to see how the Pentagon and its loyal supporters within the mainstream press respond to the announcement. So far, there have been no Pentagon reaction and no mainstream press editorials or op-eds coming to the defense of Nicaraguas "right" to enter into a military alliance with Russia.

Do not forget, after all, that that is the root cause of the crisis in Ukraine - the "right" of Ukraine to join NATO, the old Cold War dinosaur. If NATO ends up absorbing Ukraine, the Pentagon will be able to fulfill its longtime aim of installing nuclear missiles pointed at Russias cities along Russias border with Ukraine.

For its part, Russia has long made it clear that this was a "red line" that it would not permit to be crossed, just as United States officials refused to permit Soviet nuclear missiles to be installed in Cuba in 1962. That is what precipitated Russias invasion of Ukraine - the attempt to establish Russias control over the Ukrainian regime in order to prevent the Pentagon from fulfilling its longtime aim through NATO to install nuclear missiles along Russias border.

The United States mainstream press, which oftentimes acts like an American Pravda, has been vociferous in its defense of Ukraines "right" to join NATO. It is an independent country, they have repeatedly pointed out, and, therefore, it has the "right" to join any military alliance it wants.

Okay, fair enough. But then what about Nicaragua?

Is it not just as independent as Ukraine? Given such, why does it not have the same "right" to enter into a military alliance with Russia or, for that matter, China, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, or Vietnam?

Why are the Pentagon and its mainstream press acolytes remaining quiet about those questions?

Would it not be darkly ironic if the Pentagons NATO machinations with Ukraine ended up producing blowback in the form of a permanent Russian military base in Nicaragua? Would it not be darkly ironic if Russia accepted an invitation from Nicaragua to establish nuclear missiles in Nicaragua?

What then would be the response of the Pentagon and its mainstream-press acolytes? Would they opine that while Ukraine has the "right" to join NATO, which would enable the Pentagon to install its nuclear missiles on Russias border, Nicaragua has no "right" to enter into a similar military alliance with Russia (or China, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, or Vietnam)? If they were to take that position, would not their evil NATO machinations and hypocritical two-faced policies be on open display for all the world to witness?

Of course, none of this had to be. If the old, rotten Cold War dinosaur NATO had been dismantled at the end of the Cold War, which it should have been, the Pentagon could not have used it to engage in its Cold War machinations that ultimately have led to the deadly and destructive Russia-Ukraine war.

And now we are witnessing blowback from the Pentagons NATO machinations in the form of a possible Russia military base in Nicaragua or, even worse, another Cold War crisis similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

As I point out in my new book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, President Kennedy was able to circumvent and nullify the Pentagons Cold War machinations during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and everyone in both Russia and the United States was better off for it.

Unfortunately, however, as everyone knows, President Biden is no John Kennedy, and therefore, it is impossible to predict how this latest crisis will be resolved.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Libertarian Website!!