Biden Ramps Up Nuclear Brinkmanship On His Way Out The Door by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-11-17 at 22:36:03 )

Biden Ramps Up Nuclear Brinkmanship On His Way Out The Door by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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We are living in dark and dangerous times.

The New York Times reports that the Biden administration has authorized Ukraine to use United States-supplied long-range missiles to strike Russian and North Korean military targets inside Russia - yet another dangerous escalation of nuclear brinkmanship in this horrific proxy war.

The Times correctly notes that authorizing Ukraine to use ATACMS, which have a range of about 190 miles, has long been a contentious issue in the Biden administration for fear of provoking military retaliations against the United States from Russia. This reckless escalation has been authorized despite an acknowledgement from the anonymous United States officials who spoke to The New York Times that they "do not expect the shift to fundamentally alter the course of the war."

As Antiwars Dave DeCamp notes, Vladimir Putin said back in September that if NATO allows Ukraine to use western-supplied weapons for long-range strikes inside Russian territory, it would mean NATO countries "are at war with Russia." This is about as unambiguous a threat as you will ever see.

Report: Biden Allows Ukraine To Strike Russia With Long-Range United States Missiles
Putin has made clear that United States-supported long-range strikes in Russia would risk nuclear war
by Dave DeCamp-DecampDave #Ukraine #Russia #NATO "please see here:" - Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) November 17, 2024

NYT reports that Bidens policy shift "comes two months before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office, having vowed to limit further support for Ukraine." And it is here worth noting that last week it was reported by The Telegraph that British PM Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron had been scheming to thwart any attempt by Donald Trump to scale back United States support for Ukraine by pushing Biden to authorize long-range missile strikes in Russian territory.

But it is also true that the day before the United States election Mike Waltz, Donald Trumps next national security advisor, had himself endorsed the idea of authorizing long-range missile strikes into Russia with the goal of pressuring Moscow to end the war. His plan for disentangling the United States from the conflict entails ramping up sanctions on Russia and "taking the handcuffs off the long-range weapons we provide Ukraine" in order to pressure President Putin into eagerly accepting a peace deal.

So while this is being framed as an administration thatis more hawkish on Russia executing a maneuver that is designed to hamstring the peacemongering of an incoming administration that is less favorable to assisting Ukraine, in reality it may just be goal-assisting the next administration in a policy change it had planned on implementing anyway.

Mike Waltz, who Trump just picked as National Security Adviser, has explained his vision for how to end the Ukraine war:

- Ramp up sanctions on Russia
- "Take the handcuffs off" Ukraine, by allowing them to strike further inside Russia "please see here:" - Michael Tracey (mtracey) November 12, 2024

Either way, it is insane.

President Putin ordered changes to Russias nuclear doctrine in September in order to ward off these sorts of escalations by lowering the threshold at which nuclear weapons could be used to defend the Russian Federation, and they are just barreling right past that bright red line like they barreled over the red lines which led to the invasion of Ukraine. And the fact that they are adding yet another nuclear-armed state into the mix with North Korea is just more gravy for the nuclear brinkmanship pot roast.

At one point in 2022, United States intelligence agencies reportedly assessed that the odds of Russia using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine was as high as fifty percent, but the Biden administration kept pushing forward with this proxy war anyway. These freaks are taking insane risks to advance agendas that stand to yield the slimmest of benefits even by their own assessments.

We are living in dark and dangerous times!

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