In a clear sign of the spread of war insanity for which the Schiller Institute is urgently organizing the antidote, MSNBC broadcast explicit calls for U.S. war with Russia—even if nuclear war—which was exposed by Caitlin Johnstone on her well-known blogsite April 4. MSNBC “journalist” Ali Velshi competed with Defense Department instructor John Spencer of the Modern War Institute, in demanding the U.S. lead NATO into direct warfighting with Russia. They were supposedly triggered by claimed events in Ukraine, including a Russian “massacre of civilians” in Bucha.
Spencer, whose institute “is part of the Department of Military Instruction for the United States Military Academy,” said “I’m ready to commit at this moment—unlike I was before this day—to put people in direct contact with Russia, to stop Russia. Call it peacekeeping. Call it what you will. We have to do more than provide weapons. And by ‘we,’ I mean the United States. Yes, we’ll do it as a coalition with lots of other people, but we are the example. So put boots on the ground, send weapons directly at Russia.” Asked by Velshi about warnings that nuclear war would result, Spencer rushed on: “It’s a huge risk. I understand that. But today is different.”
Velshi wasn’t being left behind. “If this is not the kind of moment that the United Nations and NATO and the UN and the G20 and the Council of Europe and the Gcx7 were made for, what was the point of these alliances if not to stop this?” he told the MSNBC audience. “The world cannot sit by as Vladimir Putin continues this reign of terror.” And he continued the rant on Twitter: “There is no more time for prevarication. If ‘never again’ means anything, then this is the time to act.”
Then, when engaged on Twitter by Johnstone, Velshi said he was advocating “direct military action…. Lines have been crossed and war crimes have been committed by Putin that make direct military intervention something NATO now must seriously consider.” And showing he could be just as ice-cold about it as Spencer, Velshi told Johnstone, “Let’s keep it civil"!
Johnstone concludes her report: “This is not okay. It is not okay for them to do this to us. It is not okay for them to normalize the idea of escalations that could easily end humankind. That is the most insane position that any person could possibly take. More insane than Nazism, or any other extremist ideology you could think of. Supporting actions that may lead to human extinction makes these people enemies of our entire species.” (https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/04/04/pundits-who-advocate-hot-war-with-russia-are-enemies-of-humanity/)
