The Lead
Who Will Stop the Descent into MAD-ness?
by Dennis Small (EIRNS) — Sep. 12, 2024
As you read these words, the gun is being cocked to launch a direct NATO-Russia shooting war before the November 5 elections in the U.S. If that is allowed to happen, the world will be a blink-of-an-eye away from global thermonuclear war.
Maybe the time to finally listen to LaRouche and act is now, before the missiles start flying.
Do you think we are exaggerating, or perhaps a bit apocalyptic? Do you give credence to the media drivel about LaRouche being an “extremist” who can safely be brushed aside, at least for the moment? Then think again and get active—while you still can.
Please read the following reports from the last 24 hours:
U.S. Secretary of State Blinken and British Foreign Minister Lammy met with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy in Kiev on Sept. 11, and then used London’s The Guardian to leak that they had set in place U.S. “approval” for the deployment of long-range high-precision NATO missiles in Ukraine in order to strike deep into Russian territory. The deal is set to be sealed, if not announced, at President Biden’s meeting with British Prime Minister Starmer at the White House on Sept. 13. Blinken admitted this incurred a risk, but proclaimed that the risk—for example of a nuclear war—"is not necessarily a dispositive factor,” a lawyer’s term for decisive or conclusive. In other words, damn the torpedoes, we’re going full steam ahead.
Russian President Putin responded that the Ukrainian military can neither assign missions nor guide such sophisticated precision weapons on their own, and therefore if the decision is made to use them, ["this will mean their [U.S. and NATO] direct involvement in the conflict](http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/75092), and it will clearly change the very essence, the very nature of the conflict dramatically. This will mean that NATO countries—the United States and European countries—are at war with Russia. And if this is the case, then, bearing in mind the change in the essence of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions in response to the threats that will be posed to us.”
At the same time that the lunatic London-Washington axis is trying to goad Putin into engaging in a nuclear chicken game, voices are being raised inside Russia demanding that Putin use a nuclear weapon as the only way to convince the West that Russia means business. “It’s high time we stated that any massive strikes against our territory gives us a right to respond with a nuclear strike,” veteran strategist Sergey Karaganov stated to the publication Kommersant. The widely read Karaganov is Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and he has repeatedly issued calls for a return to the irresponsible Kissingerian doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) by threatening to use a nuclear bomb, and even to actually use it if the West thinks Russia is bluffing.
Opposition to the insane London-Washington war policy is growing in both the U.S. and Europe—as is evident by the progress of the weekly International Peace Coalition (IPC) meetings organized by the Schiller Institute’s Helga Zepp-LaRouche—but it is still too little and too slow. Russia, China, and the Global Majority in general, including those gathering around the BRICS process heading towards the Kazan summit on Oct. 22-24, are considering how they can intervene to stop the march to global war. They are looking keenly at the U.S. and Europe for signs of sanity and willingness to deliberate with them on a new international security and development architecture.
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Contents
Strategic War Danger
- Putin Warns Approval of Long-Range Strikes by Ukraine Means NATO Is at War with Russia (↓)
- Russian Senator Pushkov Says Ukraine’s Long-Range Missile Strikes Are Likely ‘in a Matter of Days’ (↓)
- Karaganov: Russia Must Announce It Will Use Nuclear Arms if the West Strikes It with Long-Range Missiles (↓)
- Blinken Says Risk of War with Russia Is ‘Not Necessarily a Dispositive Factor’ (↓)
- Some People Can’t Wait for Ukraine To Hit Russia with Long-Range Missiles (↓)
- Scholz Says, Now It’s Time To Explore Possible Ukraine Talks (↓)
New World Paradigm
- Putin Discusses Security Matters, BRICS Expansion with Top BRICS Security Officials (↓)
- Intense Discussion, Many Bilateral Meetings at St. Petersburg BRICS Security Forum (↓)
U.S. and Canada
- Simes Interview: ‘Biden Is Out To Get Me’ and Ripping Up the Constitution, including the First Amendment (↓)
- Ohio's Largest Daily Endorses Kucinich for Congress (↓)
- New Campaign Organization, or International Criminals for Harris (↓)
Collapsing Imperial System
History and Culture
Harley Schlanger Update
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