Why is it that London and Washington think they have to push a thermonuclear showdown with Moscow this week?
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the U.K.’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrived together in Kiev today. It were bizarre enough if the pair were to do no more than attend the hyperventilating gathering called the “Crimean Platform,” dedicated to conquering and occupying the peninsula. However, they’ve made clear that the private discussions in Kiev today are over the use of Western long-range missiles to hit deep into Russia. The U.K.’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer will come to the White House on Friday, Sept. 13, to clinch the deal.
While certainly no alarmist, the political analyst and expert on Russia, Gilbert Doctorow, sounded the alarm yesterday over the “near certainty that the United States and Britain have just agreed to give the Zelenskyy regime permission to use the long-range missiles.” After situating the desperation and recklessness involved in Zelenskyy’s stripping his defense in the Donbass for a dangerous public relations stunt, “conquering” a useless, indefensible parcel of Kursk, he posed that it merely sets “the stage for one further absolutely desperate and reckless act by the Biden administration to deprive Russia of its well-earned victory by escalating the conflict to a world war.” Along with the ATACMS missile, he cites the U.K.’s Storm Shadow and “likely also the 1500 km range stealth missile known as JASSM to strike deep into the Russian heartland…. I cannot say how close we are to midnight on the nuclear war watch. But a Third World War fought at least initially with conventional weapons is now just days, at most weeks away.”
Every step along the way has come with the public assurance, actually the mantra, that this new escalation makes sense, because this way Ukraine will militarily defeat Russia. Of course, that is transparent nonsense. There’s never been any issue but to play the nuclear chicken game, have a humiliated Russia back down, and break the country into impotent pieces. Why? Because the London-centered financial derivatives empire cannot afford sovereign nations, cannot brook opposition.
Today, at the BRICS security conference in St. Petersburg, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Russia’s Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu, where what was emphasized was the joint mission of China and Russia to shape the BRICS mechanism into a major channel for the new emerging powers and into an important platform for solidarity and cooperation of the “Global South.” That is more than a hint of organized opposition.
On Sept. 13, the British are coming, to nail down the Biden administration’s commitment to that thermonuclear showdown. Also, at the UN Security Council, there are scheduled to be deliberations over the pumping of weaponry into Ukraine. Well and good. Also on Friday, Sept. 13 is the convening of the 67th consecutive weekly session of the International Peace Coalition. Even the first few minutes’ examination of last week’s session entitled “Cage the ‘Dogs of War'!” will convince any normal human being that that is the place to be this coming Friday, in this week’s rendezvous with destiny.
