The Lead
NATO Has Just Been Dramatically Flanked by Putin
by Dennis Small (EIRNS) — Nov. 22, 2024
We are currently about 20 days into the most dangerous 70-day period in the history of Mankind—between the U.S. Presidential election on Nov. 5 and the inauguration of the next President on Jan. 20. In the aftermath of the unambiguous defeat at the polls of the Biden-Harris policy of provoking a nuclear war with Russia, we have already witnessed in quick succession:
The decision by lame duck Biden—heavily coached by the British provocateurs who have led the escalation in Ukraine at every turn—to finally authorize launching U.S. ATACMS missile strikes deep into Russian territory.
The resulting announcement by Russian President Putin that he had signed a new nuclear posture doctrine for Russia, lowering the threshold of potential Russian response to existential threats.
The actual launching of those ATACMS, and British Storm Shadows and French SCALPS into Russian territory.
And the Nov.. 21 Russian strike against Ukraine with an entirely new kind of weapon, the Oreshnik system, a hypersonic Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), armed with multiple warheads, which flies at Mach 10 velocities and strikes with precision at multiple targets simultaneously—and which is incapable of being intercepted by all existing defense systems of the West.
As the war planners in London and Washington were reeling with the news, and trying to figure out what had hit them and how many more Oreshnik systems Russia had available, Putin met with leaders of the Russian Defense Ministry and missile system developers, and announced publicly that serial production of the Oreshnik would begin immediately. He explained, as transcribed on the Kremlin’s Presidential website for all to read:
“Due to its striking power, especially when used en masse and in combination with other long-range precision systems that Russia also has, using it against enemy targets will be comparable in effect and power to using strategic weapons. Although in fact the Oreshnik system is not a strategic weapon; in any case, it is not an intercontinental ballistic missile and it is not a means of mass destruction, also because it is a high-precision weapon. At the same time, as I have already mentioned, there are no means of countering such a missile; no means of intercepting it exist in the world today.”
Putin instructed: “We need to launch its serial production.”
Immediate potential targets, if the provocations from the West continue, are those NATO facilities which are close to Russia’s borders that are capable of launching a nuclear attack against them—such as the Aegis system in NATO-member Poland.
In short, as the West was trying to box Russia into initiating a nuclear exchange with the West to defend its sovereignty, or else capitulate, Putin flanked the situation by developing an unstoppable, non-nuclear capability of deterring NATO’s advance.
And not a minute too soon, because London and Washington are acting with desperate haste on a number of fronts to make sure that no global alternative to their bankrupt system emerges, as the second Trump administration takes over in Washington. In addition to the Ukraine provocations:
1) There are credible reports that Israel may be about to annex the West Bank in the next two weeks, which could lead to overnight escalation of the Southwest Asian war to include Iran, and from there Russia.
2) The Biden Department of Justice has launched an all-out assault against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, by targeting one of his closest economic collaborators, Gautam Adani, with an indictment for corruption by U.S. federal prosecutors. As the Financial Times happily reported, Adani is “a group that has been seen as synonymous with India’s national infrastructure drive under Narendra Modi was plunged further into crisis on Thursday as Kenya tore up $2.6 billion in deals due to the U.S. indictment.”
3) The U.S. Treasury Department has announced that it will hit any attempt to build alternative cross-border financial payments, such as the BRICS are attempting to develop, with the equivalent of “financial ATACMS” to blow them out of the water.
All of these policies are designed to irreversibly split the world into two, warring camps—and the World War III that it would sooner or later produce.
The solution, however, also lies near at hand, in the construction of a new security and development architecture for the benefit of all parties. This will be the central topic of deliberation at the upcoming Dec. 7-8 Schiller Institute international online conference.
Contents
Strategic War Danger
- Putin Announces Crash Program for Hypersonic Missiles (↓)
- Kremlin: We Sent an ‘Explicit, Easy To Understand’ Message to Washington (↓)
- Pentagon's Dancing Around the War Escalation Issue Yet Another Day (↓)
- Lukyanov: Washington Could Unleash an ‘Unmanageable Confrontation’ with Russia in Biden’s Last Days (↓)
- STRATCOM’s Admiral Buchanan: Nuclear Exchange Okay, So Long as We Have Nukes Left Afterwards (↓)
- Vucic and Orbán Warn West To Take Putin's Statements Seriously (↓)
- Kujat Explains, We Have Never Been So Close to World War III (↓)
New World Paradigm
- Saudi-Chinese-Iranian Committee Assesses Progress in Riyadh Meeting (↓)
- China's Intense Diplomacy in Ibero- America Contributes to World Stability (↓)
