Will 2023 be Worse Than 2022?
Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review Jan 10, 2023
Even though one has become accustomed to seeing the United States government behaving irrationally on an epic scale with no concern for what happens to the average citizen who is not a member of one of the freak show constituencies of the Democratic Party, it is still possible to be surprised or even shocked. Shortly before year’s end 2022 an article appeared in the mainstream media and was quite widely circulated. The headline that it was featured under in the original Business Insider version read “A nuclear attack would most likely target one of these 6 US cities — but an expert says none of them are prepared.” The cities were New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and San Francisco.
The article seeks to provide information and tips that would allow one to survive a nuclear attack, repeating commentary from several “experts” in emergency management and “public health” suggesting that a nuclear war would be catastrophic but not necessarily the end of the world. One should be prepared. It observes that “those cities would struggle to provide emergency services to the wounded. The cities also no longer have designated fallout shelters to protect people from radiation.” It is full of sage advice and off-the-cuff observations, including “Can you imagine a public official keeping buildings intact for fallout shelters when the real-estate market is so tight?” Or even better the advice from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s “nuclear detonation planning guide” that for everyday citizens in a city that has been nuked: “Get inside, stay inside, and stay tuned.” Dr. Ron Paul asks “Are they insane? They act as if a nuclear attack on the United States is just another inconvenience to plan for, like an ice storm or a hurricane.”
The article argues that the six cities would be prime targets as they are centers for vital infrastructure. The bomb blasts would kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of Americans with many more deaths to follow from radiation poisoning, but the article makes no attempt to explain why Russia, with a relatively sane leadership, would want to start a nuclear war that would potentially destroy the planet. Also, the targeting list of the cities provided by the “experts” is itself a bit odd. Surely Russia would attack military and government targets as a first priority to limit the possible retaliation while also crippling the ability of the White House and Pentagon to command and control the situation. Such targets would include both San Diego and Norfolk where the US Atlantic and Pacific fleets are based as well as the various Strategic Air Command bases and the underground federal government evacuation site in Mount Weather Virginia.
Reading the article, one is reminded of the early years of the Cold War that sought to reassure the public that nuclear war was somehow manageable. It was a time when we elementary school children were drilled in hiding under our desks when the air raid alarm went off. Herman Kahn was, at that time, the most famous advocate of the school of thought that the United States could survive the “unthinkable,” i.e. a nuclear war. An American physicist by training, Kahn became a founding member of the beyond neocon nationalist Hudson Institute, which is still unfortunately around. Kahn, who served in the US Army during the Second World War as a non-combat telephone lineman, started has career as a military strategist at the RAND Corporation. Kahn endorsed a policy of deterrence and argued that if the Soviet Union believed that the United States had a devastating second-strike capability then Moscow would not initiate hostilities, which he explained in his paper titled “The Nature and Feasibility of War and Deterrence”. The Russians had to believe that even a perfectly coordinated massive attack would guarantee a measure of retaliation that would leave them devastated as well. Kahn also posited his idea of a “winnable” nuclear exchange in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War for which he is often cited as one of the inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick’s classic film Dr. Strangelove.
The appearance of the Business Insider article dealing with a cool discussion of the survivability from a nuclear war suggests that the nutcases are again escaping from the psychiatric hospital here in the US and are obtaining top jobs in government and the media. While one continues to hope that somehow someone will wake up in the White House and realize that the deep dark hole that we the American people find ourselves in mandates a change of course and a genuine reset, there is little daylight visible in the darkness.
My particular concern relates to the entangling relationships that have kept our country permanently at war in spite of the fact that since the Cold War ended in 1991 no potential adversary has actually threatened the United States. Now, the federal government appears to be in the business of cultivating dangerous relationships to justify defense spending and placing the nation on the brink of what might prove to be catastrophic. The current US mission to “weaken Russia” and eventually also China in order to maintain its own “rules based international order” includes such hypocritical and utterly illegal under international law anomalies as the continued military occupation of part of Syria to deny that country’s leaders’ access to their oil fields and best agricultural land. A recent UN humanitarian agency investigation determined that the Syrian people are suffering and even starving as a result of that and US imposed sanctions that the Biden Administration maintains against all reason and humanity.
At the present time, however, the most entangling of all relationships, even more than with Israel, has to be the engagement of the US in the proxy war being fought against Russia on behalf of Ukraine, which is exactly what threatens to turn nuclear if someone blinks at the wrong time. Billions of dollars in direct aid as well as billions more in the form of weapons stripped from arsenals in Europe and the US have been given to the corrupt regime of President Volodymyr Zelensky while Zelensky continues to work assiduously to milk the situation and draw Washington into a deeper war directly confronting Moscow.
In fact, by some reckonings the war has already begun, with the US and its allies clearly dedicated to crippling the Russian economy while also getting rid of President Vladimir Putin. The 101st Airborne is now in place in Romania next to Ukraine to “warn” the Kremlin while the Pentagon has recently admitted that some American military personnel are already in Ukraine, contrary to the denials by White House spokesmen. The British have also revealed that some of their elite Special Ops personnel are on the ground. And there are reports that more American soldiers will soon be on the way, ostensibly to “track the weapons” being provided to Zelensky, which will include US-made, Patriot Missile batteries some of which might even be placed in NATO member Poland to provide air cover over Western Ukraine, a definite act of war as seen by Russia, which has warned that such a move would mean that the US and its allies had “effectively become a party” to the war in Ukraine and there will be “consequences.” “Consequences” means escalation.
The soldier-“trackers” mission may be in response to reports that weapons provided by NATO have been corruptly sold or given to third countries by the Ukrainians. The several US initiatives taken together could produce a rapid escalation of the conflict complete with dead Americans coming home in body bags and an inevitable direct US involvement in combat roles that could lead anywhere, but at this point it is the Russians who are acting with restraint by not targeting the NATO and US “advisers” who are already active in Ukraine.
Suspicion is also growing that the United States “green-lighted” in advance recent cruise missile attacks carried out by Ukraine against military targets deep inside Russia. Since the attacks, the White House has declared that Ukraine has “permission” to attack Russia and has basically conceded to the unbalanced Zelensky the right to make all the decisions and run the war that the US is largely funding, which is a formula for disaster. It is already known that Ukraine is receiving top level intelligence provided both by the US and also other NATO states. The precision attacks on Russia suggest that the Ukrainian army was given the coordinates of possible active targets, something that the US would be capable of providing but which would have been beyond the abilities of Ukraine, which possesses no satellite surveillance capability. If it is true that the White House was involved in escalating the conflict it would be a very dangerous move, inviting retaliation by Moscow.
To be sure, some idiots in Washington, mostly of the neocon variety, continue to see war against Russia as something like a crusade for world freedom. Rick Newman, Yahoo’s top Finance Columnist, observes how “Budget hawks in Congress are worried about granting President Biden’s request for an additional $38 billion in aid for Ukraine to help defeat the invading Russians.” He concludes “They’re right. Thirty-eight billion isn’t enough. Make it $50 billion. Or even $100 billion. The more, the better, until the job is done.”
Apparently, the bellicose Rick does not quite get that Russia has made clear that if it is about to be defeated by force majeure it will go nuclear. And Congress and the White House don’t seem to get it either, with both the Republican and Democratic parties oblivious to the real danger that confronts the American people. Nuclear war? Sure! Just hide in your basement, if you have one, and tune in.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org
We’re at one of those great pivotal moments in history where the balance of power swings in a big way.
Yes, the US and UK has was too many nutters in positions of power and influence.
Both Russia and China know this, hence the reason why both countries are now in serious war economy modes.
Russis has by far the most leathal nukes, the most evasive nukes, and the best integrated missile defence systems comprising of the S300, S400, and the S500. There are others, including space capable weapons. This is all integrated. The Russians can also fire nukes up the yankies poop shoot, via the Antarctica. US defenses don’t cover this approach.
Russia, and I believe China, has substantial nuke bunkers. The US has almost non, and the UK has zero.
There won’t be any winners, but some are going to come out of it better than the others. The UK simply won’t exist. The Russians will obliterate the entire UK, sorry Ireland.
Boston, most important city.
Firstly, there seems to be evidence of nuclear explosions throughout history. About 5,000 years ago in India, for example. So, it seems we have been here before and it did not end well for anybody. There is no winners, only losers in war. Secondly, why blow-up cities when you can blow up dams. Within a month most city dwellers would be dead or insane, there would be no economy and no industry. Then you can repopulate with a sustainable population, without having to rebuild citys.
Anyone who believe in “nukes” is at best an uneducated repeater basing their assertion on belief of media brainwashing or at worst a shill.
Other intelligent, articulate, and well-read posters have given CHAPTER AND VERSE on the “nuke” hoax. The Truthseeker articles are written by those extrapolating from mainstream sources without actually doing any deep diving of themselves. They appeal to the lazy self-satisfied people who regard themselves as informed, the same way factory fodder suit wearing commuters on the London Underground who read the broadsheets do.
Some of us have researched this and sought out old source material. How many people have read the 1955 out of print “Atom Hoax” by William Reuben for example? I have. It’s a thick book that takes some time to get through, but that’s what real truthseekers do…
The book is ostensibly one Jewish journalist’s attempt to vindicate the Rosenbergs; a married Jewish couple who passed on “secrets” to the Russian. Reading the book; nay reading between the lines is even more interesting. The Rosenbergs didn’t pass on anything that wasn’t already in the scientific domain, but their martyrdom helped further a narrative. One of the Cambridge Five, Maclean, passed on details of “uranium” to the Russians from the USA. Now the Truthseeker itself mentioned the “fifth man”, Victor Rothschild; someone high up in British intelligence and an international banker family member !!???
Is it that difficult to believe international bankers could construct “world theatre” in order to further their hegemony with puppets in place in Moscow, Washington, and London? The old Cold War was interesting for the amount of theatre attached to it. This theatre was designed to convince the public of a real existential threat, the same way the “covid virus” has been used now. Part of that theatre was “nukes” as the “covid virus” is now.
Don’t worry about atomic or thermonuclear bombs, they’re a Jewish hoax.
@ Carl…
You and your ‘Nukes’ Carl ..dear dear..Sometimes l think you are perhaps a brigade commander in the 77th..
l particularly liked this observation:
“Russis(sic) has by far the most leathal(sic) nukes, the most evasive nukes,”
That there is comedy gold my friends.. it’s like comparing terminal cancers….. or amputations..
much funnier than Giraldi expecting us to believe Groper Joe is capable of cognitive processes…
or uses the toilet without assistance…
DONT STAY INSIDE !you will be outknocked
+ buried under rubble + concret . better stay in
open space or woods . you will evaporate faster
than feeling the pain !
@ BOB SMITH IDIOT
SHILL + PROVOCER
You’ve got the order of events backwards. Biden doesn’t want to destroy the world to weaken Russia; he wants to destroy the word- period- but Russia is in the way.
Wheah is th’ best place to be in case th’ bomb drops?… Hit don’t matter as long as you can say, “Whut. wuz. that!?”
A MORE IMPORTANT QUESTION:
ARE THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD FINALLY READY TO DESTROY THE PARASITIC DESPOTS IN ORDER TO SAVE COUNTLESS LIVES?
IMHO..this is a war of attrition.
…………..physical but mostly psychological.
Both sides are fear porning their own citizens.
ALL WARS ARE BANKERS WARS and are wars against their own populations not the leaders.
Engaging in war is effectively treason and treachery by ones own Gov’t to cull their own citizens.
All wars have their respective militaries aiming weapons in the wrong direction.
Attn: DUMB Yanks, THICK Brits
Subj: Getting a Clue… YET?
Has it EVER occurred to you that your ((((leaders))) consider you “surplus to requirements” and want you D E A D… and are using any means at their disposal – from VAXXXtermination… to Economic Implosion… to provoking Russia into incinerating you – to get the “job” done???
The “hoax” weapons made craters in the limestone under the elevator cores of the WTC buildings. And 70,000 excess cancer deaths from the radioactive fallout.
The UFO,S will never allow any type of Nuclear war. Just Sayin.
Simon Smith–why should we believe Jew Commie Reuben? especially if he has to be read “between the lines”
chesterton: where do you live, give or take 5 miles?
Please answer, so the Russians who read here can send you a special present.
I’ve studied the use of micronukes, such as Rafic Hariri in 2005. One armoured car put into the 3rd floor of a building. A man in his car half burnt to death trying to crawl from his car, 100m from the blast, and the doors to Hariri’s car had its armoured doors ripped off. All this from a tiny micronuke, likely driven by remote control into a waste pipe under the road. The crater was 40ft in diameter and nearly 15ft deep.
The Bali micronukes stripped concrete from the building. Conventional explosives simply can’t create the over pressure to that.
The Buncefield explosion was heard in the Netherlands. Northgate Information Solutions was completely desttoyed. I’ve spoken to a senior oil and gas engineer/executive, and he’s says fuel air fires do not create explosive pressure, and a UK fireman also confirmed this to me.
I’ve only touched on the micronuke/exotic weapons phenomenon. We could go over the Baghdad UN compound, the Jakarta Australian embassy, the Taba Hilton Hotel, or even 9/11 basements that took forever to cool down.
You’re the classic trolling tw@t. Stick to Lego™.
The ancient greek philosophers, Leucippus and Democritus were the originators of the atomic model of chemistry, at least as far as we know. Their ideas, however, are a little too sophisticated, I think, for them merely have been conjured from deep thought. The two were certainly drawing upon earlier, unaccredited sources in their expositions.
The Greeks believed that atoms were the indivisible base-form of all matter, beyond which there was only a mutative ether field, without the characteristics of physical substance. Epicurus, Lucretius, Robert Flood and Isaac Newton all agreed. Atoms are indivisible or otherwise, part of an energy continuum.
When Einstein abolished the ether, he gave license to the sonneteers of hadrons and leptons, who have overwhelmed physics research ever since. The only sub-atomic particle that we can measurably define, as being neither matter, nor ether, is the photon, which is more analogous to sentient electricity than the unpoetic would allow.
If you can’t split an atom, you can’t have a nuclear bomb.
@yeah-boy
yes im ready, but where are they hiding ?
and with what ? we have no means !
you have to build an international
organisation like once IRA was with
own secret service + spies, but only
very small isolated cells . lone wolfs
on their own !
There are and may always be weak minded people unable to read and process the primary information on nuclear weapons history. There are also probably absurdity agents like perennial weeds telling us the most preposterous BS out of personal narcissism or their stupid job requirements to disrupt truth forae. Truthing is now the last bastion of indictment, and absurdity agents are like the ADL, circling the wagons against real investigation. We see some of them attacking rational posters of comments with juvenile punctuation schemes as if fancying themselves poets or something.
Unfortunately for absurdity mongering, physics is binary and real.
It may be true that players in the nuclear industry through history like John Gofman have been all over the place in their advocacies, but the basic physics, called “the jewish physics” in the era of initial bomb building, is well established fact. As soon as fission was worked out in the thirties, Tzeilard tried to patent a bomb, not civilian power production. The technology that jews have traditionally relied on for domination over other nations since the advent of iron weapons metallurgy (and coinage) has been calculated to perform their doctrine of destruction of their opposition, everyone not them. Perhaps the best book to read on destruction and how nuclear weapons were proliferated would be Douglas Reed’s “The Controversy of Zion” in which he documents the transfer of nuke technology and materials to the Soviets right out of the Manhattan Project. Whatever the jewish Rosenbergs did or did not do is irrelevent compared to these official transfers.
Reed did not however mention the Einstein Tzeilard letter that was hand delivered to crypto jew FDR by banker Sachs, urging establishment of a bomb making facility. FDR as we know set up WWII with his LIHOP at Pearl Harbor. When you consider the ethnicity of Einstein, Tzeilard, Bohr, Teller, Weismann, Ulam, Cohen, Strauss, Oppenheimer, and even Fermi’s wife, it all synchs with the Deuteronomist cult of destruction. Deuteronomy was their first written code. Anyway, Reed lays that all out.
Nothing else but malicious code really explains the destruction of the nations like Libya, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Germany, UK, Ukraine, America and Russia except the ancient hatred of all the competing nations by a batshit city on the hill. It may actually be that the metastasis of destructive code sprang from city develpment per se in the “holy land” since Jericho is known to be one of the oldest fortifications dedicated to war on its host territories. Redistributional masters create false religious priesthoods; these priesthoods then write the code that masses of people are forced to follow or else.
If nukes did not exist then fission physics and fallout would have to be a hoax too, and all the statistics of the rise in cancer in the nuclear age, coinciding with the drop in sperm counts, and the dirty power generated by the NPPs, with no plans for decommissioning or waste, would have to be explained away with fables. The people who would most like to sweep all that under the rug are those who perpetrated the fission crime against natural law. By denying nukes exist, shills throw under the bus the Downwinders and Marshall Islanders. They throw under the bus the Navajos and American vets and their Iraqi victims of the Gulf Wars which were nuclear in the sense of nuclear weapons of indiscriminate destruction described in the Manhattan Project’s Groves Memo. Who benefits then from the absurdity that nukes do not exist, except history’s greatest criminals?
As far as what Giraldi was talking about if the jewish neocons allied with party woketards and Lockheed Martins continue to poke the bear setting off the unthinable, to imagine that being far from blasts offgrid somewhere could replace empty shelves, shut gas stations, and broken PV inverters or provide medicines to cure common but debilitating diseases when global production reached a standstill, would be absurd. Right now the PTB are already giving us a slow drip initiation into the human sacrifice cult via blatant programs of economic sabotage and mass poisonings. Nobody would enjoy MAD shadenfreud at all, experiencing the change in their lifestyle. We would all regret that new normal the way we regret getting a stage four cancer diagnosis or coming down with Bell’s Palsy. Naivete about nuclear weapons is not prophyllaxis.
“Those cities would struggle to provide emergency services”.
Have you all stopped laughing yet . & that was from so called ‘experts’.
Lord give us strength.
They had ambulances lined up in a side street, prior to the Manchester Arena fiasco ‘going live’. about a dozen I believe, & if the city had had to respond to a genuine catastrophe at that very same time, say a multiple pile-up on a fog bound M-62, They would have been left to fend for themselves .
Do you think an ambulance would have been available to take someone with a burst appendix to A&E, NOT A CHANCE.
If a city, any city, is ever attacked with a nuke… It’ll be ‘Save yourselves’. make no mistake about it. NO ONE will be on hand to help.
with the added conundrum,
I don’t like Jimmy Grant, & he sure doesn’t like me either. There’ll be no communal pulling together, It will be a blood bath among any potential survivors.
Lets pray none of this bollox ever happens.
The headline asks, “Will 2023 be Worse Than 2022?” … The short answer is, Yes. The homicidal maniacs of the predator class have gone all-in, pedal to the metal, on their vicious assault on humanity. So it is only going to get much worse from here for a while.
Short of divine intervention, and God seemingly couldn’t give a standing piss about us, or a massive uprising from the masses, which would only happen if their little electric Jew thumb-f*ck boxes all stopped working, all tell-lie-visions couldn’t turn on to tell them what to “think”, and the doors to their ShitMart didn’t open for their daily dose of lard…even then, the imbeciles would just turn on each other rather than directing their rage at the appropriate targets…2023 only gets worse.
So, 2023? We. Are. F*cked. So, buckle up, kids. I’d say lock and load, but most of you moronic cuntry”men” were dangerously stupid enough to surrender your firearms to criminal degenerates masquerading as government.
Lot’s of good comments on this same article over at unz.com. The volume of comments and graphics can not be repeated here, so go here to read them:
https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=Yukon+Jack
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/will-2023-be-worse-than-2022/
The real bomb is the economic one which is ready to detonate. Russia and China continue to buy huge amounts of gold along with their asset wealth it looks like goodnight irene for the West.
@Lewis Jones
He is merely one instance of the many sources I came into contact with during my research. And my conclusions were based on the sum total accumulation of evidence and not any particular piece.
Believe what you want…but know this: the frustration with which you and many of us have tried to share the “covid hoax” is the same frustration I have with this “community” in sharing the information in totality, regarding the “nuke hoax”.
The nuke nonsense has occupied the mind-space of the sheeple for nearly eighty years.
Further…no one doubts that huge chemically based explosions can occur. I think it sufficient to show that the claim of Hiroshima being vapourised by an “atom bomb” is false to firmly put the burden of proof on the narrative enforcers.
Those claiming knowledge of nuclear weaponry are just acting as repeaters of mainstream disinformation.
@Arthur Tamplin
“If nukes did not exist then fission physics and fallout would have to be a hoax too…”
No. Nuclear power exists but by heating water to drive turbines and not by catastrophic chain reaction …etc. You have produced a strawman argument among your other ad nauseum argumentation.
@ Carl…
Ha Ha… little touchy aren’t we? .. you sound a teeny bit stressed fella..must be all that ‘studying’ of abject nonsense.. all that wasted life…
But don’t worry Baba the Russians and their suitcase ‘Nukes’ will make all the nasty sheepmen go away…
They’ll vapourise that damned troll chesterton for you too…
….So…here are the coordinates… 58°40′N 3°22′W.. (you’ll always catch me in the morning about ten before l feed the lamas and chimps)..
Good luck and Gods speed old chap…
Simon Smith–I watched a documentary about the British survivors of a nuke experiment; most died of cancer and they could see their bones when the flash went off, and the size of the explosions filmed do not look ordinary at all. Similarly, the Apollo rockets were obviously a huge project, as the films show
@Lewis Jones
“most died of cancer and they could see their bones when the flash went off…” or so it is claimed…
“and the size of the explosions filmed do not look ordinary at all…”
Just like the special effects in “Thunderbirds”.
When I was five or six years old, I used to hide behind the sofa in anticipation of the explosion at the end of the opening sequence. But this notion of perspective has been dealt with by researchers who have among other things demonstrated the incorporation of the sun in some compositions purporting to be nuclear; to say nothing of the famous footage of a (model) house that is blown away, albeit the camera stand makers could feel proud of themselves for the solidity of their construction.
Large explosion have of course occurred, but the resulting mushroom cloud – that have become associated with “nukes” – occur through “normal” explosions. We have been led by the hand to believe mushroom clouds are “nukes”… It has been suggested the large explosion in the Pacific that comes to mind was the retirement of unused WWII ordinance…
Simple Simon, maybe you’re still hiding behind a sofa bro. It is not a strawman argument to present a direct actual historical timeline of the discovery of nuclear fission by “the jewish physics” as it was called and their immediate patent proposal for a bomb, not civilian power generation. How exactly do the ‘nukes don’t exist’ cohort of lametards and jewish apologists explain Dimona and Vanunu?