Editorial – Strategic Culture Foundation March 31, 2023
The Anglo-American-led NATO alliance has no longer the presumption of impunity. The decades of unchecked aggression from NATO expansionism and criminal Anglo-American subterfuges in foreign countries are over.
The historic – and unacceptable – deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in several European NATO states as well as the recent announcement by Britain of supplying depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine is the prologue to Russia’s decision to place tactical nukes in Belarus. The Western outcry following Russia’s decision is absurd and hypocritical.
The pattern is familiar and speaks of incorrigible arrogance. The United States and its NATO allies make reckless escalatory moves that are unprecedented in their aggression toward Russia; then Moscow makes a reciprocal move, and yet the Western governments and their dutiful news media become apoplectic with rage over Russia’s “threatening conduct” and nuclear blackmail.
Maybe one day, Western leaders will eventually choke on their own illogical apoplexy.
This week there was frothing and fuming in the West about Moscow’s decision to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, despite the move being fully in accord with the Minsk government, a longtime ally of Russia and fellow member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The CSTO is organically comparable with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), having a shared defense commitment between allied states that were formerly members of the Soviet Union.
In ratifying the deployment, Russian President Vladimir Putin was accused by Western powers of jeopardizing international security, threatening European neighbors and violating the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Belarus borders three NATO members: Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
But the decision by Russia to install tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus (which Moscow would reportedly retain control over) was in response to the NATO move to supply its anti-Russian Kiev proxy with depleted uranium (DU) weapons. Britain announced last week that Challenger 2 battlefield tanks sent to Ukraine would be equipped with DU shells. It is understood that the United States is also ready to supply depleted uranium armor-piercing munitions to Ukraine with its Abrams tanks. Video footage from London’s Ministry of Defence shows Ukrainian troops being trained by British and American officers in handling DU shells.
Depleted uranium is a high-density metal – much denser than lead – which can penetrate modern armor. It ignites after penetration and turns into vapor at extreme temperature. While DU shells are not explosively fissile and do not cause nuclear blasts, they do release harmful radioactive contamination into the environment. Arguably, the munitions are therefore a form of nuclear weapon in the same manner as a low-yield “dirty bomb”.
The United States and Britain fired tonnes of depleted uranium shells during their decade-long illegal war in Iraq. NATO forces also used DU weapons in their war of aggression against former Yugoslavia. In both cases, the resultant radioactive contamination was correlated with high rates of cancer and birth defects in the civilian populations.
The Americans and British have never been held to account for their war crimes. That impunity partly explains their arrogance in regard to pumping weapons into Ukraine against Russia and in particular the latest iteration of radioactive uranium shells.
For the British regime to claim that DU weapons are “normal” munitions and acceptable to deploy potentially for hitting Russian territory is a demonstration of its depraved deception and utter lawlessness. It also shows that London and its NATO partners are willing to recklessly escalate the conflict in Ukraine against Russia by breaching a dangerous threshold regarding nuclear weapons.
Under Russia’s defense doctrine, it may use nuclear weapons if its national security is threatened by either nuclear forces or conventional forces. The U.S.-led NATO alliance is pushing the envelope in a way that is seemingly incorrigible, or tantamount to psychopathic behavior.
Perversely, this abysmal situation is distorted as somehow Russia taking a provocative step in placing tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.
What Moscow is demonstrating is that the Anglo-American-led NATO alliance has no longer the presumption of impunity. The decades of unchecked aggression from NATO expansionism and criminal Anglo-American subterfuges in foreign countries are over. Moscow offered a diplomatic channel to create a security treaty in Europe, but that was haughtily dismissed by the arrogant imperialist powers. The result was the military-technical measures that Russia undertook with its intervention in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Arguably, Russia could take additional reciprocal measures that go further. The involvement of NATO members in massively arming the NeoNazi Kiev regime should, it could be contended, be met with military defensive action to destroy supply chains entering Ukraine.
This is the perspective for a proper understanding of the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. It is not Russia upping the ante to jeopardize security and peace. It is NATO powers that are erasing the boundaries in a way that they are accustomed to doing for several decades.
Let’s recall that it is the United States that has rescinded several arms-control treaties including the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty, and the Open Skies treaty, and it is Washington that has chronically undermined the last-existing one, the New START governing strategic weapons.
There is also the existing anomaly of the United States storing nuclear weapons on the territory of five NATO members. They are Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Turkey. These countries are signatories to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, so arguably the basing of nuclear weapons in these states is a gross violation of the NPT, which is what the West is accusing Russia of in regard to Belarus.
Last year, too, Poland offered to house American nuclear weapons on its soil. That offer was not taken up but is presumably still on the table. Why is there not an outcry over that egregious destabilizing of arms control?
As usual there is a surfeit of Western double-think to go along with rank hypocrisy. The illogical mentality is a product of arrogance and hubris.
Furthermore, two NATO members Britain and France have their own national nuclear arsenals supposedly separate from Washington’s command. These two powers are actively hostile toward Russia through their arming of the Kiev regime.
Additionally, all 30 members of the NATO alliance are committed to assisting the United States in deploying nuclear forces with their conventional militaries under the alliance’s provision called Support of Nuclear Operations With Conventional Air Tactics (SNOWCAT).
In sum, clearly, the issue of arms control and security is badly out of balance, but it is the conduct of the United States and its NATO partners that has led to the imbalance. The arrogant presumption of impunity held by Washington and London in particular is a destabilizing factor that creates double standards that are completely unacceptable in a world supposedly under the rule of international law and the United Nations Charter.
The conflict in Ukraine can be solved if Western powers were to abide by international law and halt the weaponizing of the Kiev regime. Going forward, Ukraine must be a neutral state and NATO must halt its aggressive expansion. A serious policy of nuclear arms control must involve the withdrawal of such weapons from European NATO member states and the inclusion of British and French arsenals as part of a wider detente framework. Note, however, that the conditionalities for peace are in large part an onus on Washington and its Western allies to do the right and reasonable things. The disturbing question is though, can Washington and its imperialist lackeys be reasonable?
Until enlightened conduct prevails, Russia is quite correct to be intolerant of any double standards that the Americans, British and their NATO minions presume. Every aggressive move must be boldly and smartly reciprocated. Without that countervailing action, there is impunity, which is even more dangerous.
Holding Western powers to account is a powerful weapon of attrition because it exposes their corruption and fraud, their duplicity, and their fatal arrogance. Increasingly, the Western public is seeing the endemic bankruptcy of their supposed rulers.
“…Anglo-American subterfuges in foreign countries are over.”
Substituting ‘Anglo-American’ for Jewish would be closer to the mark.
I apologise in advance to the intelligent and cogent people who use this site and I also apologise to Mr. Stewart for making the following off topic comment, to whit:
@Carl Jones on March 31, 2023 at 12:44 pm
“And the rest were too scared. They know he’s a Nazi, they know his Nazi soldiers have committed heinous crimes against his own sheeple, his own fighters and civilians.”
Questions for ((( Carl Jones ))): What is a ‘nazi’? Have you ever met a ‘nazi’? If you haven’t then you are talking through your rear orifice. You aren’t fooling anyone here. We know ((( what ))) you are.
Nigel Farage tells of white people being killed off in the UK by government
to make way for more migrants
https://youtu.be/nXI25I1X1GA
There is no country-sovereignty, as faux-covid established…
So, how can there be nuclear weapon sovereignty?
How is it that people still assume that the 13 countries with nuclear weapons have control over those nuclear weapons?
Isn’t possible that nuclear weapons are controlled by a bureaucracy outside of local control?
Isn’t it possible that the faux-covid and killer-vax is a medical titration of the nuclear threat—-both originating from the same bureaucracy?
Why is there no conversation regarding this possibility?
Those that gods want to destroy are plagued with madness, is an old saying.
The dual opposing protagonists is a construct for the totalitarian control over humanity. The best prove of the artificial construct of hostility between NATO + Aus & NZ on one side and Russia, China, Iran, N. Korea on the opposed side, is their total collaboration as a team with the COVID scam on the prospect of population control and depopulation on the scale of the planet.
It seems that the scammers are not satisfied with the destruction obtained from the COVID scam and forceful “vaccination”; so, next phase is planned to be manifested as wars, famine, and pestilences. Really, they are plagued with madness!
Not only is NATO(ZATO), on the wrong side of history with the Ukrainian war, but to even be considering DU weapons after what they did to Iraq and its people is virtually incomprehensible.
Excellent summary.
I can only withdraw all my moans about Russia doing nothing when these Red Lines are crossed.
The restraint they have shown through enormous provocation – the billions of dollars/pounds in lethal weaponry designed to slaughter Russians that the US and Britain have openly boasted about via the MSM – has given them the total Moral High Ground.
I was a born Patriot, but it is too late now – remember Gandhi (British Director) and its 8 Oscars? How from the 1960s onwards the British have been brainwashed to despise their own Race, Creed and History?
Are we supposed to now be ‘patriotic’ and regard Russia as a threat, when the only real personal danger threatening someone like me comes entirely from the British Authorities, or whoever ultimately controls them? This includes the very real danger of everything from having their employment prospects ruined, their bank accounts blocked or – let’s face it, everything up to and including being murdered.
Just flagging this up – the immediately previous President of the USA being arrested and going to Court is NOT being incorporated into the BBC News Headlines.
The second “odd omission’ within days.
The BBC HATES Trump, and when he was in power, they would headline anything libellous, no matter how trivial or ill-founded.
But this is not important enough for the BBC to headline?
That can only mean one thing.
They see it as a boomerang coming back at them – by ‘them’ I mean the entire Transatlantic Leftablishment, of which they are an integral part.
*BTW – so entrenched is the Leftablishment that they have got the word ‘Liberal ‘ telescoped with Leftist, so that even Conservatives refer to Leftists as Liberals, when in fact they are the living embodiment of psychotic illiberalism- how is THAT for Cultural Dominance manifested via Control of Language?*
Yours, a, by definition, illiberal, ‘Right Wing’ and ‘extreme’ pro-not-killing-babies-er –
lt would be simpler to blow the bridges Vlad… Oh yes…as you said the other day..
You can’t…..? (he isn’t allowed to )..
dear dear… (the first rule of war and supply)….
NB; Great theatre though…ooooh ‘Nukes’….’Nukes’ …’Nukey Nuke Nukes’…
‘Nyooooooks’……. got that?…
Why bother moving ‘Newks’ to your elderly neighbours over the garden fence when you supposedly have intercontinental hypersonic weapons?…
How on Earth is that supposedly more frightening?.. or at all logical?…
Well it isn’t…is it?… but it’s great for ‘copy’ and scaring the muggles shitless…
“The Anglo-American-led NATO alliance”?
How about the Jewish led & American Lackeys NATO alliance?
Let’s not talk about the elephant in the room.
Putin has cancelled Africa’s $20billion debt to Russia whereas the west used debt to enslave nations. Some may say he’s buying friends but people don’t forget a good turn like debt forgiveness. It brings loyalty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4w41_c_cKQ
Probably China and Iran as well? Of COURSE –
The BBC has decided that this is worthy headline material for today – quite POSSIBLY more drastic and unfair things have happened SOMEWHERE on the Planet in the last 48 hours, even to women, but as this concerns IRAN –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-65150135
Yep – if someone is being built up as an Enemy of the West, the Globalists like to get the women onside.
Just as, as everyone has noticed whether they admit it or not, no above the line British Political Party ever bothers appealing to the MALE vote.
Just an observation of the Patently Obvious – nothing to do with being a ‘bitter male’ or ‘gammon’ or whatever (grin) – a politically informed Sea Anemone would draw
precisely the same conclusion; in fact most of the ones around here already have done, and can’t even be bothered to comment on it, for the most part.
I read my comments and then the other ones straight after, and wonder if I am being a gullible, uninformed idiot again.
Please don’t answer that, anyone.
@ jamesbalderson1991@gmail.com
Makes sense, especially if you consider that it is most likely another Rothschild bankster war, long in the plans and going back some 10 or 11 years to the Soros destabilizing and take-over operations in the Ukraine, plus the various “appointments” in that nation ever since, the heaps of bankster funds to buy their way everywhere, and the fact that they now systematically are getting rid of all of the men of military age mainly of nationalistic sort, and likely to be a place to dump the displaced and to be displaced from the destabilized nations of the ME.
We can only determine what is really going on by considering the long-range global plans of the major power brokers sitting on their assess in places like London, New York, Washington, and Moscow pulling all of the stings. Their plans always have to do with controlling nations, currencies, resources, trade routes and getting rid of people they feel will interfere with their designs. My hunch is that it is a BIS war and somehow the silk road trade routes and various existing and proposed pipe lines have a lot to do with it.
The strange thing is that we supposedly have a major war going on in the Ukraine between Russia and the West, yet most of the gas from the EU is still coming from Russia right though the middle of the Ukraine.
please re arrange the letters to form a well known true saying
C*RL JON*S IS A C*NT
thankyou