{"id":232312,"date":"2021-04-21T07:54:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T07:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=232312"},"modified":"2021-04-22T07:26:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T07:26:52","slug":"russia-increases-its-defense-while-u-s-backs-down-from-provoking-wwiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=232312","title":{"rendered":"Russia Increases Its Defense, While U.S. Backs Down From Provoking WWIII"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse \u2013 Strategic Review Apr 20, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Israel’s Netanyahu (right) on a visit to Ukraine with President Zelensky. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ever since Joe Biden became America\u2019s President in January, America\u2019s hostile and threatening actions and rhetoric against (as Biden refers to him) the \u2018killer<\/a>\u2019 Vladimir Putin, Russia\u2019s President, have made clear to Putin that the U.S. Government\u2019s determination to impose regime-change upon Russia will continue undiminished. This hostility from Biden has dashed Putin\u2019s hope that the string of sanctions which the U.S. Government has constantly been adding to ever since President Obama started the anti-Russian sanctions in 2012, would end, or at least not continue to be added to, under Biden.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the clincher, in Putin\u2019s mind, was Biden\u2019s appointment, on January 16th<\/a>, of Victoria Nuland to the #2 spot in the U.S. State Department, where, during Obama\u2019s Presidency, as a third-ranked official who reported directly to Obama (instead of to her nominal boss the Secretary of State)<\/a>, she had planned, and organized the bloody coup that installed a rabidly anti-Russian Government in Ukraine on Russia\u2019s border<\/a>. This is as if during the Cold War the Soviet Union were to have perpetrated a bloody coup installing an anti-U.S. government in Mexico or in Canada (something that the U.S. Government would never have tolerated for even a moment \u2014 consider the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 as an example), and Putin now is making clear that he will not tolerate any further increases in America\u2019s anti-Russian threats and aggressions. (In fact, Nuland also was one of the chief planners of America\u2019s aggressions against Syria<\/a>, which has long been an ally of Russia. The plans against both Ukraine and Syria were first being firmed-up under her during 2011<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

America\u2019s meta-strategy, at least since 2006<\/a>, has been to \u2018win\u2019 WWIII against Russia, whereas Russia has always remained with what had been the meta-strategy on both<\/em> sides, of having nuclear weapons only<\/em> in order to be able to deliver an annihilating retaliatory response if the opposite side blitz-attacks it with nuclear weapons. That previous (in the United States, but still current in Russia) meta-strategy is called \u201cMutually Assured Destruction,\u201d or \u201cM.A.D.\u201d for short.<\/p>\n

As I had headlined and documented on 3 May 2017, \u201cAmerica\u2019s Top Scientists Confirm: U.S. Goal Now Is to Conquer Russia\u201d<\/a>. That article quoted America\u2019s top experts on nuclear war as saying that America\u2019s \u201cboosting the overall killing power of existing U.S. ballistic missile forces by a factor of roughly three \u2026 creates exactly what one would expect to see if a nuclear-armed state were planning to have the capacity to fight and win a nuclear war by disarming enemies with a surprise first strike.\u201d This would nearly be sufficient superiority of U.S. forces to fulfill the plan which had been first described publicly in America\u2019s two most prestigious international relations journals, as being a suitable replacement for \u201cM.A.D.\u201d: \u201cNuclear Primacy\u201d<\/a>. That\u2019s the goal for America to blitz-nuclear attack Russia so quickly that Russia won\u2019t have enough time to launch a retaliatory response. America\u2019s Establishment wants it to happen. (They are even buying luxurious deep-underground nuclear-bomb-proof shelters so that they will be among the few survivors from it<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Putin is now taking the situation to be so dangerous for Russia so that he has publicly established \u201cred lines\u201d in U.S. policies, which, if crossed by the United States or its allies, might be responded to by Russia\u2019s<\/em> being the first to strike \u2014 the start of WWIII \u2014 even though that would destroy the entire world, including Russia itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Though he takes a great risk with these \u201cred lines,\u201d he seems to believe that by establishing them, there is less<\/em> of a risk to Russians than if he continues to pretend that M.A.D. remains as being American policy. He is, in effect, forcing Joe Biden to choose now, between Nuclear Primacy versus M.A.D. Putin is now publicly warning the U.S. Government and America\u2019s allies what could possibly be responded to by Russia\u2019s blitz-attacking them. That\u2019s what this new Russian policy is all about: pre-announced red lines.<\/p>\n

The biggest hot spot, where a world-destroying<\/a> nuclear war is the likeliest to be sparked, is in Ukraine, after Barack Obama\u2019s February 2014 coup in Ukraine (on Russia\u2019s border) which coup illegally<\/a> and violently<\/a> overthrew Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected<\/a> President and replaced him by a racist-fascist (or nazi)<\/a> anti-Russian regime that promptly began an ethnic cleansing operation<\/a> in its far south<\/a> and far east in order to eliminate voters who had (in the far east, the Donbass region) voted 90%+ for him<\/a>, and (in the far south, including Crimea) voted 75%+ for him. (Only by eliminating those people<\/a> could the Obama-imposed regime remain in power after an election.) Obama had started planning this operation in 2011<\/a>, and by the time of June 2013 a part of this plan was for America to replace Russia\u2019s largest naval base, which was (and remains) in Crimea, by establishing yet another U.S. naval base there<\/a>. (Putin \u2014 with the strong backing of the Crimean people \u2014 blocked that part of Obama\u2019s plan.)<\/p>\n

On April 15th, the U.S. regime\u2019s Associated Press (AP) propaganda agency headlined a thousand-word \u201cEXPLAINER: What\u2019s behind the conflict in eastern Ukraine?\u201d<\/a> and devoted one section of it to \u201cWHAT ARE THE ROOTS OF THE CONFLICT?\u201d<\/a> and another section to \u201cWHAT\u2019S THE U.S. ROLE?\u201d<\/a>, but nowhere in it was anything that has just been documented<\/em> here, via the links, to be true, was even so much as just mentioned, in that entire article.<\/p>\n

Here are headlines from April 17th regarding Ukraine:<\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine\u2019s military chief urges authorities to refrain from creating armed formations\u201d<\/a><\/u>: This reports an announcement by Ukraine\u2019s Government telling its independently organized volunteer nazi battalions: please do not invade Donbass unless and until authorized to do so. Those battalions had previously been given to understand that they would soon be authorized to invade. The Ukrainian General is here telling those battalions that premature actions on their part might be exploited by Russia for its purposes (for Russian propaganda). This plea to those far-right mercenaries can only be very disappointing to them. Both of Ukraine\u2019s two nazi Parties, Svoboda (originally the Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine), and Right Sector (meaning \u201cRight Wing\u201d in the extreme senses), are on the front lines there, and have publicly threatened to overthrow Ukraine\u2019s current President if he fails to invade Donbas soon. Those mercenaries could quickly turn against him.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia Shuts Ukraine\u2019s Military Access To [the Sea of Azov]\u201d<\/a><\/u>: Beginning \u201cnext week,\u201d and continuing at least until October, Russia will prevent any military vessels of or allied with the United States from passing through the Kerch Strait, which transits from the Black Sea, into the Sea of Azov, which latter is Ukraine\u2019s sole coastal waters. (That U.S.-written headline erroneously said \u201cRussia Shuts Ukraine\u2019s Military Access To Black Sea,\u201d because confusing the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov is common. However, that news-report provided an excellent map which shows what the article was actually reporting: Russia will close off U.S.-and-allied warship-access to Ukraine\u2019s coast.) The implication of this news-report is that until (at least) October, Ukraine must avoid invading Donbas, or else do it without being able to be militarily resupplied by the U.S. and its allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cFAA issues warning for flights in Russia-Ukraine border airspace\u201d<\/a><\/u>: This is a warning to airlines to avoid that area because of the possibility of war breaking out imminently there (warning them to avoid events like the 17 July 2014 MH17 incident).<\/p>\n

In other words: Putin is finally putting his foot down. He won\u2019t tolerate any more of what Obama and Trump were dishing out.<\/p>\n

On April 15th a headline was \u201cU.S. drops plans to send destroyers into the Black Sea due to concerns over Russia\u201d<\/a>. This is one of several strong signs that Biden understands that crossing one of Putin\u2019s red lines would be extremely dangerous.<\/p>\n

The stooge-President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, appears to be trapped between what he has promised to do \u2014 which is for Ukraine to retake both Donbas and Crimea (the same thing that his predecessor Petro Poroshenko had promised) \u2014 and what will be within his power to do. Even the U.S. empire, which had placed him (and Poroshenko \u2014 and Poroshenko\u2019s predecessor \u201cYats\u201d Yatsenyuk<\/a>) into nominal control over that country, won\u2019t actually<\/em> risk WWIII in order to keep him in power there. At the present point in time, the best that Zelensky can reasonably hope for is to survive beyond his clearly doomed Presidency. He is learning that being a stooge is not a comfortable position to occupy<\/p>\n

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The stooge-President of Ukraine, Zelensky, appears trapped between what he has promised to do \u2014 which is for Ukraine to retake both Donbas and Crimea \u2014 and what is within his power to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232502,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232312\/revisions\/232502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}