{"id":270066,"date":"2023-06-17T05:46:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T05:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270066"},"modified":"2023-06-18T12:41:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T12:41:18","slug":"june-16-russia-may-need-to-nuke-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270066","title":{"rendered":"June 16 &#8211; Russia May Need to Nuke the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HenryMakow.com \u2013 June 16, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Please send links and comments to hmakow@gmail.com\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian official- Nuclear weapons may be necessary to make (((NATO))) back off<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalaffairs.ru\/articles\/tyazhkoe-no-neobhodimoe-reshenie\/\">https:\/\/globalaffairs.ru\/articles\/tyazhkoe-no-neobhodimoe-reshenie\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This article has sparked major debate among experts in Russia about nuclear weapons, their role and the conditions of their use.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is especially the case given Sergey Karaganov\u2019s status as a former presidential adviser to both Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, and his position as head of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, a noted Moscow think tank.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Karaganov&#8211;&#8220;It seems to me that our country and its leadership are facing a difficult choice. It is increasingly clear that the clash with the West will not end if we win a partial or even a crushing victory in Ukraine&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The West is losing the ability it had for five centuries to suck out wealth from the whole world, imposing, first of all, by brute force, political, economic orders and establishing its cultural dominance. So, a quick end to the defensive, but aggressive confrontation unfolded by the West is not to be expected. This collapse of moral, political and economic positions had been brewing since the mid-1960s, was interrupted by the collapse of the USSR, but resumed with renewed vigor in the 2000s (the milestones were the defeats of the Americans and their allies in Iraq, Afghanistan, as well as 2008.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrymakow.com\/2023\/06\/june-16-russia-may-need-to-need.html\">Continues with more links and headlines \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgey Karaganov&#8211;&#8220;It seems to me that our country and its leadership are facing a difficult choice. It is increasingly clear that the clash with the West will not end if we win a partial or even a crushing victory in Ukraine&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":270068,"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":[58,91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270066","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=270066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270067,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270066\/revisions\/270067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/270068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}