by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:
Here is from the transcript by MSNBC, of their broadcast on 17 January 2025 of President Joe Biden’s final interview (which was the prior day, by the Democrat Lawrence O’Donnell, on his “The Last Word” show) — it included one of the decrepit Biden’s ever-increasing number of unintentional slip-ups saying the truth that he never had intentionally revealed during his prior and less-decrepit period (and, of course, his interviewer, this Democrat, O’Donnell, simply ignored what the President had just said, instead of diving into it so as to perhaps get more details about this crucially important matter):
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“The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell – Jan. 16 | Audio Only”
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[O’DONNELL]: WHEN THIS WAR STARTED, THERE WAS A TREMENDOUS TENSION ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF NUCLEAR CONFRONTATION,
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THE POSSIBILITY OF VLADIMIR PUTIN USING NUCLEAR WEAPONS. DID YOU HAVE ANY DIRECT COMMUNICATION
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WITH VLADIMIR PUTIN TO DETER HIM FROM USING NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
[BIDEN]: WELL, I DID.
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WHEN HE STARTED TALKING ABOUT TACTICAL, I THOUGHT THIS GUY WANTS TO USE TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS. NO.
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I DON’T WANNA DO THAT. I DON’T DO THAT. NUCLEAR WEAPONS,
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TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN EUROPE SCARES THE HELL OUT OF EVERYBODY, INCLUDING THE RUSSIANS, INCLUDING THE RUSSIANS.
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AND SO WHAT I, I MADE IT CLEAR TO HIM, LOOK,
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HE SAID TO ME THAT WHAT HE WANTED WAS: HE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WERE NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN EUROPE,
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I MEAN, IN, UH, IN UKRAINE; THAT, UH, THERE WAS, THEY WEREN’T A MEMBER OF NATO;
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AND, UH, THAT, UH, THEY WOULD NOT BE, UH, UH — AND HE,
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HE STARTED OFF ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS BY SAYING: I KNOW YOU CAN TAKE ME OUT TOMORROW. I KNOW YOU CAN TAKE THEM OUT TOMORROW FROM UKRAINE.
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YOU CAN STRIKE MOSCOW. YOU CAN STRIKE. I SAID, THAT’S NOT A PROBLEM. WE’VE ALREADY TAKEN THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS OUT.
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SO I TOOK THEM ALL OUT.
Ukraine is far nearer to The Kremlin than ANY other country is: around 300 miles or 500 kilometers away; and THIS is the reason why Russia will not allow Ukraine to be in NATO: It has the closest of all borders to The Kremlin.
Here is — with full documentation in its links, so that you can immediately see the evidence for any assertion you might doubt — the actual history of how the war in Ukraine actually started on 20 February 2014 and ultimately produced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 — and all of it has to do with America’s determination to place its nukes a mere five minutes away from Moscow, and Russia’s determination to prevent that from ever being able to happen. Putin has done a terribly poor job of making clear to the public the reason why he invaded Ukraine on 24 Febuary 2022; but, as you will see from the evidences that are linked-to in the following, this — the distance to Moscow — is the reason why he did. Ukraine was far too close to Moscow. Putin needed to do this in order to protect Russia from the United States — to prevent a 5-minute blitz nuclear attack decapitating Russia’s central command. And it ALSO was the reason why the U.S. Government was so determined, for so many decades, to get Ukraine into its NATO military alliance against Russia. Putin didn’t only need Biden to remove America’s nukes from Ukraine — he knows that American Presidents come and go — he needed something irrevocable. Biden isn’t saying there that NATO will formally announce “Ukraine is banned from ever entering NATO.” Putin and all of Russia NEED that public and formal commitment. The historical truth is the exact opposite of what has been (and still is) touted by the media in the U.S. and in its colonies, as having been the case; America has been the aggressor, all along. This history is the exact opposite of the U.S.-empire myth about it; so, here it is — this is the historical truth about the matter:
The Ukrainian war started after the democratically elected President of Ukraine (an infamously corrupt country), who was committed to keeping his country internationally neutral (not allied with either Russia or the United States), met privately with both the U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2010, shortly following that Ukrainian President’s election earlier in 2010; and, on both occasions, he rejected their urgings for Ukraine to become allied with the United States against his adjoining country Russia. This was being urged upon him so that America could position its nuclear missiles at the Russian border with Ukraine, less than a five-minute striking-distance away from hitting the Kremlin in Moscow.
The war in Ukraine started in 2014, as both NATO’s Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s Zelensky have said. This war was started in February 2014 by a U.S. coup which replaced the democratically elected and neutralist Ukrainian President, with a U.S. selected and rabidly anti-Russian leader, who immediately imposed an ethnic-cleansing program to get rid of the residents in the regions that had voted overwhelmingly for the overthrown President. Russia responded militarily on 24 February 2022, in order to prevent Ukraine from allowing the U.S. to place a missile there a mere 317 miles or five minutes of missile-flying-time away from The Kremlin and thus too brief for Russia to respond before its central command would already be beheaded by America’s nuclear strike. (As I headlined on 28 October 2022, “NATO Wants To Place Nuclear Missiles On Finland’s Russian Border — Finland Says Yes”. The U.S. had demanded this, especially because it will place American nuclear missiles far nearer to The Kremlin than at present, only 507 miles away — not as close as Ukraine, but the closest yet. This shows how crucial to the U.S. Government’s strategic planning it is, that America must place its nukes into position for a decapitating first-strike blitz annihilating Russia’s central command so as to prevent any retaliation. It displays how crazy with power-lust America’s Deep State actually are. As America’s leading expert on nuclear weapons, the physicist Theodore A. Postol, of MIT, had argued on 20 December 2014, the U.S. Government was developing a radical new technology strictly for the purpose of enabling a decapitating blitz first-strike against The Kremlin. Then, on 1 March 2017, he announced that it was now operational and being installed, and that “it 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.” Furthermore, the Government was lying about it to the public, portraying it “to the public as an effort to ensure the reliability and safety of warheads in the US nuclear arsenal, rather than to enhance their military capabilities” to first-strike-annihilate The Kremlin.)
Ukraine had been neutral between Russia and America until Obama’s brilliantly executed Ukrainian coup, which his Administration started planning by no later than June 2011, culminated successfully in February 2014 and promptly appointed a rabid anti-Russian to impose in regions that rejected the new anti-Russian U.S.-controlled goverment an “Anti-Terrorist Operation” to kill protesters, and, ultimately, to terrorize the residents in those regions in order to kill as many of them as possible and to force the others to flee into Russia so that when elections would be held, pro-Russian voters would no longer be in the electorate.
