by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:
U.S. President Joe Biden is now seriously considering the recommendations by his neoconservative Secretary of State Antony Blinken and by the neoconservative Victoria Nuland (whom Obama had assigned to plan and oversee the 2014 U.S. coup in Ukraine, which started the war in Ukraine) — their recommendations that America must now send to Ukraine weapons that will endanger Russian national security, weapons that might stop Russia’s impending victory over Ukraine and thus indirectly Russia’s victory over neoconservative (that is, Rhodesist) America. These weapons might have nuclear warheads. However, under no circumstances will Russia tolerate its national security to be jeopardized that much (just as JFK didn’t allow America’s national security to be jeopardized that much when the Soviet Union was about to do that to the U.S. in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis by placing its missiles there); and, as a result of Biden’s now-expected approval of their recommendation, a rational response by Russia to that provocation by the U.S. would be to unleash unannounced an all-out invasion of the United States and all of its colonies (‘allies’), since a global nuclear war will be very brief and therefore the first side to strike will have less damage from it than will the respondent to that blitz attack (since many of its missiles etc. will have been destroyed in that blitz attack).
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The first-strike advantage would be vastly higher for WW III than for any previous war in history, because this would be by far the fastest-ever World War. Though the world would be destroyed, there might be survivors who would last more than ten years, but not on the losing side. The advisors that Biden has been relying upon the most — the rabid neocons — are saying he should do it.
An analyst whose opinions on this matter I respect, Alexander Mercouris, headlined on May 25th “Putin & Lukashenko prepare for NATO escalation”, and said (at 19:38 in the video) “The President himself is obsessed with Putin and with Russia, and he always ends up going with the most extreme hardliners who demand the most extreme escalation, and that will probably go on happening so long as he remains in the Oval Office.” He said this referring there to Seymour Hersh’s May 23rd article, “BIDEN’S PERMANENT COLD WAR”, which opened:
President Joe Biden’s advanced age and the difficulties he has getting through a speech aren’t the only things putting his re-election as risk: another liability is his long-standing inability to see the world as it is. He has made no effort since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 to arrange a one-on-one meeting with Vladimir Putin, Russia’s President.
In other words: Biden really does believe that Vladimir Putin is another Joseph Stalin (who was FDR’s partner in conquering Hitler, but then along came U.S. President Truman, Biden’s model), and agrees with Churchill and with Truman that America must control Russia or else Russia will control America — thinks that without “regime-change” in Russia, America will become controlled by Russia (for Biden, the end of the Soviet Union and of its communism in 1991 wasn’t enough): he thinks that either America will control Russia, or else Russia will control America; that international relations is simply a win-lose game, no possible win-win game; and that, consequently, negotiating with an ‘enemy’ in order to live in peace with it is only a fool’s game, in this purely dog-eat-dog world, where Might makes right, and thus losers are necessarily wrong — America must therefore win in order to be on God’s side, the side of The Almighty, against the weaker side, the evil side, the ‘enemy’, the losing side. That’s the neoconservatives’ view, and Biden is and always has been a neoconservative — and now his fellow-neoconservatives are finally getting him to think seriously about going all the way. Inevitably, he is now consulting his military and intelligence leaders in order to determine what to do.
This is going to be a very difficult decision for Biden. His “long-standing inability to see the world as it is” (as Seymour Hersh said) is finally crashing into “the world as it is,” and no one can say whether the result of that will be WW III; no one can predict what such an irrational person will do.
If he stays true to his neoconservatism, then a WW III will result before the November 5th election (an election which then won’t happen); but, if he won’t do that, then the world will continue beyond November 5th, but Biden’s Presidency won’t; and, then, that electoral contest will effectively be between only Donald Trump and RFK Jr.
