Heightened Risk of Nuclear War: Part II

by Stephen Lendman

Official US new millennium policy asserts the unilateral right to use first strike nuclear or conventional weapons against invented enemies anywhere worldwide.

The Pentagon's 2000 Joint Vision 2020 calls for "full spectrum dominance" over all land, surface and sub-surface sea, air, space, the electromagnetic spectrum and information systems with enough overwhelming power to fight and win global wars against any potential challengers with nuclear, conventional and banned weapons. 

It's a preemptive anything goes war-making policy at a time when the nation's only enemies are invented.

No real ones existed throughout the post-WW II period.

The Pentagon's 2006 Global Strike Command's strategic nuclear and conventional deterrence mission asserts the right to wage preemptive wars.

So does hegemon USA's 2009 Prompt Global Strike initiative.

It calls for delivering conventional or nuclear weapon strikes against targets worldwide in one hour by land, sea or air.

The US 2005 Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations removes the distinction between defensive and offensive deterrents, saying:

"The new triad (land and sea-based strategic bombers, land-based missiles, and ballistic missile submarines) offers a mix of strategic offensive and defensive capabilities, active and passive defenses, and a robust research development, and industrial infrastructure to develop, build, and maintain offensive forces and defensive systems (in conducting) military options."

Official US policy calls for use of overwhelming force against invented enemies at its discretion.

It's a prescription for unthinkable nuclear war, what's increasingly likely ahead, and if occurs it'll be made-in-the-USA.

Reading pre-scripted lines for him to recite on Thursday, the fake Biden reinvented reality about all things Russia, saying the following:

"First time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat of the use (of a) nuclear weapon if in fact things continue down the path they are going (sic)."

"I don't think there's any such thing as the ability to easily (use) a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with armageddon (sic)."

"I'm trying to figure out what is Putin's off ramp (sic)?" 

"Where does he find a way out (sic)?"

"Where does he find himself in a position that he does not not only lose face but lose significant power within Russia (sic)?"

Separately, Pentagon press secretary, general Pat Ryder, said the following on the same day:

"(W)e don't assess that President Putin has made a decision to use nuclear weapons at this time."

Nor at any time, he failed to explain — except in retaliation against nukes used against Russia or if the nation's security is greatly jeopardized.

Hegemon USA is the only nation ever to use these WMDs — gratuitously against a defeated nation seeking to surrender, but was turned by FDR and HST — and make no mistake.

If or when they're used again, they'll be by the empire of lies and forever wars against an invented enemy preemptively, clearly not by Russia or China.

Vladimir Putin's remarks last month were willfully misinterpreted by hegemon USA and its MSM co-conspirators, saying the following:

"If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will without doubt use all available means to protect Russia and our people."

"This is not a bluff."

The above statement asserts the UN Charter right of self-defense, not a first-strike use of nuclear or conventional weapons threat, as falsely claimed by the empire of lies and its MSM press agents.

The fake Biden lied, claiming:

"He's not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons (sic) or biological or chemical weapons (sic) because his military is…significantly under-performing (sic)."

The 1962 Cuban missile crisis occurred after Soviet Russia placed nuclear weapons in the country — in retaliation of US deployed nukes in Turkey.

While the risk of nuclear war at the time was real, Jack Kennedy later stressed that he had no intention of using these WMDs.

He called for abolishing these weapons.

Wanting the Cold War and Pax Americana ended, he supported rapprochement with Soviet Russia.

No subsequent US president matched his stature on the world stage — clearly not Clinton, Bush I or II, Obama, Trump or the fake Biden.

If JFK was US leader today, no hot and sanctions war would be ongoing against Russia, no threatened use of nukes, no possible global war 3.0 able to kill us all.

Yet on Thursday, remarks by US installed puppet Zelensky sounded more unhinged than ever.

Urging "preventive strikes, preventive action," preemptive war on Russia was a virtual call for WW III with nukes — what only a deranged madman would push for.

In response, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said the following:

"Every single person on this planet should realize that Zelensky, a puppet and an unstable character who has been pumped with weapons, has turned into a monster, who could be used to destroy the planet."

And Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, accused him of attempting to foment global war — madness that could unleash "unforeseeable disastrous consequences."

Russia's Deputy Security Council Chairman, Dmitry Medvedev, also minced no words, saying:

"Zelensky announced the need for preventive nuclear strikes on Russia."

"Psychiatrists should perform a preemptive craniotomy on this idiot before he causes more trouble for his people and everyone else."

Separately according to journalist James Risen:

Biden regime "clandestine…operations inside Ukraine are far more extensive" today than months earlier.

Large numbers of CIA and special operations personnel infest its territory covertly.

They're orchestrating and directing US/NATO aggression against Russia, including target selection and control over use of HIMARS and other sophisticated weapons supplied to the regime.

What's going on and escalating heightens the risk of nuclear war.

What's unthinkable is more likely today than ever before since the dawn of the nuclear age.