Crisis Update: U.S. Okays Attacks Within Russia

Politicians roll out maps, toy with larger war

• Washington agrees Ukraine can strike targets in Russia

• Ukraine bombs Russia’s early warning system in a direct, nuclear challenge

• European politicans say Russia must be broken up - war is peace

• Paris may send trainers to the Ukraine, despite allies’ concerns

• Warsaw to train draft-age Ukrainian men living in Poland; avoid troops on ground

• Gaza is a joint U.S., British, Israeli attack; Lebanon may be next

• As more nations are complicit in war, the number of flashpoints grows

• U.S. is the only country where regime change is a primary foreign policy tool

• Veteran economist and presidential adviser Jeffrey Sachs’ must-see interview

See also:
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Eurasia note #90: Manoeuvres In Georgia; The Opposition’s Plan - EU and U.S. behind NGO protests - Georgia-EU Part 2 (May 03, 2024)
Iran, Israel In Slow Dance To War - Resist this "clash of civilisations" and build our own (Apr 15, 2024)
Plague, War, Famine... Africa Next - As war in Ukraine runs its course, the chaos makers may be shifting their focus (May 31, 2022)
Eurasia note #39 - What's Happening In Elsewhere - A series of cold wars spread frosty fingers, like parallel plots in a TV drama (Apr 01, 2022)
Eurasia Note #19 - Ukraine: Just Bizniz For Some - Claiming to defend a country, while looting it, has touch of depravity (Jan 27, 2022)

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Jun 1, 2024

Never during the Cold War would a U.S. president have agreed to strike Russia on its own territory. Instead, we are being led in a game of chicken by politicians who seem ignorant of the risks.

The journal Politico reveals that the Biden administration gave Ukraine permission to strike targets deep inside Russia. One recent attack was on Russia’s early warning system (EWS) that detects incoming missiles.

Satellite image confirms attack on nuclear warning system in Krasnodar, Russia

It was the third such attack - in Krasnodar region near the city of Armavir on May 22, in Orenburg region near Orsk on the border with Kazakhstan on May 26. The first EWS to be targeted was in Mordovia Repblic, near the city of Kovylkino, in the Mordovia Republic, about 360 miles from the Ukrainian border on Apr 17.

It is likely that U.S. satellites are helping Ukraine reach its targets. If so, that comes close to an act of war.

President Vladimir Putin warned on May 28: “Representatives of NATO countries, especially in Europe, particularly in small countries, must understand what they are playing with. They should remember that these are generally states with small territories and very dense populations… Do they want a global conflict?” [1]

Western politicians insist Putin is bluffing. What sane purpose is served by calling Russia's bluff on nuclear war?

The forces of private capital are reshaping the world, from Covid to the Great Reset, from West Asia (Mid East) to Russia and on into Africa and perhaps the Pacific.

When they toy with the lives of tens if not hundreds of millions, as they did during the Covid response, and they risk war, there is no time for mincing words. Are we obliged to be polite while we hand over the children — for the jab or the draft?

Too many politicians are reckless, dangerously uninformed and alarmingly ignorant. They repeat the same uniform talking points of the corporate-owned media, in a vicious circle of group think.

The perpetrators of this recklessness are not diplomats. Foreign policy is no longer run by diplomats, the U.S. Russia expert Jeffrey Sachs tells Tucker Carlson. The foreign policy blob comprises war profiteers and land grabbers, messianic neoconservatives, and intelligence agencies who have made a business of regime change.

Getting a seat on the political carousel requires supporting the wars that profit the defence industry. Once they climb aboard, they never get off.

Brash newcomers try to catch their first ride. Some fail, others tout their worth to the profiteers and regime change artists.

War is peace

The president of Finland Alexander Stubb said, “I think the cold truth in this particular case is that the only way we can achieve peace is through the battlefield.”

Latvia’s President Edgars Rinkēvič in March Tweeted “Russia delenda est” – Russia must be destroyed.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas called for breaking up Russia. To “decolonise” Russia is a talking point in NATO adjacent think tanks — decentralising it into European, Siberia, Central Asian Russia, and a Far East Russia.

You can hear the same language about the south Caucasus country of Georgia, which is currently the target of regime change.

You will recognise the same reassignment of land in president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s talk of Ukraine becoming a “ big Israel,” complete with the militarization, constant security checks and social profiling.

To make matters worse those names include contenders for the role of NATO secretary general as Jens Stoltenberg steps down. See John Helmer's analysis. [2]

Asleep or complicit

The cost is that “narrative repeaters” are escalating war in the name of every progressive platitude you can think of.

No-one seems to care where the pandemic came from. No-one reveals how Ukraine is faring: that Ukrainian men venturing to the grocery store are seized and sent to the front with no training, that it shells the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, or that knocking out Russia’s nuclear defences is “full steam ahead” to war.

Are politicians asleep or complicit? Did you notice how many MPs called for accountability over the Covid response? You can count them on one hand. Did you notice how many MPs care calling for a halt to war in Ukraine and Gaza? Likewise.

Not only is the media in wartime mode. Ninety-nine per cent of politicians spout the same verbiage. We are not stumbling into war with Russia because of a sudden happening. The uniform messaging indicates that the media has been in wartime mode since long before Covid. Logically we should ask if we are the target.

Britain is currently distracted by the snap election and the roughly 120 MPs who are not standing for re-election, having been complicit in democide. A similar number of MEPs are not seeking re-election to the European parliament. The journal Axios says U.S. lawmakers are fleeing Congress at a record monthly rate.

The Kremlinologist

Jeffrey Sachs is not a politician but an insider who has made policy on Russia during the past 35 years. His voice carries more weight than most on The Hill. He advised Poland on its transition from communism to a market economy, and was an adviser to Russian presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

Sachs tells Tucker Carlson that the allegation that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked it an utter lie. The USSR voluntarily ended the Cold War but was denied co-existence. The interview is worth parsing at length. [3]