Are You Comfortable with U.S. Tactical Nuclear Exchange with Russia?

International Peace Coalition Meeting
December 13, 2024, 11am ET
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Join us with Col. (ret.) Richard H. Black, Vanessa Beeley and others.

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The Russian Defense Ministry announced today that, on the morning of Dec. 11, the Kiev regime launched six U.S.-made ATACMS ballistic missiles against the Taganrog military airfield in the Rostov region. The Russians reported that they had destroyed all six incoming missiles with a combination of SAMs and electronic warfare systems, but they also stated: “This attack by Western-made long-range weapons will not remain unanswered, and appropriate measures will be taken.”

What will that Russian response be?

The first time high-precision ATACMS were used to strike deep into Russian territory – a missile that can only be targeted, launched, and directed in flight by skilled American personnel and equipment – was on Nov. 19. The very next day, Nov. 20, U.S. Rear Adm. Thomas Buchanan, the head of STRATCOM’s Plans and Policy Directorate, told a conference at Washington’s CSIS think tank that the U.S. should be prepared to use nuclear weapons, if its global leadership is challenged.

“I think everybody would agree [that] if we have to have an exchange, then we want to do it in terms that are most acceptable to the United States … that put us in a position to continue to lead the world, right?” Buchanan stated.

Russia got the message (Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov later mentioned Buchanan by name in his Dec. 6 interview with Tucker Carlson), and responded in a totally unexpected way to the totality of the strategic threat. On Nov. 21, Russia launched a new weapon, the hypersonic IRBM Oreshnik system, whose precision-guided multiple projectiles struck and destroyed their intended target, a military factory in Dnipro, Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin explained that the Oreshnik, which cannot be intercepted by any existing Western defense system, can be armed with different kinds of warheads and has destructive capabilities so great that it even serves as a nuclear deterrent – without the use of nuclear weapons by Russia.

That development would give pause to a normal adversary, under normal conditions, to consider the potential consequences of pursuing the escalation. But it did not. Six more ATACMS were just launched against Russia.

The sheer insanity, and depravity, of such “reasoning” is difficult to fathom. But it is the increasingly dominant strategic outlook in Washington and London – despite the fact that an entirely different strategic approach is being offered to the United States by both Russia and China, as re-stated in President Xi Jinping’s remarks to the “1+10” meeting.  

Russia, for its part, is well aware that the toppling of the Assad government in Syria is also part of British and American efforts to surround Russia by land and by sea, and to dismember it -- along the lines proposed by Zbigniew Brzezinski and other followers of London’s Bernard Lewis Plan. Leading British policy outlets, such as London’s Economist magazine, are now discussing how best to drive Russia out of their naval base in Tartus, Syria, which they have had since 1971, which the British argue will lock Russia out of the Mediterranean Sea altogether. Combined with earlier (albeit failed) efforts to seize Sevastopol and Crimea on the Black Sea, and the transformation of the Baltic Sea into a virtual “NATO lake” in the last two years, this is meant to landlock Russia everywhere on its Western borders – as per the “maritime chokepoints” specifications of leading British geopoliticians going back to Halford Mackinder (1861-1947), Karl Haushofer (1869-1946), and their predecessor Admiral Alfred Mahan (1840-1914).

We urge people from all around the world to participate in the upcoming 80th weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition on Dec. 13 at 11 am ET. We will be joined with Col. (ret.) Richard H. Black, former head of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon and former Virgina State Senator; Vanessa Beeley, independent journalist, peace activist and photographer; and others!