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< Back NATO CLIMBING BREATHLESSLY UP NUCLEAR ESCALATION LADDER Dr. Robert Daly Sep 19, 2024 When the first long-range North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) missile strikes a target deep inside nuclear-armed Russia (formerly the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic), its explosion would set off a chain reaction in which Russian missiles would simultaneously strike 1) the launch point of the attacking NATO missile inside Ukraine, 2) the NATO satellite that provided targeting information, and 3) the NATO soldiers in a command and control center (CCC) outside Ukraine who coordinated the strike deep inside Russia, as suggested in an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sept. 12. Russia has made clear that it would strike those three sites in response to such an attack deep inside Russia, whether it hits Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, or Moscow. The nervous NATO leadership hopes Russia only strikes back at the launch point in Ukraine. What will they do if Russia takes out the satellite? What will they do if it takes out the CCC in Germany? Perhaps NATO is arrogant after Russia failed to respond to the NATO attack on its early warning radars in May, but then Putin was not shouting warnings of nuclear retaliation. NATO’s real fear is that Ukraine will collapse, and Russia will become a world power yet again and use that might to free Palestine. Meanwhile, NATO leaders like fascist Justin Trudeau are threatening nuclear Russia with missile strikes. In the interview, Putin refuted the NATO propaganda that it is only discussing “removing restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western weapons.” No, the Ukrainian army is incapable of operating high-precision Western weapons at long ranges, such as Storm Shadows and ATACMS (U.S. Army Tactical Missile System), emphasized Putin. Operation of such equipment at long ranges requires the use of satellites, which Ukraine does not have, and operation by NATO personnel, as Ukrainian servicemen do not know and cannot be told the firing sequences required. “We are not talking about allowing or prohibiting the Kiev regime from striking Russian territory,” Putin said on Thursday. “It is doing so already, with unmanned aerial vehicles and other means. But when we are talking about the use of precision weapons, long-range Western-made weapons, it is a completely different story…the Ukrainian army is incapable of striking with modern long-range precision Western systems. It can only do that by using intelligence from satellites, which Ukraine does not have. They get the data only from NATO satellites. That’s the first thing. The second, very important and key issue is that the flight missions for these systems can only be input by NATO military personnel. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this." "So," the Russian president continued, "it’s not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not. It is a question of deciding whether a NATO country is directly involved in the military conflict. If this decision is made, it will mean nothing less than the direct participation of NATO countries, the US and European countries, in the war in Ukraine. Their direct participation, of course, significantly changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict. If this decision is made, it will mean nothing less than the direct participation of NATO countries, the US and European countries, in the conflict in Ukraine.” “It will mean that NATO countries are directly at war with Russia. And if that is the case, we will make the appropriate decisions based on the threats facing us,” he concluded. In response to Putin, war correspondent Thomas Roeper reported, “The West is already an active part of the war for a long time…for sharing intelligence data is already participation in the war…I’m afraid there will be a Russian reaction that the West is not going to like, and then we are in a process of escalation steps that could lead to the unthinkable…Putin is right; attacking Russia with long-range weapons has to be managed by NATO soldiers.” Eike Hamer, a German economist, said Western leaders “know the [Ukraine] war is basically over, they can’t really win anything anymore. The next step will be an unconditional surrender of Ukraine, i.e., NATO. This is what they are facing and somehow desperately trying to avoid.” With an unconditional surrender of Ukraine and the restoration of Ukraine as a province of Russia, not only does NATO’s effort to divide Russia fail, but Russia becomes a world power again. As Alexander Dugin said recently, this will be a “new world,” the beginning of multipolarity, and Russia will then intervene to free Palestine. That is what the West wants to stop. Dugin continued, “If the West will be obliged to divide their power [between Ukraine and West Asia], we immediately win in Ukraine, but Russia with Ukraine won is a different Russia…as Ukraine will be ours totally there will be a new world, a multipolar world, so there will be multipolarity now.” Western leaders are hoping Russia will do nothing in response to missile strikes deep inside their country, as when Russia did not respond to two May 2024 attacks on its early warning radars in Armavir and Orsk. But Theodore Postol, MIT Professor and US Chief of Naval Operations advisor, warns, “We may have come close to a nuclear exchange on May 22 due to a reckless Ukrainian drone attack on two Russian strategic nuclear early warning radars at Armavir. Fortunately, a subsequent attack on a third radar station at Orsk in Russia on May 26 failed.” Armavir is 300 miles from Ukraine, while Orsk 930 miles away. All the talk of containing Ukrainian attacks to “a limited stretch of land near the Ukrainian border” was hot air, Postol argues. “Since these radars form the singular foundation of Russia’s strategic nuclear early warning capabilities, any tampering with their functions in any unpredictable global situation is accompanied by very grave risks of misinterpretations of intentions that could lead to a massive launch of Russian nuclear forces,” wrote Postol. Dmitry Suslov, member of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, replied to the Ukrainian radar attack on May 30 on RT: “It’s time for Russia to think about a ‘demonstrative’ nuclear test”: “The US-led bloc has lost its fear of the mushroom cloud, but seeing one would perhaps focus some minds.” But under Putin’s new doctrine of “the Indivisibility of Security”—the alliance of Russia, China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran, and Yemen—what happens in Europe is connected to what happens in Asia; retaliation for a missile strike on Russia could come from anywhere, e.g., the DPRK or Yemen. One final note: According to The Times, Kiev regime soldiers could use a GPS signal to guide Storm Shadow missiles to their targets inside Russia, but Russia jams the GPS, which is why the Kiev regime needs to use US satellite data. This story seems phony to me. First of all, US intelligence has been guiding Kiev targeting since 2022, for example, in their attacks on Crimea. Second, Russia has been jamming Kiev’s aggressive use of GPS since early in the war, so Kiev’s inability to use GPS is nothing new. Certainly, the U.S. Army would also jam the GPS signal if its enemies were using it. Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back NATO CLIMBING BREATHLESSLY UP NUCLEAR ESCALATION LADDER Dr. Robert Daly Sep 19, 2024 When the first long-range North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) missile strikes a target deep inside nuclear-armed Russia (formerly the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic), its explosion would set off a chain reaction in which Russian missiles would simultaneously strike 1) the launch point of the attacking NATO missile inside Ukraine, 2) the NATO satellite that provided targeting information, and 3) the NATO soldiers in a command and control center (CCC) outside Ukraine who coordinated the strike deep inside Russia, as suggested in an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sept. 12. Russia has made clear that it would strike those three sites in response to such an attack deep inside Russia, whether it hits Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, or Moscow. The nervous NATO leadership hopes Russia only strikes back at the launch point in Ukraine. What will they do if Russia takes out the satellite? What will they do if it takes out the CCC in Germany? Perhaps NATO is arrogant after Russia failed to respond to the NATO attack on its early warning radars in May, but then Putin was not shouting warnings of nuclear retaliation. NATO’s real fear is that Ukraine will collapse, and Russia will become a world power yet again and use that might to free Palestine. Meanwhile, NATO leaders like fascist Justin Trudeau are threatening nuclear Russia with missile strikes. In the interview, Putin refuted the NATO propaganda that it is only discussing “removing restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western weapons.” No, the Ukrainian army is incapable of operating high-precision Western weapons at long ranges, such as Storm Shadows and ATACMS (U.S. Army Tactical Missile System), emphasized Putin. Operation of such equipment at long ranges requires the use of satellites, which Ukraine does not have, and operation by NATO personnel, as Ukrainian servicemen do not know and cannot be told the firing sequences required. “We are not talking about allowing or prohibiting the Kiev regime from striking Russian territory,” Putin said on Thursday. “It is doing so already, with unmanned aerial vehicles and other means. But when we are talking about the use of precision weapons, long-range Western-made weapons, it is a completely different story…the Ukrainian army is incapable of striking with modern long-range precision Western systems. It can only do that by using intelligence from satellites, which Ukraine does not have. They get the data only from NATO satellites. That’s the first thing. The second, very important and key issue is that the flight missions for these systems can only be input by NATO military personnel. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this." "So," the Russian president continued, "it’s not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not. It is a question of deciding whether a NATO country is directly involved in the military conflict. If this decision is made, it will mean nothing less than the direct participation of NATO countries, the US and European countries, in the war in Ukraine. Their direct participation, of course, significantly changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict. If this decision is made, it will mean nothing less than the direct participation of NATO countries, the US and European countries, in the conflict in Ukraine.” “It will mean that NATO countries are directly at war with Russia. And if that is the case, we will make the appropriate decisions based on the threats facing us,” he concluded. In response to Putin, war correspondent Thomas Roeper reported, “The West is already an active part of the war for a long time…for sharing intelligence data is already participation in the war…I’m afraid there will be a Russian reaction that the West is not going to like, and then we are in a process of escalation steps that could lead to the unthinkable…Putin is right; attacking Russia with long-range weapons has to be managed by NATO soldiers.” Eike Hamer, a German economist, said Western leaders “know the [Ukraine] war is basically over, they can’t really win anything anymore. The next step will be an unconditional surrender of Ukraine, i.e., NATO. This is what they are facing and somehow desperately trying to avoid.” With an unconditional surrender of Ukraine and the restoration of Ukraine as a province of Russia, not only does NATO’s effort to divide Russia fail, but Russia becomes a world power again. As Alexander Dugin said recently, this will be a “new world,” the beginning of multipolarity, and Russia will then intervene to free Palestine. That is what the West wants to stop. Dugin continued, “If the West will be obliged to divide their power [between Ukraine and West Asia], we immediately win in Ukraine, but Russia with Ukraine won is a different Russia…as Ukraine will be ours totally there will be a new world, a multipolar world, so there will be multipolarity now.” Western leaders are hoping Russia will do nothing in response to missile strikes deep inside their country, as when Russia did not respond to two May 2024 attacks on its early warning radars in Armavir and Orsk. But Theodore Postol, MIT Professor and US Chief of Naval Operations advisor, warns, “We may have come close to a nuclear exchange on May 22 due to a reckless Ukrainian drone attack on two Russian strategic nuclear early warning radars at Armavir. Fortunately, a subsequent attack on a third radar station at Orsk in Russia on May 26 failed.” Armavir is 300 miles from Ukraine, while Orsk 930 miles away. All the talk of containing Ukrainian attacks to “a limited stretch of land near the Ukrainian border” was hot air, Postol argues. “Since these radars form the singular foundation of Russia’s strategic nuclear early warning capabilities, any tampering with their functions in any unpredictable global situation is accompanied by very grave risks of misinterpretations of intentions that could lead to a massive launch of Russian nuclear forces,” wrote Postol. Dmitry Suslov, member of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, replied to the Ukrainian radar attack on May 30 on RT: “It’s time for Russia to think about a ‘demonstrative’ nuclear test”: “The US-led bloc has lost its fear of the mushroom cloud, but seeing one would perhaps focus some minds.” But under Putin’s new doctrine of “the Indivisibility of Security”—the alliance of Russia, China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran, and Yemen—what happens in Europe is connected to what happens in Asia; retaliation for a missile strike on Russia could come from anywhere, e.g., the DPRK or Yemen. One final note: According to The Times, Kiev regime soldiers could use a GPS signal to guide Storm Shadow missiles to their targets inside Russia, but Russia jams the GPS, which is why the Kiev regime needs to use US satellite data. This story seems phony to me. First of all, US intelligence has been guiding Kiev targeting since 2022, for example, in their attacks on Crimea. Second, Russia has been jamming Kiev’s aggressive use of GPS since early in the war, so Kiev’s inability to use GPS is nothing new. Certainly, the U.S. Army would also jam the GPS signal if its enemies were using it. Previous Next

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< Back UKRAINE IS LOSING THE WAR, SPARKING PANIC IN THE IMPERIALIST PACK Lalkar writers Sep 18, 2024 If the purpose of the Kursk ‘offensive’ was to distract attention from the hammering the fascists are getting in the Donbass, the result has been just the opposite. While Keir Starmer and his lickspittle foreign minister David Lammy have been assuring Volodymyr Zelensky that Britain will stand by Ukraine to the last drop of (Ukrainian) blood, signing off on ever more arms exports and pushing for ever more dangerous and delusional escalations against Russia, the ongoing real-world collapse of Ukraine’s military in the Donbass has been sending shock waves across Capitol Hill, adding another layer of political hysteria to the fevered presidential election circus. On Tuesday 6 August, Ukraine launched a surprise offensive into the Russian province of Kursk in what the Russian president Vladimir Putin characterised as a “large-scale provocation”. Moscow declared a federal-level state of emergency across the regions of Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod and moved quickly to mobilise supplementary forces to deal with the threat. In the space of 24 hours, Ukraine lost up to 230 soldiers and 38 armoured vehicles, of which seven were tanks. Other losses at the time of writing included four field artillery systems, a Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system, three rocket launchers and an AN/MPQ-65 radar station of the Patriot air defence system. The element of surprise enabled the Kiev regime’s offensive to make some headway early on, but Russian forces moved swiftly to stabilise the situation, backed up by Belarus. Fascist dreams of taking and holding Russian territory or seizing the Kursk nuclear power station came to nought. If the purpose of Kiev’s would-be offensive was to distract attention from the hammering the fascists are getting right across the frontline and in particular in Donbass, then it will achieve exactly the direct opposite. History is repeating itself. The fascists are back on Kursk soil, where they will again face crushing defeat, and this time the devastating consequences for imperialism will be global in scale. Grandmother’s footsteps Oblivious to the scale of the disaster toward which the whole of the collective west is blindly steering, Britain’s new ‘socialist’ prime minister Sir Keir Starmer , egged on by Ukraine’s stooge actor-president Volodymyr Zelensky , still thinks he is playing grandmother’s footsteps, testing out how many ‘red lines’ imperialism can get away with crossing, or how many white lies it can tell about the intended targets with a straight face (ie, Russia). Keir Starmer lost no time in ingratiating himself with the Ukrainian ‘president’ (a title to which Mr Zelensky has even less legal claim now that the agreed presidential election timetable has been quietly dropped), making haste to welcome the imposter into the Cabinet office and stagemanaging a standing ovation from all the assembled throng of newly minted ministers therein, all eager to thank him for his services to Nato imperialism. On the ludicrous debate over what restrictions the collective west could or should set regarding the choice of targets the Kiev junta ought to be ‘allowed’ to hit once western weapons had been supplied, Zelensky put pressure on Starmer to drop all limits and persuade his colleagues in the collective west to follow suit. “Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has urged Sir Keir Starmer to ‘show your leadership’ by helping to remove restrictions on how Ukraine can use weapons supplied by its western allies. “Addressing a meeting of the cabinet in Downing Street, Mr Zelensky said being able to hit Russian territory would help prevent attacks on residential areas in Ukraine. “Pressed on the subject earlier, defence secretary John Healey said the UK’s provision of weapons to Ukraine ‘does not preclude them hitting targets in Russia’. “However, he added that it ‘must be done by the Ukrainians and must be done within the parameters and the bounds of international humanitarian law’.” ( Zelensky urges PM to help lift Ukraine weapon limits by Kate Whannel, BBC, 19 July 2024) This would make a cat laugh. Are these ‘parameters and bounds of international humanitarian law’ the same ones that inspired Starmer to instruct his party to reject the demand for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, even as Israel was murdering Palestinians with British supplied weaponry? The reality is that all these ‘red lines’ have been trampled over long since, and the collective west is indulging in an exercise of dangerous self-delusion and whistling in the dark. While Starmer was busily assuring Zelensky that Britain will stand by Ukraine to the last drop of (Ukrainian) blood, and signing the latest defence export support treaty aimed at helping Ukrainian and British arms companies to invest in further military capabilities, out in the real world it was the collapse of Ukraine’s military in the Donbass that was sending shock waves across Capitol Hill, adding another layer of political hysteria to the run-up to the USA presidential elections in November. Biden implodes Once upon a time, US president Joe Biden was seen by many as a safe pair of hands, a promise of a more settled period after the excitements of the Donald Trump tenure and as the best hope of blocking a second Trump administration. The reality has turned out to be quite different: the trouncing of the Ukrainian military and the disquieting tendency of western sanctions to boomerang back upon their originators. From being a safe pair of hands, President Biden revealed himself to be a massive liability whose own decay fully mirrored that of the class he served. So Washington was stuck with a president who is clearly suffering from dementia, routinely making grotesque blunders (confusing Putin with Zelensky, for example), appearing to fall asleep mid-speech and rambling inconsequentially. The publicly-visible and audible degeneration of this man, nailed to the election bandwagon and sold as the only realistic hope of avoiding a Trump victory in November, was the most cruel and callous case of elder abuse imaginable. But the Democrats kept on flogging this dying horse, praying that he could be cranked up just long enough to hold Trump at bay. Then, at the eleventh hour, the Democrat machine decided it was finally time to spit Biden out and replace him with his vice president Kamala Harris . It is rather late in the day for the Democrat grandees to suddenly ‘discover’ that Kamala Harris, who had not till then made much of a splash in her VP role, was in fact top-class presidential material. Fans point to her work on women’s reproductive rights as an asset, and her showy endorsement by both halves of the Obama clan will impress some. But all this sudden enthusiasm cannot hide the fundamental reality that Harris was chosen as a stop-gap measure to keep the Oval office seat warm for a more substantial incumbent further down the track. It is probable that some Democrats have already begun to regard another period of Trump tenure as hard to avoid. Another straw in the wind is Trump’s choice of running mate, JD Vance, who does not hide his contempt for the whole Ukraine project. As long ago as 2022 Vance told an interviewer that “it’s ridiculous that we’re focused on this border in Ukraine … I gotta be honest with you: I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.” More recently at the Munich security conference in February, Vance played down the threat posed by President Putin’s Russia and said that the USA could not manufacture the weapons needed to supply Ukraine to continue the war. At the back of all this sound and fury from Republicans and Democrats alike is the torturing awareness that Nato is losing the proxy war against Russia and it is the multipolar world that is setting the agenda, not the unipolar. Recent developments in Hungary underline this truth. Orban’s diplomacy Viktor Orban , though prime minister of Hungary, a member of the European Union , has nevertheless not been shy to criticise that body’s policy on weapons sales to Ukraine, acting where possible to block or delay their supply. Today, in the bracing new multipolar world society now in formation, a world in which everyone visits everyone else without having to check it out first with the US hegemon, Prime Minister Orban is not bashful when it comes to throwing his hat into the diplomatic ring. Orban recently travelled to Ukraine, Russia and China, bringing with him his own idea of peace talks, centred on the principle that the EU’s Ukraine policy should shift “from pro-war to pro-people” and should recognise that the solution can be found at the negotiating table, not on the battlefield. These sentiments, hardly controversial, are nonetheless like a red rag to the neutered bull of the collective west, still locked into the blind refusal to recognise that their proxy war has hit a brick wall – the only question remaining to be decided being how many more lives are to be squandered before this inevitable outcome is finally grasped. Meanwhile, Kiev is still trying to compensate for its failures on the battlefield by playing games with the oil supply , and is currently blocking the transit across Ukraine of Russian oil destined for Hungary and Slovakia. Lukoil, Russia’s second-largest oil company, has been blocked from passing through the stretch of the Druzhba pipeline network that crosses Ukraine. Druzhba, or Friendship, opened in 1964, in the days of the Soviet Union. It still carries Russian oil to Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. It is painful to record now how in happier days such engineering feats as the Druzhba pipeline stood as a symbol of what can be achieved by socialist planning, economic integration and fraternal relations. The Kiev junta, on the other hand, is more in the business of bombing pipelines than building them. Happily, the Turkstream pipeline, which does not go anywhere near Ukraine soil, is taking up some of the slack, and long term the most likely outcome for Kiev’s spiteful interference will be to sour still further the junta’s relations with Budapest – and encourage Viktor Orban to strengthen his country’s relations with Moscow. The more that imperialism strives to block the path to progress, the faster it alienates its former friends and satellites. From apathy to anger The increasingly desperate measures the Kiev junta has been taking to find enough new Ukrainian recruits to prop up Nato’s failing proxy war against Russia are causing some citizens to move from apathy and disaffection to acts of direct resistance against the draft. Special outrage is reserved for recruiting sergeants who, like the bounty-hunters of yore, prowl the streets in search of suitable victims. Everyone has a tale to tell about neighbours or workmates seized in broad daylight, bundled into the back of a truck and driven off to fast-track recruitment hubs. Sputnik records: “On the night of 16 July alone, a wave of arson attacks targeting the service and personal vehicles of Odessa’s territorial recruitment centre employees left five cars burned to a crisp. Similar incidents were reported in Vinnitsa, Rovno, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov the same night. “Two more cars were burned in Odessa the next night, with the weekly total approaching a dozen. The situation has gotten so bad in some cities that servicemen have reportedly resorted to putting ‘NOT Territorial Recruitment Centre’ signs on their vehicles to avoid being targeted.” ( Putin: US to force Kiev’s draft age down to 18 then remove Zelensky , Sputnik, 5 June 2024) Needless to say, the knee-jerk response from the junta to the wave of arson attacks and the rocketing number of draft dodgers was to blame the Russians, claiming that soldiers were being bribed to quit by Russian agents. But this fairy tale cannot account for the fact that the vast majority of the draft dodgers hail from western regions. It turns out that a disproportionate number of Ukrainian draft dodgers are actually found to come from areas with traditionally pro-western sympathies. Whereas draft dodging is less pronounced in places like Kiev (14,300 cases), Kharkov (4,500 cases) and Kherson (just 200 cases), in western regions the cases total as many as 334,200 at the last count. Whilst the war in the east (that is to say, the fascist repression of Donbass which began in 2014 ) could be ignored by many in the western regions, shrugged off as a little local border dispute with some troublesome Russians, the threatened crushing of the liberated Donbass in 2022 and the swift Russian response to that threat changed the character of the war, and spread it far and wide. It was one thing to hear about bloodshed going on in the ‘far east’, but quite another to lay down one’s own life fighting Nato’s proxy war against an enemy that is well able to defend itself. And so far from blaming the young men for their lack of ‘patriotism’, surveys show that very many people are broadly sympathetic to the dodgers. “Shock polling this week by the Razumkov Centre, generally regarded as one of Ukraine’s most respected public policy think tanks, revealed that a whopping 46 percent of Ukrainians do not consider it ‘shameful’ to dodge mobilisation, with 29.1 percent saying it is shameful, and 24.8 percent finding it difficult to answer. Among respondents aged 18-29, 50 percent said it is not shameful. “The same polling also found that 44 percent of respondents think the time has come for peace talks with Russia, with 35 percent against the idea, and 21 percent undecided.” ( Sputnik , op cit) It is the courage and steadfast resistance of the Russian army and people in the liberation war, a just war waged in response to the Nato/EU’s failing threat to force regime change on the Russians and break up their country into a number of weak statelets under the domination of imperialism, that is rattling the Capitol Hill cage. Let these imperialist windbags tie themselves into ever tighter knots trying in vain to find a new president to somehow magically mend US imperialist fortunes. Glory to the Russian armed forces in their victorious antifascist war! Previous Next

< Back UKRAINE IS LOSING THE WAR, SPARKING PANIC IN THE IMPERIALIST PACK Lalkar writers Sep 18, 2024 If the purpose of the Kursk ‘offensive’ was to distract attention from the hammering the fascists are getting in the Donbass, the result has been just the opposite. While Keir Starmer and his lickspittle foreign minister David Lammy have been assuring Volodymyr Zelensky that Britain will stand by Ukraine to the last drop of (Ukrainian) blood, signing off on ever more arms exports and pushing for ever more dangerous and delusional escalations against Russia, the ongoing real-world collapse of Ukraine’s military in the Donbass has been sending shock waves across Capitol Hill, adding another layer of political hysteria to the fevered presidential election circus. On Tuesday 6 August, Ukraine launched a surprise offensive into the Russian province of Kursk in what the Russian president Vladimir Putin characterised as a “large-scale provocation”. Moscow declared a federal-level state of emergency across the regions of Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod and moved quickly to mobilise supplementary forces to deal with the threat. In the space of 24 hours, Ukraine lost up to 230 soldiers and 38 armoured vehicles, of which seven were tanks. Other losses at the time of writing included four field artillery systems, a Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system, three rocket launchers and an AN/MPQ-65 radar station of the Patriot air defence system. The element of surprise enabled the Kiev regime’s offensive to make some headway early on, but Russian forces moved swiftly to stabilise the situation, backed up by Belarus. Fascist dreams of taking and holding Russian territory or seizing the Kursk nuclear power station came to nought. If the purpose of Kiev’s would-be offensive was to distract attention from the hammering the fascists are getting right across the frontline and in particular in Donbass, then it will achieve exactly the direct opposite. History is repeating itself. The fascists are back on Kursk soil, where they will again face crushing defeat, and this time the devastating consequences for imperialism will be global in scale. Grandmother’s footsteps Oblivious to the scale of the disaster toward which the whole of the collective west is blindly steering, Britain’s new ‘socialist’ prime minister Sir Keir Starmer , egged on by Ukraine’s stooge actor-president Volodymyr Zelensky , still thinks he is playing grandmother’s footsteps, testing out how many ‘red lines’ imperialism can get away with crossing, or how many white lies it can tell about the intended targets with a straight face (ie, Russia). Keir Starmer lost no time in ingratiating himself with the Ukrainian ‘president’ (a title to which Mr Zelensky has even less legal claim now that the agreed presidential election timetable has been quietly dropped), making haste to welcome the imposter into the Cabinet office and stagemanaging a standing ovation from all the assembled throng of newly minted ministers therein, all eager to thank him for his services to Nato imperialism. On the ludicrous debate over what restrictions the collective west could or should set regarding the choice of targets the Kiev junta ought to be ‘allowed’ to hit once western weapons had been supplied, Zelensky put pressure on Starmer to drop all limits and persuade his colleagues in the collective west to follow suit. “Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has urged Sir Keir Starmer to ‘show your leadership’ by helping to remove restrictions on how Ukraine can use weapons supplied by its western allies. “Addressing a meeting of the cabinet in Downing Street, Mr Zelensky said being able to hit Russian territory would help prevent attacks on residential areas in Ukraine. “Pressed on the subject earlier, defence secretary John Healey said the UK’s provision of weapons to Ukraine ‘does not preclude them hitting targets in Russia’. “However, he added that it ‘must be done by the Ukrainians and must be done within the parameters and the bounds of international humanitarian law’.” ( Zelensky urges PM to help lift Ukraine weapon limits by Kate Whannel, BBC, 19 July 2024) This would make a cat laugh. Are these ‘parameters and bounds of international humanitarian law’ the same ones that inspired Starmer to instruct his party to reject the demand for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, even as Israel was murdering Palestinians with British supplied weaponry? The reality is that all these ‘red lines’ have been trampled over long since, and the collective west is indulging in an exercise of dangerous self-delusion and whistling in the dark. While Starmer was busily assuring Zelensky that Britain will stand by Ukraine to the last drop of (Ukrainian) blood, and signing the latest defence export support treaty aimed at helping Ukrainian and British arms companies to invest in further military capabilities, out in the real world it was the collapse of Ukraine’s military in the Donbass that was sending shock waves across Capitol Hill, adding another layer of political hysteria to the run-up to the USA presidential elections in November. Biden implodes Once upon a time, US president Joe Biden was seen by many as a safe pair of hands, a promise of a more settled period after the excitements of the Donald Trump tenure and as the best hope of blocking a second Trump administration. The reality has turned out to be quite different: the trouncing of the Ukrainian military and the disquieting tendency of western sanctions to boomerang back upon their originators. From being a safe pair of hands, President Biden revealed himself to be a massive liability whose own decay fully mirrored that of the class he served. So Washington was stuck with a president who is clearly suffering from dementia, routinely making grotesque blunders (confusing Putin with Zelensky, for example), appearing to fall asleep mid-speech and rambling inconsequentially. The publicly-visible and audible degeneration of this man, nailed to the election bandwagon and sold as the only realistic hope of avoiding a Trump victory in November, was the most cruel and callous case of elder abuse imaginable. But the Democrats kept on flogging this dying horse, praying that he could be cranked up just long enough to hold Trump at bay. Then, at the eleventh hour, the Democrat machine decided it was finally time to spit Biden out and replace him with his vice president Kamala Harris . It is rather late in the day for the Democrat grandees to suddenly ‘discover’ that Kamala Harris, who had not till then made much of a splash in her VP role, was in fact top-class presidential material. Fans point to her work on women’s reproductive rights as an asset, and her showy endorsement by both halves of the Obama clan will impress some. But all this sudden enthusiasm cannot hide the fundamental reality that Harris was chosen as a stop-gap measure to keep the Oval office seat warm for a more substantial incumbent further down the track. It is probable that some Democrats have already begun to regard another period of Trump tenure as hard to avoid. Another straw in the wind is Trump’s choice of running mate, JD Vance, who does not hide his contempt for the whole Ukraine project. As long ago as 2022 Vance told an interviewer that “it’s ridiculous that we’re focused on this border in Ukraine … I gotta be honest with you: I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.” More recently at the Munich security conference in February, Vance played down the threat posed by President Putin’s Russia and said that the USA could not manufacture the weapons needed to supply Ukraine to continue the war. At the back of all this sound and fury from Republicans and Democrats alike is the torturing awareness that Nato is losing the proxy war against Russia and it is the multipolar world that is setting the agenda, not the unipolar. Recent developments in Hungary underline this truth. Orban’s diplomacy Viktor Orban , though prime minister of Hungary, a member of the European Union , has nevertheless not been shy to criticise that body’s policy on weapons sales to Ukraine, acting where possible to block or delay their supply. Today, in the bracing new multipolar world society now in formation, a world in which everyone visits everyone else without having to check it out first with the US hegemon, Prime Minister Orban is not bashful when it comes to throwing his hat into the diplomatic ring. Orban recently travelled to Ukraine, Russia and China, bringing with him his own idea of peace talks, centred on the principle that the EU’s Ukraine policy should shift “from pro-war to pro-people” and should recognise that the solution can be found at the negotiating table, not on the battlefield. These sentiments, hardly controversial, are nonetheless like a red rag to the neutered bull of the collective west, still locked into the blind refusal to recognise that their proxy war has hit a brick wall – the only question remaining to be decided being how many more lives are to be squandered before this inevitable outcome is finally grasped. Meanwhile, Kiev is still trying to compensate for its failures on the battlefield by playing games with the oil supply , and is currently blocking the transit across Ukraine of Russian oil destined for Hungary and Slovakia. Lukoil, Russia’s second-largest oil company, has been blocked from passing through the stretch of the Druzhba pipeline network that crosses Ukraine. Druzhba, or Friendship, opened in 1964, in the days of the Soviet Union. It still carries Russian oil to Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. It is painful to record now how in happier days such engineering feats as the Druzhba pipeline stood as a symbol of what can be achieved by socialist planning, economic integration and fraternal relations. The Kiev junta, on the other hand, is more in the business of bombing pipelines than building them. Happily, the Turkstream pipeline, which does not go anywhere near Ukraine soil, is taking up some of the slack, and long term the most likely outcome for Kiev’s spiteful interference will be to sour still further the junta’s relations with Budapest – and encourage Viktor Orban to strengthen his country’s relations with Moscow. The more that imperialism strives to block the path to progress, the faster it alienates its former friends and satellites. From apathy to anger The increasingly desperate measures the Kiev junta has been taking to find enough new Ukrainian recruits to prop up Nato’s failing proxy war against Russia are causing some citizens to move from apathy and disaffection to acts of direct resistance against the draft. Special outrage is reserved for recruiting sergeants who, like the bounty-hunters of yore, prowl the streets in search of suitable victims. Everyone has a tale to tell about neighbours or workmates seized in broad daylight, bundled into the back of a truck and driven off to fast-track recruitment hubs. Sputnik records: “On the night of 16 July alone, a wave of arson attacks targeting the service and personal vehicles of Odessa’s territorial recruitment centre employees left five cars burned to a crisp. Similar incidents were reported in Vinnitsa, Rovno, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov the same night. “Two more cars were burned in Odessa the next night, with the weekly total approaching a dozen. The situation has gotten so bad in some cities that servicemen have reportedly resorted to putting ‘NOT Territorial Recruitment Centre’ signs on their vehicles to avoid being targeted.” ( Putin: US to force Kiev’s draft age down to 18 then remove Zelensky , Sputnik, 5 June 2024) Needless to say, the knee-jerk response from the junta to the wave of arson attacks and the rocketing number of draft dodgers was to blame the Russians, claiming that soldiers were being bribed to quit by Russian agents. But this fairy tale cannot account for the fact that the vast majority of the draft dodgers hail from western regions. It turns out that a disproportionate number of Ukrainian draft dodgers are actually found to come from areas with traditionally pro-western sympathies. Whereas draft dodging is less pronounced in places like Kiev (14,300 cases), Kharkov (4,500 cases) and Kherson (just 200 cases), in western regions the cases total as many as 334,200 at the last count. Whilst the war in the east (that is to say, the fascist repression of Donbass which began in 2014 ) could be ignored by many in the western regions, shrugged off as a little local border dispute with some troublesome Russians, the threatened crushing of the liberated Donbass in 2022 and the swift Russian response to that threat changed the character of the war, and spread it far and wide. It was one thing to hear about bloodshed going on in the ‘far east’, but quite another to lay down one’s own life fighting Nato’s proxy war against an enemy that is well able to defend itself. And so far from blaming the young men for their lack of ‘patriotism’, surveys show that very many people are broadly sympathetic to the dodgers. “Shock polling this week by the Razumkov Centre, generally regarded as one of Ukraine’s most respected public policy think tanks, revealed that a whopping 46 percent of Ukrainians do not consider it ‘shameful’ to dodge mobilisation, with 29.1 percent saying it is shameful, and 24.8 percent finding it difficult to answer. Among respondents aged 18-29, 50 percent said it is not shameful. “The same polling also found that 44 percent of respondents think the time has come for peace talks with Russia, with 35 percent against the idea, and 21 percent undecided.” ( Sputnik , op cit) It is the courage and steadfast resistance of the Russian army and people in the liberation war, a just war waged in response to the Nato/EU’s failing threat to force regime change on the Russians and break up their country into a number of weak statelets under the domination of imperialism, that is rattling the Capitol Hill cage. Let these imperialist windbags tie themselves into ever tighter knots trying in vain to find a new president to somehow magically mend US imperialist fortunes. Glory to the Russian armed forces in their victorious antifascist war! Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back THE MINUTEMAN MISSILE NHS: A MONUMENT TO AMERICAN HEGEMONY PART 2 Cassie Sipe Sep 18, 2024 Read part 1 of this series here While the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site discusses various Cold War treaties over the decades, it leaves out how these agreements have unraveled in recent years, giving visitors the false impression that the dangers of nuclear war are a thing of the past. The Minuteman Missile I program was fast-tracked following the USSR's successful Sputnik launch in 1957. Though the program was already in the works, Sputnik underscored the urgent need for faster, more advanced ICBMs, leading to the first Minuteman Missile test in 1961. The Minuteman Missile II program operated for nearly 30 years, until the 44th Missile Wing was deactivated in 1994 under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). The supposed peace these treaties symbolize is deceptive, as the U.S. has never halted its nuclear arms race. The shutdown of these missile sites was little more than a footnote in its continuing global terror campaign. The U.S. military recently conducted two tests of Minuteman III ICBMs from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Despite being operational since the 1970s, these missiles are still in use across five states due to delays and budget problems with the Sentinel replacement program. The first Sentinel test flight is now projected for February 2026. Admiral Charles Richard of U.S. Strategic Command noted in 2021 that the Minuteman III’s service life cannot be extended much longer due to outdated designs and obsolete technical support. Russia has warned it would respond if the U.S. persists with these tests. This warning comes after a U.S. Department of Energy test in Las Vegas involving chemical explosives and radiotracers aimed at improving the detection of underground nuclear tests. Russia last tested an ABM missile in December 2022. A Nuclear Program of Capitalism in Decay The U.S. is facing challenges in sustaining and modernizing its ICBM program due to funding disagreements and internal administrative issues. Colonel Charles Chegg was recently dismissed from the LGM-35A Sentinel program over a "loss of confidence" linked to procedural matters. The program’s costs have ballooned from $95 billion to $131 billion, and testing is now delayed until 2026. Efforts to update the missile systems are years behind schedule. For example, the Sentinel ICBM program, meant to replace the aging Minuteman III missiles, involves modernizing 450 silos and command centers. The costs are expected to be significantly higher than first projected, and delays could extend as long as five years. Congress has approved budget amendments for 2025 to allow for nuclear upgrades to the B-52 bomber. Failed Past Treaties and the Dim Future of Arms Control Former Kremlin advisor Dmitry Stefanovich points out that Russia feels obligated to develop intermediate-range missiles because of U.S. plans to deploy similar weapons, following the collapse of the INF Treaty. He expects to see the deployment of new systems, including ground-launched Kalibr and Zircon missiles, and possibly enhanced Iskander missiles. U.S. missile placements during exercises in Denmark and the Philippines have raised concerns, as President Putin has noted. While Russia currently has no plans to deploy INF missiles, this stance could shift if the U.S. moves ahead with its plans to deploy such missiles in Germany by 2026. Putin has called for the production of these banned missiles in response to the U.S.'s actions. In 2022, Secretary of State Antony Blinken remarked that "the United States has assessed the Russian Federation to be in compliance with its New START Treaty obligations every year since the treaty came into effect in 2011." Still, Russia has accused the U.S. since 2018 of "converting a certain number of Trident II SLBM launchers and B-52H heavy bombers in a manner that prevents the Russian Federation from verifying that these strategic arms have been rendered incapable of deploying SLBMs or nuclear weapons on heavy bombers." Russia argues that these actions undermine the spirit of the treaty. In response to NATO's support for Ukraine, Russia suspended its participation in the New START Treaty, the last standing nuclear arms control agreement between the two nations. This move follows U.S. withdrawals from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 2002, the INF Treaty in 2019, and the Open Skies Treaty in 2020. Russia’s deepening distrust of Washington stems from concerns about U.S. adherence to these treaties and its backing of Ukraine. Scott Ritter has pointed out that the U.S. withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty in 2020 and its refusal to grant Russia access to U.S. military installations eroded Russia's confidence in the agreement, leading to Russia’s withdrawal in 2021. Though Russia initially planned to remain in the treaty, concerns grew over reports that NATO allies were pressured by the U.S. to share imagery of Russian facilities, violating the treaty’s mandate that data be used only for treaty purposes. In 2023, the Russian Duma began withdrawing from the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). While the U.S. signed the CTBT in 1996, it never ratified it. Before this, the U.S., USSR, and UK collaborated on arms control through the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) of 1963, officially known as the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), which aimed to slow the nuclear arms race by banning all tests except those conducted underground. The U.S. and its allies also never ratified the 1999 Adaptation of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, preventing it from becoming legally binding. The CFE, signed in 1990, was suspended by Russia in 2007 after NATO refused to ratify the treaty following Russia's intervention in Georgia. Russia formally withdrew from the treaty in 2023, citing Finland's NATO membership, Sweden's application, and the U.S.’s refusal to provide necessary information. Belarus, the U.S., and NATO nations also suspended participation last year. Diminishing Role of MAD and Arms Control During the Cold War, the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) nearly triggered nuclear conflict on multiple occasions, though sound judgment prevailed. For instance, Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov chose not to report what seemed to be an incoming U.S. missile attack, correctly identifying it as a system error and thereby averting nuclear war. Incidents like these highlight the critical role arms control agreements and Cold War-era treaties played in preserving global stability, providing lessons that remain relevant today. The START I treaty, signed by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President George H.W. Bush, was a key step in arms control, requiring the destruction of 450 Minuteman II missiles, along with equivalent Soviet reductions. Yet the impact of these treaties has faded, with New START, the last surviving agreement, set to expire in 2026. In terms of nuclear doctrine, both sides currently forbid preemptive strikes. Yet, Sergey Karaganov, a former Kremlin advisor, has argued that Russia’s nuclear doctrine is outdated and should be revised to provide a more credible deterrent. He believes the current policy, established in 2020, is overly restrictive and ineffective, and he advocates for the inclusion of a first-strike response to any major attack. Dangerous Lies at the Minuteman Missile NHS Rather than focusing on peace or the real dangers of arms control between the U.S. and Russia, the Minuteman Missile NHS glorifies the U.S.'s dominance over the USSR. The site does cover the history of Minuteman missiles, Cold War treaties, and the dissolution of the USSR, but it fails to address the broader consequences of arms control failures. With the New START Treaty in jeopardy and other key agreements falling apart, the NHS overlooks the ever-present threat of nuclear war, which is now at its highest level since the Cold War. In closing, the Minuteman Missile NHS sidesteps the implications of failed treaties while continuing to promote the narrative of American exceptionalism. This story seeks to justify both past and current acts of aggression in the name of "freedom" and "security." Accepting this narrative without question risks reinforcing the same forces of imperialism that continue to oppress millions around the world. We must challenge these falsehoods and tell history from the viewpoint of the oppressed, not the oppressors. Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report