On the Nuclear Brink In Ukraine
Published date | 10 June 2022 |
Publication title | Israel National News (Israel) |
Washington and the world are holding their breath waiting to see if Russian dictator Vladimir Putin will use nuclear weapons to win his losing war in Ukraine.
Putin has threatened "lightning fast" nuclear strikes against NATO for supporting Ukraine: "If someone intends to interfere in what is going on from the outside they must know that constitutes an unacceptable strategic threat to Russia. They must know that our response to counterstrikes will be lightning fast. Fast."[1]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warns "a nuclear world war is now a real danger" because "the West is essentially fighting a proxy war against Moscow via its support for Kyiv."[2]
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakhorova threatened: "Russia can strike military targets on the territory of those NATO countries that supply arms to the Kyiv regime…Afterall, this directly leads to deaths and bloodshed on Ukrainian territory."[3]
Putin friend, Margarita Simonyan, chief of Russia's media giant RT, said in a TV interview: "Either we lose in Ukraine, or the Third World War starts. I think World War III is more realistic, knowing us, knowing our leader. The most incredible outcome, that all this will end with a nuclear strike, seems more probable to me than the other course of events."[4]
U.S. Intelligence Community: Kingdom of the Blind
CIA Director, William Burns, agrees with Simonyan that Putin "doesn't believe he can afford to lose" in Ukraine "because he staked so much on the choices that he made to launch this invasion."
But according to Burns: "We don't see, as an intelligence community, practical evidence at this point of Russia planning for the deployment or even potential use of tactical nuclear weapons. Given the kind of sabre-rattling that…we've heard from the Russian leadership, we can't take lightly those possibilities."[5]
However, given past and recent spectacular intelligence failures by CIA and the intelligence community in Afghanistan and Ukraine (such as predicting Ukraine would be defeated by Russia in 72 hours, such as failure to foresee stellar Ukrainian resistance and abysmal performance by the Russian Army) it could be fatal to trust the U.S. intelligence community is competent to provide warning of an impending Russian nuclear attack.
Indeed, Russia's strategic nuclear forces are postured and their command-control-communications (C3) are designed to achieve surprise nuclear attack. Normally, Russian ICBMs and SLBMs are on Constant Combat Readiness, ready to receive orders over highly secure C3 channels and always ready to launch most of Russia's strategic nuclear warheads in a few minutes, 24/7.[6]
CIA Director Burns is probably watching Russia's 12th GUMO to move tactical nuclear warheads out of storage as "practical evidence…of Russia planning for the deployment or even potential use of tactical nuclear weapons." But Russia already has tactical nuclear weapons deployed on cruisers and submarines that could be used for a surprise attack that would, again, blindside CIA Director Burns.
Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, and CIA Director Burns, are either lying or grossly incompetent to be giving false assurances to the American people that Moscow's nuclear threats are mere "saber rattling" and the world is not on the brink of nuclear war:
--The intelligence community's own worst case scenario toward nuclear war is actually happening: a major war in Europe involving the two nuclear superpowers, three including China;
--Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's nuclear forces to go on "special combat alert" on February 27 and disappeared with his general staff into one of Russia's hundreds of deep underground command posts that are impervious to nuclear attack;
--Reportedly, Russian elites and their families have been flying from Moscow to the Urals where are located some of the best protected deep underground complexes, including the Yamantau Mountain complex, a deep underground facility the size of a small city;
--Russian strategic and...
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