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How close are we to World War III? Newsweek reported last Sunday that Igor Korotchenko, a Russian journalist (which essentially means a spokesman for the Russian government), “has claimed on state TV that the U.S. has declared war on the country following reports of the White House’s approval of targeted strikes on Crimea.”
What? The United States declared war on Russia? Korotchenko was basing his statement on “a previous statement made by the U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.” Then on Wednesday, Elon Musk tweeted: “Nobody is pushing this war more than Nuland.” The UK’s far-Left Independent ridiculed Musk for this on Thursday with an article entitled, “Elon Musk mocked for claiming ‘no one’ pushing Ukraine war more than US diplomat: ‘Putin for example?’” Yet there is good reason to believe that Musk is right.
Newsweek quoted Nuland saying that “Washington supports Ukrainian attacks on military targets on the peninsula and has called for it to be demilitarized. Crimea was illegally annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014.” Crimea’s population is largely Russian, and the Kremlin believes it to be rightly theirs. Consequently, attacks on Crimea could be the flashpoint that make the Russia-Ukraine war into World War III.
That was why Korotchenko declared, “After the U.S. crossed every imaginable and unimaginable red line, today the U.S. State Department actually announced that it was going to war with Russia. I assume that this is how we should interpret Nuland’s statement. There is no need for halftones. The U.S. is an enemy of Russia, a military adversary.” He added: “If it expects massive missile strikes on Russian territory to be carried out with their help, but as if by someone else’s hands, then perhaps we can regard this as a casus belli (cause for war) and react accordingly.”
However, numerous Western analysts think this is all just bluster. One of them, Michael Clarke, a professor in the War Studies department at King’s College London, dismissed Korotchenko’s statements: “This is just more bluster and repeats things being said on the channel at regular intervals.”
Maybe so. But is it just more bluster from the Biden regime? Victoria Nuland is a longtime Washington insider who oversaw the 2014 revolution in Ukraine that led to the installation of the current regime, which has so many questionable ties to the Leftist establishment in the U.S., including suspicions of money-laundering. Would Nuland, therefore, have an interest in preserving and protecting that Ukrainian regime, even to the point of sparking a war between Russia and the United States?
Would an American official advocate for going to war on such a flimsy pretext? Well, there are precedents. On Friday, the investigative journalist who goes by the name “Kanekoa” tweeted: “Victoria Nuland’s husband, Robert Kagan, wrote an open letter to George W. Bush nine days after the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001, urging him to invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein ‘even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack.’”
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Jack Reynolds says
HE IS CORRECT.
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In Western nations we have checks and balances and even if a US President were to declare war, it would be up to Congress to decide if financial support would be provided.
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The World cannot afford to give in to a petty dictator jumping up and down, yelling “NUKES … NUKES … NUKES !!!”.
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Russia has a resource disadvantage with the West that is somewhere between 25-to-1 and 40-to-1. It’s population is only equal to that of the UK and France combined.. Here is a list of the Nations standing against Putin.
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Canada, the UK, Australia. France, Italy, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romainia, and the US.
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PUTIN MADE A HUGE MISCALCULATION. He is finished and the only open question is how many others will die with him.
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somehistory says
And the corrupt jerk of Ukraine, dares to threaten Americans who do not support supporting with hard-earned dollars, his war.
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/zelensky-stoops-to-threatening-americans-who-do-not-support-war/
Threats don’t ever get my support.
gravenimage says
Somehistory, it is Putin who is threatening to nuke the US and Britain, not Zelensky.
somehistory says
g, I am fully aware of what putin has threatened. zelensky is making other threats to the American public.
Did your read the article?
Jack Reynolds says
The Chinese thought they could help Russia by sending a few balloons across N.A. to rattle the population.
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After the 3rd the US responded by sending an unarmed ICBM across the Pacific towards China.
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The Chinese satellites would have picked it up within a few minutes. That must have been FUN for them.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think that when the Soviet Union came apart, Western Foreign Relations bureaucracies, being as lazy as they always were, simply did a search-and-replace in all their documents to replace ‘Soviet Union’ w/ Russia. Since both entities had capitals Moscow and headquarters in the Kremlin, it was pretty easy. Then the war continued despite the fact that Russia was too burnt out from the loss of the Cold War
I remember that in the 80s, the line we were fed was that our enmity was only w/ the Soviet regime, not the average Russian. The attitude of the US particularly during the 90s, let alone this century, is enough proof that all that was nothing more than a propaganda lie
If WWIII does break out, I hope that enemy nukes go off on where our bureaucracies live, instead of targeting the rest of the country
Jack Reynolds says
In 1991 the hope was that Russia would join the West.
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What happened is that Putin and his Oligarch buddies took over.
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The US President can declare war, but Congress is the only one who can fund a war. Russia is a DICTATORSHIP, so it only takes one person to screw-up and the country is F*CKED.
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Ukraine is NOT a LEFT–RIGHT issue. Congress is controlled by REPUBLICANS and they will continue to fund the defence of UKRAINE.
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Ukraine can only stand alone for another 6-months to 12-months, and at that point there will be all out war. It will take 2-3 weeks to destroy the Russia air force and once that is accomplished NATO troops will pour across the border.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Except that there was that window b/w 1992 and 2000, when Russia’s president was Boris Yeltsin. Even though the US violated the verbal agreement not to expand eastwards, Russia is excluded from joining. Which is why I stated above that there was never a good faith acceptance of the end of the Cold War
Ukraine is not a Left-Right issue, b’cos on this issue, you have the uniparty, w/ the GOP still being strongly establishmentarian enough that even Trump couldn’t change the policy. But this patience w/ NATO has worn thin, and enough people are opposed to the blank checks to Ukraine, when we are $30T+ in debt. But in a recent interview w/ Dave Rubin, even Mike Pompeo, who’s somewhere b/w neocon and MAGA, stated that there has to be a diplomatic solution to this issue, and it won’t end in either Ukraine nor Russia getting everything either party wants. However, I do believe that if the US pulled out of NATO, a lot of the paranoia that exists in the Kremlin would subside. Of course, Senate would never buy that, so end result is we’d have to confront both Beijing and Moscow, instead of just Beijing
As for your prediction that it’ll take 2-3 weeks to destroy the Russian Air Force, wars have a funny way of not going according to plan. Just look at what Russia tried to do to Ukraine, and what ended up happening. Yeah, Russia has shown itself to be a paper tiger in this war, but if Russia itself were invaded, it would be a whole another story
gravenimage says
Infidel, with all respect, I don’t think that Russia invaded Ukraine because the US is a NATO member. I think they invaded Ukraine because it *wasn’t* a NATO member, and so Putin assumed they would not fight back.
Jack Reynolds says
Russia has a resource disadvantage that has been measured from 25-to-1 to as much as 40-to-1.
Russia has a larger population than Ukraine, but at 140 million it is only equivalent to the UK and France combined. Here is a list of the nations standing against Russia:
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Canada, the UK, Australia. France, Italy, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, and the US.
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My guess is that we are now 6 months to 12 months from the point when the first NATO troops will cross the border into Russia.
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https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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Jack Reynolds says
It is a different kind of war. One Canadian serving in the Ukraine foreign Legion said the chances of being killed by a bullet were about 1 in a 100.
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3 men in a $200,000 tank have little chance against 3 men each with a Javeline missile. Russia started out with 3,000 tanks and they now have 1,100 left.
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The US seized $300 billion in Russian gov’t accounts and another $19 billion belonging to Putin’s Oligarch buddies. Only a fraction of that has been given to Ukraine so far.
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BOTTOM LINE … The US and the UK persuaded Ukraine to give up its Nukes in return for a promise that Russia would never invade. The absolute MINIMUM that can be done is to rearm Ukraine with enough Dirty Bombs to force the Russians ouit. I think it would be wise to give Ukraine, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan enough Nukes to ensure their self-defence needs.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Also, if US troops are stupid enough to invade Russia, that will leave a huge potential for China to do in the Pacidic what Japan did in the early 1940s
lyone says
Yes, Putin needs to have his a55 handed to him in a sling. But I am not sure that accomplishing that will amount to WW3. . . . And right now I think Iran is more of a problem for the US.
gravenimage says
Musk, Russian Journo: U.S. HAS Declared World War III
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Russia has been threatening to nuke anyone who supports Ukraine against Russia’s brutal invasion for months now. Appeasing a bully didn’t work with Hitler; I don’t think it is apt to work today with Putin, either.
Jack Reynolds says
It is possible that Putin could use Dirty Bombs. So far Russia has put far more effort into destroying Infrastructure than fighting the Ukraine army.
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If Putin does use Nuclear weapons that would be suicide … He’d be dead within a week.
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somehistory says
“Did Zelensky Just Call For America’s Sons & Daughters To Be Sacrificed? [VIDEO]”
yes, yes he did.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2023/02/did-zelensky-just-call-for-americas-sons-daughters-to-be-sacrificed/?utm_source=
Jack Reynolds says
Did the US and the UK ‘persuade’ Ukraine to give up its Nukes in return for a promise that Russia would never invade ???
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Did the West avoid a problem in 1991 by postponing it until February 2022 ???
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Are there those who now want to avoid responsibility for the problem that they created ???
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Is the likely reason simple COWARDICE, and an unwillingness to live up to the commitment made in 1991 ???
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