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| 'Russia will definitely attack NATO': Biden’s team is playing a dangerous game |
| 2023-12-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Vladimir Kornilov [RIA] Over the past couple of years, we have repeatedly heard anti-Russian and even Russophobic statements from Western leaders. And you could probably get used to it by now. But we should pay special attention to how over the past few days, leading American politicians, and then Western experts who joined them, simultaneously began to spin the same idea: “Russia will definitely attack NATO. The West will have to fight with Russia.” This wave began on December 6 personally by US President Joe Biden in his theatrical performance on the eve of the failed Senate vote on aid to Ukraine , where he solemnly announced : “If Putin takes over Ukraine, he will not stop there. <…> He will continue to go, and then attack against a NATO ally." And then it went like clockwork. National Security Assistant Jack Sullivan said just as dramatically: “The stakes are too high and the consequences are too serious. <…> If we leave and Putin takes over Ukraine, he won’t stop there.” Then Admiral John Kirby, the talking head of the White House Security Council, got involved and said: “And if Putin gets all of Ukraine, then what? Then where will he go? If you think that the price of supporting Ukraine is high now, just imagine how it will be higher - not only in budget money, but also in American blood - if he attacks one of our NATO allies. <...> If Putin is allowed to achieve a strategic victory in Ukraine, after which he may attack one from our NATO allies, then we will have to involve American boots in this." Well, the icing on the cake was the statement of the Pentagon chief, which, according to the sworn assurances of the famous TV presenter Tucker Carlson , was heard in Congress: “At a secret briefing in the House of Representatives, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told congressmen that if they do not allocate more money for Zelensky, “ We will send your uncles, cousins and sons to fight Russia." Pay the oligarchs or we will kill your children." Many regarded this stream of alarmist statements as uncontrollable hysteria by members of the American administration. But these falsehoods are being done in a painfully large and systematic manner, which is accompanied by a certain kind of campaign in the media and among experts serving the White House. From which we can assume that all this is part of a systematic campaign launched deliberately and with a specific purpose. As if by chance, these statements coincided with the publication of pseudo-analytical reports in which various Euro-Atlantic structures calculate the timing of Russia’s attack on NATO (that is, we are no longer talking about discussing such a possibility, but looking for an answer to the question: “When?”). First, a report is presented in Berlin that Russia will be ready to attack the alliance countries in six to ten years. Then the head of the Polish National Security Bureau, Jacek Siwera (an anesthesiologist by profession), openly pulls other “calculations” out of thin air, saying that this will happen in three years. And just the other day, the British Defense Studies Institute (RUSI), in continuation of the same line, whipped up a report , which also states that after the victory in Ukraine, Russia “may try to take advantage of any perceived opportunity to seize symbolic areas of the alliance’s territory.” Which, of course, will entail the application of Article 5 of the NATO Charter on collective defense. The report's author, Professor Justin Bronk, believes that this scenario is "only a few years away." Another high-ranking Briton, the kingdom's newly appointed Foreign Minister David Cameron , also joined this campaign by arriving on American soil. Speaking at a high-profile security forum in Aspen, he said: “If Putin wins, it won’t be the end. […] If we let him win in Ukraine, next time it will be somewhere else. And it won’t just be American money could be a NATO country, and therefore American lives.” It should be noted that at this forum this idea was constantly heard in the speeches of many American experts of various calibers. So it's not just paranoia. It seems that the Biden team, with the support of foreign ideological servants, is starting its campaign by choosing the most dangerous direction - inciting fear among American society. And the point here, most likely, is not only and not so much in the dispute with the Republicans over military assistance to Ukraine - the Democrats themselves are not eager to force the issue . Faced with the increasingly obvious threat of a collapse in ratings and the defeat of the elderly Biden in the 2024 elections, Democratic strategists decided to intensify passions. They now directly threaten war and the deaths of Americans, personalizing these fears ("your uncles, cousins, sons" will die). Max Bergmann, an expert at the influential US Center for Strategic and International Studies , very accurately noted, commenting on the Ukrainian case: “Usually American foreign policy <…> is separated from the domestic political struggle. But not in this case.” Precisely because the White House is trying to rely on spinning an external threat to raise the stakes in the campaign. And this is, in fact, a very dangerous moment. It has happened more than once in history when a bet on promoting a mythical international threat in an internal struggle, regardless of the original idea of the initiators, led to a real global conflict. By sowing fear and terror among its constituents, the White House may not even notice when these emotions become uncontrollable. It is no coincidence that the Russian Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, pointed out to the Americans the danger of “losing touch with reality” during the White House’s discussions about the possibility of a direct military clash with our country. Indeed, now we must make every effort to explain to the Americans and their satellites: if we are talking about a direct war between nuclear powers, then the death of only “uncles and cousins” will not be limited: the question will be about the fate of all humanity. And playing with such threats, intensifying them, hoping that everything will be limited to the election campaign is very risky for everyone. Biden, in an effort to retain power by any means, may not even notice (especially in his current mental state) when he passes the point of no return. It would be better if Washington realized the danger of this game before, not after. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 NATO I'm reminded of the 3 Blind Mice. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-12-12 14:49 |
| #2 Biden and his handlers want war, any war, "Biden, in an effort to retain power by any means". Suspend elections in the advent of war. Problem is our aged nukes have not been checked on. Reliability verses reality. |
| Posted by: Dale 2023-12-12 03:35 |
| #1 As far as Russians are concerned, they are at war with NATO now - something (who can really understand the mystic Russian mind?) all these NATO weapons used to kill Russian soldiers. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-12-12 02:56 |