THE USA ATTACKED – HOW WILL RUSSIA REACT?
Interview for Gegenpol

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HAS WORLD WAR III JUST STARTED?
Interview for Gary Grass

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⁣And yet most Americans do not understand the stupidity of Buchanan’s statement.

Russia isn’t doing “an exchange.”

Russia will obliterate the United States.

The fact that we will have a few Ohio class submarines hanging out in the ocean afterwards is meaningless.

Because the country they are defending will no longer exist.

We need to fundamentally rethink our approach to nuclear weapons and nuclear war.

You can’t claim to deter nuclear conflict if you pretend you can somehow survive a nuclear war.

It’s time to inject arms control back into the national lexicon.

Before it is too late.

What say you, Donald J. Trump?

Elon Musk? Robert F. Kennedy Jr?

Donald Trump Jr? Tulsi Gabbard?

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RUSSIA HAS UNVEILED A NEW WEAPON SYSTEM AS A WARNING TO UKRAINE AND THE WEST

Russia has apparently launched a single RS-26 Rubezh road mobile missile against a target in Dnipro, Ukraine (Dnipropetrovsk).

According to Ukrainian authorities, the missile struck an unnamed industrial enterprise.

Dnipro is home to the Pivdenmash (former Yuzhmash) missile production facility.

Analysis of imagery of the attack indicates the RS-26 carried six independent warheads, each in turn deploying several submunitions.
This warhead package is exclusively for conventional attack.

Russia had not been previously assessed to outfit the RS-26 with a warhead of this design.

By unveiling the conventionally armed RS-26, Russia is changing the qualitative nature of the conflict, something promised by President Vladimir Putin.

Ukraine and its Western allies must now evaluate the destructive potential of this weapon, and understand that Russia can deliver this warhead to any target in Ukraine or Europe knowing there is no defense against it.

The RS-26 is produced in Votkinsk. It is assessed that the production of the RS-26, which was halted in 2017, was resumed this past summer. With production rates estimated at 6-8 missiles per month, Russia could have accumulated an arsenal of between 30-40 RS-26 missiles. Although described as an intercontinental ballistic missile, the RS-26’s range actually depends on the warhead package. If armed with a single warhead, it can exceed the 5,000 kilometer threshold used to differentiate between intermediate and intercontinental range missiles. The RS-26 did not go into serial production because of this ambiguity; at the time, Russia was a signatory to the INF treaty, which prohibited intermediate range missiles.

It is assessed that the six warhead conventional warhead package used against Dnipro would have made the RS-26 used fall into the intermediate range for classification.

Donald Trump withdrew from the INF treaty in 2019.

If the United States had remained in the treaty, this version of the RS-26 would not have been available for use by Russia.

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As America and the West comes to grips over the fact that Russia has launched an ICBM-capable missile in combat for the first time in history, we all might want to take some time contemplating how we got to this point, and we might find a path that leads us away from the inevitability of nuclear war with Russia.

Fortunately, there is a book that does just that: Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika.

This is a history/memoir that details the story of the implementation of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, and the role I played in setting up and operating a monitoring site outside the Soviet missile factory in Votkinsk.

The United States has walked away from arms control over the course of the last three decades; Donald Trump withdrew from the INF Treaty in 2019.

We faced a very dangerous situation in the 1980’s, with a nuclear arms race leading the US and Soviets on a path toward inevitable nuclear war.

The INF treaty saved us, and the world, from such a fate.
Arms control conducted in the spirit of the INF treaty could save us once again.

Read my book to learn this critical history, and to learn about the importance and potential of arms control when it comes to the present state of affairs between the US and Russia.

And just to highlight the connection of the present to the past—Votkinsk produced the SS-20 intermediate range missile that was eliminated under the INF treaty. It also produces the RS-26 intermediate range missile used by Russia against Ukraine.

To buy the book CLICK HERE

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⁣NATO JUST ATTACKED RUSSIA, PUTIN'S GLOVES ARE OFF — IS WW3 NEXT?
Interview for Danny Haiphong

Live Stream Scheduled for November 21, 2024 at 1:00pm ET

We discuss Russia firing an ICBM into Ukraine in response to Biden approving long range missile strikes deep into Russia, Ukraine’s first ATACMS strike on the Bryansk region, the UK following US lead with approval of storm shadow strikes into Russia, Russia updating its nuclear doctrine and whether WW3 is on the way after these reckless escalations.

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BIDEN TEAM GOES FULL PSYCHO!
Interview for Garland Nixon

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Correction: The missile used by Russia was not the RS-26, but rather a previously unknown medium range missile known as the Oreshnik (Hazel).

A medium range missile is generally characterized as having a range of between 1,000 and 3,000 kilometers.

The range from Kapustin Yar to Dnipro is around 800 kilometers.

Vladimir Putin indicated that this missile could be used to strike targets throughout Europe.

Not much is known about the Oreshnik.

However, the Ukrainian government has reported that an RS-26 had been observed at Kapustin Yar prior to the launch, implying that they had access to satellite imagery.

As such, one can speculate that the Oreshnik physically resembles the RS-26, meaning that it uses a six-axle mobile launcher and is fired from a launch canister mounted on the launcher.

If this is the case, the Oreshnik may be a modification of the Rubezh, implying that it is a product of the Nadiradzhe/Votkinsk missile production team.

However, everything is speculation pending more definitive information.

US officials described the Oreshnik as an “experimental” system, implying that they were aware of its existence.

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RUSSIA FIRES FIRST ICBM IN COMBAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
Interview for Judging Freedom

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NATO JUST ATTACKED RUSSIA, RUSSIA FIRES AN ICBM AT UKRAINE — IS WW3 NEXT?
Interview for Danny Haiphong

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61 YEARS AGO TODAY PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS ASSASSINATED IN DALLAS.

A few years ago I had a long conversation with Bill Polk, the distinguished former diplomat and academic who served in the White House during the Cuban missile crisis.

We talked about how Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev worked together to prevent a nuclear war.

We talked about how these two leaders began working to repair relations and promote arms control between their two nations when Kennedy was killed.

We then engaged in a speculative journey where we talked about what the world would have been like had Kennedy lived and he and Khrushchev brought their plans to fruition.

We agreed we would be living in a much different world today, one defined by peaceful cooperation instead of nuclear-fueled crisis, if they had.

We talked about writing a book of historical fiction to imagine how this would have played out in the remainder of Kennedy’s first term.

Bill Polk died before we could durn this dream into reality.

I look at the world we live in today, where we are one mistake or miscalculation away from a nuclear Armageddon, and dream of this alternative world.

And then I come to my senses and realize we will all die unless we do something to stop the trajectory we are currently on.

Donald J. Trump was elected on a platform which promised to end the war in Ukraine and prevent a nuclear war with Russia.

And yet President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have ignored the stated will of the American people to pursue policies to escalate the Ukraine conflict and make a nuclear war possible, if not possible.

On December 7, myself and like minded Americans will be gathering in Washington DC to appeal to Donald Trump to step up and remind the Biden administration who won the election, and the imperative of preserving the legitimacy of American democracy by respecting the will of the American people as manifested through their vote.

For we, the people, to make clear to the leadership of the US and Russian leadership that we are not seeking a war, nuclear or otherwise.

December 7 is the day we commemorate the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of America’s participation in the Second World War.

Let us redefine December 7 as the day we the people saved our country, saved our lives, and saved the world because we came to Washington DC and put the Biden administration on notice that their mad march toward nuclear war with Russia will not succeed.

And then, on December 8, on the anniversary of the signing of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in 1987–the treaty that eliminated the most destabilizing missiles in the world—we need to make arms control relevant again.

To once again eliminate these horrible weapons which, because Donald Trump withdrew from the INF treaty, once again threaten us with nuclear destruction.

Plan on joining us in Washington DC on December 7.

Watch this space for updated information.

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A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR
Interview for Issues that Matter with Cynthia Pooler

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⁣ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 214

Live Stream Scheduled for November 22, 2024 at 8:00pm ET

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BACKGROUND ON RUSSIA'S NEW MISSILE TEST
Interview for The Winers

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ORESHNIK MISSILE, “PUTIN'S BLUFF”, NUCLEAR WAR
Interview for Товарищ Артём

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THE NEXT 60 DAYS WILL BE THE MOST DANGEROUS OF YOUR LIFE
Interview for Schiller Institute

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