COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA TODAY
Putin in his
state-of-the-nation address on new US nuclear stance: If attacked, Russia will
use nukes
President Putin has given us precisely the statement needed.
Sober and firm but non-threatening. It set me back on my heels a little this
morning, and that, I’m sure, is just the effect intended.
America's just-announced changes in its nuclear weapons
posture plus America's known efforts to develop "more usable."
yield-adjustable nuclear weapons plus its efforts to ring Russia with anti-missile
missiles plus its highly aggressive activities in Europe are without question unnecessarily
frightening, destabilizing, and threatening.
America is launching a new Cold War, but one this time where
the rest of the world does not see the dark threatening shadow of a Stalin.
Instead we see a peaceful modern articulate Russia willing and ready to cooperate
and to do business with everyone. No, this Cold War has only one truly dark
presence, and that is a Pentagon-security agency complex, bloated with money
and dedicated to the malignant principle of “full-spectrum dominance
everywhere.”
And this threat comes from a United States which has spent
the last 15 years terrorizing and bombing and setting fire to the Middle East, acts
which tell us that It means business.
It has shed not a tear for the two million or more souls
that it has killed there. Nor for the many millions it has reduced to hopeless
refugees. Nor for de-stabilizing Europe with those same refugees, which it
ignores and for which it even expresses contempt. Nor for the previously
well-ordered societies it has reduced to chaos.
America's new nuclear posture and its demonstrated hostile
attitude towards Russia must be seen in light of such a determined march of
terror. Washington’s belligerence and threats must be taken very seriously
indeed.
And thank God from all the rational people of this earth Mr.
Putin has told them he does take it very seriously.
