John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY THE SAKER IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“Each 'Click' Brings Us One Step Closer to the 'Bang!'
“We survived April 14th. Doesn't mean it was a good idea.”
Interesting analysis. I thought especially that last about the Triad. Of course, the efforts to build more flexible and "usable" nuclear weapons underway in the US is related to this.
The analysis of the missile attack is definitely accurate, although I think the story of the attack goes even further, right down to a degree of coordination with Russian military about which areas would be safe to attack.
Any normal person would say, then why attack anything?
The answer is found in the virtually daily phone calls to the White House from Netanyahu plus the arrogant Israel Lobby, the single most politically influential lobby in the United States.
The fact that the US behaved in that way is further evidence of Russia's ability to effectively checkmate some of America's aggressive operations, at least where direct Russian interests are involved. it also serves the conclusions about the Triad.
Of course, in the longer run, America could save immense amounts of money doing away with much of its conventional forces. The more Russia manages to neutralize American conventional forces, the more incentive the Pentagon has to change over to a new approach.
Someday, the President or the Pentagon may just be able to press a button to fire a nuclear-capable missile - from a distant submarine or a distant plane - at a target in, say, Syria, without having a big show of forces nearby, forces which are vulnerable to Russia's best missile technology.
Depending on the situation and judgments made in Washington, the missile will carry conventional or dialed-back "new nuclear" or full-blown nuclear warheads.
That seems to be a guiding vision for the Pentagon, although we have to add emerging warfare from orbit to the mix.
In such an ugly world with one country working intensely to dominate everyone - ironically a country whose political rhetoric has always disparaged dictators in various countries - we need all be grateful for some counter-balancing force from Russia and China. And that is why they are especially hated right now in Washington, especially Russia because China has not yet quite arrived at the capacity to obliterate America. Russia has, and that is the major fact for all the lying hysteria about Russian aggression from the most aggressive country on earth.
There is no one else capable right now of counterbalancing, in any way, America’s juggernaut effort at dominating the planet. Europe, which has the potential, is totally subservient. Indeed, it is effectively occupied by NATO.
