One of Russia’s Early Warning radar stations.
Biden’s Game of Nuclear Chicken:
Why Isn’t This Front Page News?!
Gar Smith / Environmentalists Against War
The war in Ukraine is widely seen as a “proxy war” where Washington (having orchestrated a 2014 coup that toppled Ukraine’s pro-Russian government and subsequently enlisted British PM Boris Johnson to sabotage the Ukraine-Russia Minsk Agreement that could have brought peace to the region) is prepared to “fight to the last Ukrainian.”
Within the last few weeks, however, the situation has taken some troubling steps upwards on the ladder of nuclear escalation. NATO partners are now sending “instructors” to Ukraine to prepare soldiers to use ever-more-powerful Western weapons—including nuclear-capable F-16 Lockheed Martin fighter jets. French leader Emmanuel Macron is desirous of sending French troops to bolster Ukraine’s fighting forces. Several NATO states have agreed to store US nuclear weapons on bases close to Russia’s border.
The nuclear threat has become so ominous that one Russian dignitary, Dmitry Suslov, has openly suggested that one way to halt the quickening pace towards a world-ending nuclear conflagration would be for Moscow to explode a single “demonstration” nuke to remind everyone of the horrendous force of a nuclear weapon.
And it is in these fraught times that the US has broken its taboo against providing Ukraine with US-made weapons that can reach deep inside Russian territory. These weapons (including long-range drones guided by US technicians and Pentagon satellite intelligence specialists) were recently used to strike two of Russia’s ten Nuclear Launch Early Warning Detection radar systems.
These early warning systems (EWS) are designed to scan vast regions of the planet’s sky ready to pick up any signs of incoming nuclear-armed missiles. These shockingly provocative attacks are especially troubling given Washington’s recent refusal to join China and other nuclear-armed nations in adopting a “No First-Use” policy.
Washington’s attacks on Russia’s nuclear warning system is gravely concerning but the story has yet to receive any substantive reporting in the US media.
These aggressive US military strikes deep inside Russia are especially alarming given that the EWS plays no role in the Ukraine War. The US-backed attacks on two radar-warning station—hundreds of miles from the frontlines of the Ukraine war—have left Russia fearing that the strikes were intended to “blind” Russian defensive sites as a “prelude” to a US nuclear first-strike. Or, a Russian strategist asked, perhaps these attacks were “an attempt by the US/NATO to provoke a Russian nuclear strike against Western targets.”
Russia’s satellite Early Warning System.
In the aftermath of the attack on the Voronezh M early-warning radar near Orsk, Russia is now weighing Paragraph 19c of its Nuclear Response Doctrine, which reads: ‘attack by an adversary against critical governmental or military sites…. would undermine nuclear forces response actions” and would justify a Russian retaliatory strike.
The Western media has insulated readers to a sobering fact: Today’s thousands of missile-ready nuclear weapons are many times more destructive than the bombs that erased two Japanese cities from the map. As Russian affairs specialist Gilbert Doctorow recently noted, a single “fully loaded Sarmat [a nuclear-armed Russian missile] can level to the ground a country the size of the UK.”
Meanwhile, Washington and the Pentagon have so far failed to address—let along justify—the “blinding” attack on one-fifth of Russia’s defensive radar systems.
Imagine this scenario: You live in a ten-story apartment complex. One of your neighbors is known to be a serial arsonist. One day you wake up to discover that 20% of the building’s smoke detectors have been smashed….
What would you do?
