RUSSIA IS PLACING THE WORLD UNDER RANSOM
The president of Russia has once more threatened the world with nuclear war if he does not win the “Special Operation” in Ukraine and “intellectuals” all over the world are eating his fearmongering bait with gusto, pleading for peace in form of surrender.
Vladimir Putin has started World War III when he imposed Russian interests over the vulnerable former republics that formed the USSR. Russia has interfered with the national elections of the Former Soviet Republics – FSRs – both covertly and explicitly, with Russian oriented governments placed in Ukraine, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and so on.
World War III military operation begun with the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea is a direct reaction for the Revolution of Dignity, when the Russian puppet president – Viktor Yanukovych was ousted by the Ukrainian population. This happened during Barack Hussein Obama who did nothing to safeguard the territory of Ukraine, violating the Memorandum of Budapest, where Russia, in 1994, promised not to invade Ukraine.
Invading a country for annexation of territory is abhorrent. If this is allowed, there are plenty of opportunities for dictatorships use their military might to annex their neighbors and even to annex overseas territories under the threat of military action.
IS NUCLEAR THREAT REAL?
The nuclear threat is real. There is no question about it. Putin may as well push that button and use an atomic weapon. There is no safeguards against this, like a defense secretary to verify the order.
The threat is real, but the actual question is are we going to submit ourselves to any nuclear nation blackmail? Will the world keep on sending food and fuel to North Korea because they use the nuclear blackmail onto us? Will China push for annexation of Taiwan on the same premises? How about China annexing North Korea and South Korea on the same rationale?
What is next? Russia wins the war against Ukraine and Vladimir Putin threatens to explode a nuclear bomb if the West does not help the reconstruction of Russia?
ATACMS – LONG RANGE ATTACK MISSILES
Not so long range. The ATACMS is a tactical missile that carries a range of 160 to 300 km, depending on the version. The use of “Long – Range” wording is due to the love of Soviet widows in the news organizations trying to fearmonger the population believing that Ukraine will be able to target any city in Russia – like Moscow or Saint Petersburg. This is impossible. Moreover, the authorization is limited to military targets or military strategic targets, as per the customary obedience to the Geneva convention, sparing the civilian population.
These missiles are being used in the Ukraine war for over a year. Russia claims that Joe Biden authorization to use the ATACMs into Russian territory is escalation of war and have threatened to attack any military installation of the nations engaged into war alongside Ukraine. Vladimir Putin also threatened to use nuclear bombs if provoked. The reality is that Putin started a war of annexation and this is the reason why the Ukrainians are defending themselves and the reason why Europe is helping Ukraine. Europe fear they will be next to be invaded.
The ATACMS missile is able to hit the targets with precision, thus implying that there are people highly trained to operate the system and that there are more intelligence gathering for the selection of targets than the Ukrainians are supposed to master. This means either very clever troops from Ukraine have been trained or some other arrangement has been made.
A list of prime targets include the most obvious Crimea bridge, that supply the Russian troops in Crimea. An attack on this bridge would disrupt logistics, buying up time for the Ukrainians. Russia claim to have intercepted some missiles already. There are also munitions depots that are already known to Ukranians. Perhaps these munitions depots dates from the Soviet times.
NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL
Nuclear blackmail works. This has been proven by another dictator – Kim Jong Un, Il and Sung – the North Korea Democratic Republic Emperors. Nuclear bombs threatens South Korea, whose capital Seul is 90 Km from North Korea and could not be evacuated in time if North Korea would send a atomic bomb there. South Korea has engaged in negotiations for donating food and fuel to North Korea.
One can only imagine that Cuba would be engaging in blackmailing the USA if they also had atomic bombs.
Neighbors with atomic bombs are not subjected to blackmail, as the Pakistan – India situation exemplifies. When India developed their atomic bomb, Pakistan followed suit and developed their own, creating another “detent” between the brother countries. Even the disputed border between China and India is kept cold, for there is a risk that two atomic armed nations bomb each other.
NORTH KOREA TROOPS IN RUSSIA
North Korea has sent troops to help Russia in the Ukraine invasion, citing a treaty they signed on June 18th of 2024, when Putin visited North Korea for negotiations, where Putin purchased – or re-purchased munitions from North Korea. This treaty was signed for the explicit purpose of having North Korea help in the war, given that China has dragged their feet on the help promised. Putin has asked for assistance from Communist China, but China has been very discreet in this assistance, only purchasing more oil at discount prices and supplying dual purpose products like drones and semiconductors to Russia.
The presence of foreign troops characterizes the war as a multiple nations war, leading to broader cooperation from other nations, whoever are interested in helping either side. This was once considered a World War scenario, but the “analysts” on the media are avoiding this characterization, waiting to use this taxonomy only when the West gets involved, thus “escalating” the war.
From the Ukrainian side, the Americans are the greatest contributor with money and munitions. The United Kingdom also helped with munitions. The European countries have a direct interest on the outcome of the war, because they fear being the next to be invaded.
FALLING DOMINOES – FINLAND, SWEDEN, POLAND, LITUANIA, ESTONIA AND LATVIA
If Vladimir Putin wins the war in Ukraine, there is no obstacles to invasion of the dominoes. Russia has suffered a lot of losses in the war with Ukraine, but their nuclear arsenal is at their disposal to blackmail each domino into into submission. The initial ones will be the Baltic states, followed by the others in turn. One must remember all these nations are members of NATO, thus a real world war may ensue when peace is forced upon Ukraine.
The threat is real and one must understand that Putin had no reason to annex Crimea other than the willingness to expand Russia territories to Imperial Russian grandeur, that exists on the history books and Putin is ready to use nuclear bombs on civilians to achieve what he believes will be his great accomplishment.
COURAGE TO CONFRONT A BULLY
The West must keep calm, and firm and united in this time of trial, to remember king George VI’s speech. Putin is a bully and his “Special Operation” was supposed to last for two weeks and he as to place a puppet president in Kiev. This has not happened and we are approaching the third year of war.
The Western unwilling cooperation with the brave Ukrainians have kept the Russians away from victory and both countries have lost too many people – soldiers and civilians and infrastructure and are in economic shambles. The former powerful Russian army that could invade the Fulda Gao no longer exist and Ukrainian resistance have shown the actual power of the Russian Air force and Russian Navy in the Black Sea. The Russians have not acquired supremacy in neither.
The Ukrainian war is an existential threat to Ukraine but is a war of attrition for Europe. Europe is keeping Ukraine alive just enough not to push Putin onto nuclear escalation, but eroding the military might of Russia. The Ukrainian lives lost is just canon fodder for the European dirigents.
The Joe Biden administration has sent billions of dollars in munitions and money to Ukraine – beware that the regime in Ukraine has changed and the corruption bosses are not the same. The government that sacked the Special Prosecutor in 2016 is not the Volodymyr Zelenskyy government in 2019. The Ukrainian people deserve the assistance for their brave resistance against the imperialistic desires of Russia.
Mr. Winter is arriving in the Northern Hemisphere and the war is going to be hard. This winter seems to be colder than the past one and Russians soldiers are away from home and the Ukrainians are in home territory. Both suffer, but the supply lines from Russia are longer. This gives a slight advantage to those who fight on home territory.
THE NUCLEAR RACE PART II
There are other nations that can have nuclear technology that have not produced an atomic bomb because they believe the nations of the world would abide to a minimum of order and refrain from using military might onto others.
Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Canada and many other countries will change their minds about the production of nuclear bombs if it is the only deterrent against another nation blackmailing then into submission.
Even the United Kingdom may reconsider the reliance on the USA supplied nuclear weapons and have their own re-commissioned in order to have freedom of action, just like France has decided to do in 1963.
It is time to make clear to Vladimir Putin that his nuclear gambit has failed and that if ever he orders – or any other leader from a nuclear nation – the use of an nuclear device onto another nation, his own country will keep the mark of Cain on their front and will be excluded from the international society.
If Vladimir Putin use the nuclear bomb, there will be retaliation from the peoples of the world against the whole of the Russian nation, who does not deserve it, but have a leader that is careless about the value of human life.
REFERENCES.
North Korea, Russia Strengthen Military Ties | Arms Control Association