Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)

On the night of September 25th, CNN headlined “Republicans follow Trump’s lead of icing out Zelensky”, and reported that,

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized Volodymyr Zelensky and claimed the Ukrainian president “refuses to make a deal” amid Russia’s war in Ukraine, marking Trump’s most explicit criticism of Zelensky’s handling of the war to date. 

“Those cities are gone, they’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refused to make a deal, Zelensky. There was no deal that he could have made that wouldn’t have been better than the situation you have right now. You have a country that has been obliterated, not possible to be rebuilt,” Trump said during a campaign speech in Mint Hill, North Carolina. …

 Republican leaders are so far declining to meet Zelensky while he is in Washington, DC, while Democrats are embracing the opportunity. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are not currently scheduled to meet with the Ukrainian president, sources told CNN, while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Vice President Kamala Harris are scheduled to have meetings. …

“Every time he came to our country, he’d walk away with $60 billion. He’s probably the greatest salesman on Earth,” Trump said of Zelensky on Wednesday.

Trump says Ukraine should have given up territory to stop the war earlier

In his speech, Trump blamed Biden and Harris for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and claimed they “caused this situation by the stupidity of what they said, by every move they make, but they caused the situation and now they’re locked in.”

“They just don’t know what to do. They’re locked into a situation. It’s sad, they just don’t know what to do. Because Ukraine is gone, it’s not Ukraine anymore. You can never replace those cities and towns, and you can never replace the dead people, so many dead people,” Trump said.

He said making a deal earlier in the conflict to cede some territory to the Russians would have prevented more catastrophe. Trump argued Biden should have been able to orchestrate a deal between Russia and Ukraine that avoided any bloodshed and argued that even a “bad deal” and one where Ukraine had “given up a little bit,” would’ve been preferable to the war.

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party, have made clear, again and again, that the U.S. will never allow Russia to win in Ukraine. Everyone by now agrees that Russia is winning in Ukraine. Zelensky is asking Biden for permission to use U.S. weapons in order to strike deep into Russia, including The Kremlin itself — with U.S. weapons.

Also on September 25th, The Hill headlined “Putin issues new nuclear threat against the West”, and reported:

Russian President Vladimir Putin made new threats Wednesday to use nuclear weapons against the West, suggesting any nuclear power supporting a country that attacks Russia would be seen as participating in the aggression.

Addressing Russia’s Security Council, Putin said the country’s nuclear doctrine has been revised in light of an “emergence of new sources of military threats and risks for Russia and our allies.”

“The updated version of the document proposes that aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear-weapon state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear-weapon state, should be considered as a joint attack on the Russian Federation,” Putin told the council.

He did not specify whether Russia could respond to such an attack with nuclear weapons, but said the conditions for their use would be “reliable information about a massive launch of aerospace attack means and their crossing of our State border.”

He added, “We reserve the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression against Russia and Belarus as a member of the Union State.”

Putin’s decision to change Russia’s official nuclear doctrine comes as the United States and the United Kingdom are considering whether to give Ukraine permission to fire Western-provided missiles deeper into Russian territory.

U.S. policy restricts Kyiv from using the American-made weapons such as the long-range artillery like the Army Tactical Missile System to hit airfields and logistical hubs across the border.

Also on September 25th, the Wall Street Journal headlined “U.S. ‘Unimpressed’ With Ukraine’s Victory Plan Ahead of Biden-Zelensky Meeting”, and reported:

The Biden administration is concerned that the Ukrainian leader’s plan for winning the war against Russia lacks a comprehensive strategy and is little more than a repackaged request for more weapons and the lifting of restrictions on long-range missiles, U.S. officials said. …

Senior U.S. and European officials knowledgeable of the broad outlines of the plan say it offers no clear path to a Ukraine victory, particularly as Russian forces make slow but steady gains on the battlefield.

“I’m unimpressed, there’s not much new there,” one of the senior officials said.

While the U.S. and Ukraine hoped to be united on a way forward, they now find themselves at a crucial point in the war without a shared vision. …

A centerpiece of the plan requires the U.S. to give Ukraine the green light to use the weapons as Kyiv sees fit, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Without that authority, he said Ukraine’s proposals would ultimately be “less relevant.”

If Biden will allow this, then in the view of Russians, the U.S. missiles etc. that Ukraine will be using against Russia will place Russia at war against not only Ukraine but also the U.S.

A 2022 peer-reviewed scientific analysis of the number of deaths that would result from a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia, which was published in a prestigious scientific journal, concluded that at least five billion people (over half of the planet’s human population) would be dead within just the first two years after the blasts.

The war in Ukraine started in 2014 when the Obama-Biden Administration carried out a coup in Ukraine, which replaced that country’s democraticaly elected neutralist leader and installed a rabidly anti-Russian one, thus starting the war in Ukraine.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.

https://theduran.com/the-u-s-presidential-election-is-now-overwhelmingly-about-whether-to-go-to-ww3-for-ukraine-this-dwarfs-every-other-issue/

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Amar Djerrad

What is funny and ridiculous is that the decision-makers in Washington, London and Paris dare to have the nerve, through a perfidious pseudo-humanism, to decide to sanction their dean Iran, which allegedly delivered missiles to Russia, because it constitutes a "direct threat to European security».

As if everything that is happening in Ukraine so far, military aid (weapons, intelligence, mercenaries, dollars etc.); hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian victims; the destruction of its economic infrastructure; the loss of half of its population; the economic, social and political crises that are destabilizing Europe, etc. would be linked to a hypothetical delivery by Iran of missiles to Russia! Yet, they predicted a collapse of Russia "within 15 days." and we are entering the third year of this conflict.

As if Russia is about to lose the war in Ukraine and urgently needs Iranian missiles to save it from annihilation. Iranians should not feel compelled, every time, to deny or justify their actions, because they have enough forces to ignore such pressures. It is important to remember that "the comprehensive strategic partnership agreement between Russia and the Islamic Republic of Iran" which also binds them through collaboration in foreign policy, geopolitics and military technologies among others.

For these three arrogant and contemptuous governments, despite their humiliating military failure against their Russian master, the massive and obvious supply of destructive weapons to their favorite, Israel, which is waging a genocidal war against the Palestinians (resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of women and children), is seen as a highly humanitarian and moral act in accordance with Christian ethics.

This is just another diversion to cover up their failure in Ukraine by moving their devilry to Palestine! When one senses inevitable defeat, one seeks an outlet! The Russians will be ferocious and implacable when their existence is threatened! Russia's repeated insistence on this "red line" indicates that insurmountable consequences are foreseen. They will be the rats of the "garden» NATO against the bear of the »taiga» from Siberia!

Everything that NATO has decided, committed, planned and financed has, so far, led to resounding failure. On the other hand, Russia's warnings - often judged as bluff - have resulted in notable successes on the political, economic, geopolitical and military levels.

In reality, the rivalry has never faded since the 2rd World War if we refer to the Truman's statement to New York Times in 1941, following Operation Barbarossa: "If we see that Germany is winning, we must help Russia; but if Russia is winning, we must help Germany, so that they kill each other...".

It is therefore understandable that the intervention of the United States against Germany in 1944 was primarily aimed at neutralizing its rivals, Germany and the Soviet Union, rather than guaranteeing the security of Europeans. This is confirmed by George Marshall, who was anxious to contain the Soviet Union.We did not come to Europe to save the French. We came because we… were threatened by a hostile, aggressive and very dangerous power…» see Marc Rousset's article on RI .  

This rivalry began to manifest itself in a latent conflict in 2014. The year 2022 was just the legitimate reaction of the Russians to the sight of a weapon approaching their temple!

NATO is at an impasse, and the profusion of Russian warnings means caution and wisdom before decisive action. Lavrov said in his statements «if they want [ r] on the battlefield, then it will be on the battlefield"; "The West shows a lack of culture and an inability to engage in politics and diplomacy."; "If the war escalated into a wider military conflict, a possible third world war would not be limited to the European battlefields"; "Look how they are now lamenting the sustainable and widespread development of our armed forces.» ; »For Americans, any discussion of the 3rd World War is reduced to something that would only affect Europe…that's quite telling, because that idea reflects the mindset…of Americans who think they can just sit back and watch the whole thing go on…”.

The new threats, exacerbating the situation, targeting the "depths" of Russia, in the ultimate hope of "bringing it to its knees" and the latter's response, announced as lightning fast, will have results that the West does not seem to apprehend.

Russia's restraint has been constantly pushing its "limits", perceived by NATO as weakness. It seems that this "limit" is about to be reached, judging by the statement of the Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov, : "The decision has been made, carte blanche and all indulgences have been given [in Kyiv], so we are ready for anything. And we will react in a way that will not be pretty to see."There is also this disturbing message from the Chairman of the Russian Duma "if such a thing happens [long range strikes], Russia will respond…using more powerful weapons. It is our country that liberated you and all of Europe…what the European Parliament should do…is dissolve itself"This is definitely not a bluff. The bluff is in the "culture" Americans, not Russians. 

The Russians have still not used their assets and their powerful conventional weapons that the West does not possess. Indeed, why use nuclear weapons when you have formidable and unparalleled conventional weapons? The Iskander-M, the Kinzhal and other Kalibr are, for them, only secondary elements of their arsenal. They have enough resources in their heroic history, their heritage from the USSR, their power, their experience, their wisdom and their faith, to counter any adversity, without forgetting that they have never been colonizers and plunderers like the Westerners are.

D. de Villepin, through his lucidity, has also asked a pertinent question (in this video – 6'25'' ) : «we are in a widening war...If we send ground troops, do we know if other countries on the Russian side will send ground troops back to the other side? Will we have African, Asian, Middle Eastern fighters facing us in this global south that also wants to settle scores with the West?».

It is also because Russia won that NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, went crazy when he declared that their plan is not aimed at winning the war against Russia, but at persuading her that she is defeated (?!). A war is concluded on the battlefield and not by the effort to "convince" and "persuade" the enemy that he will not win it!

Even their protégé, Israel, is getting in on the act through their hysterical MP, Amir Weitmann, who has gone so far as to threaten Russia. in an interview with Russia Today. This degenerate accused Russia of being "co-responsible for the massacre" of October 7 because she did not take Israel's side, launching this bravado: "Russia supports the enemies of Israel…Nazis who want to commit genocide against us…we will finish these Nazis…we do not forget what you do…we will make sure Ukraine wins…believe me, Russia will pay the price…». The guy has only revealed his government's conspiracies against Russia. He is relayed by the Israeli ambassador to Russia who declared that Tel Aviv expects Moscow to condemn the Iranian strike. Zakharova's response : "Remind me when Israel condemned…a single strike by the kyiv regime against Russian regions?…I remember regular statements of support for Zelensky’s actions from Israeli officials.»

Everything that NATO has decided, committed, planned, financed, has resulted, so far, in resounding failure. Everything that Russia has given as warnings – which were taken for bluff – has come true with successes on the political, economic, geopolitical and military levels.

In this conflict in Ukraine, the fear is the risk of escalation towards a 3rd World War. In our opinion, it will certainly not be the work of the Russians; much less nuclear. It has invincible weapons that can neutralize the West.

Between whom and whom? Where will it take place? In Europe? No country will engage in this doomed adventure, despite a strong coalition against Russia, which will never be alone.
A war with the United Kingdom, Poland, the Baltic States, Germany, France against a powerful Russia that can also involve China, Iran and others? Very doubtful especially when they sense that the USA is leading them towards this goal without engaging. They will observe and help from afar. It is known!

If there is to be a "world" war, it will take place, in our opinion, in the Middle East, with the coalition, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis from Yemen, an Iraqi faction and Syria against Israel. Iran will not even need to intervene directly. The former will be helped by Russia, China, Iran and some Arab-Muslim countries and Israel by the USA, the United Kingdom and France in particular.

It will be a "World War of attrition" and the first to suffer or even disappear is their Zionist entity of Israel, because it is artificial, immoral, lacking in patriotism, understaffed, with an unstable population, which can quickly leave the area for Europe and America thanks to its dual or triple nationality, as well as the rogue and greedy settlers who reside, for the most part, elsewhere from where they run their colonies.

This will mark the end of global Zionism – a hotbed of cancerous fixation – beneficial to all including the West! US interests in the Middle East cannot be guaranteed by this usurping, amoral and genocidal entity. Ukraine, for its part, will be nothing more than a mere theater for an unsuccessful and disastrous test. 

Everything that this predatory West has been illegally devouring “grain by grain” – by deception or by force – for decades, believing itself invincible, is about to be painfully evacuated in bunches! All these decomposing demons find themselves facing a Kafkaesque choice of the type “very hot on one side and burning on the other”.

The USA, the head of the viper, is floundering in the aberration of wanting to dominate and punish all countries that do not bend to their will! With this systematic policy, they are making the whole world their enemy, including their supposed "friends". They are evolving in the absurd. That is their madness!

The American-Anglo-Franco-Zionist axis is on the way to suffering a major defeat on the political, geostrategic and military levels, faced with the new configuration which is organized around the BRICS which already has more than 3 billion inhabitants and contributes 31,5% of global GDP (more than the G7). The BRICS advocate the emergence of new powers reflecting the multipolar character and for a total reorganization of international bodies.

https://en.reseauinternational.net/otan-russie-les-rats-du-jardin-de-lotan-contre-lours-de-la-taiga-de-siberie/

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