“So this is not about whether or not to allow the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia using these weapons, but about deciding whether or not NATO countries are directly involved in the military conflict or not…It will mean that NATO countries, the United States and European countries, are at war with Russia. And if this is so, bearing in mind the change in the very nature of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us.” – President Vladmir Putin (September 12, 2024)
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For the first time during the war, Ukraine fired the U.S. designed and manufactured Supersonic tactical missiles, designed as part of the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), deep into Russian territory. [2]
Russia appears to have reciprocated. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia fired back for the first time ever an intercontinental ballistic missile on Ukraine’s central-eastern city of Dnipro Thursday morning – this was the first use ever of an ICBM in war. ICBMs are the vehicles of nuclear-capable weapons. [3]
President Vladmir Putin has furthermore stressed that the use of ATACMS missiles would require intelligence from U.S. and European (NATO) satellites, and also NATO servicemen making flight assignments to the missile systems. In other words Ukraine, its army and its leader Zelensky is kind of a dummy playing animated roles of heroism and valour while the mechanics and the targeting is done by the NATO. [4]
President Biden changed his position, allowing U.S. weapons to be used inside Russia. With Putin’s comments on the record, this means either the Russian President is “bluffing” or Biden wants NATO being involved in this war. Biden, or the neocon pulling his puppet strings, wants to start World War III!
The repercussions a global conflict involving nuclear weapons – sooner or later – would mean increased poverty, destruction, and most likely the extinction of the human species. Why is the retiring Democratic Government so determined to play with radioactive fire?
We plan to investigate this, and a lot of the issues around it on the Global Ressearch News Hour, beginning with Scott Ritter. The former U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Officer has frequently butted heads with White House Officials, particularly in criticizing the claim of Iraq having weapons of mass destruction to be used on Americans or any friendly target. Today he is a figure in the peace movement, and making statements in defence of the “Bad Guys” that U.S. politicians and their various flunkies at home and abroad denounce on a regular basis. Scott will spend most of the show correcting widespread misconceptions about the war in Ukraine, the what and why of allowing long-range weapons to be used on Russian people, and about Operation Dawn, a major effort to stop this war before it gets to the point of Armageddon.
In the remaining few minutes, Ken Stone comes on to join us and talk about the 70th NATO annual Parliamentary assembly which is playing out this weekend in Montreal, Quebec. He will discuss the counter-summit put on by the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network, and also speak of supporting a demonstration for peace in Place du Canada, both of which supports #CanadaOutOfNATO.
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Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of ‘Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union.’ He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector. He also co-authored the book Covering Ukraine: The Scott Ritter Interviews Through the Eyes of Ania K. Scott is also a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
Ken Stone is a long time antiwar, anti-racism, environmental and labour activist, and resident in Hamilton. He is also Treasurer of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War. He currently coordinates the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network.
(Global Research News Hour Episode 450)
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Notes:
- https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/putin-natos-direct-involvement-in-ukrainian-conflict-will-mean-it-is-at-war-with-russia-1120123826.html?ysclid=m3tnt9s2sj770550881
- Pjotr Sauer (Nov. 19, 2024), ‘Ukraine fires US-made Atacms missiles into Russia after ban lifted by Biden’, The Guardian; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/putin-warns-us-over-using-long-range-missiles-by-signing-new-nuclear-doctrine-ukraine
- https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/11/22/the-empire-strikes-back-en?ysclid=m3tqkk818v935918691
