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Where Life and Freedom Stand

Paul Craig Roberts

I appreciate the confidence that readers show in me by their many emails asking if there really is to be war between the US and Russia and whether it is possible for Trump to achieve anything.  I cannot possibly answer  individually and continue to write and research for this website.  I try to anticipate questions and explain as clearly as I can in my postings.

Whether or not there will be war between the US and Russia depends on whether Washington continues its provocations of Russia. The latest provocation is the sending of missiles into a limited area of Russia.  This is risky and irresponsible, because the Russian government has stated that the missiles can be operated only by US and NATO personnel. Therefore, missile strikes inside Russia place the West at war with Russia.  This is especially serious, because recent changes in Russian war doctrine permit Russia to respond with nuclear weapons to any attack.  The nuclear response can be to the entire West, even if it was a conventional attack on Russia  by a US/NATO ally.

The danger of such a Russian response is mitigated by the fact that Russian President Putin is a humanitarian who does not want his rescue of the Donbas Russians from slaughter by the hostile Ukrainians to result in wider war.  Putin is unlikely to see the missile attack on Russia, which was defeated by Russian air defenses, as an excuse to teach Washington and Europe a lesson. Most certainly, Putin is not looking for an excuse to widen the war.  Widening the war is the purpose of the American Zionist Neoconservatives.  In the interest of not widening the war, Putin is likely to treat the provocation as merely a battlefield operation and not an attack on Russia herself.  The question is:  How much longer can Putin ignore Washington’s escalating attack on Russia?  Another relevant question is:  Will Putin’s ignoring of the latest provocation lead to another and another until the provocation is such that it cannot be ignored?...........more........