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Fernando's avatar

The United States Leaders are obvious ACCOMPLICES of the Genocide:

If the ICC is Morally and Juridically COHERENT, it MUST also indict and seek the arrest of Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lloyd Austin, Chuck Schumer, Lindsey Graham and others as full, NECESSARY, willing, knowledegeable, lasting, open, cynical ACCOMPLICES of the SAME CRIMES as Netanyahu and Gallant, by providing them tens of billions of dollars, lethal weapons, ammunition, intelligence, logistical and political support at the United Nations, as corroborated Nov 21st by vetoeing the desperately needed, humanitarian call for a Ceasefire at the UNSC.

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"The Ukraine war is motoring steadily towards some form of dénoument. "

Maybe not. We could be heading even more directly to WWIII. I posted this as a Note to my Substack as well as on Antiwar, Martyanov's blog and Sonar21:

Here's the new problem: It's not just ATACMS any more.

I believe the US is considering using the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania to hit inside Russia using Tomahawk cruise missiles.

This ties together Zelensky's request for Tomahawks, as well as Ukraine's request for more "advanced air defenses" - specifically the THAAD and the Aegis Ashore systems - as well as US discussions about "giving Ukraine nuclear weapons", as reported by the New York Times earlier.

All three requests can be satisfied by arranging for the Aegis Ashore installations in Poland and Romania to be used in support of Ukraine.

Think about it: What difference is it from using US supplied and US operated ATACMS to using US supplied and US operated Aegis Ashore?

This is how the idiots in Washington think. They don't comprehend that Russia already views the Aegis Ashore as a major strategic threat to Russia, both for its ability to intercept Russian ICBMs in the context of a Russian retaliatory strike in a nuclear war, and its ability to participate in a decapitation strike by the US against Russia as part of the initiation of such a war.

Never mind that Tomahawks are old and slow, easily intercepted by Russia's advanced AD systems, and subject to Russian ECM as they were in Syria during Trump's ill-advised attacks on Syria facilities.

This is not Syria. Russia will have to treat any Tomahawk launched from Poland or Romania as a nuclear strike.

This is why Russia recently designated those installations as priority targets. They always were priority targets.

This is also why Russia demonstrated its new Oreshnik ("Hazel") missile. It is precisely that missile which can destroy those installations.

And it is likely Russia issued that warning precisely because they know that Washington is considering using those installations in support of Ukraine.

This would be a direct initiation of WWIII - not just over a few ATACMS.

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