Russian President Vladimir Putin just let the world know he is serious about crushing Ukraine and protecting his nation’s borders against any Western response.
The war has been fought against Ukraine knowing all along that it would spark a wider war if it did not end quickly.
Well, it has not ended quickly. And now an escalating war of words seems to be morphing into a direct clash between the superpowers — the U.S.-led NATO against Russia-China-India-Iran-North Korea, et al. There’s a good chance Turkey, a key NATO member, will switch over and side with Russia in this coming war.
Putin announced Wednesday he is calling up hundreds of thousands of military reservists in what he called a “partial mobilization.”
Putin said the West wants to “destroy” Russia, and he simply won’t allow that to happen.
And, he didn’t stop there. Putin said it’s “not a bluff” to use “all means” to protect Russian territory from Western aggression.
Now, the world waits for Washington’s response. Will they send M-1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine? Will they send medium or long-range missiles? Troops?
Will this be the October surprise that everyone is anticipating from a regime that knows its days are numbered?
What happens if World War III breaks out before Election Day on November 8?
Sending troops or any type of offensive weaponry to Ukraine at this point would escalate things to the point of guaranteeing a massive Russian response. And that response will likely involve nuclear weapons, either tactical or theater or even intercontinental nuclear strikes. The latter would most likely involve a hypersonic missile taking out key U.S. silos and/or military bases.
If Putin uses nuclear weapons against Ukraine, the U.S. will retaliate with “a devastating strike” against Russia’s military, the United States Army’s former European commander said in a carefully worded warning Wednesday.
Retired US Army General Ben Hodges responded by saying its “unlikely” Putin will order a nuclear strike upon Ukraine, but he warned that if he does, the U.S. could obliterate Russian military bases in Crimea.
The assumption that Putin would use his nukes against Ukraine seems like poor strategy. Why would he nuke his neighbor, the nation filled with Russian speakers and whose fertile farmland he covets, when his real enemy is the U.S. and NATO?
If he uses nukes at all he’s going to deliver a kill shot into the heart of his enemy, the United States of America.
One of Putin’s ideological allies, ultra-nationalist Alexander Dugin, actually stated that we are “on the brink of World War III, which the West is pushing for.”
Dugin states that, “Open Satanism and outright racism flourish in Ukraine, and the West only supports them,” adding that, “We are dealing with what the Orthodox elders call the ‘civilization of the Antichrist’. Russia’s role is therefore to unite believers of different faiths in this decisive battle.”
“The West demonstrates its intention to start a war of annihilation against us – the third world war. We must bring together all our deepest national potential to repel this attack. With all means: thought, military force, economy, culture, art, internal mobilisation of all state structures and each of us.”
According to the late military analyst Dr. Peter Pry, Russia’s nuclear advantage is such that it could use a first strike to render a U.S. response basically futile. The Russian war strategy has always been predicated on the idea that a nuclear war is winnable.
There are reports Putin has already started arresting Russians who protest his partial mobilization. The man is serious. I get the feeling Biden is just playing around, poking the bear a little harder each time as instructed by his globalist handlers. That will be tantamount to playing with fire. Nuclear fire.
At the same time Putin was announcing Wednesday his call up of more troops, Biden was at the U.N. delivering a scathing beat down of Putin.
Biden said in his U.N. speech that the U.S. is not looking for conflict with China. But he did not say that about Russia. Is this the conflict his regime wants?
Do Biden’s handlers not know that conflict with Russia almost certainly means conflict with China as well? Certainly Biden’s handlers are aware that the two nations, Russia and China, signed a military cooperation pact last year.
Why are they pretending like only one half of that alliance is our enemy? That will backfire on the U.S. big time. Maybe that’s been the plan all along, to poke and prod the bear until he lashes out, then the U.S. puts up a meek defense before ultimately surrendering to China.
It’s important to note that Russia has only mobilized its reservists three times in modern history – that was in the lead up to World War I in July 1914, World War II in June 1941, and now against NATO on Sept. 21, 2022.
Putin announced the partial mobilization during a rare televised address on Wednesday.
Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, speaking at a press conference, said the numbers of fresh recruits would be around 300,000. He said the reason for the partial call to arms was, as Putin explained in his address, because Russia is “now confronted with the military potential of NATO and a number of other unfriendly countries” in Ukraine.
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