EDITOR—Garland carefully examines Russia’s options in the face of unrelenting hostility and aggression by the West through its Ukraine proxy, and now directly through NATO assets in a new phase of the Ukraine conflict involving the firing of long-range missiles on Russian cities and sensitive strategic infrastructure. Garland does not believe that, even at this dangerous juncture, Moscow will resort to nuclear weapons or other drastic forms of military retaliation but, instead, will simply use its enormous economic clout to seriously wound the NATO alliance by denying the West a large number of sensitive resources its requires for its normal economic and strategic functioning. Things like oil, heavy petroleum, titanium, etc., all of which are essential for the production of advanced aviation, computers, electricity generation (via nuclear plants), domestic fuel for heating, and so on. If Russia does this, there will not be a nuclear war, but the Western populations will experience first-hand the huge problems created by the betrayal of their ruling circles as a consequence of their slavish alliance with Washington and support for its criminal and idiotic wars.
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SCOTT RITTER—In writing How the Chechen miracle kick-started the Russian ‘Path of Redemption’, Helping Crimea recover from decades of Ukrainian misrule is a tough but necessary challenge, We are witnessing the bittersweet birth of a new Russia, and Why did it take Russia so long to realize Donbass was worth fighting for?, I provided unique reporting that was unavailable anywhere else in the world – Western media outlets would never allow such reporting to be published on their pages or websites, and Russian news outlets had never seen such reporting from an independent Western perspective.
This is exactly what journalism is supposed to be – hard-hitting, probing analysis based upon first-hand observations derived from access to high-level sourcing.
I picked RT as the publisher of these articles because I wanted this reporting to be available not only to a global English-speaking audience, but also to a Russian audience.
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EDITOR—”Iran does not need to attack Israel” declares Scott Ritter, arguing that Israel is being consumed by its own fanatical military over-reach and ideological contradictions fuelled by Zionism. Ritter does not see the two-state solution as feasible. The process will be much more gradual, he declares. Israel is the problem. Zionism is the problem. The Israeli people are the problem..they are not worth saving…because they believe in Zionism and the necessity of [enabling] an apartheid state. Thus, for peace and justice to have a chance in the Middle East, Israel [the concept] has to go away. Then perhaps a single state, Palestine, may arise to provide a home to Palestinians, Christians and Jews, to live in peace as the Holy Land was intended to do. “Israel now, due to its irrational policies is a sinking ship that left to its own devices will fail.” Ritter is not alone in his opinions. Other respected observers of the Middle East situation have come to the same conclusion, including prominent Jewish thinkers and activists such as Norman Finkelstein (“Israel is a lunatic state”); Miko Peled (“Israel must be dismantled to have peace in Palestine”), Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, Katia Halper, Glenn Greenwald, etc.
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EDITOR—Leading Russian geostrategic analyst Dmitry Orlov provides some answers to the question many people are pondering lately: Are NATO’s constant escalations liable to trigger a nuclear war? When will Putin decide that enough is enough and respond in kind? What happens if NATO and its toxic puppet Ukraine score major hits in Moscow and other major Russian cities, or in key defence spots? Orlov suggests that Russia’s way of responding to such dangerous insults may be far less spectacular than blowing up a bunch of Western cities in retaliation (which Russia certainly can do) and far more effective and indirect, attacking, in effect the vital points of the West’s economic organism: electric power, transportation fuels, strategic arms production materials, and so on.
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EDITOR—Episode 21 of Garland’s indispensable chats with Joti Brar, examining the ever more deranged behaviour of the US regime as its hegemonic power to dictate to the world diminishes in the face of enormous changes in the political and economic complexion of the world, as the vast majority of nations seek a path of sovereignty, cultural independence, egalitarianism, and peace that rejects the “American model”. Topics include: the rapid rise of fascism in the US empire, and the capitalists’ recourse to permanent wars and chaos across the planet to maintain their dominion. This is a MUST-WATCH, MUST SHARE discussion. Be sure to send to friends, kin or workmates.
