John Rachel of the Peace Dividend Project interviews Professor Peter Kuznick of American University. https://peacedividend.us Peter Kuznick is currently Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. His acclaim and popularity are certainly deserved. In addition to his contributions in academic circles, he is in constant demand as a policy analyst and commentator across the globe. He is author of “Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists As Political Activists in 1930s America”, and many other important volumes. Peter is best known by the general public for his highly controversial, landmark documentary created with director Oliver Stone, The Untold History of the United States, which has been distributed and viewed worldwide,
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BIG SERGE—Straight off the top, I will state that my overall view of the war’s trajectory remains the same. I do not believe nuclear use is likely, and I do not believe outside actors will formally enter the war on behalf of Ukraine. I still think that direct kinetic action will remain contained to the conventional war between Russia and Ukraine, with western support remaining confined to armaments, command and control assistance, intelligence sharing, and economic measures against Russia. NATO personnel are certainly on the ground in Ukraine, but operating in a “volunteer” or informal capacity to keep the veneer of plausible deniability. This veneer will remain intact, and preclude the formal deployment of NATO units to the battlefield.
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INESSA S—With the NATO missile “defense system” on Russia’s doorstep – the threat to international security is very real; not that you would know it via mainstream media. In 2002, the United States unilaterally and without consultation, withdrew from the landmark Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. President George W. Bush noted that the treaty is “now behind us,” describing the ABM Treaty as a Cold War relic. Signed in 1972, the ABM Treaty barred both the US and the USSR from deploying national defenses against long-range ballistic missiles. The treaty was based on the premise that if either superpower constructed a strategic defense, the other would build up its offensive nuclear forces to offset the defense.
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History, essential to understand causes of Russian invasion in Ukraine. Jacques Pauwels explains.
6 minutes readBelgian-Canadian historian Jacques Pauwels explains the importance of history and context to gain an understanding of the causes of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. He authored several seminal books on the European wars of the 20th century. “Actually the First World War never ended. It just moved around the world. This is not the return of war on European soil. That happened already in 1991 in now ex-Yugoslavia. As with all wars, concern for the civilian victims in Ukraine is the last concern on the minds of the war mongerers, the weapon dealers and the elite. Eternal war is their lifeblood.”
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More About UK’s Dictatorship: QE-II’s Perfidy
32 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—On 15 May 2022, Kit Klarenberg headlined “Operation Surprise: leaked emails expose secret intelligence coup to install Boris Johnson”, and he presented documents that disclosed a cabal or conspiracy behind the scenes, within what turned out to have been the dominant faction within the Conservative Party’s faction of Britain’s aristocracy, to get Theresa May thrown out and Boris Johnson to replace her as the UK’s Prime Minister, because whereas May was pushing for a British exit from the EU (Brexit) that would nonetheless ally UK more with EU’s aristocracies than with the U.S. aristocracy, Johnson favored instead a “hard Brexit,” in which the “Special Relationship” with the U.S. regime would continue.