STRATEGIC RISK
What is the rationale
for the Russian Federation to reactivate its strategic missile tests?
By Charles H. Slim
Things are getting very
complicated for Zelensky and his regime of far-right supremacists and this was
something that his own “friends” in the West knew would happen at some point.
According to reliable
sources, the regime is reeling from the cut-off of Western financial aid and
internal bickering between Zelensky and his military commanders is increasingly
virulent. Surrenders are increasing as the weeks go by and already an estimated
10,000 Ukrainian men have surrendered their weapons. Remarkably paranoid and
with a very altered mood, Volodymyr Zelensky is reflecting in his own flesh the
failure of a war that he himself accepted to provoke believing in the promises
of his western sponsors, especially the USA and Great Britain.
The latter have already
thrown in the towel and it is no longer a secret that NATO commanders already
recognize the impossibility of defeating the Russian Federation. In addition to
this, Washington is going through a critical situation that does not allow any
more waste and is even trying to negotiate a settlement with China. Ukraine has reached a crossroads.
Its army is very
weakened and has only elderly men and teenagers who cannot contain the
progressive advance that Russia has been making from three directions. In
addition to this, the discontent among the Ukrainian population is already
undeniable. The outbreak of the war in Gaza put Joe Biden and the establishment
in a complex financial situation that would translate into a simple question:
Who do we help first?
The equation is not
simple: Washington cannot deal with two costly wars at the same time and Biden
is in a real dilemma, pressed between the Zionist lobby of AIPAC and others to
give unlimited support to the state of Israel and the pro-Ukrainian lobby
which, by the way, has shrunk with every bad news coming from the front.
To make matters worse,
his administration and the entire government will face a wave of political and
judicial questioning for cooperating with the human rights violations and war
crimes and crimes against humanity that the IDF has committed (not that
allegedly) against the Palestinian population and especially for the murder of
journalists, the vicious brutalities against doctors, health personnel and the
patients themselves in all the hospitals attacked.
At the same time
Washington does not seem to learn from its own history and it is possible that
the Netanyahu regime will use a False Flag operation to -in view of the
costs it is incurring- directly engage the US inside Gaza.
In short, the Kiev
buffoon has been sacrificed for a bigger bully in the form of Benjamin
Netanyahu because, despite all the aid and military support that has been
pouring into Israel since October 19, not only has it failed to defeat the
Palestinian resistance, but it is this military aid that is exterminating its
civilian population.
The surprise visit of
CIA chief William Burns on November 15 is part of this situation, which
Washington is apparently no longer willing to sustain.
This does not mean that
the US and its NATO partners are giving up their plans to attack the Russian
Federation, much less to unseat China. The fact that the snake is coiled in the
opposite direction to the prey does not mean that it is abandoning the attack,
but rather that it is preparing to strike.
It is clear that Moscow
is interpreting these signals very well and especially President Vladimir Putin
himself, who, already accustomed to the psychological games and the double
bottoms of the speeches of his Anglo-American colleagues, will not lower his
guard but, on the contrary, has begun to take broader and more solid measures
to guarantee the territorial security of the entire Federation.
The Atlanticist
movements that in recent months have been taking place in the Nordic countries
and especially in Norway and Finland, have put Moscow on alert, which had
already been working on strengthening the entire Arctic region, of high
strategic importance for the economy, trade routes and security of Russia and
which the US and NATO have been trying to infiltrate with naval missions,
especially with nuclear submarines.
In addition to this, NATO's persistence in continuing its provocations of strategic scope and involving the detonation of US nuclear tests (in the Pacific Ocean), its provocative maneuvers in the South Sea and the movement of nuclear warheads in Europe with the worrying intention of redeployment to other launching points in a hypothetical “preventive” action against Russia and Belarus, led Moscow to decide to abandon the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), as a measure of reciprocity towards these Anglo-American moves.
As soon as this was put
into effect, the Russian Navy began its tests with the “R-30 Bulava”
intercontinental missiles mounted on its submarines, which are equipped with a
fourth generation technology and which, due to their operational
characteristics, are keeping defense advisors and Pentagon military officials
awake at night.
These tests go hand in
hand with a reinforcement of the Russian presence in the Arctic circle in view
of the constant troop movements that have been taking place in adjacent
countries such as Norway where some 35,000 NATO soldiers have been deployed in
anticipation of containing the Russian deployment.
But what will happen to
Zelensky and his regime? That already seems to be a secondary issue for
Washington and even many within Congress are already talking about an
inexorable end.
What really worries the
Americans and their British partners is Russia's deployment and testing of
nuclear-capable strategic weaponry and, knowing that the Russians do not do
things without reason, speculation with some intelligence information is
keeping the White House administration on edge.
The reasons for this
concern are well founded. Generals and defense advisors know that there is no
way to stop Russian hypersonic missiles since (as demonstrated in Ukraine), the
“MIM-104 Patriot” systems are obsolete for that purpose and even the “Iron Dome”
systems of their Israeli allies are no match for such missiles.
In conclusion, the
White House should lower the decibels and seek to decompress the situation,
starting by sitting down with its counterparts in Moscow and reaching an
agreement to put an end to the calamitous situation in Ukraine.
For the time being,
Moscow is well aware that Washington and its British partners are up to
something and not being prepared for any provocation would be too high a risk
not to consider. If the US were to plan a strike or incursion through the
Arctic, Russia already has its missiles calibrated and once fired there will be
nothing to stop them on their way to the target.