by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:

On 1 March 2024, Finland’s newly elected President, Alexander Stubb, who is a CIA asset, took office and delivered his first speech as President, and said to journalists “I would start from the premise that we in Finland must have a real nuclear deterrent, and that’s what we have, because NATO practically gives us three deterrences through our membership. … The first is military, i.e. soldiers, the second is missiles, i.e. ammunition, and the third is a nuclear deterrent, which comes from the United States.” He gave as his reasons for Finland’s need of that, “Human life does not seem to have any kind of significance to the current Russian leadership,” and “We are now facing a new era. As a result of our military alignment and NATO membership, we have taken the final step into the Western community of values, where our republic has spiritually belonged throughout its independence,” and so he was implicitly condemning the prior leaders of Finland, who had advocated for Finland’s geostrategic neutrality in international relations.

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This situation is the closest that the U.S. Government has yet come to being able to blitz-nuclear-attack and decapitate Russia’s central command in The Kremlin within a mere 7 minutes — far too short a time for Russia to evaluate a potentially dangerous launch and decide that it had occurred, and Putin then to launch retaliation — because Finland’s border is only a mere 500 miles, which is 7 minutes of missile-flying-time, away from The Kremlin in Moscow. If the U.S. will place such a missile there, then it would have the capability to decapitate Russia’s central command far too fast for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to have time to be able to launch Russia’s retaliatory weapons, and so this would be checkmate by the rulers of the United States.

In the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was in the position that Russia’s Putin now is, but not as badly as Putin now is, because Cuba was instead 1,131 miles away from Washington DC, not 500 miles away from Moscow. JFK responded to the danger by saying that if the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev won’t remove that missile threat from Cuba then the U.S. will pre-emptively launch WW3 so as to prevent being checkmated. The Soviet Union removed the preparations that it had been constructing in Cuba, and, so, WW3 was averted.

President Putin is now in JFK’s shoes, not in Khrushchev’s.

How did this happen?

Putin so badly bungled the PR regarding his 22 February 2022 invasion of Ukraine so that when that invasion happened, Europeans mistook it as being an aggressive act instead of as Russia’s necessary defensive response to America’s coup in February 2014 that had transformed Ukraine — which is only 300 miles away from The Kremlin — from its former neutrality into being instead a U.S. stooge regime that the U.S. Government was planning to use so as to checkmate Russia by placing a U.S. missile ultimately only 300 miles from Moscow.

No one is perfect; and, as I’ve explained elsewhere (such as here) I believe that Putin’s track-record during his 24 years of being the leader of Russia is vastly superior to that of any leader of any U.S.-and-allied country during any portion of that 23-year period. However, I shall explain here why I believe that Putin’s public-relations blunders regarding his handling of Ukraine constitute a major flaw in his leadership-record and produced Finland’s becoming a NATO member — and potentially the most dangerous one to Russia in all of Europe.

In an interview that Tucker Carlson did with Lex Fridman on 27 February 2024, Carlson said that what had shocked him on February 6th in his interview of Putin was Putin’s astounding incompetence at PR and Putin’s using as justification for having invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022 a historical narrative that mentioned only is passing, as-if unimportant, the geostrategically crucial details — buried them in irrelevancies, instead of focused on them, as being the reason why that invasion of Ukraine was a necessary act in order to defend Russia against the hyper-aggressive U.S. regime, which was using Ukraine in order to checkmate Russia.

The most crucial thing to understand is why did Russia actually need to invade Ukraine? The answer is very simple (far simpler than Putin’s many and confusing statements about that). Putin’s many explanations never made clear the core reason: The U.S. Government has been planning to win a WW III by blitz-nuking The Kremlin so fast that Russia’s central command wouldn’t have enough time to press the button to launch its retaliatory missiles and bombers; and therefore immediately after that blitz-nuclear first-strike decapitation of Russia, the U.S. regime would be able, entirely on its own schedule, to then knock out virtually all of Russia’s retaliatory weaponry and so to win WW III with perhaps only a few million dead on its side and thus, finally, at long last, possessing (at a small enough cost in American lives so as to be attractive to the few individuals who actually control the U.S. Government) full control over Russia, which is the world’s most-natural-resources-rich country — which is why the U.S. regime was so set, for so long a time, on winning Ukraine as a NATO member and then placing its missiles there. And this is the actual reason why Obama finally grabbed Ukraine in 2014.

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