Ray McGovern, a veteran CIA analyst and peace activist, discusses why its so important to rebuild a trusting relationship between President Obama and Russian President Putin; the neoconservatives pushing for a dangerous confrontation over Ukraine; and how the US media deludes Americans into believing all kinds of nonsense about world affairs.
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GPS, also called NAVSTAR, was made for Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 to be able to hit Russian missile silos accurately. According to missile engineer Bob Aldridge-www.plrc.org-the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously via Extreme Low Frequency, etc. See http://www.plrc.org and Robert C. Aldridge: Nuclear Empire, ch. 9.
Psychopaths believe that they are invincible. They’re not. If it wasn’t for the fact that all the warmongers aren’t psychopaths, the US would have probably already tried it out. And in fairness, there’s no reason to think that Russia doesn’t have it’s share of psychopaths in positions of power too.
Actually, the Pentagon has been working on a Disarming First Strike Capability since WW 2 and for the World to see with Trident-1 in 1970 linked to NAVSTAR (GPS). Maybe people forget that Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 are state-of-the-art first strike weapons.
Thank you so much Scott and Ray for a great interview.
PS: The MX was cancelled but the warhead was put on Minuteman-3 because it’s designed to minimize nuclear winter effects if used against missile silos according to Professor Paul Rogers.
The same with the Trident-2 D5 warhead.
How are the warheads on the missiles in Romania and Poland ? But of course, they can be changed.
Bob Aldridge realized that seeking a Disarming First Strike Capability leads to Launch On Warning followed by Suicide and resigned. Hopefully, everybody in the Pentagon will realize the same and resign. There is no defence against Launch On Warning.
It’s not correct that we may go back to a situation of Launch On Warning. It’s a new situation, we never had Launch On Warning before. And the Russians may not even announce that they feel forced to adopt Launch On Warning. Launch On Warning means Suicide Guaranteed but at least the Americans won’t get away with 1-3 % casualties following a First Strike. Bloody fools in the Pentagon !
If and when the day comes when Vlad Putin decides to vector an ICBM onto Washington, District of Corruption, I shan’t be a bit surprised. . . .
It’s like 2+2=4 but they don’t get it in the Pentagon: Aiming to get a Disarming First Strike Capability (outlined in the books by Bob Aldridge and on http://www.plrc.org) leads to Launch On Warning and Suicide.
Of course, it will be a mistake. But a mistake caused by Washington due to the missiles in Eastern Europe.
When I read “Neo-Conservative” and think “Obama” I think more “Wow, this is pro-Russian propaganda.”
Why?
Simple: Most of the Obama anti-Russian policy is distinctly from the left. Neo-Conservative foreign policy would be opposed to his relationship with Turkey and Qatar. As Obama toppled Libya, and is pro-Qatar, that suggests, liberals, not Neo-Cons running the show. And to not state that as prominently is just propaganda, as you know, left wing anti-war types would not have sympathy for this argument.
Chief submarine missile engineer Robert C. Aldridge realized that the Pentagon aims to achieve a Disarming First Strike Capability and that this leads to Launch On Warning and resigned. He wrote The Counterforce Syndrome, First Strike! The Pentagon’s Strategy For Nuclear War, Nuclear Empire, America In Peril. Bob Aldridge-www.plrc.org-on the new US missiles in Eastern Europe and on 32 ships in the Mediterranean Sea: “Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike.”
I agree with your reasoning for Americans not being responsibility for the illegal and immoral actions of their government, however, I will never forget how the American people judged the German people guilty for the actions of their government during WW-II (“they should have known better”, “they should have assassinated Hitler”, “they had to know what was happening in those concentration camps”, “they have no excuse….”). The German citizens were living under a very cruel dictatorship, while Americans are still living in a free society, where it is easier to get the truth. The question is: Shouldn´t Americans be held to the same standards and they held the German people to? “Judge ye as ye have judged.”
The SS and Gestapo couldn’t have kidnapped boys and their mothers and then raping them in front of their mothers while it was filmed by a female soldier as the US Army did in Iraq. Torture at Black Sites in Poland, etc. ! Fallujah is worse than Hiroshima because of Depleted Uranium Weapons.
Actually, the US is worse than the Nazis. Bush/Obama and the gang should be arrested and tried for their multiple crimes. Worse than Hitler ? Anyone who orders or participates in torture must be arrested, tried and jailed for a decade to think about it. It’s forbidden according to American and International Law. They are the same rats sentenced in Nuremberg.
This from the same GOV who’s assistance couldn’t find a Malaysia Jet?
In the 70’s much of the EU and UK were sold the lie of “Limited Nuclear War.” That being the case… The US doesn’t have Cruise Missiles. The Theater is… Europe. The US does have ICBM’S though.
Note to any Survivors: When those in WARshington’s District of Criminal’s do push THE buttons… It would be a great time to pour concrete on the tops of their bunkers and air shafts. This would solve future problems for survivors.
I shudder when I hear the use of “We & Our” when referring to a Government that no longer represents WE THE PEOPLE. Pluralism in acceptance is used in the term “Aiding and abetting” it worked in the Nuremberg trails for those who said, “I was only following orders.”
I as an American don’t except the wars nor the million’s of people killed in those wars. The US has NEVER been attacked. EVER! If someone wants to site Pearl Harbor (A Naval Port) on Illegally ANNEXED land that Hawaii was a STATE until 1959 and to this day is Illegally Annexed. Not to mention that the US knew of the alleged “Sneak Attack” as the Aussie Code breaker knew as did the MI5 Dbl agent (Tricycle) who reported the plans of the Imperial Japanese in March 1941.
PNAC… All we need is another Pearl Harbor.