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First Strike against Russia: The Real Danger behind US ABM Deployment in
Eastern Europe

by Chimes of Freedom

Global Research <http://www.globalresearch.ca> , June 11, 2007
Chimes of Freedom <http://chimesofreedom.blogspot.com>  

		"These European ABMs are an adjunct to the longstanding
US policy of nuclear first strike against Russia, ..." (Professor
Francis Boyle, Global Research, June 2007
<http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5893> )

Recent disinformation by the western media about Russia starting a new
Cold War not only masks the threat of a US Anti-Ballistic Missile shield
deployment but, as always, projects the blame on the victim, Russia.

The US missile shield must be understood in the context of its
geo-strategic nuclear deployment. Far from being defensive, its ultimate
purpose is to obtain such an unassailable advantage over any other
nuclear power as to be able to threaten any would-be opponent with
nuclear extinction if it were not to comply with the wishes of the US.

This new form of nuclear strategy has been called 'compellence'.
Remember the word because you won't hear it mentioned by the western MSM
which has already tried to distract us from the real dangers behind the
deployment of the US missile shield with matters which bear no relevance
such as the Litvinenko affair and the inevitable Russian response to
retaliate with its own missiles.

By means of a US first strike about 99%+ of Russian nuclear forces would
be taken out. So Bush Jr. needs ABMs to take care of what remains. And
in any event what really matters here is the perception. Namely, the
United States Government believes that with the deployment of a facially
successful first strike capability, they can move beyond deterrence and
into "compellence."

In other words, with an apparent first strike capability, the USG can
compel Russia to do its bidding during a crisis. The classic case in
point here was the Cuban Missile Crisis where the Soviet Union knew the
USG could strike first and get away with it. Hence they capitulated.

This has been analyzed ad nauseam in the professional literature. But
especially by one of Harvard's premier warmongers in chief, Thomas
Schelling, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics granted by the Bank of
Sweden-- who developed the term "compellence" and distinguished it from
"deterrence."

The USG is breaking out of a "deterrence" posture and moving into a
"compellence" posture. Easier to rule the world that way. Henceforth the
USG will be able to compel even nuclear-armed adversaries to do its
bidding in a crisis or otherwise.

Deterrence strategy was abandoned over twenty years ago when the US
upped the ante in its Arms Race by introducing new, microchip-controlled
nuclear weapons, including the medium-range Cruise missile, and
replacing the idea of deterrence with 'pre-emption' or first strike. It
was no longer necessary to wait for the other side to attack first.
Instead, you attack first if you think the other side is planning to
attack you.

Any sane person can see the danger in a strategy that inevitably leads
to paranoia. But when you add to it the fact that everything is handled,
not by humans, but by computers a War Games doomsday scenario is what we
are faced with.

What the US is now dumping is no longer deterrence. That was dumped over
20 years ago. What it's doing is to develop the second stage of First
Strike by introducing an element, compellence, which will effectively
coerce all its competitors, through terror, to do its bidding.

It was concerning this that Vladimir Putin warned the world at the
Munich Conference last February.

" I am convinced that we have reached that decisive moment when we must
seriously think about the architecture of global security," he said.

"In Russia's opinion, the militarisation of outer space could have
unpredictable consequences for the international community, and provoke
nothing less than the beginning of a nuclear era. And we have come
forward more than once with initiatives designed to prevent the use of
weapons in outer space."

And, in the context of the expansion of NATO into the old Warsaw Pact
countries: "I think it is obvious that NATO expansion does not have any
relation with the modernisation of the Alliance itself or with ensuring
security in Europe. On the contrary, it represents a serious provocation
that reduces the level of mutual trust."

"And we have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended?"

Remember, it is in Czechoslovakia and Poland where the US now intends to
install its ABM radar systems. The pattern of aggressive closing in on
the USSR is clear for all to see. Finally, in that speech, Putin warned
the US that if it were to go ahead with a new arms race, including ABM
deployment, Russia would respond asymetrically.

As the US and NATO have chosen to ignore Putin's warnings and go ahead
they have now drawn the inevitable response of retaliation.

It is this background to the current new aggression of the USA and NATO
that the western media hides by trying to distract attention with events
which have no bearing on the real dangers of US geo-strategic nuclear
deployment.

In the 'eighties, it was the late radical historian, Edward Thompson,
and the European Nuclear Disarmament movement that campaigned against US
First Strike strategy and who alerted the world to its danger. Now there
is no Edward Thompson or an END. So it is up to the likes of we humble
bloggers to demystify the MSM spin and let the truth be known.

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