“The Lost Interview” (just found by Judge Napolitano) for your weekend enjoyment. Yes, that’s I, talking from inner-city Washington where I had found my dream-job, before we set up the Tell the Word non-profit to free me to do full time what I still do.
No Backchannel Communication
Putin adviser bemoans fact that, amid the exchange of public threats, “the absence of secure backchannel communication” raises pressure on BOTH SIDES to carry out such threats. And of course, the lack also greatly increases danger of accidental escalation.
More Dangerous than Cuba 1962
Why now more dangerous than Cuba 1962? Putin adviser: “Absent secure back-channel communication, BOTH sides now face greater pressure to act, to maintain credibility”
https://news-pravda.com/world/2024/11/28/884571.html
Also lacking is a Russian expert to play key role of Amb Llewellyn Thompson during Cuba
The State of Wartime Russia
Nima shows inimitable EU chief Ursula von der Leyen saying Russian industry in such tatters that it is “taking chips from dishwashers for military hardware”. Rumor: Lockheed is now cannibalizing old Russian dishwashers; hopes to duplicate Oreshnik missile.
Giving Thanks for John F. Kennedy
Giving Thanks for John F. Kennedy: On the 61st anniversary of his assassination, Randy Credico asked me to comment (w/poem, but no song), out of my own experience, on why he died and why it still matters. See James Douglass’s book JFK and the Unspeakable.
A History of Humiliation
A HISTORY OF HUMILIATION. Must Reading. My Take? We have more to fear from Blinken than from Putin. Russia is riding high, not likely to be provoked. Blinken/Sullivan/Biden are much more likely to up the ante, to avoid utter humiliation in Ukraine.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/26/joe-lauria-a-history-of-humiliation/
Oreshnik Missile Game Changer
Game-changer! Having vacuumed up Scott Ritter/Ted Postol best thoughts, that’s how I labeled the new Oreshnik missile fired into Dnipro. Judge showed a clip from a 2016 video of Putin. (For unique insight, watch all of that video here https://youtube.com/watch?v=kqD8lIdIMRo )
Ukraine Escalation and Adieu Netanyahu
UKRAINE ESCALATION & Adieu Netanyahu, with Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern & Ted Postol: Consortium News’s Joe Lauria asks the tough questions, and no one pretends to have all the answers. A lot of context as well as stories, good repartee. PLS JOIN US ON NOV 7
Putin is Not Bluffing
Scott Ritter Was Right Then; Sadly for the US, He’s Also Right Now: In 2018 State of Nation, Putin did a highly unusual show-and-tell (watch this whole video).
https://youtube.com/watch?v=X7bUHc4jAI0
Putin asked, will US will listen to us now? Scott wrote he’s not bluffing.
https://theamericanconservative.com/no-putin-isnt-bluffing-on-nukes/
How Bush and Trump Cleared the Way for Putin
Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) 1987 destroyed whole class of US & Soviet missiles already deployed in Europe. Trump nixed the INF after 32 yrs; GW Bush had nixed the 1972 Anti-Ballistic-Missile Treaty after 30 years. Putin tests new INF missile.