he US Empire Is Accelerating Toward Global Conflict On Two Fronts By Caitlin Johnstone

[Manuel Tavares]

he US Empire Is Accelerating Toward Global Conflict On Two Fronts
By Caitlin Johnstone
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-us-empire-is-accelerating-toward.html

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Vladimir Putin has announced that referenda will be held in four regions of the eastern part of Ukraine whose populations will now vote on whether to join the Russian Federation, much like the Crimea referendum of 2014 which resulted in Russia's annexation of that territory. Putin announced that 300,000 additional troops will be mobilized for the war to help facilitate this action, which is a major escalation in the conflict by any measure.

Putin also issued a stern nuclear warning that's being hysterically spun by empire managers as a shocking and unprecedentedly bellicose threat, but if you read what he actually said it's clear that he's really reminding the west of the same principles of Mutually Assured Destruction that have been in place for generations, and isn't expressing any position that western nuclear powers don't also hold:

Nuclear blackmail was also launched. We are talking not only about the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is encouraged by the West, which threatens a nuclear catastrophe, but also about the statements of some high-ranking representatives...+@
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