The Anglo-American Empire “Lets Slip the Dogs of War!”
An extraordinary dialogue took place on Sept. 6, at the 66th consecutive weekly meeting online of the International Peace Coalition (IPC), that brought together scientific, military and political experts, all of whom addressed different facets of the insane policy being pursued by the leaders of the United States and Europe.
Insane because their goal, warned Helga Zepp-LaRouche in opening the meeting, is “to inflict strategic defeat on Russia” which, given Russia’s status as a nuclear superpower, is impossible to accomplish without initiating nuclear war. She reminded participants of President Biden’s new super-secret nuclear weapons doctrine, aspects of which the Pentagon began implementing nearly 20 years ago (cf. SAS 35, 36/24).
The technical side of how that doctrine works was taken up by Dr. Ted Postol, Professor Emeritus of MIT and one of the world’s leading experts on nuclear weapons). The U.S. has, at great cost, produced “super fuse” weapons, he showed, that are designed to be able to preemptively destroy silo-based missiles in both Russia and China simultaneously. One would only pursue this approach, he believes, if one were planning to fight and win a nuclear war, an extraordinarily delusional mindset. Any Russian military officer who analyzed this development would be forced to conclude that the U.S. is indeed planning to attack at some point.
In the course of the dialogue, Postol shocked everyone by stressing that nuclear war planning in the United States is done largely “in a ritualized way”, by people who have no real knowledge of the actual physical effects of nuclear weapons. Terrifying side effects, such as massive firestorms, are not considered in the planning. “They don’t even get the basic physical effects right,” he said. He blasted, in particular, the civilians who have been in charge at the Pentagon, who have no idea of the realities of war. Detailed descriptions of the super-fuse weapons, as well as of the truly devastating effects of the explosion of any nuclear bomb, are well worth studying.
Another speaker was Col. Larry Wilkerson (ret.), the chief of staff of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005, during the time the Iraq war was being planned and then executed, who explained some of the discussions he had at the time with Powell on the utterly reckless nature of the U.S. military planning. He began his presentation by quoting from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (Act III): “Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war”. That, he said, sums up the attitude assumed by the “American empire”.
Today, Wilkerson is hearing high-ranking military officers talk about the utility of nuclear weapons for the first time since the Cold War. Such systems, he pointed out, are very lucrative for defense contractors. In 1991-92, when both the U.S. and Russia were destroying nuclear weapons, he saw that it “scared the bejesus” out of the leaders of the military-industrial complex.
The point of view from Europe was expressed by German Colonel Prof. Dr. Wilfried Schreiber (ret.), Senior Research Fellow at the WeltTrends Institute for International Politics in Potsdam, and by Lt. Col. Ralph Bosshard (ret.) of the Swiss Armed Forces, a consultant on military-strategic affairs. The panelists were joined during the discussion by former U.S. ambassador Jack Matlock (cf. below).
Please view the proceedings of the IPC meeting here.
