EIR LEAD EDITORIAL FOR WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21, 2022

Will Santa Get Shot Out of the Sky?

Dec. 20, 2022 (EIRNS)—Russian President Vladimir Putin made public yesterday that his country will agree to train the Belarus air force in delivery of Russian nuclear weapons. He made the point that “this form of cooperation is not our invention.... The U.S., for example, has been carrying out similar measures with their NATO allies for decades.” And now, “such coordinated measures are exceptionally important due to the tense situation on the external border” of Russia and Belarus.

Putin has just agreed to do what he, and Russia, have criticized the U.S. for, for over half a century—allowing other countries to carry one’s nuclear weapons. Earlier, on Dec. 9, Putin stated that Russia is considering adopting the U.S.’s position on a possible “first strike” use of nuclear weapons.

Is there something unclear about this? Have you noticed that your establishment media, one that has never missed an opportunity to make up the wildest charges of Russian dangers to the West, is apparently tongue-tied? Perhaps because this is an actual threat, and not some silly geopolitical game.

The threat is that the financial bubble is real, that the West’s addiction to NATO and forcing anti-sovereign financial terms upon countries has brought two thermonuclear powers head-to-head, and allows Russia no way out. Are you ready to bet the house (and your kids in it) that Putin is a man who bluffs? That he will flinch?

France’s President Emmanuel Macron posed an interesting question in an interview aired today. He had been attacked for saying that the West should understand that peace negotiations with Russia depend upon recognizing what it would take for Ukraine and Russia to both have sovereignty. On French TV, he stated outright what his critics are planning, if they refuse to consider an exit to war and the conditions for a stable peace. “What the people who refuse to prepare that and work on it are proposing is full war. It will involve the whole continent.”

He was being polite. Full war, one that involves the whole continent, in 2022 is a euphemism for thermonuclear war. Santa gets blown out of the sky, and the human race turns the planet over to the cockroaches.

Is there a better time for a change of heart, for a temporary respite, than a Christmas truce? Give Santa a gift.