Transcript for 11/25/24: IF YOU CAN’T BEAT ‘EM ATACM W/ DAVID KNIGHT

We all know that following the election of Trump earlier this month, the US and its NATO allies began taking steps to rush weapons to Ukraine and give Kiev the ability to strike targets inside Russian territory with long-range weapons.

This was, of course, a topic of discussion on Ground Zero with James Ponder and as we were speculating -- the conspiracy theory of escalation became reality just one week after we reported it.

Desperate to bolster Ukraine’s standing in the war before the transition of power on January 20, the Biden administration is looking at a range of serious escalations. 

"US and European officials are discussing deterrence as a possible security guarantee for Ukraine, such as stockpiling a conventional arsenal sufficient to strike a punishing blow if Russia violates a cease-fire."

But of course, there is now the possibility that Biden or the Warhawks in chief are not beyond the probability of sending nuclear weapons to Ukraine for what they believe would be a deterrence. 

According to the New York Times:

"Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union."

According to some officials who spoke with the Times, the administration believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t significantly escalate the war until Trump returns to the Oval Office.

"But the escalation risk of allowing Ukraine to strike Russia with US-supplied weaponry has diminished with the election of Mr. Trump," the report says, adding, "Biden administration officials believe, calculating that Putin of Russia knows he has to wait only two months for the new administration.”

That assessment is based on the belief that Trump and his incoming Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, will take a more favorable stance on Russia.

Much of the American political class has cast Trump and Gabbard as agents of Russia. However, extensive investigations into Trump’s ties to the Kremlin have come up empty. Additionally, the Times reported last week that there was no evidence Gabbard was in any way an asset of Putin.

Russia-gate refuses to die -- but it certainly can play a role in our death -- deaths of millions because of a nuclear escalation.

I know it is unthinkable but so are a lot of things in this timeline. 

Former military Commander-in-Chief and Ukraine’s current ambassador to the UK, Valery Zaluzhny, has warned that World War Three is already underway in a recent interview published by Politico.

"I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun," he said. He referenced the greater internationalization of the war with the presence of North Korean troops, and Iranian technology on the battlefield, as well as Chinese support to Moscow.

"It is obvious that Ukraine already has too many enemies. Ukraine will survive with technology, but it is not clear whether it can win this battle alone." 

Zaluzhny claimed in the interview that Chinese weapons are being injected into the conflict alongside Iranian and North Korean arms. "Because in 2024, Ukraine is no longer facing Russia. Soldiers from North Korea are standing in front of Ukraine.

"It is still possible to stop it here, on the territory of Ukraine. But for some reason, our partners do not want to understand this. It is obvious that Ukraine already has too many enemies. Ukraine will survive with technology, but it is not clear whether it can win this battle alone," he said.

But it's certainly not merely the Russian side that has had outside assistance. The West's support to Ukraine has been much more direct, including billions of dollars in weaponry. F-16 fighter jets, anti-air systems, and medium and long-range missiles have been given to Ukraine, along with training for all of these systems.

Western advisers have without doubt also long been on the ground assisting Ukrainian intelligence and military officers. Moscow has cited all of this as what's driving escalation.

Meanwhile, Rob Magowan, the deputy chief of the British defense staff, told the House of Commons defense committee last week, "If the British Army was asked to fight tonight, it would fight tonight."

He added, "I don't think anybody in this room should be under any illusion that if the Russians invaded Eastern Europe tonight, then we would meet them in that fight."

At the same time, Washington has also been escalating, seeking to send as much arms and money to Kiev as the Biden administration can before Trump takes office on Jan.20. Critics have blasted this as reckless and an obvious recipe for runaway escalation.

Well, it appears that we need to do more than that -- Kamala Harris is nowhere to be seen even though she suggested during her campaign that she is always there during big decisions.

Biden was last seen getting lost in the Amazon Jungle while at the same time able to give the go-ahead for escalation and a decapitation stance against Russia.

Meanwhile, According to the New York Times, US and European officials have discussed a range of options they believe will deter Russia from taking more Ukrainian territory, including providing Kiev with nuclear weapons. The outlet reports that Western officials believe the Kremlin will not significantly escalate the war before Donald Trump is sworn in as President in January.

American officials who were briefed on the intelligence community’s assessments told the Times that weapons will not alter the challenging situation that Kiev is currently facing. "US spy agencies have assessed that speeding up the provisions of weapons, ammunition, and matériel for Ukraine will do little to change the course of the war in the short term," the Times reports.

We are now in a time in history where the unthinkable has to be thought about. Big things are happening on the world stage – but most only involve a change of emphasis, a reordering of the standard power play conducted within the deep state’s global field of influence.

There has to be a reason why we have allowed the psychopaths to run the show. People ask themselves why totalitarian regimes take over and the people fall for it -- it is because the people assume that leaders are there for the public good --and now we see that the deep state is pushing world order and is overlapping the reset with a quest for annihilation.

It is dissolving sovereignty for post-nuclear authoritarianism.

The World Economic Forum's version of the future is based upon the power play of several despotic billionaires, gathering behind them a cult of political, corporate and technocratic ciphers having no spine and no interest in operating outside the standard field of financially rewarding slavery.

They are a self-interested force based entirely on ‘taking’. Draining the life force of its vigor and, whether consciously or unconsciously, fixated on destruction and control.

The nameless and faceless American officials who’ve apparently been running the country, , have told the Western press that Biden had authorized American long-range missile (ATACMS) strikes into Russian territory.

I have said a lot about the escalation process and so far there have not been any nukes thrown by Russia but this is the calm before the storm and while tactical nukes may not be in play -- there seem to be some new moves by NATO that almost guarantee that many of the nations will jump into the war.

It all depends on Putin --whose patience has been tried by NATO and now the United states providing weapons to attack cities farther within the borders of Russia.

The United States is close to a decision on sending JASSM to Ukraine. 

JASSM is an acronym for a missile system with a range of 900km and a warhead weighing half a ton. It is launched from an aircraft.

There are four important things to know immediately.

Moscow, the Russian capital including the Kremlin is covered from the borders of Ukraine with this range and so is Putin's home in the outskirts. The system can be fitted with a nuclear warhead. 

Ukraine has F-16s that can launch JASSM!

The missile is either stealthy or terrain-hugging. Either way, that is an extremely dangerous missile that can strike with almost zero notice. 

When you put these together - as Russian strategists will instantly do - Russia has no option but to either move their capital away from Moscow and get moving eastwards in humiliation or to seek out and destroy those missiles anywhere they may be around Kiev. 

This clearly means striking a NATO nation and (potentially) triggering Article 5. It may not be the intention, but in strategic terms, the deployment of such a system to Ukraine indicates that a decapitation strike against Russia is on the table. 

We now have the war stretched taut to the very limits of its elasticity. If I were living in Europe, I would have a little bag packed with a reasonable amount of cash and two tickets to Chile or Argentina . 

Already France has authorized Ukraine to fire its long-range SCALP missiles against any target it wishes inside Russia as there are no more red lines. It is also reported that North Korean troops have entered Ukraine in the direction of Khalhiv. 

Europe yesterday formed a caucus within NATO that provisionally excluded Donald Trump's United States and one of its decisions is to support Ukraine in mass producing its Grom missile that has a range of 900km.

Russia seems to have only its hypersonic systems, IRBM and ICBMs left - the type it fired upon the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Those are not really useful in conventional wars because they sacrifice accuracy for speed. Cruise missiles like JASSM do the opposite and are far more effective in result. IRBM/ICBMs are more effective in carrying nukes because you don't need accuracy for that. It just needs to crash into a general area. Russia has no real answer to what is sneaking up on it and it knows and will respond dangerously - because it really has no choice. 

Once Russia gets intelligence that JASSM has arrived in Ukraine, you will have war in Europe within 48 hours. On the other hand, Russia may dial down the war and seek the road that leads back to Moscow.

The situation in the world is more threatening than ever before. Putin has had to make it clear that a continuation of missile attacks on Russia will result in retribution. The new missile Putin has revealed can destroy all US and NATO military forces in the West and Middle East without the use of nuclear warheads. If the US then goes nuclear, Russian nuclear forces will destroy the entirety of the West.

In the face of such a warning, only irresponsible psychopaths would persist. The sway of psychopaths over the US and Europe means we have to be concerned that Washington will “test the waters” by expanding the permissible area and distance for the ATACMs to be fired into Russia. 

Putin has backed up as far as he can. His back is against the wall. Putin cannot accept missiles being fired into Russia by the US and NATO. At this point, only psychopaths would “poke the bear ” which means playing with nuclear Armageddon. But psychopaths are in charge. 

Not Biden.

A bad outcome seems inevitable because the Western world is lost in the lies of its official narrative. There is no reality recognition. 

Now the Establishment is trying to saddle President-elect Trump with a war with Russia as he enters office. This is the work of war criminals.

The US Federal Emergency Management Agency has released a spine-chilling survival guide for a nuclear attack amid the escalating Ukraine conflict and intensifying Middle Eastern disputes.

Echoing Cold War-era preparedness, the agency's updated advice aims to shield Americans from the horrors of a nuclear explosion. A nuclear simulation grimly tallies the death toll should Russia target Washington DC with a nuke – the numbers are staggering.

FEMA's somber instructions are stark: "Nuclear explosions can cause significant damage and casualties from blast, heat, and radiation but you can keep your family safe by knowing what to do and being prepared if it occurs," underscoring the critical nature of this knowledge for survival.

The agency further highlights the broad spectrum of nuclear threats ranging from handheld devices to massive missiles, contributing to the unpredictability of such assaults. 

The perils extend beyond immediate flash blindness and blast waves capable of annihilating structures miles away; there's also the menace of radiation inflicting cellular havoc and sickness, as well as thermal energy causing widespread burns and property destruction.

It is the duck and cover details all over again.

Look at America’s Warhawks and tremble. Senator Lindsey Graham is ready to go to war with Russia, China, and Iran. What does the fool think the consequences will be? American victory? 

Take a minute and think. Are there any intelligent, moral people anywhere in the American Establishment? or are we dealing with psychopaths?

Will Putin accept more missiles fired into Russia while he awaits Trump’s presidency to see if Washington comes to its senses? If he does he has the patience of Job.

The West is doubling down on its missile attacks on Russia. 

France has joined Washington and the UK in green-lighting the use of its long-range missiles against Russia. The French foreign minister said no constraints should be placed on the use of the missiles. 

The French minister added that France is open to extending an invitation to Ukraine to join NATO. What is it, if not stupidity, to ignore Russia’s warning that enough is enough and to poison the situation to prevent the possibility that Trump can work to defuse the dangerous situation?

The situation that confronts us is that Western leaders have been made ignorant by their propaganda and are incapable of realizing the real threat they have created — nuclear war. The New York Times reports that some US and European officials have discussed providing Ukraine with nuclear weapons. Could anything more irresponsible be done? How is it possible that people this dangerous can be Western leaders?

How is it possible not to be alarmed when the fate of humanity is in the hands of such utterly hawkish people?

Everyone that had the yellow and blue flags on their Facebook as an icon of support -- are you still in the same mindset as you and your families my be targeted for a nuclear attack?

Did you ever think about that when the Warhawk propagandists started pushing their "evil empire " charade? Their Russiagate nonsense -- that many ignorant still believe in.

Other nations when confronted with wars the do not endorse resort to mass mobilization, general strikes, -- but what are we doing?

We are hoping that Trump will do something.

He can't at the moment -- he is not president. 

Trump may very well have been elected based on ending foreign interventions by the US. But the warmongers are busy creating a hail Mary that even Trump alone can not stop.