Wouldn’t It Be Ironic if Nuclear War Started Under Trump?

The main reason I supported Trump strongly for re-election and so far as president is because he campaigned to be a “president of peace.” I believe he really means it.

But on June 1 something happened that wasn’t supposed to happen: An attack on the nuclear forces of one of the two nuclear superpowers. “Ukraine” sent drones deep into Russia and blew up as many as 40 Russian bombers that could carry nukes. Nuclear Doctrine for the U.S. and Russia dictates an attack on strategic nuclear forces, such as the Russian bombers, is a First Strike bringing an immediate overwhelming nuclear response. Technically, we all should be dead.

The attack was not just by “Ukraine,” but by the CIA, which controls the SBU, their KGB. The Washington Post, which always has been connected to the intel community, reported in Oct. 2023, “Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia.” Which makes one wonder: Does Trump even control his own administration?

The forces that hate Russia are celebrating, all using the same phrase, “daring attack.” The pro-war, neocon Wall Street Journal’s editorial headlined: “Ukraine Still Isn’t Defeated: Daring drone raids on air bases deep inside Russia show Kyiv’s continuing will to fight.” Neocon always-war Max Boot in the Washington Post: “Operation Spiderweb was a brilliant and daring gambit to make up for the fact that Ukraine is running low on ammunition for its Patriot air-defense systems — and President Donald Trump appears in no mood to send any replacements.” Except Trump can’t send replacements because there aren’t any, and they wouldn’t stop the Russian juggernaut – now turbocharged by anger at the attack on the strategic bombers – anyway.

Trump is a great negotiator. But he made the mistake of thinking the negotiations, including those that resumed between Ukraine and Russia today in Istanbul, are about Ukraine. They are not. The negotiations – all negotiations between the U.S. and Russia – are about making sure we don’t nuke each other.

Now that’s going to be a lot harder. The only reason Operation Spiderweb was “daring” was because the bombers were out in the open, not in bunkers. Boy, those Russkies sure are stupid leaving their bombers out in the open! Except that was required under past arms control pacts so we can count them. Our bombers also are out in the open for the same reason. Now the bombers will be put in hardened bunkers and will be harder to count.

Currently, the New START arms limitations are in effect, but expire next February. The U.S. State Department lists the limits:

Both the United States and the Russian Federation met the central limits of the New START Treaty by February 5, 2018, and have stayed at or below them ever since. Those limits are:

• 700 deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), deployed submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and deployed heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments;

• 1,550 nuclear warheads on deployed ICBMs, deployed SLBMs, and deployed heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments (each such heavy bomber is counted as one warhead toward this limit);

• 800 deployed and non-deployed ICBM launchers, SLBM launchers, and heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments.

It’s going to be nearly impossible for Trump to negotiate a continuation. Maybe he can perform some magic and pull a treaty out of his MAGA cap. Otherwise, both sides will start building and building again. In the 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, both sides had 35,000 nuclear warheads, compared to less than 6,000 today.

The negotiations, if they even are possible, obviously include resolving the Ukraine situation. After this attack, Russia will continue even more strongly with its inexorable march westward across Ukraine. The only way Moscow can prevent the Ukraine regime from launching another such attack is to replace the Ukraine regime.

Back here in los Estados Unidos, Trump is going to have to get real control of his administration. He can’t have neocon crazies Lindsey Graham remaining in charge. Just before the attack on Russia’s nuclear bombers, Graham was in Kiev with another crazy, Sen. Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, who got that nickname for claiming to have served in Vietnam, but lied. It’s called stolen valor.

Graham demanded Putin essentially surrender, or “the entire fury of the world will be against him.” He talked about his bill that would impose 500% sanctions on countries doing business with Russia – which would include every country in the world, including the United States. We still cooperate with Russia on the International Space Station, among other things.

Or is it impossible for Trump to negotiate? Is the neocon control so strong at CIA and the other intel agencies, and the hatred of Russia and Russians so great, the only resolution will be blowing up the world?