(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
In 2019, RAND openly presented the report on destabilizing Russia whose title can be translated as "How to overthrow Putin". Everything is available to the media and researchers. The proposed measures aim to increase the threats along the border against Russia, not least in Ukraine, tarnish the leadership in Russia both domestically and in the rest of the world, and weaken the country's economy and the climate of cooperation with Western Europe with provocations that would be costly for Russia and hopefully overthrow today's management.
Who has heard 'experts' in Norway comment on this RAND report, which today appears as a recipe for the provocations that led to Russia's countermeasures in 2022 and the invasion of Ukraine? Is it because it is irrelevant to report an early warning that has triggered the death and maiming of millions since 2022? A report that has drawn up the framework explanation of why Russian gas cables had to be destroyed in the Baltic Sea on 26 September 2022?
Many will remember the aforementioned Daniel Ellsberg at the think tank RAND and the revelations with the so-called Pentagon papers under Nixon in 1971. Ellsberg is in his latest book The Doomsday Machine (2019) not primarily concerned with writing history. He will learn from it, that there must not come a day when it dawns on us that it is too late. But remember this, writes Ellsberg:
Those who plan doomsday crimes that chart the erasure of millions are completely ordinary people. They shop at the supermarket, sing bedtime songs to their children. We saw it illustrated in the Oscar film The Areas of Interest (2023), where the commandant of Auschwitz lives with his idyllic family 50 meters outside the extermination camp. But the occasional body part drifts down the river they bathe in – from the camp – and threatens the idyll.
Ellsberg fears governmental nuclear programs more than he fears terrorists' nuclear weapons! Terrorists are amateurs – as Johan Galtung has said, they can get hold of one bomb. States threaten to send hundreds and trigger a backlash that could wipe out humanity.
Judgment day is not linked to a possibly crazy leader. The dangers are no greater with Trump than with Biden or Harris. The doomsday machine is a system which has its own uncontrollable dynamics.
Eisenhower's parting warnings appear here. Ellsberg suggests that "we Americans" must...:
introduce a binding principle on the prohibition of the first use of nuclear weapons
have open hearings on our war plans and the possibility of nuclear winter
remove ICBMs, long-range missiles, which are only offensive!
drop talked about the benefits of striking ahead of attacks
stop talking about the benefits of the nuclear programs creating jobs, profits, dominance over other countries, etc.
take down, step by step, the American doomsday machine. The fewer missiles and nuclear warheads, the lower the risk of failure and use
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