Biden may go out in an atomic blaze of glory. However, Seymour Hersh reports that Trump and Putin are already conducting back channel communications. From Seymour Hersh at seymourhersh.substack.com:
Frustration escalates for the the lame duck president
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with military chiefs in Moscow on November 22. / Photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool/AFP via Getty Images.
There is a scene early on in Nathanael West’s satirical 1933 novella Miss Lonelyhearts that reeks of depression, despair, and genius. It’s hard to forget. The protagonist is a lovelorn advice columnist for a newspaper in New York City who receives a letter from a teenage girlwho describes herself as having the makings of a beauty, with a slender figure that many rave about, but she bitterly notes she has never had a date. Can it be, she asks, because she has no nose?
The scene came to mind this week as I considered the bitterness of President Joe Biden, who seems to be full of resentment because a group of Democratic Party bigwigs, aware that he was failing, forced him to give up his planned re-election campaign and turn over the fight against Donald Trump to Vice President Kamala Harris, and all the more resentment because she failed to beat Trump as Biden did in 2020.
The president is no longer talking about his failed policy in the Middle East, though American bombs and other weaponry are still flowing to Israel and being put to deadly use. Biden is now trying to stem the losses in Ukraine’s war with Russia. A week ago he gave the Ukraine government, headed by President Volodymyr Zelensky, permission to fire a long withheld advanced American ballistic missile capable of hitting targets 190 miles inside Russia. Days later, he decided to provide Ukraine with landmines capable of maiming and killing all whose paths cross them, young and old, friendly and not.
I have been told that the strategic implications of the president’s escalation—both Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have nuclear bombs at their fingertips—had not been fully analyzed inside the Pentagon, and that some important offices, sure to have different views about escalation, were never asked for their input. Putin responded by escalating in turn by firing a nuclear-capable ballistic missile at Ukraine and said in a speech that what had been a regional conflict “had now acquired elements of a global character.” The New York Times noted that the response “was meant to instill fear in Kyiv and the West.”
Word that 404 could make them [nukes] but they don’t have all the parts.
Ivan will find out and Mr. Oreshnik will pay a visit?
A missile factory was here yesterday, and today it is dust.
Could Elon make us some of that there Wunderwaffen?
It’s no fun when two can’t play.
Breaking from Alexander Robotnick:
Blue Electric Lines
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