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The United States will be the first country to pull the nuclear trigger, an American academic and political commentator has warned.
Daniel Kovalik, an academic at the University of Pittsburgh, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday, while commenting on the incendiary statements by former US national security adviser H.R. McMaster and other American officials.
McMaster said on Sunday that the United States must take Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine “seriously.”
McMaster, a retired US Army lieutenant general who served as a national security adviser under former President Donald Trump, claimed that Putin’s nuclear threat is the “only quiver he has left” as the Russian leader struggles in the war.
“We ought to take it seriously,” McMaster said of the nuclear threat. “We have to, but we ought to not allow this to cow us in terms of the support for the Ukrainians.”
Meanwhile, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned that there is no one to stop Putin from following through on his recent threats of using nuclear weapons.
The United States is considering how to respond to a range of potential scenarios, including fears that Russians could use tactical nuclear weapons, CNN reported on Sunday quoting three sources briefed on the latest intelligence.
“Officials caution the US has not detected preparations for a nuclear strike. However, experts view them as potential options the US must prepare for as Russia’s invasion falters and as Moscow annexes more Ukrainian territory,” the report said.
New York-based radio host Don DeBar said in an interview with Press TV Friday that “this is highly disingenuous.”
“Russia is not about to collapse in Ukraine, whatsoever. The US is trying to create a narrative, based on a couple of tactical retreats, that scares the life out of me, because it sounds like they intend to set off a small nuclear device in Ukraine, blame it on Moscow and use it as an excuse to make complete war on Russia,” he stated.
DeBar added, “The first movie ever made by the actor Peter Sellers was based on the prevailing fallacy at the time that the best thing that could happen to a country was to be defeated by the US in a war and then collect the foreign aid to rebuild in the aftermath. That movie was called ‘The Mouse That Roared’.”
“The fact of the matter is that the money flows to places where weapons purchases, death squads, drugs and money laundering prevail. There are the contras in Nicaragua, the decades long poppy and pipeline war in Afghanistan, the drug and death squad war in Columbia and, of course, the current war in Ukraine. If a country has vast oil reserves, sooner or later the US military is on the job securing it for America's oil corporations. But it takes more than oil to grease the wheels of the economy owned by Western oligarchs. Guns drugs and dirty money provide that additional lubrication,” he continued.
“The problem today is that trying this formula on a nuclear power - Russia - may well spark a response that no one expected, and no one wanted,” he concluded.
