We, the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the USA. We have been watching with increasing anxiety as
the current US and NATO policies have set us on an extremely dangerous collision course with the Russian Federation, as well as with China. Many respected, patriotic Americans, such as
Paul Craig Roberts,
Stephen Cohen,
Philip Giraldi,
Ray McGovern and many others have been issuing warnings of a looming Third World War. But their voices have been all but lost among the din of a mass media that is full of deceptive and inaccurate stories that characterize the Russian economy as being in shambles and the Russian military as weak—all based on no evidence. But we—knowing both Russian history and the current state of Russian society and the Russian military, cannot swallow these lies. We now feel that it is our duty, as Russians living in the US, to warn the American people that they are being lied to, and to tell them the truth. And the truth is simply this:
If there is going to be a war with Russia, then the United States
will most certainly be destroyed, and most of us will end up dead.
Let us take a step back and put what is happening in a historical context. Russia has suffered a great deal at the hands of foreign invaders, losing 22 million people in World War II. Most of the dead were civilians, because the country was invaded, and the Russians have vowed to never let such a disaster happen again.
Each time Russia had been invaded, she emerged victorious. In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia; in 1814 Russian cavalry rode into Paris. On July 22, 1941, Hitler's Luftwaffe bombed Kiev; on May 8, 1945, Soviet troops rolled into Berlin.
Comment: The paradox: mutually assured destruction, or something approaching it, should insure that such a scenario never takes place. But psychopaths don't seem capable of that kind of consequence-based logic. The Neocons and Neolibs are crazy enough to take down the world with them, or at least a sizeable chunk of it. With any luck, that won't happen. Perhaps mitigating events will intervene, perhaps the U.S. power structure will implode before it reaches that point. But even if that is the case, humanity shouldn't ignore the current geopolitical trajectory, which is openly inviting destruction on a massive level, all out of an inflated sense of imperial hubris and thickheadedness. As bad as things are today, they can get worse. At the very least we can educate ourselves about the possibilities.
Putin recently made some serious remarks in Greece on the subject. See Eric Zuesse's take on it here:
Putin gives grave warning to Romania and Poland against installing NATO's ABM missiles, "no one is listening". The Saker also gives some background on Russia's actual military capabilities here:
War with Russia? Debunking the Empire's lies and illusions.
Comment: Trump is a scam artist though and though. Any venture he's involved in will only have one true purpose: enriching himself.