US Blinks in Standoff with Iran, While Putin Warns of War With NATO

12 September 2024 by Larry Johnson

USS Roosevelt Pulls Out of Persian Gulf

Some very consequential statements and movements today. The biggest — and most alarming — comes from Vladimir Putin. He minces no words — any attack inside Russia with Western precision missiles will be treated as an act of war and Russia will respond accordingly.

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This should be setting off alarm bells at the Pentagon and USEUCOM (US European Command) and NATO. But, I think that the military lightweights infesting these various commands have persuaded themselves that Moscow is just blowing hot air. This is the kind of miscalculation that can lead to reckless decisions on the part of NATO and Ukraine.

While Putin is leaving no doubt about the position of Russia if such weapons are used, the reality on the ground in Ukraine is turning more dire for Ukraine with each passing day. Russia is announcing the capture of at least three settlements a day in the Donbass and is moving forward with determined lethality in the Kursk region. There is nothing that Ukraine can do, even with support from NATO, to alter the path to defeat.

Shifting to Syria, I post the following for your entertainment. Some lame, testosterone-deprived UN press flack was metaphorically smacked around by an Asian reporter, who demanded an answer about US hypocrisy by placing its troops in Syria without the permission of the Syrian Government.

Then there is the inability of the US to sustain a military erection in the Persian Gulf. After rushing two aircraft carrier task forces to the Middle East in anticipation of Iran launching a retaliatory strike on Israel, the United States has ordered the USS Roosevelt to leave West Asia (i.e., the Persian Gulf) and head east towards China. I am sure that US planners will be celebrating this deployment as proof that they frightened Iran into backing down from its promised retaliation. But, I suggest it is premature to pop champagne corks because Iran will strike at a time and place of its choosing.

Related to that, there are reports out of Europe that Hezbollah’s missile/drone barrage from three weeks ago inflicted significant casualties on Israeli intelligence operators based at Gillot, the headquarters of Unit 8200. Netanyahu imposed a news embargo immediately after those strikes, which adds credibility to the reports that Hezbollah scored a victory.

Finally, here is my chat from the other day with my friend, Rasheed Mohammed.