By: Luis Beaton
Havana. The President of the United States, Joe Biden, plays the symphony of the war against Russia in Brussels today, anticipating scenarios of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
Those contingencies are expected to be the focus of an extraordinary meeting in Brussels this Thursday, where Biden will meet with the leaders of the other 29 NATO countries behind closed doors, with their cellphones and aides banned, The New newspaper reported. YorkTimes.
In fact, the White House has created a socalled Tiger Team, as the group is known, to study reactions if Russia enters NATO territory to attack convoys carrying arms and supplies to Ukraine, officials said , which were quoted by the newspaper.
It is worth noting that this is despite Moscow’s warnings about responses that would preclude NATO members from entering their territories.
But Biden, an old hawk of diplomacy and politics, is anticipating these unlikely events, perhaps to try to overcome his bad image with Americans.
His opposition rate is now around 54 percent, and polls suggest the effect of rising inflation is being compounded by escalating tensions with Russia over the Ukraine conflict.
When the Times reported on the Tiger team’s existence, the Times said it meets three times a week to “study” responses if Russia tries to expand the war to neighboring nations.
Speculations continue to grow. Media propaganda attempts to portray Russia as an evil nation committing war crimes and that President Vladimir Putin is frustrated “with his lack of progress in Ukraine,” which NATO experts say would make him go to his stockpiles of chemicals, biological or nuclear weapons.
That defies all logic, experts say, and according to a recent analysis by William Scott Ritter Jr., a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, the war in Ukraine will be over sooner than you might think.
Ritter argued that the West was unwilling to accept defeat as it believed, based on its own propaganda, that the Russians would lose the war and their economy would sink under sanctions.
The US expert stressed that claims that “Russia is stuck in Ukraine” are a misinterpretation or misrepresentation of how Moscow is conducting its election campaign. For example, he said he didn’t take Kyiv because he had no intention of taking it.
However, Washington, which fueled the Ukraine crisis, from which it no doubt benefits as much as the military industry, is preparing for what until recently were theoretical scenarios.
The Times estimates that from the White House to NATO headquarters in Brussels, they believe Russia can draw on the most powerful weapons in its arsenal to break out of its alleged military stalemate, which is at odds with reality.
Preparation of the site continued the day before, when NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg underscored “the urgency of the preparatory efforts” ahead of the Kremlin’s eventual deployment of such equipment.
But back to Tigre, according to the Times, one of the main issues the team appreciates is the threshold that could lead the alliance to use military force in Ukraine.
Notably, Biden says he doesn’t seek direct confrontation, that he doesn’t seek to escalate the conflict beyond his control, if he ever had one.
Both Biden and his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, quash the message that Moscow will resort to nuclear weapons despite their refusal, showing the orchestra’s conductor is determined to perform his macabre symphony and blame it on Russia.