Chatham House Luminary Likes the Idea of a Preemptive Strikes

Dec. 1—Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) insightfully described the Nov. 25 call by NATO Military Committee Chair Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer for possible preemptive strikes against Russia’s nuclear capabilities as “bat-shit crazy.” The British Empire’s premier think tank, Chatham House, aka the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) strongly disagrees with that assessment and peddles its own version of a pre-emptive first strike on Russia, in a discussion of NATO launching a nuclear war..

In a Nov. 25 essay entitled “How Likely Is the Use of Nuclear Weapons by Russia?” by Dr. Patricia Lewis, head of the International Security Program at Chatham House, contemplates the pros and cons of initiating nuclear warfare with Russia:

“Depending on other intelligence and analysis—and the failure of all diplomatic attempts to dissuade Russia—NATO countries may decide to intervene to prevent launch by bombing storage sites and missile deployment sites in advance.

“But there are enormous risks associated with this decision. Such a strike might precipitate a far worse attack from Russia and could be characterized as an act of aggression by NATO rather than of preemptive defense.

“However, not to pre-empt would leave Ukraine or other countries—including the U.K., U.S., and other NATO states—open to nuclear weapons explosions with the possibility of hundreds of thousands dead, depending on the target.”

Sources report that this "batshit crazy" thinking has permeated the highest levels of the NATO command and the strategic planning circles of the Pentagon. They idnicates that there is a secret planning document that lays out a battle plan against Russia, that starts with a NATO first strike on Russian nuclear weapons sites. The sources say that the planner both in Brussels and the Pentagon, however are alarmed about the now confirmed development of the Oreshnik IRBM that is launched from a mobile launcher and there fore can be located outside of any fixed base, Such weapons systems limit the effectiveness of a "decapitating first strike" as contemplated by the planners. "The Bauer "leak' on the first strike was conceived to give [Russian President Vladimir} Putin, something to think about, to get him to wonder about NATO doctrine," said a source. "But it is Putin who has really scrambled the decks in the west with his super rocket. Putin has a first strike weapon that can't be countered. NATO had hints of this, but they did not believe it ready and worse, ready for mass production."