General Flynn Tries To Take Nukes ‘Off the Table’

June 22—President Donald Trump’s first choice, in 2017, to be his National Security Advisor, Gen. Michael Flynn, put out a statement on his Substack dated June 21, urging the President “in the strongest possible terms … to declare that the United States will not initiate the use of nuclear weapons against Iran. I would not recommend waiting two weeks to make that announcement; I would urge him to do this now. It is time to slam shut and nail down the top on the Pandora’s Box that contains dreaded nuclear weapons.”

General Flynn wrote that he is responding to Newsweek and Fox News on June 20 combining their “maniacal reporting” to produce a sentence alleging the Administration “has not taken anything off the table, including the use of tactical nuclear weapons.” He reminded that “tactical nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons,” and that “This type of maniacal reporting has been taken seriously by Russia,” and also by Pakistan. But Flynn did not refer to the state that is actually most likely to use nuclear weapons against Iranian nuclear facilities, and whose capability to do this actually drew the counter-threat from Pakistan, namely Israel.

Nonetheless, Flynn is urging Trump to do something the President is saying he can’t do. However sources say he has done just that, when in choosing the war plan for an attack on Iran's nuclear sites, which was executed yesterday, Trump had removed the use of tactical nukes as an option.

The Hill reported that Trump responded to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s demand that the United States call for a ceasefire to restart negotiations, saying today: “I think it’s very hard to make that request right now. If somebody is winning, it’s a little bit harder to do than if somebody is losing, but we’re ready, willing and able, and we’ve been speaking to Iran, and we’ll see what happens. We’ll see what happens.”

The leader most capable of talking Trump down off the ledge of world war is Russian President Vladimir Putin, who continues to offer that his negotiations with all the parties could bring about a solution with the potential to end the fighting.