by J. Robert Smith, American Thinker:

This past weekend, the Ukrainians fired missiles at Russia. It’s not the first time. U.S. fingerprints are all over this attack, too. It was yet another provocation to war with Russia. A war with Russia wouldn’t be a limited affair, despite the conceits emanating from Washington. And it wouldn’t revolve around Ukraine’s future. It would center on the fate of the American empire.

Reported CNN:

The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a post on Telegram that Ukraine carried out the attack using “US-supplied ATACMS operational-tactical missiles equipped with cluster warheads.”

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According to Reuters, the attack “killed at least four people and injured 151.” The missiles weren’t just U.S. supplied. Russia charged that the “U.S. military had aimed them and provided data.” The technology used would have included a U.S. Global Hawk surveillance drone. An unconfirmed report from Pravda via Newsweek is that Russia just downed a Global Hawk over the Black Sea. The U.S. contests the claim.

The Biden administration is pushing brinkmanship with Russia. Of course, that’s a monumental gamble. Washington’s defense and foreign affairs establishment is trying to win through intimidation what Ukraine isn’t winning on battlefields, regardless tens of billions of dollars in U.S. aid and hands-on support. But brinkmanship with Russia opens the door to miscalculations. Triggering a conventional war between the world’s premier nuclear-armed powers risks escalation to nuclear conflict.

American provocations are for reasons far deeper. A Russian victory in Ukraine is regarded as a direct challenge to U.S. dominance in Europe and would reverberate globally. The U.S’s stepped-up confrontations with Russia are necessary from Washington’s perspective. Washington elites are exhibiting an intensifying anxiety; they’ve lost the initiative. Washington wagered that with U.S. and NATO backing, Ukraine would prevail against a heavily discounted Russia. Washington’s conceit underestimated Russian resolve and resourcefulness. Increasingly direct involvement by the U.S. is a response to its blunder.

Saving — or salvaging — Ukraine is now imperative to the U.S’s longstanding strategy to bring Russia to heel. Retaining U.S. lone global dominance is the aim, however vain the pursuit.

Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey Sachs addressed the U.S.’s post-Cold War strategy in a detailed opinion piece for Common Dreams, a progressive news outlet. Sachs, a longtime advisor and confidante to high-ranking Democrats and a leader of U.N. initiatives, wrote on June 19:

Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. grand strategy has been to weaken Russia. As early as 1992, then Defense Secretary Richard Cheney opined that following the 1991 demise of the Soviet Union, Russia too should be dismembered. Zbigniew Brzezinski opined in 1997 that Russia should be divided into three loosely confederated entities in Russian Europe, Siberia, and the far east. In 1999, the U.S.-led NATO alliance bombed Russia’s ally, Serbia, for 78 days in order to break Serbia apart and install a massive NATO military base in breakaway Kosovo. Leaders of the U.S. military-industrial complex vociferously supported the Chechen war against Russia in the early 2000s.

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