Liberty Nation News By: Dave Patterson
The Ukraine war is in its second month; not what Putin expected.
The West is trying to answer the question: With conventional weapons and tactics proving not quite up to the job, will Russia turn to chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons in desperation? What was anticipated to be a three-day – four, at the max – campaign to occupy Ukraine is now in its second month. Mired in urban fighting and stalled almost everywhere in Ukraine, the Russian juggernaut is not proving to be an unstoppable war machine. So are Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) really on the table? As Liberty Nation reported, Russian President Vladimir Putin has already placed nuclear-capable missiles close to NATO’s border and not far from Ukraine.
The notion of Moscow employing WMD in its war in Ukraine has been around for several weeks. What prompted this line of thinking was Kremlin officials making pretext claims of the US conducting biological weapons research in Ukraine. According to Moscow-think, this naturally means conclusively that Ukraine is planning a biological or chemical campaign against ethnic Russians. But the logic also smacks of the Biden administration talking themselves into a WMD threat. White House press secretary Jen Psaki explained in a series of tweets on March 9:
“Russia has a track record of accusing the West of the very violations that Russia itself is perpetrating. In December, Russia falsely accused the US of deploying contractors with chemical weapons in Ukraine… Now that Russia has made these false claims, and China has seemingly endorsed this propaganda, we should all be on the lookout for Russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine.”
While the White House expressed concerns regarding the Putin government’s potential to release chemical or biological weapons on the Ukrainians, NATO is also worrying about this possibility. “Any use of chemical weapons would totally change the nature of the conflict and would be a blatant violation of international law and have far-reaching consequences,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters at a press conference in Brussels. Additionally, planning is underway in the US to come up with contingency responses to a possible use of WMD. “Those contingencies are expected to be central to an extraordinary session here in Brussels on Thursday, when President Biden meets leaders of the 29 other NATO nations, who will be meeting for the first time — behind closed doors, their cellphones and aides banished — since Mr. Putin invaded Ukraine,” The New York Times explained recently.
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