Date: Wednesday, 06 August 2025
2 articles:
The Top Geostrategic Analysts Agree: Trump Aims to Win WW3.
&
U.S.-and-Allied ‘News’-Media Goad Trump to Start World War Three
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/the-top-geostrategic-analysts-agree
https://theduran.com/the-top-geostrategic-analysts-agree-trump-aims-to-win-ww3/
The Top Geostrategic Analysts Agree: Trump Aims to Win WW3.
6 August 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
Trump on August 2nd: “When we talk about nuclear, we have to be prepared, and we’re totally prepared” Donald Trump.
Whereas, in the U.S., Presidents — especially Trump — talk about a World War Three as-if it will have a winner and a loser, no Russian President has ever spoken of a nuclear conflict between Russia and NATO in any such terms, and all have known and stated that it would be only lose-lose; and the reason for its being lose-lose is that, within two years of the explosions (which would be over within an hour), half of the world’s people would be dead, most of them from the starvation produced by the years-long darkness resulting from “nuclear winter,” which would utterly destroy agriculture. So, either Trump is an idiot, or else he is a liar — or both — in order for him to say such a thing as “We’re totally prepared” for that; and, if his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, hasn’t informed him of the reality on this matter, then she is a failure; and if she has informed him of it and he nonetheless says what he said, then she should promptly resign and make a public statement honestly explaining to the public why she did — because, otherwise, she will then be sharing in his guilt for the world-destroying war: WW3.
NO nation can be prepared for a WW3. A war that will ultimately end almost if not all life on this planet is NOT something that ANY nation can even POSSIBLY “be prepared for.” However, what WOULD be possible (and now perhaps even likely) is for Trump to START such a war. Putin has repeatedly made clear that he WON’T, but also that if America does, then America will immediately be obliterated, even if that initial American strike has already obliterated Moscow (eliminated Russia’s central command in The Kremlin).
On August 5th, the three finest public geostrategists — former U.N. weapons-inspector Scott Ritter, retired CIA analyst Larry C. Johnson, and Alexander Mercouris, who puts all of this into the broader diplomatic and economic context — all were in agreement that Trump actually does aim to win a nuclear war with Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYcUHzlp8LY
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/us-and-allied-news-media-goad-trump
https://theduran.com/u-s-and-allied-news-media-goad-trump-to-start-world-war-three/
U.S.-and-Allied ‘News’-Media Goad Trump to Start World War Three
6 August 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
A typical example of this is this from CNN on August 4th, saying that, at last, Trump seems to recognize that the U.S. and its allies have an obligation to provide whatever assistance Ukraine needs (up to and including nuclear) in order to defeat Russia:
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ukraine-now-trump-war-170720030.html
Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN
Mon, August 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM EDT
Vladimir Putin started it. Joe Biden didn’t stop it. But, no matter his efforts to the contrary, this is the week in which Russia’s invasion of Ukraine becomes US President Donald Trump’s war.
The most powerful office in the world doesn’t always invite choices. Trump is mandated to address the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II because the United States was involved, under his predecessor, as Ukraine’s key ally and sponsor.
Trump could have dropped the war entirely. But instead, he chose to impose the force of his personality, initially through the idea he could end it in 24 hours, or a revised deadline of 100 days. Then he tried to navigate its personalities, cozying up to the Russian president initially, echoing his narratives and then berating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly in the Oval Office.
He hit his NATO allies hard, demanding they pay more for Europe’s defense, which they did. And then the hard slog of diplomacy sputtered into gear, ultimately yielding very little.
But it is in the last fortnight that Trump’s decisions – and realizations – have turned this into a problem he now owns. He has seen Putin does not want peace. He has seen Ukraine urgently needs arms, and he tried to help, albeit in a lackluster way. He made the remarkable choice of responding to the usually dismissed nuclear saber-rattling of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, with harder nuclear threats about positioning US nuclear submarines closer to Russia. The US went from pausing military aid to Ukraine to threatening nuclear force against Russia in less than a month.
As this week ends, with Trump’s shortened deadline for a peace deal coming into view, he must make perhaps the most consequential decision of the conflict yet. Does he impose penalties – secondary tariffs against Russia’s energy customers – that really hurt? Does he accept the US and its allies might need to endure a little pain economically, to inflict pain?
Imposing serious secondary sanctions on India and China could roil the global energy market. Trump posted Monday he would be increasing tariffs on India because it was selling Russian crude on at a profit, and he didn’t “care how many people are being killed by the Russian War Machine,” although he did not provide details as to the new measures. India has not made it publicly clear if it intends to stop buying Russian energy products. China is utterly dependent on Russian oil and gas and simply cannot afford to stop buying it.
To avoid another a “TACO” moment – short for Trump Always Chickens Out – Trump will have to cause some discomfort and will likely feel some back. …
Trump does not get to choose which problems are his, and which he can ignore. MAGA’s America First platform may be about reducing Washington’s global footprint, but it doesn’t permit Trump to own solely his successes – and not his failures. … He says he wants wars to stop [the war]. But that is not enough in itself. The wars have not all complied.
Former US President Barack Obama inherited wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He ducked fast out of the former, and doubled down with a surge in the latter, which did not work. Afghanistan became Obama’s war, even though it was a mess he had inherited [and continues from Bush]. Trump in turn was passed that mess, and he handed his quick fix to Biden to execute, in the chaotic collapse of August 2021, widely paraded by Republicans as a Democrat failing.
Trump faces the same problem of inheriting a crisis [and he must continue this war as they did theirs]. He cannot wish or cajole the conflict to an end. … Ukrainians want to live in peace, without nightly air raid sirens. Putin does not want peace, and instead his most recent maximalist demands amount to something tantamount to Ukrainian surrender. …
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For the truth about the war in Ukraine — that it was started by Obama in 2014, not by Putin in 2022 or at any other time — click on this.
Here are the “Top” (most-approved-of) reader-comments at Yahoo, for that CNN ‘news’-report:
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Robert
If Trump can help Ukraine win the war and push back the Russians it will tremendously help his approval ratings. If he doesn't it will make him look bad causing many people to see him as weak. To cave in to Putin would be going against the traditional stance of the Republican party. We can't forget what Reagan said to Gorbachev "Tear down this wall". The Ukrainians have shown tremendous courage and resolve against a much larger foe. If Trump doesn't do his part to help Ukraine then from my viewpoint he is not a real Republican. Trump needs to show everybody that he actually stands for something otherwise his presidency will be a failure.
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Henry
This not just Trump's war, it is a war for Western values, territorial integrity, and freedom. Ukraine is being worn down. Putin and Russia cannot be fought to the last Ukrainian. A decision and ultimatum are required. Europe itself must fully commit. Otherwise, the Baltics, Moldova and Poland are next. Putin has already destabilized Europe. Trump's spasm tariffs are sure not helping either. Trump cannot blame this war impasse right now on anyone else. He really does own this now. No matter how unpleasant it makes him. A threat to Europe is also a threat to the United States. Way past time to realize that obvious fact. So, get off the fence, ditch the bromance foolishness, nuclear blackmail fears, isolation fantasies, and empty rhetoric, and declare for freedom. Or.. fold like cheap suit. What will it be Mr. President.
Just like the neocons had persuaded Americans that the U.S. Government must help Israel defend itself against the Palestinian aggressors, they also persuaded Americans that the overthrow of Yanukovych in Ukraine in 2014 was a democratic revolution instead of a U.S. coup and so the U.S. Government must protect Ukraine against Russian aggression. Americans think that the aggressors (in both instances the U.S. empire) were instead the defenders responding to aggression, and that the defenders against that U.S.-and-allied aggression were the aggressors. The result of this mass-deception by the billionaires-controlled ‘news’-media in the U.S. empire is now likely to be WW3.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
