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Meltdown Madness: The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Station and NATO's Drive Towards a Nuclear World War III
By KEITH MCHENRY
Photo at left is of the author and his Grampy Phelan.
Photo by BRUCE MCHENRY
Our cousin, Mr. Lovejoy, took my family on a field trip to see his place of work. He wheeled his new '67 Buick between two hangars and on to the concrete tarmac of Dover Air Force Base. Towers of shimmering steel caskets neatly stacked twenty high and twenty deep marched like city blocks down the length of the airstrip. Each tin box waiting to receive what was left of another young American in the depressing bowels of the US Army Morgue. Over 20,000 corpses would pass through this Delaware mortuary on their way to a flag draped funeral. A memorable lesson for this ten year-old.
I was also receiving an education from my mother's loving father, the Harvard Law School graduate and Crimson football star, John Vanderpoole Phelan. He had been a member of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, the organization that was the precursor to the US Central Intelligence Agency. And this is why you should pay attention to the message of my essay.
The lessons I learned from my grandfather inform my opinion that our country is run by psychopaths that are systematically taking us to a global war between nuclear armed nations. A war they believe they can win. Again, you should take my words here very seriously.
Grampy Phelan, as I called him, made sure I understood that like himself, I too was "genetically superior;" and as such would be tasked with helping direct the course of our nation and the world. He explained that "we" only use elections and the illusion of democracy as a means to keep the public distracted and divided. He claimed it would be irresponsible to let the American rabble determine the direction of our country. The people running the economy and wars today share that same belief.
My grandfather directed the world's most deadly bombing campaign, Operation Meeting House, sending lines of B-29s "over the hump" from Burma to the skies above Tokyo unleashing their deadly firebombs over the city.
I watched my grandfather pace around his Needham, Massachusetts's den yelling into his phone receiver passionately arguing with his friends, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and General Curtis LeMay. He was surrounded by 63 framed black and white photos that he had shot from 20,000 feet above a burning Tokyo as he laid out his reasons for why the US should drop a nuclear bomb on Hanoi, not to win the war but rather to send a message to China and the Soviet Union that America had no limits in war and would take every measure to defend capitalism.
He made it clear to me that everything is on the table in defense of US economic interests including nuclear annihilation. There is no limit to the number of Dover, Delaware caskets that these Ivory Towers of ambition are willing to fill.
I have been hearing my grandfather's logic in the statements of Victoria Nuland, Biden's Under Secretary for Political Affairs, her Project for the New American Century/Brookings Institute husband, Robert Kagan and the others who believe themselves to be masters of our universe.
Most recently, these monsters initiate decades of US-backed billion dollar coups, threats of Ukrainian entry into NATO and billions of dollars in arms shipments to Europe's most corrupt country. A regime change effort to antagonize another capitalist nuclear armed nation. A desperate attempt by neocons to use an insane geo-political chess game to maintain global control. It's a terror game taking our money while burying hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian youth into the muddy graves of what once were fertile loam plains of yellow wheat.
This blood soaked cabal in DC, is cut from the same Phillips Academy, Dartmouth and Harvard cloth as my grandfather. There is nothing they won't do to protect their system of domination and control. From the torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, to the murder of a million Iraqis, to the bombing of the Nord Stream Pipeline and the breaching of the Kakhovka Dam it could not be more obvious that these murderers have no boundaries.
NATO is ratcheting up the tension weapons system by weapons system. The UK delivers Storm Shadows, France sends Caesars, and Germany sends Leopard Tanks. The US ships in HIMARS, Patriots, and Bradleys. Soon there will be deliveries of F-16s and ATACMS hoping that Ukraine can cross another of Russia's red lines, the taking of Crimea and the port of their Black Sea fleet.
"The idea that we're going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews -- just understand, don't kid yourself, no matter what y'all say, that's called World War III," Biden told a gathering of House Democrats in Philadelphia on March 9. We sure are getting closer to this World War III. New blocks of sparkling coffins will line the runways of Dover, Delaware.
Peace in Ukraine has always been possible but the US and its NATO allies have scuttled each agreement. Killed Minks I and Minks II. The Ukrainian Russian peace treaty signed on March 14, 2022, in Antalya, Turkey where Ukraine agreed it would not pass Russia's principle red line of joining NATO was squashed by Britain and the US.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia Kaja Kallas spoke of their hopes for the July 11-12, NATO summit in Vilnius, Estonia.
"At the Summit, we will take the next steps, with new regional plans. Assigned forces and capabilities, and an enhanced exercise program. All backed by over 300,000 troops on high readiness"
"At the Summit, we will agree to a multi-year package of assistance, and upgrade our political ties with Ukraine. This will bring Ukraine closer to its rightful place in NATO."
If the promise to cross another of Russia's stated security concerns isn't dangerous enough. NATO appears to have an even deadlier plan.
In another round of "Russia plans to do the dumbest thing possible if they don't want a direct war with NATO" and meltdown the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Station.
In a video address aired on June 22, Zelensky announced that Ukrainian intelligence "received information that Russia is considering a scenario of a terrorist attack at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. A terrorist attack with radiation leakage."
Twitter and the media were flooded with news of this Russian plot. By day's end, US Senators Graham and Blumenthal were putting their stamp of approval on the latest and most dangerous of false flags proposing a resolution "stating that any use of tactical nuclear weapons by the Russian Federation, Belarus 'or proxy of Russia', or the nuclear facility destruction, which will lead to the entry of radioactive elements into the territory of NATO member countries and cause serious damage, should be considered an attack on Alliance and the reason for the use of Article 5." On June 26, Congress officially introduced S.Res.268 and H.Res.562 - "Responding to the threat posed by the Russian Federation's deployment of tactical nuclear weapons, and for other purposes."
In this context, Article 5 means NATO will officially launch a war into Russia. The attacks inside the country have already started. Ukrainian drones targeted locations around Moscow on July 4. Triggering Article 5 could quickly lead to a nuclear conflict.
Nothing says NATO will join your front lines if you pull off a radiation release we can put the blame on Russia like a resolution before the US Senate promising NATO's entry into the battlefield.
Ukraine's first deputy energy minister, Yuriy Vlasenko, told reporters at the drills that in the worst-case scenario, 138,000 people might need to be evacuated from Zaporizhzhia alone. Roughly another 300,000 might need to be evacuated from four other regions, he said.
Signs and media reports are calling on Ukrainians to pack an emergency evacuation suitcase listing 13 Radiation accident zones. News footage shows panic buying at grocery stores in cities near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station. The Ukrainian Ministry of Health is distributing Iodine pills.
The New York Times reported in April that the US "Nuclear Emergency Support Team, or NEST, a shadowy unit of atomic experts run by the security agency, is working with Ukraine to deploy the radiation sensors, train personnel, monitor data and warn of deadly radiation." NEST is not the most reliable source of such information.
At the same time the International Atomic Energy Agency has made claims that they have not witnessed Russia placing explosives at the power station. Update 168 -- IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine published on June 30.
"International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts have so far found no visible indications of mines or other explosives currently planted at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), but they still need additional access to carry out further such checks at the site, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today."
So yes, the conductors of this ghoulish march towards a nuclear world war know no limits and it is not out of the question that "looted radioactive material from Chernobyl turned dirty bomb" or the partial meltdown of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station would provide justification for NATO forces to openly fighting Russia. These people are desperate to maintain global power.
Those running this neocon project for the New American Century-Biden crime family war may fear that they have miscalculated and are growing more desperate. The nine year war, bombing of the Nord Stream Pipeline and the sanctions are contributing to an economic collapse of Europe and the US. The riots in France, Belgium and Switzerland are just some of the fall out the West is experiencing. The world is turning its backs on the dollar inspiring nations to join Brazil, Russia, India, and China in the BRICS economic alliance. This is serious.
But even if I laughed with my Bethesda Elementary classmates at the futility of ducking and covering under our formica desks during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, there was a real possibility that the Soviet Union could retaliate against NATO's deployment of Jupiter nuclear missiles to Italy and Turkey by launching the nuclear missiles that they had rushed into Cuba in response. We don't have a John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office now.
The nuclear catastrophe that we face today is much more dangerous than any crisis we have faced. I am concerned I won't publish this before it's too late.
Since there is little hope of a peace movement filling the streets or even the halls of Congress the only thing I can think to do to interfere with what seems to be Biden's plan to start a nuclear World War III is to share this essay and hope that if enough of us expose this doomsday plot that they will realize the world isn't buying it and that they abandon their meltdown strategy before they kill us all.
Below is one of 63 framed black and white photos that John Vanderpoole Phelan took from 20,000 feet above a burning Tokyo.
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