Will Russia Go Nuclear? – J.R. Nyquist Blog

Source: https://jrnyquist.blog/2022/04/21/will-russia-go-nuclear/

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The opening quotation is from Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political, p. 81, of the University of Chicago’s expanded edition.

[i] Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s War: A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity (Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2019), p. 243.

[ii] Ibid.

[iii] Russian State TV Talks of ‘War Against Europe and the World’ After Ukraine (msn.com).

[iv] John Mosier, Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin (Kindle Edition).

[v] V.D. Sokolovskii, Rand trans., Soviet Miltiary Strategy, p. 297.

[vi] Ibid, p. 298.

[vii] Ibid, p .299.

[viii] Able Archer 83: The Secret History | Wilson Center. I was told by a former KGB official that the military used the Able Archer 83 exercise as an excuse to launch a nuclear preemptive strike on the West. Andropov became suspicious of the military’s intentions toward the KGB and Communist Party, and canceled military preparations for a strike. A CIA official from the American side told me that we would have been caught completely by surprise had the attack been launched.

[ix] Jean Davidson, “UCI Scientists Told Moscow’s Aim Is to Deprive U.S. of Foe.” Los Angeles Times, 12 December, 1988.

[x] https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/03/28/it-s-not-just-a-war-it-s-much-worse

[xi] David Pryce-Jones, The War That Never Was: The Fall of the Soviet Empire, 1985-1991 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, p. 292.

[xii] Arkady Vaksberg, trans. John and Elizabeth Roberts, The Soviet Mafia: An Expose of Organized Crime in the USSR (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991), p. 39.

[xiii] Ibid.

[xiv] Joseph D. Douglass, Jr., Red Cocaine: The Drugging of America (Atlanta: Clarion House, 1990), p. 48.

[xv] Wisla Suraska, How the Soviet Union Disappeared (Duke University Press, 1998), p. 87.

[xvi] Ibid.

[xvii] Sokolovskii, p. 301.