US headed for nuclear war with Russia, China: Analyst

“The priorities of the US government appear to be putting money in the hands of the defense contractors and the behavior appears to have us headed for a nuclear war with Russia and China,” Don DeBar says.

The US government’s appetite for more spending on its missile systems have put the country on a path towards nuclear confrontation with Russia and China, says a journalist and political commentator in New York.

“The priorities of the US government appear to be putting money in the hands of the defense contractors and the behavior appears to have us headed for a nuclear war with Russia and China,” Don DeBar, a journalist and radio host, told Press TV on Thursday.

The comments followed US Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Brian McKeon’s statements during a Senate hearing, who pleaded for a $7.5 billion budget for the US Missile Defense Agency to deter threats from China and Russia.

McKeon told the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee that the Pentagon is “developing and implementing a strategy to address Russian military actions.”

“Russia is making significant investments in cruise missiles, including a cruise missile that violates the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which eliminated an entire class of US and Russian missiles nearly three decades ago,” he told the panel.

DeBar described McKeon as “a salesman for weapons manufacturers” and said crumbling infrastructure, unemployment and poverty are some of the issues that Washington should focus on instead.

He pointed out to Washington’s double-standard approach towards Beijing and Moscow, saying the US is accusing Russia and China of aggression while surrounding them with military assets and performing drills near their territories.

The US military revealed for the first time on Thursday that American warships have been conducting joint patrols with the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea.

The US and its NATO allies have also been long deploying troops and missile systems on the military alliance’s eastern frontier near Russia’s borders.

“They accuse Russia of violating the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty for having cruise missile which the United States fires at countries all across North Africa and the Middle East and elsewhere at will,” he noted.

Russia does not look favorably upon the NATO's growing deployment of missiles and nuclear weapons near its borders, with the Russian President Vladimir Putin saying in June last year that if threatened by NATO, Moscow will respond to the threat accordingly.

DeBar said the Senate is not likely to reject McKeon’s plea considering its track record and it is now only the American people who may have a shot at changing things around in this year’s presidential elections which is scheduled for November.


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