The article below describes how SecState Antony Blinken played a key role in fomenting the rapidly escalating NATO sponsored conflict between Ukraine and Russia, leading the world to the brink of WW3.

The author fails to mention that Blinken is a lifetime member of the liberal-fascist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission, along with other key players on the "Biden team" including SecDef Austin, CIA director Burns, etc. (See our post "The CFR Strikes Back" for a more complete list.)

Antony Blinken, the long-time "aide" of Joe Biden, is simply continuing the anti-Russia project launched during the Obama/Biden admin under CFR/Trilateral StateDept operatives Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Victoria Nuland, William Burns, Jake Sullivan, Mark Brzezinski and many others. Here are key points from the article, including links to the MHP database for the players:

"On March 7, 2022, two weeks after Moscow entered the 'civil war' in Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CBS News that the U.S. would give NATO member Poland a "green light" to send Mig-29 fighter jets to Ukraine to enforce a no-fly zone against Russian aircraft. [US ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski, trained at Oxford, is son of the Trilateral founder --ed]

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also backed the no-fly zone. But within days the Pentagon shot down the idea as it engaged in a consequential battle with the State Department and members of Congress to prevent a direct NATO military confrontation with Russia...

President Joe Biden...ultimately sided with the Defense Department [saying:] "We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine." U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin backed him up... Blinken, who stepped out of line to speak above the heads of the President and the Pentagon, lost that round. It's surprising he kept his job. But he survived and now he's come back for more. [Blinken has been at Biden's side since 2009, see his timeline --ed]

Blinken's recklessness emerged yet again last week when he peddled a story that Biden would approve a British request to fire its Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russia. The Guardian story on 11-Sep-2024 said: "Antony Blinken gave his strongest hint yet that the White House is about to lift its restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons supplied by the west on key military targets inside Russia, with a decision understood to have already been made in private..."

The next day Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that launching such missiles into Russia "will mean that NATO countries -- the United States and European countries -- are at war with Russia. And if this is the case, then, bearing in mind the change in the essence of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions in response to the threats that will be posed to us."

Blinken's words evidently raised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's hopes that he would satisfy his desire to strike Russia with his nation's arsenal of long-range missiles, despite Putin saying that meant direct war with NATO. Starmer had evidently been led by Blinken to believe that it was a done deal...

Starmer's mania to strike Russia illustrates the British elite's continuing pathological hatred of Russia, extending back centuries, compared to a perhaps more tempered American geostrategic rivalry with Moscow. Blinken and the British are trying to lead us to the brink. Except that the Pentagon...has [so far] pulled the world back from it.

Biden has proven himself a supreme warmonger, his advocacy for the illegal invasion of Iraq and his complicity in the genocide in Gaza as the most egregious examples. Like the two presidents before him, Biden allowed neocons to worm themselves into positions of power in his administration... Barack Obama let Hillary Clinton, the "Queen of Warmongers," bring Neocon queen Victoria Nuland into his administration. Donald Trump let neocons John Bolton and Mike Pompeo into his...

Instead of banishing these people, they are allowed to linger and drag the U.S. into evermore perilous failures: Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza and Ukraine, leaving behind a mountain of squandered dollars and an ocean of blood. [The CFR network has controlled every US admin since WW2, see these charts --ed]

In 2015, Obama wisely decided against arming Ukraine after the Nuland-and-Biden-led 2014 coup because he did not want to antagonize Russia, for whom he said Ukraine was a vital interest... Blinken at the time was Obama's deputy secretary of state. To support the president's position, he told a conference in Berlin:

"If you're playing on the military terrain in Ukraine, you're playing to Russia's strength, because Russia is right next door. It has a huge amount of military equipment and military force right on the border. Anything we did as countries in terms of military support for Ukraine is likely to be matched and then doubled and tripled and quadrupled by Russia."

But once he was freed of the restraints of Obama, he joined Biden's aggressive Ukraine policy at the top of the State Department. From that position, and with a power vacuum in the White House because of Biden's dementia, Blinken has been openly pushing the neocon agenda, laid out plainly in the 2000 report of the Project for a New American Century. [Most of the PNAC neocons were also CFR members, including Wolfowitz, Perle, Kagan, Bolton, Cheney, etc --ed]

PNAC plainly promulgates that no power or alliance of powers will be allowed to rise up to stand in the way of the neocons' mad quest to harness American power to achieve world domination. An alliance such as that of China, Russia and the BRICS countries, which has only accelerated in opposition to unhinged, neoconservative adventurism.

In 2019, Blinken teamed up with arch-neocon (and PNAC co-founder) Robert Kagan to write a Washington Post op-ed arguing for more aggressive use of U.S. power abroad and against U.S. domestic trends towards non-interventionism...

No matter the many disasters piling up, notably Iraq, Palestine and now Ukraine, the neocons are undeterred and unrestrained. It's about power and murder but it is made palatable to themselves with flowery language about America saving the world for 'democracy'. Their belief in their own supremacy, cloaked in an American flag, remains fanatic, no matter the death and destruction they cause. They do not understand that American power has limits and to test that, they risk everything."

-- Joe Lauria, "The Madness of Antony Blinken", Consortium News, 2024-09-20

Note that neocon Dick Cheney, a former CFR director, has now "crossed party lines" to endorse Kamala Harris for President. More evidence that the CFR network sets the policy and controls the players in the political circus.

Same stuff, Different decade

On 11-Sep-1941, American aviator Charles Lindbergh Jr. made a speech trying to rally the American public against being dragged into WW2. At that time, Roosevelt's Secretary of War was CFR member Henry Stimson. Consider the ominous parallels to the present conflict, and Lindbergh's warning is just as relevant today:

"It is now two years since this latest European war began. From that day...until the present moment, there has been an ever-increasing effort to force the United States into the conflict. That effort has been carried on by foreign interests, and by a small minority of our own people; but it has been so successful that, today, our country stands on the verge of war...

At this time, as the war is about to enter its third winter, it seems appropriate to review the circumstances that have led us to our present position. Why are we on the verge of war? Was it necessary for us to become so deeply involved? Who is responsible for changing our national policy from one of neutrality and independence to one of entanglement in European affairs?

If you will look back over the record, you will find that those of us who oppose intervention have constantly tried to clarify facts and issues; while the interventionists have tried to hide facts and confuse issues...

Have you ever heard an interventionist, or a British agent, or a member of the administration in Washington ask you to go back and study a record of what they have said since the war started? Are their self-styled 'defenders of democracy' willing to put the issue of war to a vote of our people? Do you find these crusaders for freedom of speech? Or for the removal of censorship here in our own country?...

The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the [Democrat] administration. Behind these groups... are a number of capitalists, anglophiles, and intellectuals who believe that the future of mankind depends upon the domination of the British empire...

These war agitators comprise only a small minority of our people; but they control a tremendous influence. Against the determination of the American people to stay out of war, they have marshaled the power of their propaganda, their money, and their patronage...

The danger of the [Democrat] administration lies in its subterfuge. While its members have promised us peace, they have led us to war heedless of the platform upon which they were elected... They planned: first, to prepare the United States for foreign war under the guise of American defense; second, to involve us in the war, step by step, without our realization; third, to create a series of incidents which would force us into the actual conflict. These plans were of course, to be covered and assisted by the full power of their propaganda...

We have become involved in the war from practically every standpoint except actual shooting. Only the creation of sufficient "incidents" yet remains; and you see the first of these already taking place, according to plan...a plan that was never laid before the American people for their approval."

-- Charles Lindbergh Jr, Speech to the America First Committee, 11-Sep-1941