TNT Radio, ‘The Freeman Report’ with James Freeman
Former UK Member of Parliament James Freeman runs a very lively radio show which deals regularly with international events. It was my pleasure to be re-invited by his team two days ago for a 15 minute interview dealing with latest developments in the Ukraine war, with Russian-Middle East relations and with Putin’s popularity ratings today.
The interview begins 20 minutes into the show. I was especially pleased to have had the opportunity to explain why the expectations set out week after week by Russia’s cheerleaders in the West of a massive Russian attack on Ukraine that delivers a knock-out blow have failed to take into account the realities of peer to peer warfare. The interview also afforded me the chance to debunk the notion widely disseminated by Western media last spring that the Putin ‘regime’ was on the ropes due to internal opposition exemplified by the attempted mutiny of Yevgeni Prigozhin’s Wagner Group. Finally, I was able to discuss the likelihood that Russia is presently concluding treaties of mutual defense with Iran and North Korea akin to the ‘Article 5’ provisions of the NATO alliance, meaning ‘one for all and all for one.’ If so, then NATO will soon be put on notice that the game is up, that the chances of militarily defeating any one member of the ‘Axis of Evil,’ in Washington’s political language, is nil.
I recommend to readers the 18 minute long introduction to the program by James Freeman wherein he raises the very important fact of the military dimension of the progressing multipolarism in the world, a dimension that is apart from and complimentary to the political and economic dimensions. He does this by alluding to the spread of hypersonic missile technology in a number of leading countries. Indeed, it would appear that the United States is presently a laggard and not a generation ahead in this critical area which overturns the principles of deterrence from the Cold War days when a couple of superpowers had it all.
The list of countries newly deploying hypersonic missiles is dominated by countries in the Global South. This lends support to the idea discussed by panelists on last night’s Vladimir Solovyov talk show on Russian state television that the coming World War III will differ from the first two world wars in that it will be a nuclear exchange between adversaries in the Northern Hemisphere which decimates them alone. The beneficiaries and survivors, namely China and southeastern Asia, are all states with their own advanced economies and strong militaries. What will result from this war, they say, is the utter destruction of European – Christian civilization while the rest of the world goes on its way.
Is anybody in Washington or Brussels listening?
©Gilbert Doctorow, 2024