Patriot,

Not since the Cold War has America been so close to a nuclear exchange with Russia. The threat cannot be overstated.

This is not what we were promised when we went to the polls last November.

Not only has no progress been made towards ending the wars in Ukraine and Israel, but President Trump has issued increasingly hostile remarks toward Russia, culminating last week with Trump directing nuclear submarines to move into position for a possible strike against Russia – over remarks made on social media.

As I discuss in my latest column – read it below – President Trump is heeding the advice of the very neocons he campaigned against, and it could end in a nuclear exchange.

This is extremely dangerous. We are one mistake away from a nuclear war that would devastate the entire world. Every American who values our safety and national security needs to speak up.

Please read my column below, pass the message on, and if you can, please support Campaign for Liberty with a contribution to help us alert and mobilize more American patriots.

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For Liberty,

Ron Paul

Cold War 2.0 Heats Up

Last week the nuclear rhetoric between the U.S. and Russia made some of us feel like we were transported back to 1962. Back then, Soviet moves to place nuclear-capable missiles 90 miles off our coast in Cuba led to the greatest crisis of the Cold War. The United States and its president, John F. Kennedy, could not tolerate such weapons placed by a hostile power on its doorstep and the world only knew years later how close we were to nuclear war.

Thankfully both Khrushchev and Kennedy backed down – with the Soviet leader removing the missiles from Cuba and the U.S. president agreeing to remove some missiles from Turkey. Both men realized the folly of playing with “mutually assured destruction,” and this compromise likely paved the way to further U.S./Soviet dialogue from Nixon to President Reagan and finally to the end of the Cold War.

Fast forward more than 60 years later and we have a U.S. president, Donald Trump, who last week stated that he had “ordered two Nuclear Submarines [sic] to be positioned in the appropriate regions,” meaning nearer to Russia.

Had Russia attacked the U.S. or an ally? Threatened to do so? No. The supposed re-positioning of U.S. strategic military assets was in response to a sharp series of posts made by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on social media that irritated President Trump.

The war of words started earlier, when neocon U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s endless threats against Russia received a response – and a warning – from Medvedev.

Graham, who seems to love war more than anything else, posted “To those in Russia who believe that President Trump is not serious about ending the bloodbath between Russia and Ukraine… You will also soon see that Joe Biden is no longer president. Get to the peace table.”

Medvedev responded, “It’s not for you or Trump to dictate when to ‘get at the peace table.’ Negotiations will end when all the objectives of our military operation have been achieved. Work on America first, gramps!”

That was enough for Trump to join in to defend his ill-chosen ally Graham and ended with Medvedev alluding to Soviet nuclear doctrine which provided for an automatic nuclear response to any first strike on the USSR by U.S. or NATO weapons.

The message from the Russian politician was clear: back off. It was hardly Khruschev banging his shoe at the UN screaming “we will bury you,” but it was enough for Trump to make a rare public pronouncement about the movement of U.S. nuclear submarines.

Trump is understandably frustrated that his promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours has not been fulfilled after six months in office. President Trump doesn’t seem to understand that you cannot arm one side in a war and then demand that the other side – the side that’s winning – stop fighting. That has never happened in history.

What is most tragic is that the war in Ukraine could have likely been ended if not in 24 hours, then surely in six months if Trump simply ended Joe Biden’s policy on Ukraine. It is continued U.S. support for the war that keeps the war going.

Even the U.S. mainstream media admits that Ukraine will lose. But Trump seems under the spell of the neocons who can never reverse a failed policy.

Hopefully the return of nuclear rhetoric will awaken some in DC to the danger that the neocons pose to our country. We are no longer in 1962.

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