ANALYSIS: RUSSIANS GAIN FIRST STRIKE
CAPABILITY WITH NUKE INTEL
Washington, DC – Geopolitical analysts around the world were shocked when the State Department announced they would open up all nuclear weapons sites to inspection by Russian military generals. The announcement, made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, sent shockwaves globally as administration critics and military officials questioned the wisdom of the policy.
“It’s national suicide,” a highranking military official shared with TCA on condition of anonymity. “Russia’s first strike capability will be complete with this move.”
First strike capability refers to a country’s ability to defeat another nuclear power by destroying its arsenal to the point where the attacking country can survive the retaliation. In general nuclear strategy, the preferred methodology is to attack the enemy’s launch facilities and storage depots first.
American national security officials were outraged at the naivete and apparent foolishness of Clinton’s policy negotiations, with some branding the decision as ‘the ultimate in treasonous behavior’.
Many administration critics have long viewed Russia’s global position with suspicion and unease, pointing to the recent aggression against Georgia, in which the smaller country was attacked in a move analysts called ‘unprovoked’ and ‘imperialistic’.
Further analysis of the Georgian invasion suggested it had been planned in advance by the Kremlin, contradicting the commonly assumed belief that it was in ‘response’ to Georgian aggression – a perspective that was endorsed by leading U.S. military generals. According to General Ralph Peters, writing in the New York Post, “the Kremlin spent months planning and preparing” the invasion of Georgia.
Russia emerged victorious from its invasion, annexing several regions of Georgia through a combination of legal trickery and military blackmail. Georgia’s military suffered heavy losses and a decreased sphere of influence, even though the Russian military strategy was widely regarded as clumsy, incompetent and disorganized.
Geopolitical analysts have pointed to such actions as consistent with the reawakening of a long dormant military power, while others have maintained Russia’s apparent weakness was a calculated ploy designed to disarm opponents and lower their defenses. Notable supporters of this theory included Anatoliy Golitsyn, a former KGB official, and Jan Sejna, a former Czech Communist Party official who escaped to the U.S.
Such theorists assert that the Soviet Union made a tactical decision to alter the dynamic of the Cold War, feigning defeat in order to regroup, solicit aid from the West, and lure their enemies to sleep. This analytical paradigm has drawn widespread support, with its proponents pointing to the West’s accelerated pace of nuclear disarmament and increasingly friendly posture toward Russia.
Golitsyn elaborated on his thesis in books such as “New Lies For Old” and “The Perestroika Deception“, claiming the Kremlin had implemented a long-term “Strategic Plan” encompassing several decades, with the final goal of destroying America and emerging as the lone superpower in a unipolar world.
Anatoliy Golitsyn’s whereabouts are currently unknown and it is rumored he has been in hiding from Soviet authorities who have targeted him for assassination.
These fears were lent an air of legitimacy with the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, a KGB spy whose death British law enforcement laid at the feet of Russian agents working for the Kremlin. Jan Sejna passed away in August 1997 in New York.
