The entire world should be deeply concerned about U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer wanting to launch long-range missiles into Russia, despite the advice of his own Foreign Office and that of a former U.K. national security adviser.
This article contains astonishing revelations about the U.K.’s deep involvement in the Ukraine war and the danger this presents to the entire world. The U.K. is a dying empire threatening world peace with these reckless, desperate actions to maintain its little remaining influence.
The entire Ukraine conflict was about to end due to a mutually acceptable and initialled agreement between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators on April 1, 2022. Then, former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson intervened and forced Zelensky to renege on the agreement, assuring him that NATO would supply Ukraine with the weapons needed to militarily defeat Russia, which has proven to be impossible.
Various sources, as THAIMBC News has quoted, have indicated that the U.K., not the U.S., has likely been responsible for the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines, the attacks on the Crimea bridge, the attack on a nuclear power plant, and other highly sophisticated military operations in Ukraine.
Fresh reports confirm that a theory proposed last month is being put into practice: the British state, even more than United States neocons, wants to escalate to full-scale war with Russia and seems to be achieving its aim. This is something the entire world should be deeply concerned about.
In a September 18 video analysis, The Duran reported that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is pursuing a policy of launching long-range missile strikes into Russia, despite the advice of his own Foreign Office – and that of a former U.K. national security adviser.
The U.S. government, whose Ukraine policy is presumed to be directed by former Hillary Clinton campaign adviser Jake Sullivan, has refused to back the move. Yet many British politicians are urging the use of British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles by Ukraine to mount attacks the Russians say will lead to war with NATO.
The Duran’s Alexander Mercouris cites a September 13 interview with the U.K.’s Financial Times, in which Lord Darroch – the former British national security adviser and ambassador to the United States – “warned that allowing long-range Storm Shadow missiles to be fired by Ukraine into Russia risks a major escalation of the conflict.”
The Storm Shadow missiles, manufactured by France and supplied by Britain, cannot be operated without direct NATO assistance. Russian President Vladimir Putin ominously warned last Thursday that their use would see NATO “at war with Russia.”
Both U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Starmer have “brushed off Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats,” according to Politico, whose report notes that former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps have “piled on the pressure” in a meeting with formerly elected President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev on the same day.
Both Johnson and Shapps are “urging the U.K. and U.S. to let Ukraine use both nations’ long-range missiles, Storm Shadow, SCALP and ATACMS, against targets in Russian territory,” Politico reports, in a meeting which saw Zelensky claim that permitting the NATO-directed strikes could “truly change the course of the war.”
Yet Politico also reports that two unnamed U.K. government sources “voiced doubt that the use of Storm Shadow missiles would be a game-changer in the war” – a position held by Lord Darroch. In his FT interview, he “added that he was not convinced that using Storm Shadow missiles to hit targets in Russia would be a decisive factor in the war.”
Lord Darroch is convinced that the threat of full-scale war is serious, countering the dismissive attitude of the U.S. president and the pro-war U.K. faction.
“… Darroch said that just because Putin had previously not carried through on threats of reprisals when the West supplied battle tanks and missiles to Ukraine, it did not mean the same would apply to cruise missile strikes on his territory,” the FT report said.
“’If they are confident that he’s bluffing, then fine,’ he said. ‘But he’s bluffing until he isn’t.’”
The push to permit long-range missile strikes into Russia will not win the war, Darroch and others say, but may well see the outbreak of a far greater conflict.
Starmer in Washington
Starmer’s meeting with Biden last Friday saw “the use of the missiles … at the top of the agenda,” said the FT, with a final decision on approval to be determined at a U.N. General Assembly later in September.
Yet The Duran reports that the British war faction may press ahead without U.S. support – or approval.
The Duran’s Alexander Mercouris cites an article in the U.K. Times newspaper of September 16, which states, “Five former defense secretaries and an ex-prime minister have urged Sir Keir Starmer to go ahead unilaterally” with mounting long-range missile strikes into Russia and, as noted below, that has already happened.
The Times report also said that the U.K. “will not go it alone,” however – because according to U.K. government sources, “US guidance systems were seen as crucial to ensuring the missiles hit their targets.”
Despite the headline claiming that “Britain won’t go it alone over long-range missile strikes,” the truth of the matter appears to be it cannot target the missiles without U.S. help – which it aims to secure at the forthcoming U.N. assembly. As the Times concludes,
“The [U.K.] government believes the US is still likely to give the green light at the UN general assembly in New York, although there are splits within President Biden’s administration.”
With the U.S. presidential election seen as a decisive factor in both U.S. and Russian decision-making, the British effort to escalate the war appears to be a race against the clock, which sees a “lame* duck” President Biden soon to be replaced with a new incumbent.
A further report on Sunday the 15th from The Times’ Mark Urban said, “There is, of course, another critical unknown here: the result of November’s US presidential election. The widely held view among Western analysts is that Putin will await the outcome of that before deciding what to do.”
The actions of the British leadership – present and past – appear to confirm former U.K. Foreign Minister David Cameron’s claim that Britain’s Ukraine policy is “fixed” – as it has remained committed to escalation despite a change of government.
The question remains – why are British senior figures pushing for a move which may trigger an all-out war with Russia?
Why Britain wants war with Russia
As The Times also reported, the Kursk offensive mounted by Ukraine halted the latest round of peace negotiations.
The invasion of Russia’s Kursk region was celebrated in the Western media as a decisive blow against Russia – with some asking whether it could be a “turning point” in the war. Early gains have turned out to be evanescent, with the offensive having failed to deliver any advantage on the ground despite generating positive headlines in a war-weary West. Politico now reports the offensive was mounted by Zelensky against the advice of his generals.
As with the wider escalation to war with Russia, this offensive makes little military sense, with the transfer of troops to fight it having weakened defenses in Ukraine to the point of collapse. The aim, as Foreign Affairs reported, appears to have been to “boost morale” and rekindle public support for a war which Mercouris says even the U.S. leadership knows is lost.
The first signs that this offensive was the work of the British state were reported by U.K. independent journalist Kit Klarenberg, whose analysis in August argued that the strategy of escalation pursued by the British was a bid to lock the United States into a prolonged and intensified war.
“London is taking the lead in marking itself out as a formal belligerent in the proxy war, in the hope other Western countries – particularly the US – will follow suit,” said Klarenberg, citing The Times newspaper’s report to“ confirm” his conclusion that “Kursk was a British operation,” partnered with “a deliberate propaganda and lobbying strategy, spearheaded by Prime Minister Keir Starmer.”
The Duran now affirms Klarenberg’s initial conclusion: that the U.K. political establishment is so “heavily invested” in the war that a defeat for Ukraine “is a defeat for them.”
Mercouris explains, “It’s not difficult to understand why Britain has massively over-invested in Project Ukraine. It’s gone far out on a limb.”
“If Project Ukraine fails – if Ukraine is defeated – it is a defeat for Britain. That is something that they find unendurable.”
The goal: ‘Pull the U.S. into the conflict’
The conclusion to be drawn is the British political establishment is gambling with the lives of millions to save its own. Hence, says Mercouris, “the whole goal is to pull the U.S. into the conflict” directly, with the hope being that the U.S. leadership will not be drawn into what could easily become a third world war.”
“If [the U.K. government doesn’t] get the U.S. into the war – it’s done. Everyone understands this, including [U.S. National Security Adviser] Jake Sullivan.”
Mercouris explains some of the “splits” in the Biden administration, cited in The Times report.
“[U.S. Secretary of State] Tony Blinken wants to enlarge the war. There are others in the State Department who are also keen on doing this – but the Pentagon is opposed because they don’t want to get into a war with the Russians.”
The British government, regardless of its composition, has sold its population on a victory for Ukraine. With this outcome impossible, all it can now deliver in place of defeat is a disaster on a scale unprecedented in our lifetimes.
Since The Duran program was broadcast, three huge Russian arms depots and airfields with Russian bombers have been destroyed deep inside Russia. Western news media are, as usual, reporting that “the Ukrainians” did this when, in fact, it was impossible for them to have accomplished it without substantial direct British, U.S., or other NATO help.
See Colonel Douglas Macgregor below bluntly commenting on the first of the massive Ukraine hits in Russia and the similar situation of Israel attempting to manipulate the U.S. into getting involved in their wars. The other attacks on Russian bases had not yet happened when the interview was recorded.
The U.N. General Assembly meets for its 79th session on September 22. During this “high-level week,” Zelensky, along with U.S. and U.K. leaders, will decide the question of escalation.
Factions are vying for their favored electoral and political fortunes at the highest level, playing a dangerous game with the fates of their own populations.
See below the Redacted interview with Gilbert Doctorow in which he states that “the British are world-class planners and implementers of false flag operations.” He claims “the death of Russian Alexai Navalny was a false flag operation by some outside force, the British, I presume, and then laid at the door of Mr. Putin.” He adds that the same happened with other Russians who were poisoned by the British with the murders blamed on Putin.
The question which Mark Urban posed in his report for The Times may prove to be existential for the lives of millions:
“How does it all end?”
