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Will ‘insane’ Biden provoke World War III before November election?

The prospect for confrontation between nuclear-armed powers has been avoided until recent years, claimed former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, when the United States rejected Russian overtures for a new European security architecture and stubbornly insisted Ukraine’s coup regime would be granted entry into NATO.

“They want to provoke Putin [into] doing something really drastic before the election, before the [presidential] election here on November 5th,” suggested McGovern on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program.

“They're losing in Kursk [region],” he noted, referring to Ukraine’s stalled incursion into Russian territory. “What were they trying to do? They were trying to get the Russians to react in such a way as to bring the US in with both feet militarily… What's this business about [Ukraine] begging for longer range missiles? Same objective.”

Ukraine’s Western sponsors have repeatedly escalated the country’s conflict with Russia, gradually providing Kiev with more powerful weapons and granting it permission to strike within Russian territory. This has increasingly culminated in attacks on Russian civilians; perhaps most provocatively a strike on a beach in the city of Sevastopol that injured 124 people, including 27 children, and killed three people, including two children. Some 500 Russian civilians have been killed by the Ukrainian regime in 2024 alone.

“My fear is that [the US] will try something really drastic like a false flag attack or maybe even a mini nuke,” said McGovern, concerned that the US could fabricate an episode such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident that drew the country into the Vietnam War.

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‘Morons running our country’: China policy demonstrates depth of incompetence of US political class

China featured heavily in last night’s debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, but the US failure to enact coherent policy relating to the Asian superpower is uniquely illustrative of the failings of its political class.

“All tariffs will do is that the American public… will simply pay a lot more for whatever they need and whatever they need to buy,” said journalist and international business consultant George Koo on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program, referring to heavy taxes on Chinese goods that have remained in place under the Biden administration.

“Everything that they're going to be buying – a lot of it anyway – is going to be made in China and they will pay the price for being made in China with higher tariffs,” Koo clarified.

“Bashing China is just a cheap shot that gives [US lawmakers] political points,” he continued. “Trade between the US and China, as a matter of fact, has not lessened to any degree since the tariff war started. What is consequential is that we are paying more for made-in-China goods.”

Koo cited support for chipmaker Intel as one major failing of the trade war. The US has granted the company billions in subsidies only for it to continue to lose its once-dominant position as a semiconductor manufacturer.

Koo claimed the US public does not yet understand that “China can exert their own barrier and sanctions and trade barriers on America,” warning that the country has significant leverage with which to retaliate against punitive measures. “When that happens – it's beginning to happen already, by the way – we're going to be out of luck.”

"China has no intention of challenging the United States, or of replacing the US," claimed the Chinese government during the height of the US-China trade war in 2019. But it added that "the US is unable to force China’s hand and even less likely to halt China’s development. The US cannot maintain its strength by attempting to contain and suppress other countries, or by transferring its own domestic stresses outward."

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