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Israel Shamir: "Our World Is a Short Distance from Nuclear Holocaust"
Noted anti-Zionist author Israel Shamir says the Zionist-occupied US empire is risking World War III by testing Russia’s red lines—despite Trump’s campaign promise to end the war “in one day.” Will the US really start firing “Ukrainian” nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles deep into Russia? Will it force the EU to impoverish itself on weapons spending and become a dangerous military powerhouse? And will Iran defeat Israel in the next round? Or will Turkey and Egypt eventually solve the Zionism problem? Israel Shamir has provocative thoughts on all this and more...
Excerpts from the interview:
Kevin Barrett: Welcome to Truth Jihad Audiovisual. I’m Kevin Barrett. I’ve been doing this show since 2006. And my current guest actually is somebody I’ve known since even before that: Israel Shamir. He was one of the few people back in 2005 who was willing to entertain the thought that 9/11 may not have been exactly what the US government told us. So that’s how we got acquainted. (Israel Shamir was one of the original endorsers of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth.) He’s been putting out a lot of really interesting perspectives ever since. So, hey, welcome, Israel Shamir. Great to have you back.
Hey, Kevin. Very nice to see you.
So you’ve been putting out this consistently interesting and provocative and unusually insightful work for a very long time. Let’s go ahead and remind the viewers where you’re coming from. You lived in Israel for a while. You came from a Jewish background out of Russia (and are now in Sweden). Maybe you could succinctly describe that.
So many travels, so many lifelong, full of travels and of movement. I remember what one of my American friends told me when I tried to answer this question. He told me that I noticed that whenever Jews describe something, they describe peripatetic existence. So apparently it is peripatetic, moving from place to place….
Let’s get started with the issue that you recently wrote about, which is Russia and the pressure that President Putin is under to enforce one of his red lines. And of course, Trump has now gotten his military to sign off on sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. which would presumably be fired by Americans. These are technically nuclear-capable missiles with the range of getting well past Moscow, possibly crossing a very serious red line there. So what are your thoughts on how dangerous this is?
It could happen anytime. And I decided to make myself already prepared for it. Whatever happens, let it happen if it has to happen. Because it seemed to me that neocons surrounding the American president have really decided that they can go and brave every Russian move. They can force every red line that would be posted by the Russians. So in such case, sooner or later, it will maybe all blow up. But, you know, maybe Morocco will survive. So it’s a good thing about (your moving there). But as for Russia and the United States, I think it’s very difficult to say whether they will survive.
I recently wrote about the madman theory that was coined to describe Nixon deliberately trying to pretend he was crazy during the Vietnam war so the North Vietnamese would think he was capable of nuking them. And now we have Trump behaving quite erratically, although maybe no more erratically than the senile Biden di
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