Does Kamala Harris Support Biden’s Secret Nuclear Strategy?

Two developments in August confirm the warnings issued for weeks now by experts participating in the weekly meetings of the International Peace Coalition (IPC), that the defenders of the Unipolar Order have put the world on a path to World War III. One was the Aug. 6 incursion into Russia’s Kursk province by Ukrainian forces, with backing, planning and possibly on-the-ground fighters of NATO countries, and the other was the publication in the New York Times of an article headlined “Biden’s Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat” (cf. above).

With a presidential election in the United States now proceeding full tilt, one wonders why no one has yet asked Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, whether she supports this new strategy. She is, after all, Joe Biden’s Vice President. In the only direct interview she has given, the subject was not even broached with her, but she has emphasized, repeatedly, that she backs the U.S. war policy in Ukraine, and supports Biden’s handling of it. She remains a strong defender of Zelenskyy, whom she has met six times, and sings the praises of NATO, stating that when it comes to confronting Russia, “America cannot retreat”.

In contrast, the Trump campaign has addressed the war danger, with the candidate himself insisting he could end the war “within twenty-four hours”. He told Hungarian Prime Minister Orban — whose peace initiative has panicked European Union and NATO officials — he would resolve it the day after he was elected. He has also warned that the Biden policy could provoke a nuclear war, though most media discount this as an example of Trump’s pandering to Putin.

But in the midst of the present heightened danger, the endorsement of Trump by two prominent former Democrats represents a sharp departure from the overall silence on the subject. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. endorsed Trump on August 23, and spoke of his concern that the Biden-Harris policy of seeking regime change in Russia could lead to nuclear war (cf. SAS 35/24). He stressed correctly that “tiny Ukraine is a proxy in a geopolitical struggle initiated by the ambitions of the U.S. neocons for American global hegemony.” Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard made a similar point in her endorsement of support for Trump three days later. “We are close to nuclear war,” she said: “that’s why I’m backing Donald Trump. He will walk us back from war.”

The fact of the matter is, that the possibility that a nuclear war can be fought and won has now entered the strategic thinking of NATO’s leading military power. That should be the leading topic in the U.S. presidential election.