Obama is the Detonator for World War

Developments over the past several days provide a devastating reminder that, so long as Barack Obama remains in office as President of the United States, the world stands on the edge of general war, a war that could quickly become a war of thermonuclear extinction.

The issue is not Obama per se. He is a degenerate patsy of the British Empire and allied Wall Street forces that are currently being driven mad by the reality that their entire trans-Atlantic financial system is doomed, and that an alternative paradigm, centered in the China-Russia led BRICS emerging system, is coming into being. The forces who have owned Obama, since they launched his political career, are ready to start World War III, rather than surrender their power.

Lyndon LaRouche warned on Tuesday that “we are on the verge of virtual extinction, as the result of chain-reaction effects of this situation.” The refusal of the British and Wall Street to surrender their failing grip on power will drive them, in desperation, to have Obama launch World War III. “This is the first threat of human extinction in modern history,” LaRouche concluded.

He further observed, that the mere fact that Obama has not yet been removed from office, is the clearest warning that the leading American circles, and the American people as a whole, do not any longer possess the temperament to stop this disaster from occurring. Remove Obama from the presidency, and the danger is removed. The British will remain hysterical over the imminent demise of their empire, but they will be rendered powerless to act. The bankruptcy of the trans-Atlantic system means the death of the British Empire.

Russian vitality has returned, and China is emerging as a friendly, but dominant force in Asia, promoting a policy of win-win cooperation among all of the nations of the region and across Eurasia. This alone is driving the British wild.

It is vital to comprehend the motives behind the war danger. The day-by-day events are merely markers of that process—warning signs along the road to potential doom.

The Fourth Moscow International Security Conference, held over the last weekend, made clear that Russian leaders clearly understand the imminent danger of thermonuclear war. It was the dominant theme of the major conference presentations by Russia’s Defense Minister Shoigu, Foreign Minister Lavrov, and Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov. The audience and speakers list included the ministers of defense of all of the key Eurasian nations: China, India, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, Greece, Iran, Indonesia, Mongolia, Serbia, and Belarus, plus South Africa.

Lavrov made clear in his remarks that the US and NATO deployment of the anti-ballistic missile systems to areas bordering on Russia constitutes a threat of a first-strike attack on Russia. President Obama had claimed that the ABM systems were directed at Iran, and that the deployment would be re-assessed if a P5+1 deal on Iran’s nuclear program were to be reached. Now that such a deal is within reach, Obama has refused to scale back or cancel the ABM deployments, which will place vital components of the missile defense shield in Romania and Poland, right near the Russian borders.

In addition, the Obama Administration is expanding its Global Strike Command, to incorporate both conventional weapons and strategic nuclear weapons. In addition, the Administration is developing a new generation of tactical nuclear weapons, to be forward based in Europe and deployable on long-range stealth bombers and drones, armed with cruise missiles.

The situation in the Persian Gulf, where the same Saudi forces that ran the original 9/11 attacks against the United States—attacks that have been covered up by two successive Presidents, Bush and Obama—are engaging in a population war against neighbor Yemen, claiming that Houthi rebels in Yemen are surrogates for Iran, is another flashpoint for imminent war. When the original P5+1 breakthrough was announced at the beginning of the month in Switzerland, LaRouche warned that the agreement would be a trigger for war—unless the Saudis were smashed. Instead, Obama joined forces with the Saudis in the bombing campaign against Yemen, over the strong objections of the US military, led by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Central Command.

As the Gulf of Aden filled with Saudi and American warships, over the past 72 hours, including the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, and Obama threatened actions against Iranian commercial vessels, en route to Yemen, intense pressure from the US military and other circles led the Saudis to announce a halt to their bombing campaign late Tuesday. Earlier in the day, King Salman had put the Saudi National Guard on alert for possible ground operations across the border into Yemen. The circumstances of the last-moment freeze in operations is still to be sorted out, but the fact remains that the region was headed towards a “Gulf of Tonkin” type provocation for general war, that was only halted at the last moment.

The doom of civilization is not inevitable. But it is virtually a certainty unless Obama is removed from office. He is the detonator for world war, and his prompt removal is the only legitimate war-prevention option at this late date.