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“Putin is a legitimate military target… he needs to know that he’s on our target list at this point,” Bolton stated.
Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
Just as the world thought that the lack of basic etiquette (diplomatic or any other) in the United States establishment couldn’t possibly get worse, that same establishment goes beyond anyone’s imagination (or worst nightmares in this particular case). On Friday, October 7, during an interview on CBS, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton, infamous for his insistence on starting wars against Venezuela, Iran and North Korea or escalating the ongoing ones (such as Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc), said Russian President Vladimir Putin is on the US target list and threatened he might be assassinated.
“I think we should make it clear publicly so that not just Putin but that all the top Russian leadership… that if Putin authorizes the use of a nuclear weapon he’s signing his own suicide note,” the infamous neoconservative war-hawk said.
Bolton insisted that Putin is “a legitimate military target” since he heads the command and control structure of all Russian strategic forces. Bolton further stated that this should be official US policy.
“He’s a legitimate military target… he needs to know that he’s on our target list at this point,” he concluded.
Bolton’s comments effectively boil down to calls for the US to use any opportunity to assassinate the president of Russia. It cannot possibly be overstated just how dangerous, destabilizing and irresponsible such rhetoric is, especially coming from high-ranking officials, regardless if they currently hold office or not. However, Bolton’s statements are simply a continuation of a string of his recent provocative actions. He also discussed an op-ed he recently authored for the online military journal 1945, where he openly called for a coup in Russia.
“There is no long-term prospect for peace and security in Europe without regime change in Russia. Russians are already discussing it, quietly, for obvious reasons. For the United States and others pretending that the issue is not before will do far more harm than good,” Bolton wrote in the aforementioned op-ed.
“To avoid the war simply grinding along indefinitely, we must alter today’s calculus. Carefully assisting Russian dissidents to pursue regime change might just be the answer,” he continued. ” .”
Bolton stated that a color revolution-style coup (or “regime change” as he calls it) was necessary, or at least an attempt to sabotage and cause division in the Russian establishment from the inside.
“Actually effecting regime change is doubtless the hardest problem, but it does not require foreign military forces. The key is for Russians themselves to exacerbate divisions among those with real authority, the siloviki, the ‘men of power.’ Disagreements and animosities already exist, as in all authoritarian regimes, exploitable as dissidents set their minds to it. Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank outside the Russian White House in 1991 evidenced the fracturing of the Soviet ruling class. Once regime coherence and solidarity shatter, change is possible,” Bolton wrote.
John Bolton is so infamously hawkish that he called former US Defense Secretary James Mattis (also a retired US Marine Corps general nicknamed “Mad Dog” and “Chaos”) too “soft”. One of the very first things Bolton did while serving as the US National Security Advisor was to make sure the US withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal (officially JCPOA). Immediately after, Bolton refocused on advocating for invasions and/or coups in Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen, North Korea, etc. His warmongering became too much of a liability and a major point of contention between Bolton and the then president Trump, so much so that he was eventually fired after approximately a year and a half in office.
Although Bolton’s comments may be dismissed or ignored altogether, they will surely not go unnoticed in Moscow, as Russia is faced with increasingly aggressive actions and warlike rhetoric coming from the political West, particularly the US. Such statements come at a time when tensions are escalating by the day, especially as other US officials, both former and current, have been commenting in a similar fashion. This also includes US President Joe Biden himself, whose “nuclear apocalypse” remarks stunned the world in recent weeks.
It is also not the first time the US has called for a coup in Russia. In late March, President Biden stated the same during a speech in Warsaw, when he said that “Putin cannot remain in power“, which later prompted many White House spokespeople to try and distort the remarks. In contrast, Russia and its top brass have exercised restraint. There have been no reciprocal comments or actions in response to such blatant threats, but there have been warnings that Russia will defend itself by any means necessary. However, even these statements have been taken out of context and then turned into supposed “threats” by the mainstream propaganda machine of the political West.
We’ve heard there have been 11 attempts on his life already, nobody cares if Biden isxassasinated though…..
Ya can’t kill what’s already dead (i.e. Biden).
Where did you get that information ? Don’t listen to MSM fake news. No criminal attempts were made to Putin. No fool at the Pentagon would try a stupid attempt like this, only crackpots like Bolton will have a fantasy Disneyland dream. Russia is not a third world country you could overthrow just like they did with Hussein or Gaddafi. Any attempt on Putin’s life will be considered as an attack on Russia and the reprisal will be so hard on USa, DC, the Seven Fleet, NATO Headquarter or any major US assets would be the target.
Bolton is risking being assassinated for all the death and mayhem that he is responsible for.
Slava Rossiya.
Nobody listens to Bolton any more. I wouldn’t worry.
I actually heard him speak the other day. Turns out he’s waaay stupider than he looks.
Has a girly voice too. The guy has serious problems.
SF should censor John Bolton’s face.
I feel nauseous when I see that nauseous guy.
Bolton is out of the picture.
He is trying to talk himself into relevance.
Go on Bolton. Entertain the world. You are funny
Naaah, Bolton is AWOL from assylum here in Washington. He needs constant supply of lithium to stay sane and sober. His last remarks indicate moustache of trash is left without medication and requires not to have Bolton locked up but bolted on. Same with an entire US political class. Someone irresponsible left the assylum unlocked and lunatics and Napoleon wannabies poured out of it, right into positions in Congress and Senate. It is not White House but Mad House. And it is not Capitol Hill, soon to became Caputt Hill.
UkrainianBlood + USA aid = Inevitable Victory!
Target lists go two ways Mr. Bolton.
LOSER NAZI NATO FAGGOTS DIE SCREAMING AND GO TO HELL AND GET RAPED BY THE DEVIL NATO FAGGOTS LMAO
Doesn’t Bolton know he’s on Russia’s target list, along with half of Virginia?
He’s a walking corpse and is yet to realize it fully! His kids will probably kill him first for being such a pedo to them!
Should we be surprised by despot DC criminals ? A dog may bark at a bear, just like Bolton may howling to the moon, it won’t change that USa is no match to Russia. The Pentagon doesn’t pay attention to DC crackpots.
Well warmongering idiot Bolton … then the US President is also a legitimate target for the rest of the world. He is, after all, the “Supreme Commander” of the USA military.
Bolt Off is a prime example of the dangers associated with zoophilia. Sex with gay monkeys can wreck untold damage to the brain.
Bolton is hiding of revenge.. general soleimani sprit ai comming…hehhheh.
Die one by one .
Words of a desperate dying empire.
if poutine is touched, I propose to exterminate the family of bolton until the last :)
It´s you, Jewish loser Bolton, who is on the list, moustache hero.
What a dumb delusional fucker he is, he couldn’t even get rid of a third world banana republic dictator like Maduro right in the US backyard , and now the US is getyting overrun by illegals many of whom are Venezuelan.
Us Gov is a bag of maggots.
Bolton reminds me of Ned Flanders from the cartoon series the Simpsons But Ned was a good living Christian Bolton is a evil pice of crap Someone needs to beat the shirt of of Bolton with a pair of brass knuckles. Who knows maybe he will fall victim to a street robbery and get severely beaten and Robbed by a Crack addict from DC Before staggering onto the road and being hit by a stolen car driven by a drunk driver sometimes live can be stranger that fiction…….
These Jew’s barking dogs should cope that the niggerfication of Europe is not normal and the cesspool USA is going to collapse long before the world.
Stupid Phycopath Bolton should think first of his humiliating failures in Venezuela 🇻🇪 🤔!!!!
What a complete failure of a man.
They assasinated the US president for not escalating the missile crisis and not pushimg for war in Vietnam ( Kennedy, you know…), no wonder they want to kill Putin. Putin was clearly a man of peace for not reducing Ukraine to rubble from 2014.
I dislike Bolton too but if you read what he actually said…if Putin uses nuclear weapons. This is a BS fear porn article.
Send a missile through the turds window