Bigworld, Thanks for those articles. There's evidence that the US Deep State believes they can win a nuclear war against Russia, especially once the US/NATO missile and radar systems are in place in Eastern Europe and the newest space based systems are fully operational.
Their line of thinking is that in a first strike we can completely destroy the Russian nukes and largely suppress Russia's ability to retaliate, and thus only suffer maybe 50 million US casualties, and to them that is an acceptable outcome.
To achieve permanent world domination by the West (NWO), Russia has to be neutralized. With the doctrine of MAD/Mutually Assured Destruction no longer in effect, a nuclear war scenario is now a strategic option, or so the US planners believe. Presumably this isn't their first choice, but having such overwhelming military superiority means the US planners feel free to move on the world stage with reckless abandon. So one more reason to move to New Zealand..