Don’t look for a walk-over. The T14 Armata, Russia’s latest tank. You don’t want to fight this monster
if you can think of a better idea, such as not fighting it. Russia once made
large numbers of second-rate tanks. That worm has turned. This thing is
way advanced and outguns the American M1A2, having a 125mm smoothbore firing
APFSDS long rods to the Abrams 120mm. (As Hillary would know, that’s
Armor-piercing, fin-stabilized, discarding sabot. You did know, didn’t you, Hill?) This isn’t the place
for a disquisition on armor, but the above beast is a very advanced design with
unmanned turret and, well, a T34 it isn’t. (I was once an aficionado of
tanks. If interested, here and here.)
A good reason to vote for
Trump, a very good reason whatever his other intentions, is that he does not want a war with Russia. Hillary
and her elite ventriloquists threaten just that. Note the anti-Russian
hysteria coming from her and her remoras.
Such a war would be yet
another example of the utter control of America by rich insiders. No normal
American has anything at all to gain by such a war. And no normal American has
the slightest influence over whether such a war takes place, except by voting
for Trump. The military has become entirely the plaything of unaccountable
elites.
A martial principle of great wisdom says that military
stupidity comes in three grades: Ordinarily stupid; really, really, really stupid; and fighting Russia. Think Charles
XII at Poltava, Napoleon after Borodino, Adolf, and Kursk.
Letting dilettantes, grifters, con men, pasty Neocons,
bottle-blonde ruins, and corporations decide on war is insane. We
have pseudo-masculine dwarves playing with things they do not understand.
So far as I am aware, none of these fern-bar Clausewitz’s has worn boots, been
in a war, seen a war, or faces any chance of being in a war started by themselves.
They brought us Iraq, Afghanistan, and Isis, and can’t win wars against
goatherds with AKs. They are going to fight…Russia?
A point that the tofu ferocities of New York might bear in mind
is that wars seldom turn out as expected, usually with godawful results. We do
not know what would happen in a war with Russia. Permit me a tedious catalog to
make this point. It is very worth making.
When Washington pushed the South into the Civil War, it expected a
conflict that might be over in twenty-four hours, not four years with as least
650,000 dead. When Germany began WWI, it expected a swift lunge into Paris, not
four years of hideously bloody static war followed by unconditional
surrender. When the Japanese Army pushed for attacking Pearl, it did not foresee
GIs marching in Tokyo and a couple of cities glowing at night. When Hitler
invaded Poland, utter defeat, and occupation of Germany was not among his war
aims. When the US invaded Vietnam, it did not expect to be outfought and
outsmarted by a bush-world country. When Russia invaded Afghanistan it did not
expect…nor when America invaded Afghanistan, nor when it attacked Iraq, nor….
Is there a pattern here?
The standard American approach to war is to underestimate the
enemy, overestimate American capacities, and misunderstand the kind of war it
enters. This is particularly true when the war is a manhood ritual for
masculine inadequates–think Kristol, Podhoretz, Sanders, the whole Neocon milk
bar, and that mendacious wreck, Hillary, who has the military grasp of a Shetland pony. If you don’t
think weak egos and perpetual adolescence have a part in deciding policy, read
up on Kaiser Wilhelm.
Now, if Washington accidentally or otherwise provoked a war with
Russia in, say, the Baltics or the Ukraine, and actually used its own forces,
where might this lead, given the Pentagon’s customary delusional optimism? A
very serious possibility is a humiliating American defeat. The US has not
faced a real enemy in a long time. In that time the armed forces have been
feminized and social-justice warriorified, with countless officials having been
appointed by Obama for reasons of race and sex. Training has been watered down
to benefit girl soldiers, physical standards lowered, and the ranks of general
officers filled with perfumed political princes. Russia is right there at the
Baltic borders: location, location, location. Somebody said, “Amateurs think
strategy, professionals think logistics.” Uh-huh. The Russians are not pansies
and they are not primitive.
What would Washington do, what would New York make Washington
do, having been handed its ass in a very public defeat? Huge egos would be in
play, the credibility of the whole American empire. Could little Hillary
Dillary Pumpkin Pie force NATO into a general war with Russia, or would the
Neocons try to go it alone–with other people’s lives? (Russia also has borders
with Eastern Europe, which connects to Western Europe. Do you suppose the
Europeans would think of this?) Would Washington undertake, or try to
undertake, the national mobilization that would be necessary to fight Russia in
its backyard? Naval war? Nukes in desperation?
And, since Russia is not
going to invade anybody unprovoked, Washington would have to attack. See above,
the three forms of military stupidity.
The same danger exists incidentally with regard to a war with
China in the South China Sea. The American Navy hasn’t fought a war in seventy
years. It doesn’t know how well its armament works. The Chinese, who are not
fools, have invested in weaponry specifically designed to defeat carrier battle
groups. A carrier in smoking ruins would force Washington to start a wider war
to save face, with unpredictable results. Can you name one American, other than the elites, who has
anything to gain from a war with China?
What has any normal American, as distinct from the elites
and various lobbies, gained from any of our wars post Nine-Eleven? Hillary and
her Neocon pack have backed all of them.
It is easy to regard countries as suprahuman beings that think and
take decisions and do things. Practically speaking, countries consist
of a small number of people, usually men, who make decisions for reasons often
selfish, pathologically aggressive, pecuniary, delusional, misinformed, or
actually psychopathic in the psychiatric sense. For example, the invasion of
Iraq, a disaster, was pushed by the petroleum lobbies to get the oil, the arms
lobbies to get contracts, the Jewish lobbies to get bombs dropped on Israel’s
enemies, the imperialists for empire, and the congenitally combative because
that is how they think. Do you see anything in the foregoing that would matter
to a normal American? These do not add up to a well-conceived policy.
Considerations no better drive the desire to fight Russia or to force it to
back down.
I note, pointlessly,
that probably none of America’s recent martial catastrophes would have occurred
if we still had constitutional government. How many congressmen do you think
would vote for a declaration of war if they had to tell their voters that they
had just launched, for no reason of importance to Americans, an attack
on the homeland of a nuclear power?
There are lots
of reasons not to vote for Clinton and the suppurating corruption she
represents. Not letting her owners play with matches rates high
among them.
