American
post-WW 2 supremacy, writes Andrei Martyanov in his book, Losing Military Supremacy just
published by Clarity Press, has been destroyed by America’s narcissism.https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Military-Supremacy-American-Strategic/dp/0998694754/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535577199&sr=1-1&keywords=andrei+martyanov
The
arrogant hubris of American exceptionalism and the myths that sustain it are
subjected to devastating analysis in this long overdue book. Martyanov has no
patience with American strategic thinkers, Russian experts, American war myths,
and General George S. Patton. No nation has ever assembled a greater collection of ignorant fools
than the US and trusted them with the leadership of the country.
The consequence for America of the unreal
image of itself in which the ruling elites live is a “very dangerous decline of
American cognitive faculties” and “a complete loss of sound reasoning across
the whole spectrum of national activities from foreign policy, to economics, to
war, to culture.” The hegemony claimed and pursued by neoconservatives, liberal
interventionists, and garrulous patriots is inconsistent with the incompetence
and delusion of the ruling American elites.
Take
something as simple as military power. Without a modern manufacturing and
industrial base, a country has no prospects of being a military power. This
fact escaped Wall Street, titans of American industry, and political leaders
who enabled the offshoring of American manufacturing and industrial jobs to
Asia, thereby building China’s might and deindustrializing the United States,
an alleged “superpower” that is dependent on Russian rocket engines and
titanium for its aircraft production.
It has also escaped the American elites
that the sanctions applied to Russia have built up the capability and
self-sufficiency of Russia. Washington’s sanctions make Russia more powerful.
Consider education. A modern military
requires people capable in physics and advanced math, subjects in which
Russians have always led, as US Admiral Hyman Rickover recognized as long ago
as 1953. In pre-Putin Russia, Washington’s effort to “Westernize,” that is, to
destroy, Russian education did not succeed. But it has succeeded in America,
where politically correct demands for equal performance from a diverse student
body with different talents and motivations has watered down course content.
Everyone has to make the same grade, or heavens forbid, politically incorrect
differences exist. In public high schools, standardized testing has produced
memorization of the ruling shibboleths in place of ability to reason. Indeed, in
the US the term, “public education,” has become an oxymoron. Jobs offshoring
has also taken a toll on America’s technological cadre. Most people involved in
digital activities in the US are probably people from India on work visas.
When a
country’s elites see themselves as above others—remember the applause given to
John McCain’s reference to Russia as a gas station pretending to be a
country—they tend to dispense with diplomacy and rely instead on threats and
coercion, such as the threat delivered to the President of Pakistan by a State
Department official, “do as you are told or we will bomb you into the stone
age.”
Washington
cloaks its intentions in moral terms, presenting itself as a defender of
democracy and human rights while it destroys in whole or part seven countries
in the 21st century in its pursuit of hegemony culminating in an irresponsible
and reckless assault on Russian national interest.
Martyanov
finds incomprehensible the massive American military miscalculation that in
dealing with Russia America is dealing with an insignificant military power. In
fact, it is America that has invested the country’s wealth in a “hollow force,”
while Russia has capabilities against which the United States has no defense
whatsoever.
In a
March 1, 2018, address to the Federal Assembly of Russia, President Vladimir
Putin described some of this capability, some of which is currently deployed
with the Russian forces that are present in Syria. The crux of the matter is
this: Currently deployed Russian weapons make the entire US Navy, all the
carrier fleets, everything, totally defenseless and obsolete. Russian
superiority in the Syrian arena is so total, so complete, that the US cannot
attack Syria without Putin’s permission.
Martyanov
mentions the infatuation with “Western civilization” of a stratum of the
Russian Elite, an elite created by American and Israeli influence. The question
is whether this time Putin will permit, as he has in the past, another American
strike against his ally that Russia has enabled to clear from Syrian territory
the American organized and equipped forces sent to overthrow Syria.
In the
past Putin, influenced perhaps by the American-worshipping Russian neoliberals,
permitted Washington’s strikes, strikes that Washington justified by lies that
Putin knew were lies.
The
question is whether Putin will forever in his pointless desire to appease
Washington again permit Washington’s strikes against Russia’s ally. Did he send
to the combat arena Russian forces that can annihilate at will all American
forces present at zezo cost to Russia to do the required job, or did he send
them as a potential threat that he does not intend to exercise, hoping against
hope that the Americans in their world of total unreality will realize their
impotence and back off?
Bogdasarov
says that the only thing that will stop the constant and increasing
provocations against Russia is for Russia not only to destroy all incoming US
missiles into Syria, but also to destroy every launching platform. https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/08/a-russian-response-to-a-new-us-attack-on-syria-should-include-sinking-the-carriers-not-just-shooting-at-their-missiles/
Bogdasarov
is correct. Putin has let American gratuitous aggression go too far. It needs
to be stopped now, before Putin’s only alternative is surrender of Russia to
Washington or nuclear war.
The Russian military will not permit
Putin to surrender Russia to Washington.
Nuclear war raises the question whether
planet Earth survives.
If Putin backs down again over Syria,
the prospects for nuclear war increase dramatically.
The most dangerous enemy that Russia
and human life face is not Washington but the Western brainwashed, Western
worshipping Atlanticist Integrationists in Russia. These utterly stupid people,
unless they are eliminated, will destroy the world.