We all know that we are living in crazy, and dangerous, times, yet I can’t help being awed at what the imperial propaganda machine (aka the legacy ziomedia) is trying to make us all swallow. The list of truly batshit crazy stuff we are being told to believe is now very long, and today I just want to pick on a few of my “favorites” (so to speak)……….
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Oh, but it gets better.
NATO seems to be trying to frighten Russia with maneuvers in
Poland and B-52 flights over the Ukraine and the Black Sea (see here for a full
analysis). As for the Poles and Ukronazis, they apparently believe that the
Russian bear covered himself in poop and ran away at full speed.
What I am going to say next is not a secret, every military person
who looked into this issue knows and understands this: NATO, and I mean the
combined power of all NATO member states, simply does not have the hardware
needed to wage a war against Russia in Europe. What NATO does have is only
sufficient to trigger a serious incident which might result in a shooting war.
But once this war starts, the chances of victory for NATO are exactly zero.
Why?
Well, for one thing, while coalitions of countries might give a
thin veneer of political legitimacy to a military action (in reality, only a
UNSC resolution would), in purely military terms you are much better off having
a single national military. Not only that, but coalitions are nothing but the
expression of an often held delusion: the delusion that the little guy can hide
behind the back of the big guy. Poland’s entire history can be summarized in
this simple principle: strike the weak and bootlick (or even worse!)
the powerful. In contrast, real military powers don’t count on some other guy
doing the heavy lifting for them. They simply fight until they win.
Yes, the Europeans, being the cowards that they are, do believe
that there is safety in numbers. But each time these midgets gang up on Russia
and start barking (or, to use Putin’s expression, start oinking) all together, the
Russians clearly see that the Europeans are afraid. Otherwise, they would not
constantly seek somebody to protect them (even against a non-existing threat).
As a direct result of this delusion, NATO simply does not have the
equivalent of the First Guard Tank Army in
spite of the fact that NATO has a bigger population and much bigger budgets
than Russia. Such a tank Army is what it would take to fight a real war in
Europe, Russia has such an Army. NATO does not.
The other thing NATO does not have is a real integrated
multi-layered air defense system. Russia does.
Lastly, NATO has no hypersonic weapons. Russia does.
(According to President Trump, the US does have
super-dooper “hydrosonic” weapons, but nobody really knows what
that is supposed to mean).
I would even argue that the comparatively smaller Belarusian
military could make hamburger meat of the roughly three times larger Polish
armed forces in a very short time (unlike the Poles, the Belarusian are
excellent soldiers and they know that they are surrounded by hostile countries
on three sides).
As for the “armed forces” of the Baltic statelets, they are just a
sad joke.
One more example: the Empire is now sending ships into the Black
Sea as some kind of “show of force”. Yet, every military analyst out there
knows that the Black Sea is a “Russian lake” and that no matter how many ships
the US or NATO sends into the Black Sea, their life expectancy in case of a
conflict would be measured in minutes.
There is a popular
expression in Russia which, I submit, beautifully sums up the current US/NATO
doctrine: пугать ежа голой задницей, which can be translated as “trying to scare a hedgehog with your naked bottom”.
The truth is that NATO military forces currently are all in very
bad shape – all of them, including the US – and that their only advantage over
Russia is in numbers. But as soon as you factor in training, command and control,
the ability to operate with severely degraded C3I capabilities, the average age
of military hardware or morale – the Russian armed forces are far ahead of the
West.
Does anybody sincerely believe that a few B-52s and a few thousand
soldiers from different countries playing war in Poland will really scare the
Russian generals?
But if not – why the threats?
My explanation is simple: the
rulers of the Empire simply hope that the people in the West will never find
out how bad their current military posture really is, and they also know that
Russia will never attack first – so they simply pretend like they are still big, mighty and relevant. This is
made even easier by the fact that the Russians always downplay their real
capabilities (in sharp contrast to the West which always brags about “the best
XYZ in the world”). That, and the fact that nobody in the Western ruling
classes wants to admit that the game is over and that the Empire has collapsed.
Well, they apparently can hide these truisms from most of their
public opinion: Trump promises super-dooper missiles and big red buttons, and
his supporters immediately wave (Chinese made) US flags! But I assure you that
the Russians (political leaders and even the general public) know what the real
score is.
Yet the Empire still refuses to deal with Russia in any other way
except insults, bullying, threats, accusations, sanctions, and constant
sabre-rattling. This has never, and I mean never, worked in the past, and it
won’t work in the future. But, apparently, NATO generals simply cannot
comprehend that insanity can be defined as “doing the same thing over and
over again, while hoping to achieve different results”.
Finally, I will conclude with a short mention of US politicians.
First, Trump. He now declares that the Russians stole the secret
of hypersonic weapons from Obama. This reminds me of how the Brits declared
that Russia stole their vaccine against the sars-cov-2 virus. But, if the
Russians stole all that, why is it that ONLY Russia has deployed hypersonic
weapons (not the US) and ONLY Russia has both two vaccines and 2 actual
treatments (and not the UK)? For a good laugh, check out Andrei Martyanov’s
great column “Russia Steal Everything”.
And then there is Nancy Pelosi who, apparently, is considering,
yes, you guessed it – yet another impeachment attempt against Trump? The charge
this time? Exercising this Presidential prerogative to nominate a successor to
Ruth Ginsburg. Okay, Pelosi might be senile, but she also is in deep denial if
she thinks impeaching Trump is still a viable project. Frankly? I think that
she lost it.
In fact, I think that all the Dems have gone absolutely insane:
they are now considering packing both the Supreme Court and the Senate. The
fact that doing so will destroy the US political system does not seem to bother
them in the least.
Conclusion: quos Deus vult perdere prius
dementat!
We live in a world where facts
or logic have simply become irrelevant and nobody cares about such clearly
outdated categories. We have elevated “doubleplusgoodthinking” into an
art form. We have also done away with the concepts of “proof” or “evidence”
which we have replaced with variations on the “highly likely” theme. We have
also, for all practical purpose, jettisoned the entire corpus of international
law and replaced it with “rules-based international
order“. In fact, I can only agree with Chris Hedges who, in his
superb book the “Empire of illusions”
and of the “triumph of spectacle”. He is absolutely correct: not only is this a
triumph of appearance over substance, and of ideology over reality, it is even
the triumph of self-destruction over self-preservation.
There is not big “master
plan”, no complex international conspiracy, no 5D chess. All we have is yet
another empire committing suicide and, like so many before this one, this
suicide is executed by this empire’s ruling classes.
https://www.unz.com/tsaker/the-world-has-gone-absolutely-insane/
