America and its close allies possess overwhelming dominance over the global media, allowing them to shape the perceived reality of much of the world’s population, ruling elites included. By heavily influencing the thoughts and beliefs of the individuals who control large military forces, nuclear arsenals, and vast wealth, this power of illusion can often easily overwhelm the political impact of the existing balance of physical power in the real world.
This same media mind-control is powerfully deployed inwardly at our own citizenry and ruling elites. Thus, the Western alliance has remained surprisingly cohesive and committed, adhering to policies that would seem deeply inimical to the best interests of many of its major members, who might otherwise have been expected to revoke their damaging alignment.
Any actual use of nuclear weapons let alone strategic ones might plausibly escalate to the large-scale exchanges that would result in worldwide destruction. Therefore, their main practical value is as a powerful means of deterrence and intimidation. But any such impact assumes that other leaders will recognize that power and react accordingly. This is not the case if the thoughts of those leaders are heavily clouded by media mind-control.
Thus, to a considerable extent, this Western media weapon has successfully nullified the impact of Russian strategic military superiority. For such superiority to have any influence, it must be recognized as such, and if media power blinds both Western populations and their elites to that important reality, the impact is largely eliminated. A loaded handgun cannot be used to effectively deter or intimidate a group of individuals if their zombified brains fail to appreciate its potential lethality.
Put another way, even if Russian hypersonics can successfully pierce any of the West’s defensive missile systems, the political results of this powerful military technology will be minimal unless the Russians can similarly develop some effective means of piercing the West’s defensive shield of media mind-control.
https://www.unz.com/runz/a-forceful-russian-response-to-nato-recklessness/ Thus, the only real solution for the Russian leadership is to somehow circumvent Western media power and split the Western alliance but do so in a way that absolutely minimizes risk of a dangerous military escalation.
As it happens, just over a year ago I proposed exactly such a Russian strategy. Given the extremely dangerous recent attacks against Russia’s nuclear deterrent force and its president, I think that approach should now be given very serious consideration.
The idea is a simple one. Russia should publicly declare that it now considered NATO a co-belligerent in the Ukraine war and that Russia would therefore retaliate against the Western alliance. But instead of any lethal attack against NATO armed forces, the retaliation would initially take the form of a live demonstration of superior Russian strategic military power.
The Russians could announce their plans for a hypersonic missile strike against the NATO headquarters building in Brussels, Belgium, with the attack scheduled for 12 noon in three days’ time.
That sort of advance warning would attract enormous international attention and coverage, certainly becoming the world’s top news story during the several days that followed, and easily penetrating any obfuscating layers of Western media. Providing NATO with plenty of time to evacuate the building and those nearby would prove that Russia sought to absolutely minimize any loss of life, thereby refuting years of inflammatory Western propaganda.......
.....Many Americans might ask themselves why they were annually spending a trillion dollars on their military if our defense contractors were unable to produce hypersonic weapons or to successfully defend against those produced by the Russians.
And American political and military leaders would probably recognize that if despite such advance warning they were unable to defend their own NATO headquarters from destruction, our aircraft carriers would have little hope of surviving a Russian attack. Our country’s global power-projection relies very heavily upon these carriers, whose military credibility supports our inflated US dollar. If several of those carriers were easily sunk, that credibility would be lost, probably causing a collapse in the dollar. Our ruling political regime might collapse along with it, much like the Japanese victory in 1905 had triggered a revolution in Czarist Russia.
More than three decades ago, the mighty Soviet Union crumbled and dissolved with almost no bloodshed. Under the right circumstances, I think that the Russian destruction of the NATO headquarters building might lead to an equally bloodless and long overdue dissolution of that military alliance.
