Posted on 11/28/2024 1:30:13 AM PST by EBH
Don’t you think it is strange that humanity faces the possibility of extinction and there is no peace movement? Does our insouciance extend so far that we are indifferent to our existence? Even alternative media sites such as Simplicius downplay the threat
On November 18, 2024, the US and NATO fired from Ukrainian soil missiles into Russia despite the Russian government’s clear announcement that such reckless action would initiate war between the West and Russia. The Western presstitutes reported that Ukraine fired the US and UK supplied missiles, but this is a lie. The Ukrainians are not trained to operate the missile system and do not have the capability to target them. The missiles have to be operated by US/NATO personnel.
The missiles were intercepted by Russian air defense. However, their firing placed the US and NATO at war with Russia. Russia responded by demonstrating a new missile, for which the West has no counterpart or ability to deter, to completely destroy a Ukrainian military production facility. Putin’s hope was that the demonstration of the new hypersonic Russian missile would deter further attacks. But it did not. It is ironic that Putin’s attempt to limit conflict by confining it to Donbas gave the West the opportunity to greatly widen the war.
On November 23 and November 25 the US/NATO again fired missiles into Russia. We are awaiting the Russian response.
Putin, a democratically elected leader with popular support unmatched by any Western leader, Trump included, is disadvantaged in his dealing with the West by his humanitarianism. He is slow to recognize evil, and responds after the event to the Western threat to Russia’s existence rather than in a proactive way. All the initiative rests with the West.
It is likely that Putin has noticed that every new reckless action floated by the West as a way of aiding Ukraine was first denied and then approved. Step by step initially denied weapon system after system has been approved, including long-range missiles that Washington said would never be sent. When they were sent, Washington said the missiles would never be permitted to be used beyond the battlefield.
Now the missiles, that would never be sent or used beyond the battlefield, have been used 3 times to strike inside Mother Russia herself. This irresponsible, reckless action by the Biden regime and NATO has been done in the face of the clear statement by the Russian government that it means the US and NATO are at war with Russia, and it is in defiance of revised Russian military doctrine that now permits Russia to attack any country, regardless of whether it is a nuclear power, with nuclear weapons if the country attacks Russia with conventional weapons. The doctrine allows all NATO countries, including the US, to be attacked with nuclear weapons if any country allied with them, such as Ukraine, attacks Russia with conventional weapons. In the context of the conflict in Ukraine, attacking Russia means beyond the battlefield area itself.
With the three missile attacks inside Mother Russia beyond the battlefield itself, Washington and NATO have made it legal under Russian war doctrine for the West to receive a Russian nuclear attack. As I have previously written, only an insane government in Washington would open the door to nuclear war. It is Putin’s patience with the West that is preventing nuclear war.
Putin is likely to keep his patience with the insanity of the West until Trump is in office and Putin determines whether a mutual defense treaty, denied by the insane Biden regime, is possible with the Trump regime. If not, there is no basis for Putin’s hope of avoiding a major war. Sooner or later Putin will have to move from a reactive mode to a proactive mode, if Russia is to be protected. Indeed, determined to poison the relationship for Trump, Washington could target the Kursk nuclear plant and send radioactivity over Russia or target Moscow itself. Either of these could terminate Putin’s patience.
Not many of Trump’s appointments are very promising in regard to ending the conflict. The director of the Russian Federal Security Service has said that Trump’s election “is unlikely to lead to radical changes in Washington’s foreign policy.” He expects more provocations.
The ignored question is how many more provocations will Putin accept before his humanity is overruled by his commitment to Russia?
When we witness, as we clearly do, the West pushing Putin into this decision, how can we conclude anything else but that the West is pushing the world into nuclear armageddon? According to Tass, the Russian news service, President-elect Trump has not contacted Putin. Consequently, Trump might never get his 24 hours during which to end the conflict. The world might be over by then. I find it extraordinary that Trump has made no attempt to defuse the dangerous situation.
There are in Poland and Romania US missile bases on Russia’s border with missile systems that can fire nuclear weapons into Russia. Putin has complained about the threat these US bases present for many years. Washington has not removed them, and Putin has done nothing about them. If the US and NATO continue firing missiles from Ukraine into Russia in the face of Putin’s clear warnings, Putin, if he is realistic, must recognize that the Polish and Romanian US missile bases are threats of the highest order. Both, as the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman recently said, are on Russia’s target list for elimination.
The US response as voiced by White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby is: “We take our Article 5 commitments to our NATO Allies incredibly seriously. It’s rock-solid, and that’s not going to change.” In other words, if Russia protects herself from the possibility of US nuclear attack, Washington will launch WW III. The Washington morons believe that having nuclear capable missile bases on Russia’s borders with Poland and Romania are worth a nuclear war. Tell me this is not insanity.
Which is extreme, my fact-based warning, or the irresponsible actions of delusional people in Washington lost in their own false narratives, in their own hubris and mistaken belief in their invincibility and righteousness?
And delusion it is. Here is Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia Caucasus Institute at the American Foreign Policy Council, proclaiming that Putin has lost the conflict with Ukraine and faces internal overthrow. Putin’s home front is collapsing, he says: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/ukraine-and-russia’s-collapsing-home-front-213869
What are the facts? The Ukrainian front is collapsing. The collapse is so complete that NATO is discussing supplying Ukraine with nuclear weapons. Putin has the strongest public support of all leaders on Earth, reelected to office for 25 years with margins that no Western leader can hope for, not even Trump. But according to Frederick Starr “Putin has already lost the war and the only question is what face-saving measures can be extracted through a settlement.” Starr reports that Putin’s defeat is so complete that his presidency is at risk.
Next we have The Telegraph, once a reasonable English Tory newspaper, speaking hyper-nonsense. The Telegraph reports a week after Russia demonstrates in action a new weapon system of which the “advanced” West has not even dreamed that “Putin would be crazy to take on the West because modern weapons production in Russia is impossible without Western components.” So where did the Oreshnik missile come from?
I do not know of any Western weapon system that does not have a superior Russian counterpart. Clearly in Ukraine the vaunted Western weapons have been easily defeated. Indeed, driven off the field of battle.
The “leaders” of the Western world live in belief in their own lies and propaganda. Their propaganda has taken control of their own thinking, making them ignorant of reality. Something is seriously wrong with Western peoples that they elect to office utterly stupid people capable of destroying life of earth simply on the basis of the ignorance resulting from their self-indoctrination.
Unless Trump can survive the Deep State, rise to the challenge and make peace the victory to be achieved, the world seems doomed.
Lately, I've been seeing alternative media sources calling on Trump to take action, but let’s not forget — Trump is the President-elect. Right now, he’s focused on assembling his team and ensuring that everyone he selects makes it safely to January 20th.
It’s almost amusing watching people squirm because Trump isn't tipping his hand. In fact, all the noise from outsiders has pushed his transition team to go "dark" — shutting out the public and even the very government he's about to lead.
It’s almost like opsec means something. Perhaps we’ll get back to it?
Exactly!
Western “doctors” butcher children, abort babies, define males as females, and issue serums claimed to be “vaccines” but are instead, experimental research and see what develop[ment]s.
Life gets lost.
I do not know of any Western weapon system that does not have a superior Russian counterpart. >>
PCR is ready for the funny farm.
We are the Bad Guys now.
Putin started with Crimea under Obama.
And depending on your own knowledge, what clandestine activities were happening in Ukraine that ultimately resulted in the attempted impeachment of President Trump, over a phone call?
And then the ‘selection election’ of Biden?
My tagline was posted on Inauguration Day 2021. Before the Russia incursion into Ukraine (2/22). And someone is going to trip the nuclear wire before Christmas.
Whatever Biden/Hunter has in Ukraine is still there. Whatever it is the West is going to protect it at all costs. And either Putin wants it or it is a threat that truly hasn’t been disclosed yet. Hunter played both sides against the middle with Ukraine and Russian oligarchs.
Connect the dots from Trump’s phone call to Z that resulted in an impeachment attempt to today’s events. It is all connected, the war, all the money, weapons, etc. And it all goes back to Hunter Biden and the Biden family.
Agreed.
It is one thing to say that the whole Russia-Ukraine war didn’t have to happen, that it raises significant risks, and that it should end soon.
However, it is a huge stretch to claim the Russian military is superior to the US’ in any way. The US military is significantly more advanced across the areas that matter, is better networked, better resourced, and ‘learns’ better. Additionally, some of the mistakes Russia did - eg, the mad initial rush into Ukraine that assumed the West would not help the Ukrainians put up an energetic resistance - is a mistake the modern US military would never make.
As for Putin - does he love his country? Yes, at least I think so. He strongly believes he’s protecting Russia, and a lot of the madness in what he’s doing can be partly explained through that lens. He genuinely sees Russia as surrounded by an expanding NATO, and considering how the US reacted in tbe 60s when certain missiles were placed in a certain country, as well as the thinking around the Monroe Doctrine, it can be seen why Putin may not be as comfortable with NATO being (literally!) at his doorstep.
With that said, saying he’s ’slow to recognize evil’ is a bit funny. He’s former KGB, and he’s pretty much evil himself. Saying person X is evil does not mean that person Y is also not evil - there are a lot of evil people on both sides. Eg, I personally believe Zelenskyy is not good for Ukraine, but that’s my view and fortunately people are still allowed to have views. For now.
Bottom line - that war needs to end. For Ukraine, for Russia, and for the world in general.
The US is (significantly) superior in terms of tactics, training, and technology than Russia.
And, unfortunately, both sides of the divide have become too tribal. Eg, I can say that both Putin and Zelenskyy messed up, and I can almost guarantee that both sides of the divide will attack me (how dare you say that about Zelenskyy when he’s a ‘hero’, or ‘don’t you know Russia is the remaining white Christian nation’). It’s all become tribal, and that’s a problem because it means people cannot be objective.
Or on Russia’s military capability - it is either ‘super superior’ or it is ‘junk.’ The truth is somewhere between those. Not as good as the West’s, but it will still get you dead.
And the reporting …my goodness! The media is rabid. Russia is ‘losing 1,500 people a day.’ Says who, and if that’s the case then why worry about the North Koreans, right? 11,000 North Koreans would only replace less than ten days of Russian losses, so what’s the big deal? Every advance Russia makes is a ‘small movement,’ and every retreat Ukraine makes is ‘strategic.’ Oh, and don’t get me started on the 31,000 dead Ukrainians spiel. If that’s the case, why is Ukraine running out of men to fight?
The propaganda is too much - from both sides. Too tribal.
Final point: Putin, Biden, and Zelenskyy are all - together - putting the world on a dangerous precipice. That war needs to end, and hopefully President Trump brings some sanity to an insane equation. The only thing it ends is if everyone is UNHAPPY. That Russia is unhappy it didn’t get everything it wanted, same for Ukraine, same for the West. There is no solution that makes everyone happy - but there are VIABLE solutions that leave everyone equally unhappy.
I hope President Trump achieves that.
It is ironic though how the Left claimed Trump would bring WW3, yet it is Biden-Putin-Zelenskyy who brought us to the edge and it is President Trump who will save our collective bacon.
Now, that is American superiority, and I hope President Trump shows it well. God bless and guide him.
Please explain.
The Biden White House and the NATO leadership are daring Putin to use nuclear weapons.
But, USA President Elect Trump's silence is almost amusing?
Where does Trump or the Trump Administration stand on this critical and time sensitive issue?
I’m all for the Red, White, and Blue and putting up flags on July 4th, but I still struggle with how anyone can claim our DEI-Infested Weapons Systems are superior to Russia’s, when they can hit any target they want in Ukriaine, and even give the people there 30 minutes notice to get out, while we, the West, launch our top-of-the-line (although 30+ years old) missiles just to have them shot down.
Maybe we can slip a few missiles through and hit Russia, but when they’re 36 for 36, as they were a week ago, I think we have some work to do to catch up, before starting WW3, at a minimum.
One of the few real things is Russia, under Putin the corrupt lifetime oligarch, attacked a neighboring country, which is mass murder, and has cause a lot of problems for the world for no reason.
Maybe you should actually go look up his bio and then decide if he actually is a no name journalist and has no idea what’s going on in the world.
President Reagan appointed Dr. Roberts Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and he was confirmed in office by the U.S. Senate. From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy. After leaving the Treasury, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Paul Craig Roberts may be remembered, if for no other reason than for the title he used for his farewell syndicated column: “Truth has fallen and taken liberty with it.”
And during the Cold War days, whoever would have thought?
I’m VERY against us having any part of this war. Even sending weapons.
But this guy is a little over the top.
“Mother Russia”?
Putin killed and injured THOUSANDS, many thousands of US soldiers with his proxy war through Iran when we were in Iraq.
Looking back, I greatly regret supporting that war but that doesn’t change the fact that Putin killed a lot of our guys.
Putis is nice, kind, naive and kinda not that smart according to this article.
That’s hysterical :)
Trump’s team doesn’t look like a team that casn have any effect? How does this person know that already?
I trust Trump and I think Putin is more than shrewd enough to not start WWIII before Trump gets in office.
Is NATO dumb and greedy enough for a war along with RINOS and NEOCONS and dems that they would set one off with an “incident”?
Yes.
All we can do is pray until Trump is in office.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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