Posted on 05/28/2022 2:40:24 PM PDT by Vlad0
The war in Ukraine is a trompe l’oeil. Behind the appearances of the unity of NATO and its consolidation by new members, several big players run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. In reality, all those who are not blinded by their own propaganda know that their side is going to lose and is already planning other enemies on other battlefields. Washington is making the best of a bad situation and using Russian pressure to close ranks.
On the front of the stage, Nato assures that it has been strengthened by “Putin’s madness”. Ukraine, powerfully armed by the West, is leading a counter-offensive and pushing back the “invader”. At the international level, the sanctions are bearing fruit. Finland and Sweden, feeling threatened, decided to join the Atlantic Alliance. Soon the Russians will overthrow the “dictator” in the Kremlin.
This magnificent narrative is contradicted by the facts: only about a third of Western weapons reach the front. But the Ukrainian army is exhausted. Almost everywhere it is retreating and a few exploits do not change the overall picture. Two-thirds of Western weapons, especially the heaviest ones, are already available on the black market in the Balkans, particularly in Kosovo and Albania, which have become the main places for trafficking in this area. Western sanctions pose a risk of famine, not in Russia, but in the rest of the world and particularly in Africa. Turkey and Croatia are opposed to the accession of new members to NATO. It is possible to convince them, but at the price of radical political changes which the West has always opposed.
Even if Russia is wise enough to not celebrate its victory too loudly, as it did in Syria, it will be seen as the failure of the greatest military force in history, NATO. A victory without appeal, since the Atlantic Alliance was physically involved in the fight, while it stood around the battlefields in Syria. Many of Washington’s vassal states will try to break free. It is likely that their civilian leaders will remain mentally oriented toward the West, while their military leaders will turn more quickly toward Moscow and Beijing. In the years to come, the cards will be reshuffled. It will not be a matter of shifting from alignment with Washington to alignment with the new victors, but of creating a multipolar world where everyone is responsible for themselves. What is at stake is not a redefinition of zones of influence, but the end of the mentality establishing a hierarchy between peoples.
From this prospective point of view, it is fascinating to observe Western rhetoric. Many experts from the old world explain that Russia wants to rebuild its empire. They claim that it has already reconquered Ossetia and Crimea and is now attacking the Donbass. They reconstruct history with falsified quotes from President Putin. Anyone who studies contemporary Russia and checks the data knows that this is not true. The accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation and the future accession of Ossetia, Donbass and Transnistria have nothing to do with an empire, but with the reconstitution of the Russian nation, which was dismembered during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In this context, a small part of the Western leadership is beginning to challenge the choices of their American overlord. The same phenomenon took place during the last trimester at the end of the mandate of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The latter, seeing the human disaster he had contributed to provoke in Libya and his failure in Syria, agreed to negotiate a separate peace with Damascus. However, Washington, furious with his independence, organized his electoral defeat in favor of François Hollande. In the days following his accession to the Élysée Palace, the latter re-launched the Western war machine for a decade. It is precisely at this time that Russia committed itself to intervene in Syria. For two years it finished developing new weapons, then came to fight the jihadists armed by the West and directed by NATO from its Allied Land Command in Turkey.
Most people believe what they want to believe. Why do so many people here want to believe Russia is winning that they swallow a BS article like this. It is vital that Ukraine wins and they need our help. If all of these weapons we were sending them end up in other places because of corruption why is Ukraine holding on so valiantly. Do people here really want Russia to win because Biden is actually doing the only thing right that he has ever done right in his life?
I assume the CFR is the Council on Foreign Relations?
What you do not get, is that Xi & the CCP are watching this with great glee, as the U.S. & NATO throw their weapons into Ukraine. Why you ask? Because China has been at war with the U.S. for decades now, and the weaker we become they less threat we are and the easier it will be to neuter the U.S.
LOL the same evil Russians who were colluding with Trump?
Oh wait, Special Counsel John Durham has popped opened Hillary’s can of worms!
While NATO looks more like a toothless tiger, this war has also exposed stinginess of European spending on military since WWII ended. Why should EU spend when Uncle Sam was paying for their defense needs?
May be Zelensky should have been smarter and not be so naïve in believing Biden for military support while pushing for NATO membership on Russia’sborder.
It does stink to the high heavens, though..
Ping for the next war!
The problem is that none of us have any idea how the war is going because we have professional narrators who weave their stories with no facts to constrain them. Are the Russians getting wiped out? Are the Ukrainians? Who knows? We do know one thing and that is that the US is footing this fiasco, and the men behind the curtains are the only ones that know what they want.
Yes, the Chinese are enjoying this episode of “Let’s you and him fight.”
A weakened West won’t be able to do much in TIwan. The Pacific could become a Chinese lake. And a weakened Russia would have trouble holding onto Siberia. China could dominate it, even if the figleaf of Russian sovereignty over it were to be maintained.
If pajama clad Vietcong ran the mighty superpower USA out of Vietnam, with Americans escaping from roof tops in helicopters, why is this a surprise?
Can someone name ONE war which was won against guerilla tactics? Does Russia ever wanted to OCCUPY Ukraine? Only naive people believe that. Putin’s goal was never to occupy Kiev. Putin’s main goal was to occupy Donbas and possibly open land access to Crimea and control all access to Black Sea.
This is patently absurd. The free flow of capital, and the attendant grift, is American M1. China is stuck on our teat. All they did is give Putlim a credit card. Meanwhile, all of the NATO-shy EU countries are begging for admission, which the dumbass author has to admit further up!
The T-62s are being deployed in the rear to control the land areas already taken, not directly to the front lines.
Russia has plenty of tanks, and perhaps more importantly plenty of diesel to run them...despite what the western fabulists are saying.
Ukraine is off the front pages - George Washington Zelinsky is not being interviewed every 5 minutes by the Fake News Networks - time to move on...
What kind of Communist nonsense is this? Sounds like the CPRF wrote it.
Russia is winning by bombing Ukraine to smithereens. Sure, some parts of Ukraine are being left alone now, except for the weapons that are headed east. The Russians have bombed numerous bridges as part of the effort to stop the western weapons from being deployed to the east.
Ukraine is not at all vital. If the country disappeared it would not make.a bit of difference.
You living a fantasy world.
Russia is going to be control the entire Black Sea coastline, much of the prime farmland and industry in the areas of Ukraine they have under their control.
The ruble is best performing currency of the year and at four-year high compared to the dollar. Russia has increased the amount of oil revenue during this war and is running a surplus to its Treasury.
Everything is coming up roses for the Russians. That's not surprising given who is running this country.
All Williams can offer is arrogance.
“A weakened West won’t be able to do much in TIwan. The Pacific could become a Chinese lake. And a weakened Russia would have trouble holding onto Siberia. China could dominate it, even if the figleaf of Russian sovereignty over it were to be maintained.”
Another “China-is-superman” comicbook fantasy.
The last time I looked, the ChiComm army got its ass handed to them when it invaded Ladakh in India, the summer of 2020. The Indians sent in their Indian Army Gurkhas who wiped out the ChiComm forces and stacked their bodies like cordwood.
The Chinese moms, who lost their only sons, were furious at Winnie-the-poo and the episode nearly cost President Xi Jinping his head as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
“It is vital that Ukraine wins ...”
List reasons
Bigtime, mainly because it was Gurkhas.
“Long pile of pure bs.”
Specifically, what part of this long article is pure BS?
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