What if They are Wrong?

Your future will be utterly destroyed because of these Neocons who are consumed with personal hatred of Russians. They are pushing American policymakers, arguing that Putin is bluffing and we can, therefore, destroy Russia, and he will never fire a shot. They insist that Putin won’t put his money where his mouth is regarding escalation. Adam Kinzinger, who is the classic Neocon – a Republican congressman from Illinois who jumped ship and ran to CNN so he could preach World War III after losing the election because of his views. He is now CNN’s senior political commentator.

This is the same Adam Kinzinger who insanely claimed that we could “TAKE OUT” Russia in three days! I guess we could wipe out China in 4.5 days and then rule the world so nobody will retaliate. I have NEVER heard such reckless commentary in my entire life. And he is joined by another Neocon, Ben Hodges, a retired United States Army officer who served as commanding general of United States Army Europe.

We have a very dangerous situation brewing, and Neocons are just so consumed by their personal hatred they are threatening civilization. As a hedge fund manager, you NEVER take a position without understanding where you are wrong. These people would NEVER be a trader because they clearly assume they will win, and Russia and China would NEVER retaliate and just fall to their knees and beg for forgiveness and lick their shoes while they are there.

If hate crimes are to be enforced, they should drag these people out of office, lock them up in the hole, and throw away the key. They do not deserve the death penalty, for that is far too easy. People WRONGLY I think the death penalty is the worst. There are plenty of people in prison for life who would take that option if it was offered. These Neocons have weaseled their way into positions of power to manipulate the power of the United States for their personal vendettas. They are a threat to world peace and your future. People like Adam Kinzinger and Ben Hodges are very dangerous and will bring the United States to its destiny with the fall from the financial capital of the world.

This only lends credence to those telling Putin he should nuke Kiev and then ask the world is this where you want to go. They can do as the Americans did to Japan and drop leaflets, giving them a few days to get out of town. If they did what the Americans did and dropped these warnings, then they can argue they have done nothing different from the Americans. However, the argument is that then the people will see Russia is not bluffing, and they will round up these Neocons and lock them up where they belong.

Perhaps that is the only way to prevent a complete all-out nuclear war. The average person has to wake up and demand that their governments back off. Should we all destroy our future and that of our children and grandchildren all for the Donbas? Since the Ukrainians are denied a right to vote to remove Zelensky, they need to storm this palace to save their own country. Nearly 10 million have fled Ukraine, and Ukrainians are not allowed to decide their own fate, for that comes from Blinken in Washington.

They are pushing this nonsense that Putin is bluffing with his warning of nuclear escalation. NATO’s Secretary General, another sad representative of humanity, Jens Stoltenberg, has also dismissed the likelihood of Western aid to Ukraine leading to Russian retaliation. Personally, to save the world, NATO should be utterly destroyed. The Biden administration is controlled by Blinken and his other conflicted Neocons with lineages back to Ukraine who all profess their families were persecuted by Russians. They have usurped the power of the United States for personal gain, and there is NOBODY in Congress with the courage to save our nation.

Blinken makes the decisions, and the debate shows that Biden is not running the country. Blinken controls the Biden Administration, allowing Ukraine to use US weapons to wage war inside Russia now directly —a red line the administration previously refused to cross. If I hire a hitman to tell him to kill someone, I cannot then claim innocence in court because he pulled the trigger, not me.

Historically, let me make this perfectly clear to these people who are bringing the world to destruction. War has ALWAYS escalated when their red lines are crossed. The assumption that Putin is bluffing is self-serving by people who just hate Russians. Historically, countries usually DO NOT bluff, and when they make such threats, they are eventually carried out.

Indeed, if Blinkin and his other morally corrupt individuals ever studied history, they would discover multiple historical examples that show how this proposition has led to death, destruction, and the disastrous fall of empires, nations, and city-states. For centuries, Chinese general Sun Tzu has been revered for his wisdom in dealing with wars over the centuries.

These Neocons have waged endless wars since Vietnam under the pretense that they must defeat Russia. As Tzu warned: “There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.” Nearly 2/3rds of our national debt is because of war – not social benefits. Since we NEVER pay off our debt, we then pay interest forever on every war, and the veterans have to be provided healthcare for life for their service.

Putin is the ONLY wise man or adult in the room. Putin trusts Sun Tzu’s words: “Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.” This arrogance is filling the air, and it is so obvious that the West will lose. Clearly, the arrogance of our Neocons ensures that history will repeat itself, for they do not know their enemy at all. Even Sun Tzu said:

Even if we closely look at World War II, we can see how these Neocons learned nothing. Japan’s logic behind its attack on Pearl Harbor is an important example of miscalculating an adversary’s willingness to escalate. FDR was doing everything to entice Japan to war, just as the US and Europe were doing to Russia.

The Japanese did not understand that FDR wanted Japan to attack because Congress kept rejecting a Declaration of War to enter Europe. The Japanese misunderstood that America would not retaliate as our Neocons seem to be suggesting with Russia today that Putin is only bluffing.

When Japan occupied French Indochina in 1941, America retaliated by freezing all Japanese assets in the states, just as they had done to Russia. FDR prevented Japan from purchasing oil. Having lost 94% of its oil supply and unwilling to submit to U.S. demands, Japan planned to take the oil needed by force.

However, striking south into British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies would almost certainly provoke an armed U.S. response. To blunt that response, Japan decided to attack the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, hoping that the U.S. would negotiate peace.

The attack at Pearl Harbor was a huge gamble that obviously was wrong for Japan. FDR used Pearl Harbor to justify getting into World War II both in Europe and the Pacific. Instead of reverting to isolationism as Japan miscalculated, the U.S. geared up for total war, and Japan’s fate was sealed. This was FDR’s plan all along. The U.S. had already broken the Japanese code and knew in advance when Pearl Harbor would take place.

At the time, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He wrongly assumed that by attacking Pearl Harbor, the Americans would back off and stop meddling in the Pacific. Ultimately, the Japanese military thought such an attack would shock the United States into a negotiated settlement. Obviously, Yamamoto did not know his enemy. As Sun Tzu said; “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

Kinzinger is clearly making the same mistake as Yamamoto. The Russian people do NOT see Putin as a tyrant – it is America who they see as hating the Russian people. They love to claim Putin arrests opponents, yet the Biden Administration not only charged Trump in multiple cases, they have gone after all his supporters and even charged 1400 people for January 6th when state capitols have been stormed over issues like abortion, but nobody charges them.

The Korean War is yet another striking example of this arrogance and misjudgment of an enemy. In 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, the leader of the United Nations Command, pushed American-led forces up the Korean peninsula against the North Korean military. Max Hastings, the military historian, wrote in his book The Korean War how MacArthur insisted on using American forces to achieve a complete victory against the North Koreans. He thought he could drive the troops up the Korean peninsula to the Yalu River, the border with China.

However, Chinese officials made it clear to American and UN officials that they should not push their forces past the river. American intelligence reports also showed that PLA military forces were mobilizing in the regions adjacent to the Yalu River. Still, MacArthur insisted that the Chinese would not enter this war.

MacArthur’s assessment also proved completely wrong as the Chinese troops began pouring into Korea in October 1950, marking one of the turning points in the Korean War. Yet here we have Adam Kinzinger reassuring the world that they can do as they like and Putin will never respond, for he is just bluffing.

Even if we look closely at Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s decision to send nuclear missiles to Cuba in 1962, once again, he failed to judge America for making the classic mistake our Neocons are doing today with Russia. On September 13, 1962, President Kennedy warned Khrushchev against turning Cuba into a Soviet base.

“If at any time the Communist build-up in Cuba were to endanger or interfere with our security in any way . . . or if Cuba should ever . . . become an offensive military base of significant capacity for the Soviet Union, then this country will do whatever must be done to protect its own security and that of its allies.”

However, Khrushchev called Kennedy’s “bluff” and decided to send medium-range nuclear missiles to Cuba. He thought Kennedy was a weak leader and believed that his administration would NEVER do anything to counter this maneuver, fearing nuclear war.

is advocating the very same assumptions of Khrushchev that the United States under the Kennedy administration, which was anti-war, was bluffing. What followed from Khruschev’s misjudgment led to the Cuban Missile Crisis, where the world was on the edge of nuclear war over a thirteen-day period. Khruschev tested Kennedy’s resolve, and clear thinking returned. Then, the two met face to face.

Our Neocons and the press are cheering war and are telling everyone that Putin is bluffing just, and MacArthur misread the Chinese, and the Japanese, and Kruschev both misjudged America.

They have thrown caution to the win and ASSUME that they will be victorious. History warns that both sides believe they will be victorious, but in the end, only one is. This is not a roulette table where we put everything in red or black and presume we will win. They are playing with the lives of so many people, all for their personal hatreds.

The entire movement of the BRICS has nothing to do with gold and fiat since all currencies are fiat. This is geopolitical, and the arrogance of our NEOCONS has turned countries against us.

Once they imposed sanctions on Russia and removed them from SWIFT, the dollar became a weapon, and nations realized that if they did not do as Blinken commands, they, too, would be sanctioned and removed from the SWIFT system. Thank our NEOCONS for destroying the world economy.

Hey Delta. Too much information.

Trump is pointing out that NATO is there to keep the Krauts in check. Two and a half years between Pearl Harbor and the Normandy invasion gave them and the Russians time to carve each other up. It was like Saddam and the Ayatollas in the 80’s.

When WW2 was over the world needed all our products. The world still needs us. Start with our oil and the US market. Push it without war. Neocons can’t have that.

The U.S. had already broken the Japanese code and knew in advance when Pearl Harbor would take place.

This is a lie. The US knew that the IJN was preparing an attack, but they had no intel suggesting it would target Pearl. Their best guess was Singapore.

I'm hesitant to put too much trust in his analysis when he repeats such long-debunked falsehoods.

Corruption follows money as night follows day, and the biggest river of money on this planet is Washington, DC. Almost continuous warfare for 70 years, defense budgets as large as the rest of the world combined, foreign aid for everyone to “maintain” our positions, etc., etc.,etc. Just syphoning off 1 or 2% of $trillions has allowed many people connected either directly or indirectly to become exceedingly rich and powerful. One can only wonder about the vast amounts of wealth in offshore accounts and other holdings belonging to members of the Deep State, to say nothing of their accomplices abroad.

The nuclear talk is 100% hot air.

Putin has over 200,000 dead Russians to show over his 2022 escalation.

Putin won’t escalate again if he can avoid doing so.

The Russian Federation will continue to pulverize Ukrainian front lines by the kilometer until Ukraine agrees to concede the areas held in eastern Ukraine by Russia.

Russian missiles were already in Cuba before Kennedy knew about the Soviet missile plan:

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/29153-oct-14-first-u-2-photographs-soviet-missiles-cuba-1962

The US had missiles in Turkey which were removed as part of the deal made to resolve the Cuban missile crisis.

Putin has over 200,000 dead Russians to show over his 2022 escalation.
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You don’t know that- your trust in western MSM is showing.

That said- best to wait for the post war analysis- it will ( like vegetable head Joe’s debate) - very ENLIGHTENING. That said, prepare yourself for the inevitable.

Please do plan on getting back with us when this war concludes.

Have to keep repeating this post to warn any new readers that Martin Armstrong is a convicted felon. A charismatic sociopath who spent 11 years in jail for cheating investors out of $700 million and then hiding $15 million in assets from regulators. He remains unrepentant, and appears to be writing anti-American slag for revenge. A type that attracts certain sorts of fanatical followers, as charismatics such as Hitler and Stalin did.

Think again: Saudi Arabia ( Brics member) just discovered five new huge oil deposits. Commentary states that the Saud’s new find and Russias vast reserves can supply most of the world’s needs…..best part- they are all allied against the US….the US candle is dimming into irrelevancy. With the US Petro dollar status now gone, expect the pendulum of time to swing the other way.

Yes, it is a very large lie. The British had cracked the jap purple code. They knew when the jap fleet left and where they were. They tried, using the incredibly thready communications of the day (long line cable traffic) to inform first Pearl Harbor commanders (Navy and Army Air Corps) and failed because the cables were not working well. Too late a warning. The US had been blockading japan from oil— that is what sent them after us, and all the Dutch Indonesia holdings. This armstrong clown is wildly wrong on many many things.

Supposedly. NATO country Turkey had W warheads at Incirlik AFB, supposedly removed at the time of the “coup” against Erdogan.

Fact is, the Soviets removed the Cuban missiles when the US informed them that Che’ Guevara was trying to get control of them and fire them at the US! Soviets weren’t having any ot that— and in pure fear of the interdiction of their chain of command.

I get it. The writer hates neocons -- whomever they are. Yet, as he elaborates on his hatred of neocons through a meandering idiosyncratic account of history, the writer also reveals a profound lack of understanding of how and why nation states go to war.

In a nutshell, major countries may issue threats of force and war, but they only go to war based on calculations of national interest and national strategy and assessment of whether sufficient power can be applied to accomplish national objectives at an affordable cost. Most wars are limited wars for that reason, with world wars a rare thing in history.

Putin knows that the US has a great fear of escalation and nuclear war, so he makes threats, but he and Russia will not go to war with the US and NATO because it would lead to the utter devastation of Russia even if nuclear weapons were not used. That is why, despite thousands of nuclear weapons poised for use for decades now, the world has not had a nuclear war.

As for Russia's losses and lack of success in her invasion of Ukraine, Putin can ease back on Russia's pain by adopting a defensive posture and minimizing casualties. That would effectively admit that there is a stalemate that will continue unless the US and NATO give up or act decisively or sanctions collapse the Russian economy.

Can the Russo-Ukraine war be brought to a negotiated conclusion? Of course, and that is how most wars end. On what terms would the war end? That is what the negotiations would be about.

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