One paradigm for understanding our times is that we’re ruled by a plutocracy rooted in international finance that’s both evil and insane. We can observe the results of our unfortunate situation escalate in real time. As they pile up, the competence of the professionals who serve this plutocracy (they generally don’t seem to understand that) is going down.
The inverse relationship reflects the contradictory objectives of this plutocracy itself, to which the professionals simply comply. It’s my theory that one reason for their incompetence is the compliance itself. I mean that both in the mentality of one needed to comply and the information they’re being fed to keep it instilled. Today, I offer a protracted explanation of my sentiments, best known colloquially as a “rant.”
Take the military, for instance. It’s been utilized for over two decades of failure in continuous Zionist warfare. When things really kicked off under Bush, there was a process of ridding itself of anyone with the competence to understand that this agenda was crazy and the courage to speak out about it. Yeah, the U.S. military used to have officers who’d do that sort of thing. Under Obama, the focus of purging turned to anyone who wouldn’t go along with devious social engineering.
This is how we arrive at Gen. Mark Milley, a scumbag with a total disregard for the lives of those under his command. The process selects for characters like him who will tell whatever lie required because it can’t balance the need for competence with the demand for senior officers willing to go along with evil. If they can retain somebody good by traditional standards, probably the best they can hope for is that he wants to stick it out for at least 20 years to qualify for a pension. A lot of my friends fall in this category.
When Russia intervened in Ukraine, Phase One required them to take heavy casualties including brigadier generals and colonels who lead from the front in the officer-heavy Russian Army. It would be impossible not to do so given the sheer size and modern firepower of the Ukrainian military. The U.S. has never had to deal with anything like it. This wasn’t evidence they were losing. Anybody provided with a military education during the Cold War would’ve told you that a massive land conflict with Russia on its border was a lunatic proposition.
A couple objectives of this initial phase were to keep Ukrainian units stuck in their current locations while Mariupol and the territory connecting Crimea with the new republics was secured. The Ukrainian military was much larger than the Russian forces engaging it. This would’ve caused significant problems if units could be redeployed to thwart the main thrust of Phase One, which was happening in the south, not up north in Kiev where the Russians parked a column to tie down its massive garrison with a distraction.
Everyone keeps using the word “siege” when even a medieval knight could tell you that if an army didn’t try to surround and enter a city, ’twas no siege. It was a successful feint, that’s it. The region securing Crimea has since been fortified into a nightmare for a “counter offensive” against it by the third army NATO has managed to cobble together with equipment it will never be able to adequately supply or maintain. It’s being sent to get blown up anyways, so I suppose it doesn’t really matter.
After Phase One, the Russians settled into a strategy of using artillery, cruise missiles, and lofted airstrikes to destroy the Ukrainian military from a safe distance. Glide bomb sorties are now carried out daily, as well. Close fighting is usually done by the militias and Wagner Group in small fire teams in order to clear out positions which have been pounded beforehand. Large groups of anyone or anything is a bad idea given the firepower and surveillance capabilities involved in this conflict.
When the Ukrainians come forward to make direct contact, the Russians will often pull back to utilize this opportunity to slaughter them now that they’ve been brought out in the open, en masse while conserving their own men who’d be put in danger fighting this way. It’s then marketed as a victorious counter offensive when really it’s a senseless massacre on land that will revert back to the Russians after the war is over. The two previous armies were decimated. That’s why they’re having to put a third together.
None of this is hard to understand and I really don’t see much acknowledgment of the fact that the other side might actually know what it’s doing. The view that the Russians are nefarious, bungling cowards fighting with a bunch of junk seems to govern the American assessment of what’s going on, as well as this idea that everything in Russia is falling apart like it’s the 1990s. The level of contemporary and historical ignorance is really frightening.
There are also these myriad critical thinking points that don’t seem to trigger any of these military professionals. For example, if a country can produce a hypersonic missile which flies so hot and fast it creates a plasma field in front of it before striking the target at Mach 15, are they so stupid and poorly-equipped that they’re sending conscripts forward in human wave attacks to get killed in a 10-1 turkey shoot? How are they able to coordinate the launch of hundreds of other sophisticated cruise missiles at a time from a variety of platforms if they suffer from organizational incompetence? If they’re so shoddy, how have they sustained a ground operation much bigger than what the U.S. could undertake in Mexico for this long?
I’d love to go to a conference room and berate them with these questions all day. That’s the level of contradictions being embraced. It’s like asserting that a man is a danger to society because his 65 IQ makes him prone to impulsive violence while admitting he stole billions through complex white-collar crimes.
I see this propaganda about how they’re so desperate they’re using old T-54s to send these conscripts to their deaths. Can anybody scratch their head for a second and wonder about another possible explanation? The Russians can produce or refurbish over 1,000 tanks per month. They have a city-sized industrial complex for this purpose deep in the interior of the country.
As it turns out, these tanks use a different caliber of shell than all the others. The Soviets stockpiled it in WW3 quantities. They’re being handed over to the militias for indirect fire missions. The commander can watch the rounds hit in real time via drone footage and correct fire accordingly. They’re a dirt-cheap artillery platform, not a measure of desperation. It seems like we’re producing leaders who are only capable of interpreting things according to a narrative. That’s very dangerous.
Underlying all of this seems to be a couple of things besides the fact that they’re fed disinformation. First, this mentality that something is true because it was told to you by an expert or authority figure. Things that don’t make sense aren’t true because they told you without providing any plausible explanation or evidence. COVID proved that at least half of the population can’t comprehend this principle, so probably military officers are no different. That could be especially really true for anyone willing to do more than his minimum time at this point.
The other is this notion of “the right side of history.” It’s not a coincidence that an organization like the U.S. Army gripped by woke insanity switched its uniforms back to WW2 so everyone can feel like they defeated the Nazis. I think they have to tell themselves they’re the good guys serving their country because they can’t see the obvious, which is that the U.S. military has been harnessed for fundamentally nefarious purposes by evil people to whom our country means nothing.
I’ve heard the Taiwan situation described as a set of problems to solve. These are fundamentally not solvable problems in the sense that we could pursue these solutions and maintain a functioning civilization in America. Nobody stops to consider what a horrific disaster the project in Ukraine has been when they’re coming up with these idiotic scenarios.
What they’re doing now is switching to the narrative about how things are tough for Ukraine but they’re inflicting horrendous casualties on the Russians despite admitting that there’s an enormous differential in firepower. The absurdity of this contradiction is mind blowing and if the majority of U.S. officers find it plausible, we’d be better off getting rid of everything but the Coast Guard.
I’m starting to think the difference between a dissident and a normal man is that when we’re lied to all the time we get pissed off and want to point out the truth. Our counterparts would rather believe the nonsense or shrug it off because emotionally they can’t handle the implications of the fact that they’re being lied to all the time. It’s just a theory, but maybe.
If you serve in an organization that can send you to get killed, perhaps you’re much better off not feeling as if the leadership is ignorant, incompetent, and up to no good. I’m not writing this to denigrate anyone’s military service. My point here is that when you combine utterly insane objectives with officers willing to go along with them because “they’re the good guys,” this is how the train runs off the rails.
It’s rather alarming that now they’re sending teams to Ukraine in order to detect nuclear activity and identify it as Russian ahead of an offensive in which tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives will be sacrificed for headlines to frame a narrative about how they’ve got the Russians bled white and on the run. That would be a lovely explanation for why those dastardly Russians resorted to a WMD. We’ve been through this WMD stuff before, what it was used to justify, and how that turned out. The patterns, guys…. please!
If you start from the premise that Ukraine is not winning and the U.S. needs some way to freeze this conflict for a later date, the worst possible outcomes start looking more likely. A brilliant plan to save the Ukraine project could easily turn into a WW3-type escalation when you realize they’ll need something really intense to frighten the Russians into backing off (who’ve promised to escalate instead) rather than taking every inch they want from a failed state. The U.S. is faced with the catastrophic implosion of the entire enterprise, so desperate times might call for desperate measures.
Russian politicians have been adamant that they’ll pursue a comprehensive solution and that they’re prepared for this to take years. They’d never just accept a deal to stay where they’re at and have a ceasefire like the U.S. wants. That wouldn’t solve the political objective of reuniting all the Russian areas nor would it solve the security objective of permanently removing the threat NATO has built for the purpose of collapsing the Russian Federation. They’ll never get the Russians to take another screw job like the Minsk Accords ever again.
The issue is clearly that just like blowing up Nord Stream or provoking this “unprovoked invasion” in the first place, there doesn’t seem to be anybody at the Pentagon willing to resign and speak out. It doesn’t look like there’s anyone in the pipeline, either. I know this is turning into a rant, but I talk to guys with graduate degrees in the U.S. military who can’t figure out what the fuck is actually going on in Ukraine. They can’t even figure out that we started it. Meanwhile, I talk to former officers from Central America who have no problem recognizing reality. That doesn’t bode well for us at all.
The men and material for an offensive have to be assembled in the rear ahead of time, which concentrates them into convenient clusters, often in the middle of a muddy morass. Apparently, Ukraine was hit with a missile strike of unprecedented size earlier this week targeting these concentrations. This would indicate the Ukrainians are gearing up for their third suicide operation, which the media keeps telling us will happen soon. If there is some WMD false flag, it could transpire in the near future. All we can do is wait and see.
On a side note, things aren’t looking too bright from the enlisted aspect of things, too. They’re pushing through imbeciles. The DOD has long established with very good statistics they can’t be trained to adequately perform tasks required of a soldier or even follow orders consistently. This one’s headed off to AIT to become a fire control specialist. How heartwarming. I genuinely don’t want anything bad to happen to U.S. personnel, but it really seems like we’ve got a perfect storm shaping up.
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
The US has been at war since the fall of the USSR over 30 years ago. We have been fighting continuously in Somalia since the winter of 92/93. That’s 30 years, our longest war, at least our longest foreign war. The Indian wars lasted from 1607 to 1918. Longer if you want to count the Spanish in the lower 48.
So where are the peaceniks? They were everywhere and in your face during “Nam, and they eventually won. But today there is not a single antiwar politician in either party, except RFK, Jr. I figure they will kill him, if he gets any traction.
Thanks for the essay, Mr Shackleford. I know this might be a tired, old cliche, but how can one tell if a federal government official is lying? His lips are moving. I was reading this morning how recruitment goals for the Yankee Empire military are down. Good! Go to Infowars and see the pathetic recruitment videos. My sons are not interested in the least in joining Biden’s military to get shipped off to Syria, Somalia, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, or anywhere else Milley or Austin wants to send them. The threats to American freedom don’t lie in Russia, China, Iran, Syria, et al. The threats to our freedom lie 950 miles northeast of my Wayne County, Mississippi in that cesspool full of $174,000 a year senators and congresscritters, and 6-figure income bureaucrats. The city surrounded by the mega-mansions owned by war profiteers in northern Virginia. The city with the gargantuan statue of the tyrant and war criminal Lincoln. My boys are staying in Dixie….daughters, too. Leave us alone.
From Russia’s POV, extending this war out as long as possible is a good thing, because they’re bleeding the USA and Western Bloc dry of both money and ammunition
However, the longer this war is dragged out, the more likely the USA and/or NATO forces may be to deploy onto Ukrainian soil, which basically increases the odds of WWIII a lot– having WWIII, from Russia’s POV (and everyone elses’) is not good
It seems like Russia is walking a tight rope and hoping they can continue on like they are, and the status-quo of the Western Bloc merely pumping Ukraine full of weapons will just continue on infinitely, like USSR support for the Afghanistan Govt back in the 1980s did
Its really a big gamble from Russia’s POV, especially since they could, in theory, finish up the war rather quickly– however, that would cost a lot of Russian lives, but perhaps less than the amount *if* WWIII started due to this
Lots of calculations to consider, and I honestly don’t think anyone knows what’s going to happen. Hell, the Cold War was a lot more predictable and rational than the Ukraine War, if only because both sides were fairly level headed back then. We can’t say the same for USA/NATO this time around, which is kinda scary. We’re basically all playing Russian roulette at this point or… I don’t even know what the correct analogy even is
“one reason for their incompetence is the compliance itself. I mean that both in the mentality of one needed to comply and the information they’re being fed to keep it instilled.”
And crimestop prevents anyone from even questioning the irrationality of the party line. While reading, I thought you might have also been describing my workplace and those who get promoted for conformity and not excellence.