I recently booked some flights and had the choice of making a connection either in Istanbul or Tokyo. The Istanbul route is a bit too close to the fun for my comfort, so I took the more oriental option. Then again, we seem to be heading right into global war so I might as well throw caution to the wind. If you don’t have a well-stocked bunker to take shelter with your female captives companions, there’s probably no safe place to hide.
I recently came across a heartwarming piece from the NYT which essentially declares Putin to be “a bitch made n****a” and, as such, NATO should just do whatever it wants to him because he has no red lines. Ukraine was recently able to use HIMARS (American weapon system operated by American contractors using American targeting information) to blow up a barracks and kill 63 Russian soldiers. It’s received gleeful coverage in the Western media.
Every day, NATO commits multiple acts of war against Russia and these people gloat about it. Putin’s goal is clearly to resolve the situation in Ukraine to Russia’s satisfaction while keeping it from escalating. However, he’s also warned that Russia is prepared for the big one and, if that happens, they’re going straight for the throat, “decision making centers” as he refers to it.
None of the Europeans I talk to seem cognizant of the fact that the continent’s critical infrastructure is quite vulnerable to Russian missiles. They all point out that Russia is so weak it can’t get past Donbass so there’s nothing to worry about to the West. They can’t seem to understand that once critical pipelines and cables get severed, their lives would descend into a nightmare fast.
The basic narrative is that Russia is losing very badly but we need avoid sufficiently infuriating them into launching nukes at us. However, if NATO decides to go in, we’d wipe them out quick. Very smart, educated people believe this nonsense because it’s all they’ve been presented with on the matter. Moreover, the decision makers seem to be acting as if this is actually the case.
It’s amazing to behold. Imagine if Russia started a massive war on our southern border with the expressed intention of collapsing the U.S. economy and instigating civil strife to break up the United States into smaller polities that it can control. Then, they fed the Mexicans targeting information on an American cruiser off of San Diego which gets sunk. What if thousands of American soldiers and civilians had been killed by the Mexicans using Russian weapons and guidance? How long before things spiral into an all-out war?
Imagine being the president and trying to deal with situation in a contained fashion while killing as few Mexican civilians as possible. Meanwhile, the average American is getting progressively angrier and would prefer to see Mexico blasted into a crater. If this drags into its second year, as Americans are forced to watch Russians laugh at them, how long could you avoid direct confrontation?
There’s a Satanic self-righteousness at play where the instigators of this conflict think they can do anything to anyone. They don’t even believe the targets of their limitless aggression have the right to complain, let alone do something about it. Gaddafi couldn’t do anything about it. Putin is another story. It’s been determined that he doesn’t have the balls to take the world to war and so he’s aggressed upon accordingly. What if he decides the same thing about us?
What if his red line does get crossed and he decides to make a point? This idea that he has no red lines is absurd. Was this the case in Chechnya? Georgia? Syria? Ukraine? We’ve directly and indirectly killed a couple aircraft carriers worth of Russians. What if he decides to take one out? There’s really nowhere for them to hide unless they’re out in the wide open Atlantic or Pacific. Playing with fire is a cliché, but still quite appropriate for the current situation.
These people never seem to get it until it’s too late. Although, showing their long-esteemed loyalty to their host nations, many fled Russia and Ukraine right away. Medvedev wants to confiscate the property of anyone who departed. He’s also declared that those who try to come back will have to “beg on their knees” but insists it would be better if they never return at all. It’s pretty funny because this rabbi is warning his people that the Russians are about to imagine a new grievance (trying to destroy their country) and imploring stragglers to escape before it gets acted on.
We’re at very alarming juncture because the ones running our country are facing a couple options: (a) escalate in an attempt to scare the Russians into halting so something can be salvaged of the project, or (b) walk away and take the loss. Their drive for global domination and the depth of their ethno-religious hatred for Russia probably won’t allow them to accept defeat. If this fails, the whole plan fails. They won’t even be able to get started on China. Iran will be doing better than ever. It’s beyond their capacity to leave other people alone and conduct themselves as decent human beings, so the general direction of where this will go is fairly obvious.
It’s like punching a giant man in the face and trying to give him a black eye while shouting that you want him dead and expecting him not to hit you back. Moreover, he keeps warning that he’s going to hit you back if you don’t stop. Sooner or later, you’re tasting blood. Somehow, you’re shocked at what happened. I wish they could just raise a kosher expeditionary force to go attack Russia and leave the rest of us out of it, but they never fight their own battles. It’s all so tiresome.
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
“It’s beyond their capacity to leave other people alone and conduct themselves as decent human beings, so the general direction of where this will go is fairly obvious.”
Doesn’t THAT sound familiar to all of us?
Did you ever see the ‘collateral murder’ video, released by Wikileaks? William T. Sherman would have been proud. Don’t think those Apache pilots/gunners won’t hesitate to do the same to us, if we ever secede again. Whether you’re in Waynesboro, Mississippi or Apopka, Florida or Kona, North Carolina….it won’t matter to them.
Speaking of North Carolina…go to rural western North Carolina and you’re gonna see a whole bunch of Confederate flags outside homes. They’re not ashamed to still be Rebels.
I’ll look for it. Thanks.
I’ll just add that the U.S. military has a long and uninterrupted history of murdering helpless civilians. P-51 Mustangs would patrol egress roads looking for German civilian refugees to strafe with machine gun fire who had survived their saturation bombings! Indeed, Sherman would be proud, but they have a lot to answer for at God’s final tribunal of history.
Yes sir, as the Kennedy brothers wrote about the ‘Yankee Empire – Aggressive Abroad and Despotic at Home.’ Since 1861, that’s the Yankee Empire. The contempt I have for all the power brokers in the District of Corruption Where Abe Lincoln is Worshipped is beyond measure. And contempt is much too mild a word. Thanks for the excellent essay, Tom Shackelford.