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Word leaking out of the Biden White House is that the people actually running foreign policy got the old man to sign off on the limited use of ATACMS missiles inside the borders of pre-2014 Russia. The Ukraine press immediately began to lie about this, as that is what they always do, claiming that this now means they can launch unlimited strikes into Russia using American weapons. The Ukraine lobby makes the Israel lobby look candid and transparent by comparison.
For this unfamiliar, ATACMS stands for Army Tactical Missile System. This is a supersonic tactical ballistic missile that can be fired from mobile launchers and has a range of about 200-miles. This is a precision guided weapon, which means it relies on the American military global positioning system to reach a precise target. It can carry a variety of warheads, including nuclear, chemical or biological. Those last two officially do not exist, but they do exist, and Russia knows it.
That is why the United States has not “allowed” Ukraine to use these weapons against targets inside of Russia. Ukraine is not actually operating these weapons systems because they lack the cognitive and technical ability. Ukraine operators can do the minimal to operate the system, but the targeting and guidance is done by the American military hidden away in bunkers in Ukraine. It is a thing everyone knows is true but pretends is not true to avoid nuclear war.
Despite the lie machine saying otherwise, the latest escalation is limited to the Kursk region, where Ukraine launched an ill-fated attack inside Russia. Their forces are now bottled up there, getting hammered into bits. This limited use of ATACMS there may be in preparation for a retreat or just another crackpot scheme to continue a project that has no chance for success. It also created a problem for the Trump administration, which will inherit the Ukraine mess in two months.
That may be the real motivation. The Kagan cult is sure that Trump will make a deal with his bosses in Moscow to abandon those freedom loving Ukrainians to the Kagan’s ancient enemy to the east. They have two months to throw sand in the gears in what they imagine will be the Trump Ukraine strategy. This is one reason Trump has refused to say anything about his plan for Ukraine to this point. He seems to have figured out that the people responsible for this war are insane.
Of course, the point of permitting Ukraine to use these weapons is to bait the Russians into responding. This is a standard neocon tactic. They provoke a target into responding and then claim it is an unprovoked “act of aggression” against them. Coincidentally, this is the standard operating procedure for Israel. They did everything possible to provoke an attack from Iran, so they could then claim to be the innocent victim and then call in the United States to wage war on Iran.
That is the real concern between now and January. If the neocons running Biden foreign policy continue to poke the bear, the Russians can always take the restraints off Iran, which would like to send another volley of missiles to Israel. The Russians have no illusions about the Ukraine war. They talk about it as a NATO proxy war against them and have repeatedly warned about NATO escalation. They have made clear that their responses will not be limited to Ukraine.
This is where the geopolitical game of chess comes into play. The Kagan cult may also be looking to set a trap for Trump. By escalating in Ukraine, they may think Russia will escalate in the Middle East, perhaps leaving it on the brink of war. Trump’s plan to stack his foreign policy team with Iran hawks is read as a plan to be especially tough on the Iranians this time around. The schemers running foreign policy at the moment would love to see Team Trump step on that rake.
Note that the one of the things the foreign policy establishment does is make it impossible for presidents to negotiate. Every issue around the world is cast in extreme moral terms and every rival is Hitler. This means any deal is akin to Neville Chamberlain ceding the Sudetenland. To even suggest making a deal to resolve a dispute is to acquiesce to evil. Team Trump looks primed to fall into this sort of trap when they take over Iran policy, but we shall see.
It is not hard to imagine a scenario in which the Trump administration is dealing with spiraling of attacks between Israel and Iran. Then the warmongers in the GOP will be demanding war with Iran. The press will be full of reports of how the Russians are supplying Iran with weapons. That means any effort to make a deal with Russia over Ukraine gets the Chamberlain treatment. For the neocons, this at least buys time to keep Project Ukraine going.
Of course, the Israel lobby is fine with this. They want war with Iran as they think the American military will easily defeat them, which will lead to a collapse of the Iran government, paving the way for Greater Israel. It is a good example of how the neocons draft on the Israel lobby to keep their various schemes going. If they can pin down the Trump admin in the Middle East with another proxy war with Russia, then according to their logic, there can be no deal over Ukraine.
There are, of course, many other schemes bubbling up in the fever swaps of the neocons and the Israel lobby. They have two months to poison as many wells as possible, in anticipation of a Trump administration that would prefer to wind down the foreign conflicts. It is why no one should be optimistic about foreign policy under the next Trump administration. He will inherit a foreign policy establishment that is hopelessly corrupt.
Even if his team is sober-minded and realistic about he various hot spots they will inherit, they will be inheriting problems that have been caused by successive administration who have burnt up a lot of political capital. That means they walk into a world full of traps. Some have been set on purpose, while others are just the result of mismanagement over the last thirty years. Simply making to through the next four years without a war will be an accomplishment.
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“This means any deal is akin to Neville Chamberlain ceding the Sudetenland.” The idea that Chamberlain was some kind of weak liberal pansy appeaser is one of the greatest lies of the past century. Chamberlain was a Conservative and he did the right thing by ceding the Sudetenland. Britain, which lost 750,000 men on the continent only 20 years earlier, had absolutely no way to enforce Czechoslovakian borders deep in Central Europe and had no national interest in those borders. Moreover, those borders were an utter farce, in violation of the Wilsonian/League of Nations principle of “ethnic self-determination of peoples”… Read more »
An excellent analysis and summary. I wonder if Chamberlain will be rehabilitated as the skepticism around Churchill grows. The Brits were huge losers in WWII and are finally figuring it out after 75 years.
There is a stupidity crisis in Britain. I doubt if there are enough intelligent, ethical, courageous Brits around to make any headway.
If only the British were as intelligent as the Americans…
61% of your population is white.LOL.
It’s not either/or.
“The Brits were huge losers in WWII and are finally figuring it out after 75 years.”
This is projection by a Merkin:61% of your population is white.You’ve been chased out from all your major cities, and now you flee the suburbs. Your country’s done. Still, as some pathetic mental security blanket you hold on to the desire that the “Brits” are going to be eradicated before your precious constitution.
There’s plenty of blame to go ’round. Very few Western nations, and none in the anglosphere, have covered themselves in glory since WWI.
What a great time for white Americans and (actual) Brits to start hating each other. It’s not like we have other, common, enemies….
If I didn’t know better, I would say the “le 56%” meme, which this inane comment is a variant of, and which is parroted around a lot of “dissident” websites hundreds of times a day, was hatched in Langley and Tel Aviv to sow division between Americans and Europeans to keep us from recognizing our common adversary.
Ackshually, Merka is more accurately 55% White (58.9% officially). And many of us hardly glory in England’s current sad state. I, personally, feel great warmth and affection for England’s people and unparalleled admiration for your history and culture. Hint – no need to get one’s knickers in a twist about long overdue reconsideration of lies we were taught as truth.
I see that Traditionalist Right sites are starting to pick up trolls since the election. This is good and bad. It means that eyes are upon us in a new way and it means that we may not be able to enjoy these types of comment sections free of trolls. As for the good General here, I don’t know of anyone in these spheres who want to see Britain eradicated. This is also the first time I have seen someone in this comment section being gleeful that Americans are heading for eradication in the subtext of a comment. It is… Read more »
Is London even fifty percent British at this point, Nigel? Didn’t your government just get done throwing British in jail for criticizing rapefugees going on murder sprees?
We’re all in the same boat. The difference between the USA and Europe is that the USA got the slow walk version of it starting in the 1950s while Europe has been getting swamped for only 10-20 years. Canada too.
JIDF is busy here today.
It reminds me of the now old meme “Hey Rabbi! Whatchya doing?”
Maybe Germany had some valid points for WWII when after WWI they: Were stripped of all their overseas coloniesLost about 1/3 of their prewar bordersLost several million German citizens who were relocated into newly created counties where they were treated badlyHad to accept TOTAL GUILT for the outbreak of WWI Etc. Everyone knows the “if only Chamberlain had done this” narrative; it’s powerful propaganda and the lynchpin of every major US military adventure abroad since. Couple that with the “Kick the dog until it bites, then shoot it” school of foreign policy along with incessant “good v evil” narrative US… Read more »
The horrific Versailles settlement that was imposed on Germany after WW1 is always conveniently left out of Western history books.
Versailles was so one-sided and vengeful that it virtually guaranteed the creation of a mustache man in Germany.
Yes, and many people have rightly blamed France for that fiasco.
It’s hardly ignored now and wasn’t then either. See Keynes’ “Economic Consequences of the Peace”
you forgot the illegal year long blockade AFTER the armistice by Britain to starve millions more Germans.
Chamberlain and Churchill knew that Britain wasn’t strong enough to defeat Nazi Germany by itself. The difference was that Chamberlain felt an agreement could be reached (even an interim one would give Britain time to build up its military – something Churchill had been pushing for years while out of power), while Churchill realized that the choices were either submit to Hitler or fight to the death, and he favored earlier intervention with French help. Everyone – even Hitler – was surprised by the rapid fall of France.
Churchill – what a monster. neither of those choices is true. He took the devils ticket, and did their bidding. Dresden, a true holocaust make those devils dance with delight. Burning and murdering refugees seems to be theme for the satan worshipers, creating a war of White against White to further the destruction of Western Christendom and make the world safe for the international diaspora. Anthony Sutton published much documentation in re the financing of Hitler’s war machine buildup- with the help of Prescott Bush, the father of our first President Bush. such a cohencidence. As Ron Unz has written,… Read more »
Levels of cluelessness about WW2, Hitler, and Europe that barely seem possible. Hitler was maximalist – nobody can argue with that. If the Royal Navy – in addition to the French and Italian navies – had fallen into his hands it would have been a game-changer. Dresden was an Allied atrocity (and Allied command tried to keep such atrocities from the public, who they knew would disapprove), absolutely no excuses. Atrocities were committed on all sides. The Russians’ view of Hitler is correct, however. He dragged Europe into the abyss. Instead of being a bulwark against Bolshevism, Germany ended up… Read more »
Shooting the dog is one thing, but to continue kicking the dog after you’ve shot it is another
Hitler did everything in his power to avoid war with Britain. He made many public and private pronouncements that he saw Britain as a kindred spirit and greatly admired them. I believe he allowed the expeditionary force to get back to Britain as a show of good faith, that this would be regarded as honorable. He falsely believed once Britain was forced off the continent that she would want peace. But Churchill was a bloodthirsty warmonger. He tied Britain to the single worst leader Europe has ever seen. The supposedly staunchly anti-communist Churchill got together with Stalin and later signed… Read more »
Churchill and Stalin always loathed each other: theirs was a marriage of convenience.
Hitler’s declaration of war on America was beyond stupid.
Standout stupid among a myriad of stupid decisions (unlike leaders in the USA or Britain, he had no pushback). Stalin also made stupid decisions (like trusting Hitler’s word on the eve of Barbarossa!). Again, no pushback from those around him as he was a dictator.
I agree it was a dumb move, but Hitler really didn’t have much of a choice. America was supplying millions of tons of material support to the Soviet Union and Britain. The only way Hitler could slow that down was by using the U-boats to sink ships. While it was initially very successful, the British and American navies figured out how to neutralize the U-boats. When it comes to Stalin/Hitler and who was dumb, that was clearly Hitler. The Soviets built a massive army and was in forward positions all along the front at the time Barbarossa. This was one… Read more »
A brief dissent. The Treaty of Versailles awarded the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia in order to give it defensible frontiers. The Sudentenland is fairly mountainous and the Czechs had built some fairly formidable fortifications. A successful German attack into Czechslovakia would not have been a sure thing, particularly if France and Great Britain put pressure on Germany’s western borders, although these too had formidable fortifications. The Germans showed their true hand later in 1938 when they occupied Bohemia and Moravia and installed a puppet government in Slovakia. To be sure, Poland demanded and received a portion of the former Csechslovakia. I… Read more »
“Chamberlain? You could hold his head in the toilet and he’d still give you half of Europe!”
But seriously, the fix was in. The option of not having WWII, like say Oswald Mosely wanted, would not be allowed. And those who wanted to avoid a giant war with millions dead are called appeasers or Nazi sympathizers or somesuch. Because everyone knows Adolf wanted to take over the world and be very, very, VERY mean to people!
Not the world, but certainly every part of Europe that fell under the sway of Germanic peoples during the Volkwanderungen and the very early middle ages. Effectively, that meant non-Slavic Europe.
If it wasn’t gonna be Germany’s sway, then it was gonna be Bolshevik Russia sway. Pick your poison.
My comment was about Hitler’s plans, not the comparative demerits of Nazism and Bolshevism.
I’m no Hitler expert, but I don’t think he had any additional “problems” that needed solving after Poland. Poland really was a problem which needed solving and the Poles absolutely refused to even negotiate. Ethnic Germans were being oppressed and even murdered. Without British and French meddling, these probably could have been resolved.
The Poles wanted the German port city of Konigsberg. The Germans spent nearly two decades of diplomacy trying to get land access to Prussia (the coastal access corridor was populated with Germans, not Poles) and try to get the Poles onboard in an alliance against the JudeoBolshevism of the Soviet Union. The Poles decided in the end that they wanted the land more than they hated Russians, which is really something. The Germans eventually decided that the JudeoBolsheviks were simply too great a threat for further patience to be extended to blockhead Poles. The German perspective imo is that not… Read more »
World War II is framed in terms of a morality play (the only way it could be framed for the war criminals who won it), so any negotiation or reasonable discussion is post-hoc framed as weakness or capitulation. And it is why the warmongers and war criminals still bring it up. It is why it is so dangerous and plays into their hands (for example the Biden entity doesn’t even pretend to talk to Moscow). Yet, I think that this is reaching the end of its useful period – it’s just become downright cartoonish, and the manipulation was obvious with… Read more »
Nothing can be understood correctly if it can’t be admitted that an elite globalist banking cartel exists.
The world is divided into two blocs, those ruled over by the globalist banking cartel through fake democracies whose political parties they own, and those who refuse to be ruled over by the globalist banking cartel. We Americans and most other Europeans are on the wrong side as John Beaty entitled his 1951 book “The Iron Curtain Over America.”
https://www.unz.com/book/john_beaty__the-iron-curtain-over-america/
The Sudatenland, the rest of the Czech state, and Slovakia had been ruled by ethnic Germans in Vienna for hundreds of years, and in 1938 only independent for twenty. Also, the Danzig Corridor had been ancestral Prussian heartlands for hundreds of years, and only Polish for twenty.
America’s war game is over and done. The place no longer has the men to fight wars. It no longer has the intellectual capacity to design weapons, nor the labor force to produce them. You would think the Israelis would understand this. No country can dominate the planet with a force of negroes, homosexuals and delusional women busy with tik tok videos.
It’s hard to imagine America not at war somewhere. The leaders are vampires that live on blood.
Was September 10, 2001 the last time? Or was there some dust-up even back then?
Dude, Kosovo, 1999.
And the other Balkans before that. And Somalia. And Desert Storm. And the Tanker War in 1988. Grenada in 1983. Lebanon in 1983 (lost 241 Marines and a couple of A-6 attack planes bombing Syrian positions).
It was over by September 2001. I don’t think there was any active war when 9/11 hit
To be fair, I think 2000 was a lull year. There was still the Iraqi thing (the no fly zone) and, I am sure, a few random missile lobs, but it was a quiet year.
Becoming a dissident, particularly if your journey took you through normie-con territory, means coming to grips with the fact that the Clinton years, despite his cabal being rostered by scumbags of the highest order, really weren’t that bad in comparison to what followed.
Aye. The pig sty was rather less odious than the Detroit sewer.
Clinton and GWB were weak men, which ends one of two ways – pacifism or war. Clinton chose the former, GWB the latter. Clinton was also smarter, and didn’t think we could solve the world’s problems.
I don’t know if Clinton was smarter, but he was (and is) a much better politician. He could read the room and change his spots in a heartbeat.
Not quite. Look up the Hainan Island incident. That was early 2001, but events later that year made everyone forget it.
Iirc shark attacks were all over the news that summer, so yeah, not much going on in 2001.
And a “girlfriend” of a California congressman, who he shared around with some of his bros, was murdered and the detective story was front page news all summer until 8:46 AM on 9/11/01.
I remember someone mentioning the years 1997 and 1998 being the last (and only) 2 years recently where there wasn’t a hot war in the world.
Let’s hope 2026 is not the next one. Because that probably means 2025 left no one around to fight wars
From the start of the first Gulf War, the U.S. has been dropping bombs and cruise missiles and using special ops on a continuous basis. Iraq was never out from under the no-fly zone and random cruise missile attacks, and even now there are still US boots in the area meddling to no good end.
If Israel didn’t exist, would we be doing any of this? It’s mind boggling how many $trillions have been wasted for that little sliver of desert.
America has been an interventionist state over the entire planet, not just the Near and Middle East. And given the strategic importance and petroleum reserves of that region, I’m quite sure America would have had its fingers in that pie even without the existence of Israel.
Yes, but those fingers in the middle east pie would be in the form of working with them to bring their petroleum to market, not in wasting $trillions blowing up their countries. The wars are for Israel. Further, with fracking we can be self sufficient in a way we could not in the 1970s.
We’ve bombed other parts of the world–Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Philippines, Mexico, etc.–and it wasn’t at the behest of the Kosher Nostra. I see no reason why we wouldn’t have done the same in southwest Asia.
Their ancient enemy includes Ukraine. That’s why they have no qualms about sending masses of Ukrainian men to their deaths.
Polaks and other Slavs are also their enemies. Actually, all Europeans are their enemies, including their most faithful lapdogs in the UK.
Ukrainians were eager to staff the death camps and murder Jews, Russians and Poles on behalf of Hitler. Said peoples have not forgotten.
This is nonsense. They were defending themselves against Jews after the holodomor-genocide they had to endure in the 1930’s and they were killing Poles in fight over land.
The Ukes weren’t defending anything, they were in a crazed bloodlust. They’ve pretty much always been savages. Remember, the Banderites even disgusted Nazis they were so deranged.
I guess they holodomored themselves and then attacked the innocent eternal victims for no reason. Right?
how is the traffic in DC these days? I’v heard it can be a bear around the holidays.
A ground war with Iran is pretty much impossible, both logistically and in terms of men under arms(which includes a lot of women and trannies who are mostly useless)…Given the vulnerability of our carriers, an air war doesn’t look much better, and Iran’s Russia-enhanced air defenses are formidable..And then there’s the problem of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, promising economic disaster… So the neocons are pretty much stuck with the Ukraine project, which has produced no results despite draining NATO dry of military resources…It doesn’t seem that Trump has much to worry about…He can just get a couple of… Read more »
Yep. Trump’s foreign policy will be constrained by the new reality that the US is no longer the global hegemon. Our military remains the best in terms of global reach, but other big players can now punch back if we strike at them. This dramatically changes the equation.
Trump is fully onboard the Israel First team, but we can’t hit Iran hard enough to stop them from hitting back hard against Israel and our navy. Trump doesn’t want that to be his legacy.
Pyrrhus-
Those are all good, realistic points.
The problem is that the neocons infesting the Washington foreign policy establishment can’t or won’t accept any of them.
The neocons and, if you prefer the separation, the Israel lobby are certifiable sociopaths/psychopaths. They will have to learn via the Mike Tyson adage. .
Then they must be kneecapped and dumped in the East River.
Iran’s the only country in the Middle East with a sense of nationalism, another reason why it would be lunacy to get into a shooting war with them.
Admirably lucid analysis of the Ukr situation. After that I think it gets over-complicated, which I think is due to the fact that there are several and interlocking agendas – One of which (and at the highest level IMO) is simply to embroil the US in as many – as destructive as possible – and unwinnable – wars; with the objective of destroying the USA. Of course, there is power to be gained and money to be made along the way; but most of the dominant policies share the result of weakening, and ultimately destroying, the USA. This is how… Read more »
Yes. The real war is against the U.S. citizenry. By sending manufacturing overseas, the rich have gutted the military-industrial complex and left the nation with merely a war-economy.
Ergo, there must always be a war. Somewhere, against someone.
The US is already dead, of course. It expired directly the Drooling Yam was sworn in. We are living in its shambling husk.
I pray, but doubt, the DOGE cuts will apply to the MIC. The Pentagon gets almost $1 trillion a year. That could be cut to China’s budget of $300 billion, and the world would be a safer place.
The problem is they’re not fooling anybody. It’s pretty obvious what they’re doing. The regime lost decisively in an election where Trump promised to end the Ukraine war and the boozy bimbo refused to talk about it. Trump has a popular mandate, despite the protestations of a permanent government that might be DOGE’d into submission. He is openly derisive of the State Dept negotiators, frequently calling them “stupid” and “incompetent”. So I don’t think Rubio can break through that noise. He probably picked Rubio specifically because Rubio isn’t all that bright. Expect a lot of “we can’t abandon our allies”… Read more »
And in his first campaign, he promised to lessen tensions with Russia. And TPTB easily manipulated him into escalation. Most Americans did not perceive this obvious chicanery, and they will not this time, either.
We were working with the Russians in Syria on ISIS. No war in Ukraine. I think he’ll get it back in the bag.
As more than one person here has pointed out, Trump is going to have to begin butchering sacred cows who hold security clearances, and be seen to do so.
If I was producing this, I would arrange for the firings and cancellings to occur in front of military audiences composed of cheering combat troops and beam it out over X in real time.
I think the public will be just fine with career scumbags having their clearances yanked.
In fact, the whole, “security clearance as ongoing professional courtesy,” system never should have begun.
This is because it is the direct antithesis of the principles of compartmentalization and, “need to know,” that the intelligence establishment claims are the bedrock principles of securing information.
The access this system enables is a huge threat to national security and our Constitutional Republic.
Like Alinsky says, “make them live up to their own rules.”
Yep
Even the shitbag left is starting to see it. Nobody wants war except for the war pigs in Congress and other usual suspects. This will further increase the distance and trust between the rulers and ruled.
As I was fond of saying in the run up to the elections around my lefty coworkers, “Before we vote, how many more wars besides the three you started do you have planned for us?”
Ukraine gave Trump the NPV. Even a lot of Liberals have trouble swallowing the Keev bullshit.
“They provoke a target into responding and then claim it is an unprovoked ‘act of aggression’ against them.”
The Kagans cry out in agony as they strike you.
Timing this escalation right after the Trump victory is very suspicious, but typical of corrupt D.C.
It was an unwinnable war from the get-go, and each day it becomes less winnable as silly empowered women and celebrated homos take over the military. Soon America won’t be fit to defeat Guatemala.
Most of Guatemala is moving here…
That would be funny if it wasn’t true
The Blackberry Fruitcake Empire’s military couldn’t whup a sick kitten.
For as long as I remember, outgoing Presidents just do not enact these sorts of major policy changes that could have potentially massive implications for the next president. This norm, by the way, also applies to things far less consequential than this. This is for obvious reasons, as it upsets the spirit of the “peaceful transfer of power” that they claim to hold so dear. But as usual, the Brandon administration broke another norm, with the cover of the media – CNN was practically gloating about the mess it will leave Trump to untangle, and the potential it has to… Read more »
Trump should have seen this coming and should have his people reaching out behind the scenes (see Elon Musk meeting with Iranian ambassador).
If he’s not doing that, he really is a dumba$$.
Fortunately, Trump is tougher than a 10-dollar sirloin. He can take it. In fact, the man fairly thrives on stress, pressure and conflict. The difficult part will be confuting the various subterfuges that will be worked against him. It won’t be easy. But he’s got experience, and he’s going into this thing with his eyes wide open, I think.
It’s not Trump I am worried about, it is the idea that he walks into the White House on January 21 with WW3 on his hands. These people have more than two months to cause all sorts of chaos. Last time around they used this time to engineer the Russia hoax and prosecute General Flynn for talking to his foreign counterpart.
Hopefully the rest of the world would like to avoid WW3 and not take the bait. I have heard the international community was pleased with the results of our last election. A stupid America only makes the world more dangerous.
Z is leaving out the Pentagon in this equation. Trump will be the first president of Regional American Empire. The US can no longer punch without getting punched back, at least against the main players.
The Pentagon is likely aware that an attack on Iran means counter attacks and not just closing off the Strait of Hormuz but missile attacks against American ships or installations. As in Ukraine, pretty narratives fall apart against cold reality.
They haven’t even really punched back yet. Putin, Xi and the mullahs have been the restrained adults in the room. They have been doing the old Muhammad Ali rope-a-dope, letting us exhaust our missile supplies until we realize we don’t have the arsenal to win a war. And the bluff of banning them from the SWIFT system has been effectively called.
It is almost as if shipping almost all of the collective West’s industrial base to Asia, then turning around and hamstringing itself with ludicrous environmental regulations made any sanctions threat entirely moot.
Then you have the West’s childish lack of diplomacy that only encourages 3rd party nations to serve as re-exporters to say, Russia, at an entirely reasonable markup. The end result is a bunch of MSM articles whining about Western chips showing up in Russian missiles.
The interior of the US is wide open, and Iran, China, and Russia know it. Any regional war will involved massed sabotage on US soil, both in physical form, and via hacking, and it will cause so much chaos at home that engaged US forces will not get logistical support for weeks, if not months.
That means we lose, because forward logistics is our Big Stick.
Was our big stick.
I wouldn’t get too excited. Putler just has too many good options. He can literally throw up a blockade around the Kraine where nothing goes in without his say-so first. He could blow away Zelenski any time he wants. There are any number of terrorists right here in North America that can be unleashed with a phone call. Or he could play it sly too: don’t be surprised if Iran soon has long range precision weapons. I note with wry amusement that Bibi Netenyahu had some bombs fall in VERY close proximity to his house in Israel – and had… Read more »
Don’t get too excited? Why my dear Filthie, everything you wrote makes me positively giddy.
Trump needs to avoid the Nixon “peace with honor” Vietnam pitfall and just end the Ukraine thing asap. Just about any peace deal is preferable to prolonging this losing situation. I think Trump and his people are smart enough to get this. The Iran thing is what worries me more. We have created a huge incentive for all our “enemies” to acquire nuclear weapons (after Hussein, Khaddafi et al didn’t). Hypersonic delivery systems and simple drones could deliver devastating attacks now. The world has changed. Our financial hegemony is a bigger weapon than our military these days.
Spot on. If Trump gets too close to Ukraine it will stick to him like tar and it will be the effective end of his administration. The neocons will make sure of that. He needs to just walk away. The Iran situation is, as you say, the more worrisome. Trump is a Zionist. He does not try to hide it. If the U.S. gets into any protracted war with Iran it will be a disaster for the U.S. Yet that is why Trump was allowed to win. The expectation from the Tribe is that Trump goes to war with Iran.… Read more »
Easy prediction – a week after a strike deep in Russia, the Houthis will suddenly have new hypersonic missiles to shoot at Israeli and American ships. Those Houthis are innovative like that.
Said Hussein to Abdul-Malik, “Hold my khat!”
I think Russia has anticipated all of this and already planned for it. And no, they will not take the bait and start WW3. Ukraine is now facing a dark winter and that hardship may be the final straw that breaks the camels back. Civil unrest combined with a mutiny in the AFU could well topple Zelensky before Jan 20th. Attrition and exodus will further depopulate Ukraine and force Russia to accelerate ending of the war via the battlefield. This will cost them many more soldier’s lives and make capitulation the only feasible resolution.
If Russia was at all inclined to “take the bait” it would have happened a couple of years ago.
Putin is proof that a cool, rational man is at a serious disadvantage in a game of chicken. He should have tried Nixon s crazy man strategy. But now it might be too late. The others, ostensibly “our side”, are too high on their chicken shit supply. And two crazies playing chicken will end very badly
It’s mind boggling how irresponsible these people are. The only reason we all got out of the Cold War alive is because the men in charge understood there were lines that absolutely could not be crossed.
nobody will ever really use nukes. the intrenational bankers will never let their collateral be destroyed. they own the pols on all sides.
OT: Is anyone else irked by Lil Marco being the pick for Sec. of State?
I can live with the rest of the picks so far, but this one sits in my craw. Heck, I’d prefer Lyin Ted be the pick instead. Just how that little guy looks really rubs me the wrong way.
There’s definitely a theme. The domestic nominations are revolutionary, shocks to the system. The foreign policy nominations are status quo, the exact ones that the rinos would have given us.
Rubio is owed for being ousted from the VP slot. They literally left him waiting in a car. (Remember?)
State is unimprovable, so it suits him.
That was my other thought about State, that it may have been judged to be unreformable, and the goal is just to kind of ignore it and work around it. Make it irrelevant.
don’t be perplexed. is approval is automatic and trump know that desantis will replace that weasel in the senate with someone much better, if nothing else to rehabilitate himself for a future run.
I think it was Derb who said he was a good pick and had a related article linked up. Lil Marco is SOS because of his China perspective. He may be an excellent choice.
“They want war with Iran as they think the American military will easily defeat them, which will lead to a collapse of the Iran government.”
sorry Z , but I don’t think they believe this , they just don’t give a damm abbout our losses. It’s not their kids, and whatever it costs us, they don’t care.
Trump may find it more difficult to extricate himself from Ukraine than he imagines. They will use his insecure ego against him, which is his tragic flaw. He simply will not want to take the L, and any peace deal will be portrayed as such. Putin will reject Trump’s “beautiful deal” and Trump will get mad and escalate. Meanwhile, the neocons will draft off their Zionist cousins and provoke Russia in Syria, which will be targeted as a proxy of Iran. War with Russia anywhere means war with Russia everywhere, and that is their objective. One way is as good… Read more »
Way, way off topic…. last week, no less than the Washington Post announced that only white men can be relied on to show up for work 5 days a week
Diversity will suffer with five-day office mandates, research suggests (msn.com)
Diversity could suffer? Aaaaaaaw. Now wouldn’t that be a doggone shame?
If The American military is truly making strategic decisions in Ukraine, for the sake of the loe level personal in the US armed forces, we better not go to war with anyone above stone age level tech, as we keep making the same stupid mistake of initiating an offense, then creating a salient which the Russians pound into oblivion. Is anybody going to realize this is not WWII, and maybe a change in tactics and strategy is in order?
I see the brilliant minds running NATO thinking they can succeed where Napoleon, Hitler, the Kaiser, Charles XII of Sweden failed: march into tottering, backward old Russia and exploit its resources. The whole neocon “break up Russia into regions” plan smacks of this hubris.
Nobody has any historical sense of why the Russians might be wary of aggressive neighbors to the west.
The corellate to Vizzini’s Maxim about never becoming embroiled in a land war in Asia is to never go a bear of mother Russia.
That’s only slightly less well-known.
Speak o’ el diablo!
More baffling still is watching Sweden, Finland, and even Switzerland sacrifice their neutrality on this retarded altar
I often have to remind myself that it is entirely irrational to expect any rationality from people who can’t tell a girl from a boy
WW3 has barely begun but Ukraine, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, etc., have already been defeated in it—as if the war is really America (let’s call it) against them.
How odd.
Isn’t it amazing can be accomplished with some good old fashioned backdoor “diplomacy”: say, several billlion dollars into selected foreign accounts perhaps mixed in with a little old-fashioned Kompromat and threats against business interests or perhaps even persons?
If you want to be technical, the Kaiser didn’t actually fail against Russia. That part of his affairs actually worked out. His sticky point was at the other end of his many engagements
I wouldn’t sleep on the guy who literally walked into North Korea by himself.
It is possible that Slow Joe just took the Chamberlain scenario off the table. Following the “peaceful transition” White House meeting, Trump could be excused for interpreting this action as treachery. It thus makes it a whole lot easier to agree to Russia’s terms and blame it on Biden, thus ending the war ASAP.
at the rate the ukrainian army is losing, I don’t think they make it untill jan. for the wellbeing of the ukrainian men, zelensky should demand a complet unconditional cease fire. any ukrainian life lost in this war is a compleet pointless waste.
I disagree. They can still lower the draft age and fall back to the Dneiper, which would be a formidable defense line. This would drag the war out considerably. It would also present the Russians with a very bad decision. They could say, “we’ve achieved our objective and liberated ethnic Russian lands and created a buffer.” However, that rump state would be a thorn, the azov guys would still be there, and NATO would certainly start stocking them up again. However, if they push and invade western Ukraine, they face the difficulty of crossing the Dneiper, along with highly likely… Read more »
What the frick is wrong with you ? doesn’t life have any meanintg to you? This is anot a video game . I don’t know where you are getting this Neocon wet dream but it’s a joke . . So after getting 800000 obstenably Christian men killed , the answer is getting half a million more teenagers killed is a good answer.? the idea that NATO has ANYTHING left to stock them up with is pure fantasy. the warehouses have been empty for a year, artillery shells go straight from the factory production line to the shipping dock now. And… Read more »
You misread my reply quite emotionally. I didn’t claim it was moral, or that it’s what I want or desired. You iterated that the army will collapse by January. I simply disagree that this will happen. If any real collapse happens, they’ll fall back (if they have any brains) to the Dneiper and hold that line. I’m sure they already have something built there in case that happens. The Europeans and those in charge in Ukraine will not give up, and I’m stating the fact that they do have the ability to hold out much longer. NATO won’t “run out”… Read more »
Sorry if this is a spammish post. Someone mentioned this guy so I pulled his wiki. Check out the coherency of this. It is a microcosm of the world The Regime is trying to build: ” Mehdi Raza Hasan (/ˈmɛdi ˈhʌsən/ MED-ee HUSS-ən; born July 1979)[1][2][3] is a British–American progressive broadcaster and writer Hasan was born in Swindon to Indian Shia Muslim parents from the city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh (now in Telangana).[15][16][17] Hasan was privately educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood, a day independent school for boys at Sandy Lodge in the Three Rivers District of Hertfordshire, near the town of Northwood in North West London.[18] Hasan and British actor and rapper Riz Ahmed were schoolmates.[19] Hasan then attended Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Philosophy,… Read more »
He’s fully assimilated to “PPE,” i.e., the regime—actual British culture, now that the people have been defeated.
Remember the tory schism over PPE a few years ago? Basically because a bunch of prominent British conservatives’ wives are PPE girls, they went completely batshit defending the institution—and all of globohomo along with it—against the Trumpist Brexit white supremacists or whatever. (It might have been pre-Trump, but opposition to him preceded/invented him.)
It was very like their recent tantrum for Churchill—who, like PPE, is civilization—against the NAZI APOLOGISTS. Almost all the same people.
There is a lot to digest and understand from this days old interview of Weiss and Thiel. Given Thiel’s role and place in the oligarchy any political actor or commentator should take some time to digest it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwJV_NuN43Y He addresses today’s topic head on. This oligarchy has completely ceded Iran as enemy number one and “partnering” with Israel on preventing it from getting nukes. There is a lot of equivocation on many topics, but the subtext and the desire to equivocate is promising on domestic issues. Note also his stated means of killing off the Blue patronage network. He advocates… Read more »
I agree with everything you said, except I would leapfrog over “ending the ethnic cleansing of the military” and gut it by 70%. When was the last time our military defended our own country? The War of 1812? We have 400 million private firearms in the U.S., which is more than all the world’s militaries combined. No country is going to invade us. The $900 billion pentagon budget is 100% for NATO, not for for us.
I understand the emotion behind the comment DLS. However, we need to cool our heads. First of all the predicament we find ourselves in is tricky. If we stay in the military we risk continuing to be cannon fodder for wars that are contrary to American’s interests. If we leave entirely as a quiet quit, then we cede the full might and force of the empire and the pets they are replacing us with. Joe Biden’s threat was very well thought through. AR-15s are no defense against high altitude bombers, fighter jets, tanks, rockets, missiles … … That doesn’t even… Read more »
I go back and forth on whether I want to rebuild the whiteness of the military. Typically the military, as with all LEOs as well, will follow orders and protect their pensions, even if they serve a tyrannical leftist regime. I would rather rebel against Rachel Levine than Rob O’Neill. But either path is better with a much smaller military.
NATO and whatever other reckless misadventurism AINO’s foreign policy brass might dream up.
Trump should be aware of this and already have people reaching out to the leaders of Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, etc.
Elon Musk recently met with Iran’s ambassador to U.N.
I really hope that all Trump’s people are sending messages to Iran, Russia, etc. basically saying “hold fast”, just endure the next 2 months and we’ll make a deal.
That’s why he hired Tulsi Gabbard, right??
Sure – we will see if Garland has any of them arrested like they did with Flynn.
can’t the logan act would be used against him
Musk is a private citizen, he can talk to anyone he wants.
absolutely true, but the corrupt DOJ would indict trump for ” telling him to do it” .
My guess is that the Ukraine war will continue relatively unabated after Trump enters office. Israel will ensure that they get first pick of weapons and funds, but, with what’s left over, their US Gov servants will continue the Ukraine war full on. The war against Russia is being sustained on behalf of Jews’ financial interests (Larry Fink, Mihail Khodorkovsky, Bill Browder, Wall Street in general, etc) and to punish Russia for supporting Iran and Assad against Israel. Trump’s instincts are obviously in some ways Mearsheimer-ish, but he is also Boomer philosemetic. More to the point, my guess is that Israel… Read more »
Blacks don’t do well in the cold. Glass half full for nuclear winter.
Not to go all “4D chess”, but there is a possibility that with both Iran and Russia, Trump can position himself, personally, as a moderate in a sea of crazies. Allow the aggressive warmongers to take their positions to set the baselines, and then let Trump find some negotiating wiggle-room to strike deals. It’s a needle-threading exercise, but isn’t international relations when things are a bit edgy always so?
The neocons, Israel lobby and Israel need to be cut loose from any connections to and/or power within and over the US and its government. They are a malignant cancer.
Agree in principle, but it’s a tall order. I’m reminded of the children’s story of the mice agreeing that a bell need to be placed on the cat.
Neo-cons should go up against the wall, in a real and literal sense. It is the only way they seem to learn, and for some, not even then.
Even when reading this without knowing the full context my brain automatically wrote “cohencidence”, which seems to be the only type of geopolitical coincidence we have at the moment.
It goes along with the rest of the system which is hopelessly corrupt. The best Trump can do is stave off disaster for four years, which, wouldn’t be a small achievement.
Instead of “the neocons and the Israel lobby” it should have read neocons/Israel lobby. Every individual that supports the Ukrainian side in the war, supports Israel. Almost, but not entirely everyone that supports Israeli wars, supports Ukraine. The term “neocon” has gotten stale though but there isn’t much out there to replace it. “Israeli Firster that likes to see the US in wars, especially against Russia” doesn’t have the same ring.
>Despite the lie machine saying otherwise, the latest escalation is limited to the Kursk region, where Ukraine launched an ill-fated attack inside Russia.
Apparently, Zelenskystein’s military just hit the Bryansk region with the ATACMS, so it’s NOT limited to Kursk. Based on their own doctrine, the Russians should now nuke somebody.
I think they will wait for Trump instead and punish Zelenskystein in some other way.
Do China and Russia also have those? We don’t know it.
Trump’s silence on the Ukraine issue stems from a number of likely factors: (1) He is enjoying his last days as a private citizen, demurring when pressed to work ahead of time; (2) He recognizes that the Power of the Deal is contingent upon a certain amount of mystery and confusion about one’s true powers and motives; (3) He doesn’t want to set a precedent for his friends the Israelis to seize upon. On the battlefields of Ukraine (and Kursk), there is dwindling hope of a stalemate, much less a victory, but morale is unblunted and rising, taking their cue… Read more »
> Trump’s silence on the Ukraine issue stems from a number of likely factors
(4) he remembers how the Kagan Kult arrested his previous national security advisor nominee (Gen. Flynn) for taking a meeting with a foreign leader, and doesn’t want to give them a second chance to run that playbook.
>Trump’s silence on the Ukraine issue stems from a number of likely factors
(4) He remembers how the Kagan Kult arrested his previous national security advisor (Gen Flynn) for the “sin” of taking a meeting with a foreign leader, and doesn’t want to give them a chance to run that play again.