Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
Nothing done in Ukraine in this two-month war has diminished the Russian arsenal of 6,000 nuclear weapons, the world’s largest stockpile. And the more we destroy Russian conventional power, the more we force Moscow to fall back onto its ace in the hole — nuclear weapons.
“Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory — not prolonged indecision.”
So said Gen. Douglas MacArthur in his April 1951 address to Congress after being fired by President Harry Truman as commander in chief in the Korean War.
And what is now America’s goal with our massive infusion into the Ukraine war of new and heavier NATO weapons?
Said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on his return from a Sunday meeting in Kyiv with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:
The United States wants “to see Russia weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine.”
“Russia,” said Austin, has “already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops … and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability.”
Thus, the new, or newly revealed, goal of U.S. policy in Ukraine is not just the defeat and retreat of the invading Russian army but the crippling of Russia as a world power.
The sanctions imposed on Russia and the advanced weapons we are shipping into Ukraine are not only to enable the country to preserve its independence and territorial integrity but also to inflict irreversible damage on Mother Russia.
Putin’s Russia is not to recover soon or ever from the beating we intend to administer, using Ukrainians to deliver the beating, over an extended period of time.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has seen through to the true objectives of some NATO allies:
“There are countries within NATO that want the Ukraine war to continue. They see the continuation of the war as weakening Russia. They don’t care much about the situation in Ukraine.”
But to increase steadily and substantially the losses to Russia’s economy, as well as its military, the war must go on longer.
And a long war translates into ever-greater losses to the Ukrainians who are alone in paying the price in blood of defeating Russia.
Is Austin committed to fighting this war to the last Ukrainian?
How many dead Russian soldiers — currently, the estimate of Russian losses is 15,000 of its invasion force — will it take to satisfy Austin and the Americans?
To achieve, say, a loss of 50,000 dead Russians, how many Ukrainians would have to lose their lives as well? How many Ukrainian cities would have to share the fate of Mariupol?
Clearly, the Joe Biden-Lloyd strategy of indefinitely bleeding Russia contradicts MacArthur’s dictum: “War’s very object is victory — not prolonged indecision.”
Does a war to bleed the other side to death also contradict the moral conditions for a just war?
Then there are the practical considerations.
When we say we will so weaken Russia that it cannot threaten its neighbors again, we are talking about conventional weapons and power.
Nothing done in Ukraine in this two-month war has diminished the Russian arsenal of 6,000 nuclear weapons, the world’s largest stockpile.
And the more we destroy Russian conventional power, the more we force Moscow to fall back onto its ace in the hole — nuclear weapons.
Asked Tuesday about the risk of a nuclear war emanating from the conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov replied.
“The risks now are considerable. I would not want to elevate those risks artificially. Many would like that. The danger is serious, real. And we must not underestimate it.”
Putin put it this way:
“If anyone sets out to intervene in the current events from the outside and creates unacceptable threats for us that are strategic in nature, they should know that our response will be lightning-fast …
“We have all the tools for this that no one else can boast of having. … We’ll use them if needed. And I want everyone to know that.”
Tactical nuclear warheads aboard hypersonic missiles would seem to fit precisely what Putin was describing.
Which raises the question:
Will Putin accept a U.S.-induced permanent reduction in Russia’s standing as a great nation? Or would Russia resort to weapons that could avoid that fate and avoid as well the long and debilitating “forever war” some Americans want to impose on his country?
If we are going to bleed Russia into an irreversible strategic decline, is Putin a ruler of the mindset to go quietly into that good night?
Are Putin & Co. bluffing with this implied nuclear threat?
When Georgia invaded South Ossetia in 2008, Putin’s Russian army reacted instantly, ran the Georgians out and stormed into Georgia itself.
When the U.S. helped to overthrow the pro-Russian government in Kyiv in 2014, Russia plunged in and took Crimea, the Sevastopol naval base, and Luhansk and Donetsk.
When Ukraine flirted with joining NATO and Biden refused to rule out the possibility, Putin invaded in February.
When he warns of military action, Putin has some credibility.
And in this talk of using tactical atomic weapons to prevent the defeat, humiliation and diminution of Russia itself, is Vladimir Putin bluffing?
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“Russia,” said Austin, has “already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops … and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability.”
Looks like they have “capacity”, Austin:
Meanwhile, the U.S. is sending “highly advanced” APCs designed in 1962 that are made from aluminum. Yeah, put those Ukrainian troops in tin cans. That’ll work.
Of course Putin is not just going to roll over and submit. Exactly what he will do is debatable. But he will do something…..and if pressed hard enough that something will likely eventually lead to use of tactical nukes….at least to start with. America and NATO is playing a very real version of Russian roulette and we keep spinning the cylinder and pulling the trigger. Eventually things are going to go kaboom.
Putin doesn’t need to use tactical nukes. His hypersonic missiles will do the job.
Diversity-hire Austin is a fat dumb lying nigger
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From Russ-Warrior we have these surprising statistics:
So far the Russian Army has used for its special military operation in #Ukraine:
12% of its soldiers (total includes trained draftees)
10% of its fighter jets
7% of its tanks
5% of its missiles
4% of its artillery
And keeps advancing on a daily basis.
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So, where are those howitzers we sent to 404? hahaha All the billions sent to 404 … show me ONE instance, one battle, one measly victory, just one advance of Ukienazi troops over Russia. Crickets. hahahaha
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Fux Newz —> “Zelenskyy to launch operation to evacuate civilians in Mariupol steel plant Friday” ….Bwahahahaha!!
https://www.foxnews.com/world/zelenskyy-evacuate-civilians-mariupol-steel-plant-friday
Dear General Austin,
I know ya gots yer job cuz you iz, you knows, a Kneegrow. Meanin’, you don’t gunpowder from baking powder. So, leeme give ya a crash course in military shit.
BACKGROUND:
— We, da USA, spent billions of dollars in Vietnam …. and LOST to a bunch of gooks in sandals.
— We, da USA, spent a trillion dollars in Afghanistan …. and LOST to a bunch of sand niggahs in sandals.
— Now your demented boss, FJB, has already spent ’bout $40 billion tryin’ to hep out Country 404.
CONCLUSION
MONEY don’t win wars ya fucken baboon!!
MONEY don’t win wars ya fucken baboon!!
MONEY don’t win wars ya fucken baboon!!
Sincerely,
General Oppenfuhrer Stuchenmeister
Dementia ridden pedophile and a bloated coon with an axe to grind. We are fucked on every level.
Putin does not need to submit to anyone. He’s is the geopolitical drivers seat. He knows he has a cornered raccoon on his hands (the US of A) and he will be careful.