Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
As I have emphasized for a number of years, the Kremlin’s passivity in the face of provocations encourages more and worse provocations. I have expressed concern that the provocations will cross a red line, and the Kremlin will cease being a passive receiver of provocations. When that time comes, the West might not be prepared for the consequence, comfortable, as it was expressed by the US Department of State the other day, that Russian red lines are just “bluster.”
I have said that if Russia were to put its foot down hard, the provocations would cease, but my opinion has had no effect on the Western “foreign policy community” or on the Kremlin. Russia, it seems, courts provocations, and the West delivers them.
Consider the provocations to Russia of just the past week. Israel attacked the civilian airport in Damascus, Syria, closing the airport. This is just another way of putting pressure on Russia while Russia is engaged in clearing Donbass of Ukrainian forces. Syria has effective Russian air defense systems, but evidently is not allowed to use them to deter Israeli attacks. Apparently, the Kremlin doesn’t understand that it cannot simultaneously protect its Syrian ally and appease Israel.
Hardly before NATO military exercises in the Baltics concluded, Lithuania blocked Russia’s rail and road connection to part of Russia, violating long-standing agreements. Is Russia to accept this aggression from a military insignificant country? If Russia does, imagine the grossness of the next insult the Kremlin will have to eat. When will the Kremlin get sick of eating insults? This is an important question. Asking it is in the interest of realization that leads to different–peaceful–behavior before war explodes.
The US and NATO continue to shove weapons into Ukraine and have committed to supporting Ukraine to victory, declaring the goal to be not only the reconquest of Donbass but the “liberation” of Crimea. The idiot who commands the British toy military has committed his few soldiers to fighting Russia in a land war. Is this a joke or total insanity?
To what conclusions does Russia’s passivity to provocations lead?
One conclusion is that there are sufficient influential Russians who prefer inclusion in the West to Russian sovereignty and that they are able to block effective Russian responses to provocations.
Another conclusion is that the Kremlin thinks that there is more reason and sense in Western leadership, and less stupidity and evil, than there is. It probably makes no sense to the Kremlin than an out-gunned people would provoke nuclear war. The Kremlin likely thinks that sooner or later logic and reason will catch up with the West. This is Russia’s delusion.
Until the Kremlin sees the Wolfowitz Doctrine renounced by the White House and the military/security complex, and the neoconservatives sent into exile, this unfounded belief in the sense and integrity of the West leaves Russia exposed to destruction. Russia’s leaders simply do not comprehend the evil that they confront.
In many ways Russians are psyched out by their belief in the wickedness of Soviet leaders and the greatness of America. They are, it seems, babes in the woods. It is the Russians’ lack of awareness of what they confront that will end in Armageddon.
Caitlin Johnstone and John Mearsheimer warn us of the danger of getting in Russia’s face.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/06/23/people-dont-think-hard-enough-about-what-nuclear-war-is-and-what-it-would-mean/
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Putin may be the only hope the world has left. He stands in the doorway of totalitarianism.
Putin is totalitarianism.
I don’t come across many total fucking morons in my day to day activities.
What I’m saying is …. I appreciate your posts.
You’re saying you want democracy? Isn’t that how America got where it is?
Very true! We want our REPUBLIC back. Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what for dinner. A Republic is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner but the lamb is armed to the teeth.
Putin is anti-NWO. The last hope of the free world.
Putin the savior of the free world? That is ridiculous. He’s not in the least anti-NWO. He is all in just has a differing vision of it as a power broker not a slave to it. He’s being duped into a war with the west after which the mutual assured nuke fest destruction leaves China the winner gaining all the natural resources of Russia and the un opposed power in the NWO. The big double cross play by China (Dragon)
Putin the only hope? That is delusional unless your hoping for mutual assured destruction in the coming nuke fest. Things are looking bleak but all the more reason to humble yourself and cry out to God. The only hope I have is for divine intervention to change course and give us more time to live out our lives in peace. Praise the Lord!
Our lives, what about my grandsons?
PERHAPS PCR is correct: ??
# Second Thoughts?? — Willys-M38A1 2022-06-24 22:41
Why did the EU abandon plans to blockade Kaliningrad 6/24/2022
The acute political crisis that has arisen between Russia and the European Union due to the blockade of the Kaliningrad region seems to have been overcome. At least, the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrel, says that the relevant sanctions directives will be revised. What made Europe back down and what conclusions should Russia draw from this?
The blockade of the Kaliningrad region, imposed by Lithuania on the basis of anti-Russian sanctions adopted by Brussels, is apparently coming to an end. The European Union is ready to lift it. This is how the words of the European Commissioner for Foreign Policy Josep Borrel can be interpreted that the wording of the sanctions (which allowed Lithuania to restrict the import of almost 50% of the range of goods into the Russian enclave through its territory) will be revised.
“We want to introduce measures that will allow us to prevent any form of violation of sanctions – but at the same time not to interfere with the transportation (of people and goods from the rest of Russia to Kaliningrad – approx. VZGLYAD). Therefore, the European Commission and the External Relations Service of the European Union are going to revise the sanctions instructions in order to clearly show that we are not going to block or prevent traffic between Russia (meaning the rest of Russia – approx. VIEW) and Kaliningrad,” Mr. Borrel said. – We have two goals in front of us: to prevent circumvention of sanctions and not to block traffic. Both of these goals can be achieved simultaneously, and we are working on it.”
This revision, according to the European Commissioner, will be completed “as soon as possible.” Apparently, we will talk about what the governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov said earlier: the European Union will divide the concept of the transfer of Russian goods to Europe through Kaliningrad and the transit of goods that go from Russia to Russia for consumption in Russia (that is, in Kaliningrad).
It certainly looks strange. “The Europeans are showing such innocent bewilderment. Two days ago, Borrel said that Lithuania had nothing to do with it at all and that it was only implementing the sanctions of the European Union. Including, as Borrel put it, his personal decisions, which he himself wrote into the relevant sanctions packages. And now he says that let’s reconsider in order to convince that there are no requirements and instructions in these sanctions that can really lead to a blockade of the sanctions transit,” Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of the Centre for Integrated European and International Studies at the Higher School of Economics, tells the newspaper VIEW. – In turn, Lithuania says that it is counting on new instructions from the European Commission, and hints that if these instructions are that transit should be restored, then it will restore it.” That is, simply put, only a bureaucratic solution is needed in order for this crisis in Russian-European relations to be resolved.
And if the EU really backs down, then the reason for that was the correct reaction of the Russian Federation. The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, previously explained that Moscow’s retaliatory measures “will not be in the diplomatic, but in the practical plane.” According to her, Brussels “was told about the need to change the steps taken, and if this does not happen, then retaliatory measures will be introduced.”
vz.ru/world/2022/6/24/1164552.html
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/member-of-russian-parliament-says-london-will-be-bombed-first
U.S. long-range rocket systems arrive in Ukraine – minister
Ukraine said on Thursday it had received U.S. supplies of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), a powerful long-range weapon system that Kyiv hopes can help turn the tide on Russia’s invasion.
Anonymous Conservative commented on this article:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/u-s-long-range-rocket-systems-arrive-in-ukraine-minister/ar-AAYM9Ke?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e8410caaa57147fe85c8282dde2ed158
I think Russia knows exactly what they are up against….
Russia Accuses CNN of Working With Ukrainian Nazis To Film Staged Killing of Civilians
Russia alleged elements of the Ukrainian military are taking hospital staff and sick children from around Kharkov and moving them to the city’s First Child Health Hospital, which is supposedly known to be wired with explosive mines.
“The building of the hospital is mined and neo-Nazis are planning to explode it as soon as Russian troops launch artillery attacks at the military facilities in Kharkov,” the Russian government said. “Correspondents from leading Western news agencies have already arrived in the city to prepare fake photos and videos.”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/false-flag-alert-russia-accuses-cnn-of-working-with-ukrainian-nazis-to-film-staged-killing-of-civilians/
Awe, boohoo boohoo!! They don’t listen to you because you’re an arrogant dumbass. Stop pretending YOU are the president of Russia! Stop pretending YOU know Jack Shit about military strategy and tactics. If you want to do something meaningful you can start by pulling your head out of your ass.
I’ll bet 99.999% of those who read your bullshit do not listen to you either. Just fucken retire already!!
http://www.jrnyquist.com/may14/new_page_2.htm russia will destroy the west quickly
Hey Sticky. Putin is anti-NWO. Putin has nukes.
Putin has a very high IQ. Dementia Joe doesn’t know where he is.
TBP fans who were hoping that pride month revelers like you would be too busy with anal exercises and give us all a break from your drivel are much disappointed.
Once a greasy turd floating in the fetid shitpond that is DC and Wall Street always a greasy turd. Swamp turds don’t turn into truthsayers in their old age. Never have. Never will.
Closest that comes to mind…
A chilling quote from US president Woodrow Wilson
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. They know that America is not a place of which it can be said, as it used to be, that a man may choose his own calling and pursue it just as far as his abilities enable him to pursue it; because to-day, if he enters certain fields, there are organizations which will use means against him that will prevent his building up a business which they do not want to have built up; organizations that will see to it that the ground is cut from under him and the markets shut against him. For if he begins to sell to certain retail dealers, to any retail dealers, the monopoly will refuse to sell to those dealers, and those dealers, afraid, will not buy the new man’s wares.”
Russia seems to have thought out all scenarios years ago and have effective counter moves planned in advance. “Crippling sanctions,” and the hoarking of $300 billion? Ok, Treasury holdings sold off before they became worthless and the Ruble pegged @ 5000/gram Au (not to mention the commodity links). Russia will default on its western obligations? OK, inform new G8/BRICS+ that the opinion of the west does not matter. To new members: Feel free to default, we won’t hold it against you.
Seems that Putin and Xi are adhering to Sun Tzu’s advice and acting accordingly. The west is fooked, because we’re ruled by Morans. The ole lady has stopped asking me why I’ve been buying items for an independent and self sufficient lifestyle. TBP provided me with the knowledge and foresight as to what may be coming.
I saw the video of Russia taking out entire batteries of the just provided US howitzers or whatever. Just like our GWOT crap of the remotely aimed or guided missiles one after another -KABOOM. Good for the local economy since they were made in Rock Island/sarc.
God forbid, but if these Mafia fuques in Ukraine light up some place in Russia with our MLRS we can expect the 100,000 US troops in Poland WHO SHOULD BE ON OUR BORDER defending us to immediately be massacred in retaliation. OUR Uniparty Mafia risks our entire country for the criminal filth children of Romney, Pelosi and Biden to continue the grift and money laundering and a host of other crimes for which they should all be executed or imprisoned for decades.
Now that would be sooooo funny if 100,000 yankee PIG troops got hit all at once. Please post videos of them after the hit so we can see the now turned into hamburgur bodies of these scum. It is great to see them dead with flies eating the corpses. I really enjoy the pictures of the dead nato yankees with the brains laying on the ground beside them. I hope Russia can kill as many of these maggots as possible. Keep firing artillery at them 24/7 around the clock and KILL them all. Thank YOU Mister Putin.
You need to seek mental help. Get back on your meds, creep.
You’ve mistaken Satan worship for mental illness. There is no treatment for eternal damnation.
Russia will probably use cyberwarfare to turn out the lights, water & power in Filthuania & then watch those Bitches cry like the dirty Cunts they are.
The power grid is the Achilles heel of all modern nations.
At some point, someone is going to take it down. TPTB when they fear they are losing control, the people when they realize the grid is what makes control possible, or a foreign enemy (like Russia) when we piss them off enough.
The power will go off at some point. Prepare accordingly.
How do you plan on running a One World Government with total control over every individual without electricity?
No. The lights will be on at the end of the world. They have to be.
Keep poking the bear, Cadaver Joe.
Like a dog on a chain that keeps getting kicked, eventually it’s going to bite someone and then everyone will blame the dog for the carnage.
The Russians told Americans that we would be communists and they were right. We now have more communism than Russia.
They are all in it together,every damn one of them is making money from this BS war.They don’t care how many useless eaters get killed,tough crap,just less they must deal with.Biden and most of the people involved with him are getting rich,Putin is making money from selling coal to Germany after shutting down gas and oil to them,the little fag in Ukraine along with his boys are now richer than they ever dreamed,they all bought property in Switzerland for millions and he owns a mansion in Miami Florida,how do they do that when their country is torn all to hell and a bunch of their people dead or homeless.”It’s a big club and You Ain’t In It”,George Carlin.
Why isn’t Putin taking out their satellites? That is what is causing all the fires and explosions, all around the world. Burnt up chicken barns, Food Facilities, dead cattle, etc.. This is SATELLITE WEAPONRY. Think 911 and “Star Wars” SDI/Tesla Technology, if you got half a brain.
Putin has done well to remove these BRITISH and VATICAN Subversions from Russia, working to de-Moralize America and the world with their LGBT and other similar Operations, to destroy and enslave mankind as they always have, since they are the seed of the serpent Daniel spoke of – “they mingle themselves with the seed of man – the iron mingled with the clay”, aka KHAZARS, aka elongated skull descendants (genetics PROVE it). This stands as a testament against them and their evil. As does Putin’s efforts to restore Christianity in Russia, which the British/Vatican-empowered-financed Bolshevik Jews worked ever so hard to destroy, killing 100 million Russian Christians in the effort. They hid it well for almost 100 years, using their fabricated/exaggerated/PROPAGANDIZED Nazi Holocaust to obscure it, while they control all the printing presses, big tech, mainstream news, etc. and central banks.
God will help Russia, if it is sincere in this. Sodom and Gomorrah will soon have some more cities join their ranks, that GOD will send destruction upon. The City of London, Vatican, Brussels, etc. and that satanic city built on an upside down satanic pentagram, exalting Osiris/Apollyon, will receive fire from God before this decade ends. Oh, IT WILL BURN!
REAL Justice is coming, and will be served upon them all.
Oh what a joyous day, when evil receives it’s due! A PERPETUAL DUE.
Hey Swift Justice,I agree with you about the satellite weaponry, but I don’t just blame the Russians.I tend to be of the opinion that the US is involved since both countries share the ISS together.NASA was and probably is still run by Nazis.After WW2 the Us imported Nazis to run our space projects and,it might be a new bunch,but they are what they are,and still in charge. What good is the ISS? What do they do? It is my opinion,they are the control point for the killer satellites that destroy things and control the weather that is destroying the earths farmland and towns and drying up our drinking water.I lived on Cocoa Beach for many years and watched from my front yard weather satellites being launched.These “weather satellites” were as big as a bus,I always wondered why it took such a large package just for a camera, radar, transmitter/receiver and power plant,now I think I know.These are weather makers not weather observers.the ISS is in a real “Catbird”seat to act as central control for them.You might think this is nutty,maybe it is,but I’m sure you have read how the “Deep State” likes to let us know what they are doing to us through Hollywood movies.Check out the movie GeoStorm and see what I’m talking about. Also it’s a good movie.
I lived on Cocoa Beach for many years and watched from my front yard weather satellites being launched. DID YOU TOO? We left over 10 yrs ago- and I loved things about FL… a death trap.
Yes Neil,I’ve lived on Merritt Is.,Cocoa,and Cocoa Beach,also The Cape.I’m a retired Tugboat Captn. so I was moved all over FL.,even Miami,FT.lauderdale area.Got transferred to run the Mississippi River and had to fly to catch the boat so I got out of the South FL.rat race and moved to NW.FL.Now I’m retired and a Farmer,no more running all over the Country.
Ironic that the next world war will start the way the last one did: over land access to Konigsburg/Kaliningrad across Poland.
Russia understands and knows, that when it “pushes back”, as was posted “if Russia were to put its foot down hard”, that when it does, it must be a death blow, once and for all. The “west” and its handlers have an agenda and this isn’t a joust and “may the best nation win”, its a death dance. When they go for it, it must be to decapitate, “remove the threat”. That is where this is going, it simply isn’t time, as of this writing. “I have said that if Russia were to put its foot down hard, the provocations would cease”- this they/ I do not believe, either. (The situation would remain and continue, but not stop) We shall see.
Gog will attack Israel and the U.S. at the same time. Ez 38. 4th seal. 1/4th the earth shall be killed.
Total stupid bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4_jr52w9oo
If this guy is your spiritual advisor, you’ve got bigger problems than WW3.
The Russians are winning because they are controlling their emotions and going about their goals in an understated way. It is the self-righteousness and hyper emotion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations which is leading to those governments failure(s).
Britain still has it’s delusion of grandeur of last century when “the sun never sets on the British Empire.” Britain runs American foreign policy. MI6 runs the CIA. Serco runs the arms trade, the US patent office, and the rest of America, in general. NATO is controlled through Britain. So, as a result, the big talk. Like in the movie “Mad Max at Thunderdome,” Master (little guy) controls Blaster (the really big guy) so therefore controls Bartertown (NATO).
It’s all in the name of Poop’n. I hate to be in his pants now or his bodyguards when abroad. He is always fidgeting when sitting down, if you care to notice.
You’d fidget too if the fate of the entire world rested in your hands. The West may be provoking, but the DECISION is all on Putin. He’s got the upper hand and he knows it…and it shows.
LOL, OK, whatever…..
Seems to me that Russia has a pretty good handle on their National Security challenges. Ukraine was lost the moment Russia decided to take action. ALL the GOP idiots from the Reagan era told us “we won the Cold War”.
Short sighted fools…one and all.
And “things going badly for the West” was always going to happen. There is ONE God in Heaven and the West slaps Him in the face daily…mammon worship, infanticide, sodomy. There’s a threshold that exists, that once crossed, the Mercy of God no longer applies. Any one of those offenses warrants the death penalty on its own merit. We’ve wallowed in all three un-repentant.
The bill has come due. The wages of sin IS Death. That applies to nations as well as Men.
Enjoy the show!
Eh, they will just shoot them for being mercenary combatants fighting in a country they do not belong in. It will give the Russians some easy target practice.