Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
This is a serious development.
As I have said over and over, the Kremlin’s go-slow limited military operation is a fatal mistake resulting in a wider war. An operation that should have been concluded in a week is now in its seventh month and seems destined to continue indefinitely as the Kremlin does nothing to disrupt the Ukrainian government’s war effort or the endless supplies of weapons that the West pours into Ukraine. The long-running conflict has allowed Western propaganda to portray the Russian military as unsuccessful and to convince Western decision-makers that Russia can be defeated in Ukraine. This conviction has led to ever higher states of Western involvement.
With the Pentagon’s creation of a “Ukraine Command,” we move closer to the introduction of US troops. In fact US military forces are already involved. They train Ukraine’s soldiers at the US Army’s European Headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany, thus committing Germany to the intervention in Ukraine. US military personnel provide targeting information for Ukraine’s attacks on Russian positions. Yet, despite the growing involvement of US/NATO, the Kremlin holds on to its limited operation, dangerous in its failure and miscalculation, as Russia’s dilly-dallying has convinced the West that the Kremlin has no stomach for real conflict, encouraging Washington to take another step toward sending troops by forming a “Ukraine Command.”
Putin’s emphasis on legalisms might be the undoing of Russia. The Kremlin could have avoided the Ukraine conflict by doing in 2014 what it is doing, belatedly, in 2022–accept the Donbass Russians’ request to be returned to Russia. The Kremlin could have avoided the US/NATO military commitment to Ukraine by knocking out Ukraine before the West had time to react.
Blunders have a cost, and the cost of the Kremlin’s blunders is developing into direct conflict between US and Russian soldiers.
https://www.rt.com/news/563768-pentagon-weapons-ukraine-command/
UPDATE:
The Kremlin has defeated its aims by diddle-dallying with war
Ukraine’s government has responded to Russia’s formal annexation of the four eastern and southern regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia by submitting an “accelerated” application to formally join NATO.
As I have said dozens of times, the Kremlin’s ill-advised limited drawn-out campaign is ever widening into World War III.
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(Not reading PCR’s bullshit.)
But Caitlin Johnstone comes up with a brilliant analysis:
How To Defeat Putin
[…]
“So there you have it. Russia, not the US empire, is responsible for destroying billions of dollars of its own economic and energy infrastructure and releasing hundreds of millions of dollars of its own gas and ending its crucial point of leverage over Europe in direct facilitation of US geostrategic interests and in direct subversion of its own, because Putin is a crazy lunatic. If it wasn’t true, they couldn’t report it in the news.
So are you ready for my brilliant strategy on how to defeat Putin? Here it is: simply stand back and wait for him to explode the rest of Russia.
This is after all the same madman who the New York Times informs us has been ordering his troops to shell a nuclear power plant they already control. If Putin is a gibbering, irrational lunatic who enjoys blowing up his own stuff for no reason other than to act crazy, surely if we just stand back and leave him to his own devices he will soon turn the Russian Federation into a steaming pile of rubble.
Honestly I can’t believe it’s taken me, a humble blogger, to figure this out on behalf of the US empire. You’d think with all the brilliant minds in the US government and the mainstream news media they’d have figured this one out by themselves, but apparently they need a little help sometimes. Any DC think tanks are welcome to call me for any lucrative employment offers they care to extend.
You are welcome in advance. Here’s looking forward to Putin’s self-inflicted downfall.”
This is actually a faulty analysis. It is Putin who has lured us into a geopolitical trap that is going to ‘explode’ on us. Putin is the one standing back.
Nooo, you don’t say!!
(Do I really need to add “WARNING: This post may contain traces of sarcasm” to that one?)
Traces….I get it.
I assume that the down-voters have never encountered sarcasm…
I remember once when the good ol US of A decided that it was a good strategy to bog down the Russians in Afghanistan. The idea was to drain them of resources. I wonder if Putin may have the same idea in mind here. Is he possibly playing geopolitical rope a dope?
The Pentagon proudly shows off their newly formed “Ukraine command” ….
Given the fags appetite for children, I’m surprised they’re not grinding their crotch in the face of a toddler screaming it’s not going to lick itself.
https://thenewamerican.com/drag-queen-pride-event-for-kids-features-sign-its-not-gonna-lick-itself/
Don’t worry this war is almost over because the limited NAZI mop up is over – just 1 attack on Any of the 4 new provinces incorporated into Russia means an Attack on Russia & then Russia will rain Hell down on the rest of what’s left of Fukraine & probably Poland & any military depots around Fukraine – my hope is to Nuke DC, the Pentagon & the CIA in Gangley Vagina for starters.
How to say you’re not paying attention, without saying it.
NATO has had a plan for regime change in Russia for years. US staged a coup in Ukraine and overthrew a democratically elected president, then installing a puppet who launders money for the elites and outlaws any opposition party.
US and NATO pushed this war by moving forward with getting Ukraine into NATO and parking nuclear weapons pointed at the Kremlin. Ukraine has been murdering and unjustly imprisoning Russians for years, along with harboring decedents of WWII Nazis. The globalists have been sending gobs of money and weapons (30% are even accounted for, rest end up on the black market) to Ukraine in an effort of defeat Russia and enact their regime change. US blew up Russian infrastructure as an act of war.
All through this, Putin has been asking for negotiations and being amazingly calm even though his advisors keep asking Putin to wipe us out.
Read up more before you write articles, you’ll sound less stupid that way.
Ya, for Amerika it’s death by a 1000 cuts. Anyone think that’s by accident? The US is a dead man walking! Now tune into the MSM and get your marching orders! We got a Country to kill!
Warmongers love war. Predators and parasites prey on innocents and the weak. The US ruling class loves war, period! So no matter what Putin did/does contrary to what the writer claims will never deter the psychopaths oligarchs in the D.C. beltway and Wall Street from waging some form of war: economic, biochemical, weather and or invasion/occupation. Look at the the history of this nation, it has been at war almost all of its existence https://medium.com/traveling-through-history/only-15-years-of-peace-in-the-history-of-the-united-states-of-america.
The past is prologue for the present and future. So if the past teaches us anything we are heading from even more war and Ukraine is just one of many potential flashpoints. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA830-1.html , https://brilliantmaps.com/threat-to-peace/
Was distracted for a moment by the new US-Ukraine Pink command, Go Woke! Lose the Wars!
Putin is doing as he said, demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine.
The west is low on weapons and ammo(bombs, bullets and rockets) AND no industrial capacity to make enough to fight a war. Hence the talking head babble about using nukes.
No, No, No!!!
We can buy all the weapons we want from the Chinese!!!
Uh, wait, uh…..
Russia, and the Soviet Union before that, have designed their entire military structure and tactics on fighting a defensive war. History has taught them the advantages of using their weather and logistics to defeat invaders.
Russia and China have past experience in draining NATO in wars of attrition, in both Korea and Vietnam.
The US bases its military superiority on its technical abilities, but those technical abilities are dependent on a fragile system of satellites and computer based systems. I am sure they have worked a long time on defeating those systems. Finally, due to defense packs, any attack on Russia’s homeland will trigger the mutual treaty with China to side with Russia. This also brings the possibility of N Korea’s involvement, and possibly India and or Turkey. Turkey is becoming increasingly hostile towards NATO and if their conflict with Greece goes hot, may cause it switch sides.
Imagine how the Russia’s hardline Dog of War, Marshal Igor Sergeyev, seethes inside, Putin holding his leash while we demonize all Russians to the western world, steal all their yachts and watches, assassinate the media-darling daughter of prominent Russian Nationalist Aleksandr Dugins, supply weapons, training and intelligence that targets Russian troops, particularly field command, destroy vital income-earning energy infrastructure, and now… openly approve Ukraine’s use of our Himars to target newly annexed Russian democracies… ‘cause we don’t recognize them as Russian territories.
You know, the places where Khrushchev and Brezhnev were born?
One way or another, Putin’s gonna let the dogs out. Soon, say by January. Pretty much all electronic/communications interference at every level, at first. Then, magma.
A short, swift jab to Poland’s Krakow chin (NATO Counter Intelligence), a roundhouse to its Bydgoszcz belly (NATO Joint Force Training Center) a headbutt on Germany’s Ramstein (largest NATO AFB) and the rest of NATO gets foot-stomped as soon as they get to their feet.
pacts
The mistake Paul Craig Roberts makes in his analysis of the Ukraine war is to think a long war is not to russia’s benefit. By the day the western countries get weaker. Soon they will face the consequences of bankruptcy which they are presently in. then the Ukrainians, without allied material support, will have to yield their opposition to Russia’s aims. There is also a good chance that both the European Union, and the North Atlantic Treatr Organization, will disband. Time is on Russia’s side.
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