The Ever Widening War

by Paul Craig Roberts

The Ever Widening War

“No tanks for Ukraine.”  Now tanks for Ukraine.

“No long range missiles for Ukraine.”  Now long range missiles for Ukraine.

“No F-16s for Ukraine.”  Now F-16s for Ukraine.

“No attacks on Russian soil.”  Now attacks on Russian soil.

As I have emphasized, Putin’s unwillingness to use sufficient force to bring the conflict to an end is escalating the war.  The US neoconservatives have been convinced by Putin that Putin is weak and irresolute, and the neoconservatives are pushing the conflict to Armageddon.

It is a mystery why Putin invites escalation after escalation.

Biden Okays F-16s For Ukraine, US Weapons To Attack Crimea

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/05/22/biden-okays-f-16s-for-ukraine-us-weapons-to-attack-crimea/

Kremlin expresses “deep concern” over Ukrainian attack on Russia.  What is the matter with the Kremlin?  Isn’t it clear to the Kremlin by now that the US/NATO care not about Russia’s concerns?  The US blows up the Nord Stream pipelines. The US steals Russia’s central bank reserves.  Provocation after provocation.  The Kremlin’s zero response means more provocations.  The Kremlin should have “deep concerns” over allowing the conflict to drag on and on without a military resolution.  https://www.rt.com/russia/576756-kremlin-deep-concern-ukrainian-raid/ 

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Anonymous
Anonymous
June 17, 2023 6:23 pm

So-called experts , like American Enterprise Institute , are clamoring for giving Ukraine proxy nut-jobs TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

Any day now, things go HOT. Like really hot.

falconflight
falconflight
  Anonymous
June 17, 2023 6:32 pm

Duh, should have read the first comment, yours.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
June 17, 2023 6:23 pm

Fortunately, the Russians have shown that tanks are obsolete deathtraps, and F-16s can’t fly out of the Ukraine’s improvised runways…But of course, PCR is right, they’re heading for a catastrophic world war….

falconflight
falconflight
June 17, 2023 6:31 pm

Don’t forget that Senior Fellow at the AEI, yeah he’s a Heb (Me thinks), calling for providing nuclear weapons to USkraine. The article/blog was posted last week.

Eud
Eud
  falconflight
June 17, 2023 8:18 pm

Ukrained:
a. Botty relations sans lube.
b. Ukrainee with botty pain.
c. USA.
d. Botty buggered.

Ukrainee:
a. One who was been Ukrained.
b. One who has been botty buggered.
c. USA.

Paleocon
Paleocon
June 17, 2023 6:56 pm

Hypersonics make our ICBMs obsolete. The swamp is afraid.

JimN
JimN
  Paleocon
June 17, 2023 7:32 pm

But the swamp is psychotic. Crazy trumps fear.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Paleocon
June 17, 2023 8:25 pm

ICBMs are not obsolete. Our interceptors that we would hope can stop incoming Hypersonics are obsolete. If they have hypersonic interceptors that work, then everything we have is obsolete. If we have something like that, the globalists have already let China steal it so we are stilled hosed.

Thunder
Thunder
  Harrington Richardson
June 18, 2023 7:20 am

Unfortunately they had them 4 years ago. Nothing will accelerate like this thing. Even the noise it makes is game over.

There are newer versions now that are satellite guided to pin point and that is just the Kill shot of the incoming foreign ones . They also have an outgoing one that (I doubt) can be stopped because it has 10 Hypersonic missiles in one very fat missile called the RS – 28 Sarmat . I would, after seeing what Russia is doing now with hypersonic not take a bet on any Enemies survival. even if give the money.

Eud
Eud
  Paleocon
June 17, 2023 11:44 pm

Wouldn’t lasers make hypersonics obsolete?
Missiles can’t fly faster than light.
Everyone is scrupulously avoiding any and all conversation about lasers.

Petawatt laser.
Terawatt laser.

2022 WASHINGTON — The first set of Stryker combat vehicles equipped with 50-kilowatt laser weapons will be delivered to a unit of Army soldiers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by the end of September, according to the head of the service’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office.

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2022/01/13/army-readies-to-deliver-first-set-of-strykers-with-50-kilowatt-laser-weapons/

Why aren’t these being used?

Tom Cullen
Tom Cullen
  Eud
June 18, 2023 12:00 am

The lasers aren’t the problem, target acquisition is the problem. Hypersonic is, well…. fast. Think of hitting a .223 round in mid flight with a .22 round. You may have more success taking the shotgun approach, but thats a lot of lasers, a web of lasers would be required. It could be done of course, but here’s the rub, your gubment would have to be committed to defending you in the first place. Something tells me that’s the least of their concerns.

World War Zero
World War Zero
  Eud
June 18, 2023 1:28 am

US Navy lacks a diversity of shark wranglers for the head-mounting aspect of “L.A.S.E.R.” weaponry.

Thunder
Thunder
  Eud
June 18, 2023 7:36 am

Russian hypersonic missiles are so fast and so maneuverable that nothing can react quick enough to get a fixed bead on it. It would be like trying to swat a mosquito with a whip. This has been shown in Ukraine, despite what we are told. They have to send more to replace the ones that no longer exist. This shocked me but if they need replacement they are no longer functioning.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Eud
June 18, 2023 10:25 am

first off theres the matter of a target covering thousands of feet a second….. then even is there was a power source with the wattage to power a pentawatt laser 10 to the 8th watts is like an entire nation or huge city.
then there is the problem of the object needing to be hit by the laser . even at the speed of light you have to know where the object will be for a long enough time to cut the case of the missile and damage it. so even with a fast enough weapon its hitting such a fast moving target esp when the cloud of plasma ahead of it shields the missile from radar and other waves. the only way to beat the hypersonics is to now piss off the russians because once deployed theres little chance of stopping them all…furthermore they have a torpedo that when deployed in the ocean will send a several hundred foot wave outward washing out the cosast on all sides with contaminated water leaving behind trans uranic compounds that have thousands of year half lifes rendering the land useless for a quarter million years.
i suggest you watch an old movie called war games with mathew broderic…the computer said ” the only way to win is not to play” and this is lost on the reytheon owned war hawks…..

Captain_Obviuos
Captain_Obviuos
June 17, 2023 7:56 pm

I am getting so tired of people tooting Russia’s horn. America bad, Russia good. Why?

Do people not realize the reason Putin is not putting a stop to this foolishness is because he is in on it? That he is just another cog in the WEF wheel? That all the world’s a stage, etc.?

Munitions makers and defense contractors are all making a killing, pun intended, on both sides, so do not try and tell me Russia is better than we are. 40-odd years ago it was Afghanistan; now, Ukraine, where we are wasting billions of dollars/rubles and millions of lives. Everybody acts like this is all brand-new, that we have never fought Russia before, and that they have terrible weapons we do not, so we are screwed.

Give me a break. You honestly believe, given the nature of spies, that either of us could develop a superior weapon that the other knows nothing about?

Newsflash: You do not see us getting bombed, and for good reason. We have too many guns. They are ALL rightfully fearful of us, at the moment, and part of the reason why our own government, which wants to destroy us from within, is holding open the border gates: the less true Americans there are, the less opposition to their evil plans. What, you think a stinky Guatemalan who is only here for the free shit would fight for America? I would submit not.

(Oh, and where have these so-called nuclear-tipped missiles been all this time? Gosh, one would think if such a device was available it would have been used by now, maybe not in Ukraine but somewhere in this world [like Iraq]! It sure is convenient that whenever the fear factor needs to be increased, some sinister non-weapon is hyped by the MSM as being The One That Will End It All™.)

Tom Cullen
Tom Cullen
  Captain_Obviuos
June 18, 2023 12:07 am

Someone has their thinking cap on. I might add to this, if it were possible to create a virus that could burn through the infinite plane and eliminate 15/16ths of the population (as is their oft stated desire) would they not have done this already as well? Of course they would, they can’t, but they can trick you into killing yourself.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Tom Cullen
June 18, 2023 10:31 am

its all in slow motion. the toxic food and personal care products designed to reduce population while increasing profits for blackrock. then theres the toxic drugs and vax decimating humanity because the other vectors were dragging out too long thus the covid scheme. then there is the drugs and mental health aspects likewise making a profit and taking lives. this has been a multi generational war on humanity thanks to the godless family adam and eves child cain. follow the blood lines from the garden and you will see this same line behind most if not all of the woes of humanity.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Captain_Obviuos
June 18, 2023 1:29 am

Why don’t you continue down that line, and state: ‘Because the Russians never used nukes on real targets, that means they don’t have any.’

Eddie
Eddie
  Captain_Obviuos
June 18, 2023 7:55 pm

So, you don’t think America Bad?

You sir, are a horses ass!

Captain_Obviuos
Captain_Obviuos
  Eddie
June 18, 2023 8:37 pm

No, Eddie, I don’t think America is bad. It is still full of good, White, honest, Godly, hard-working men and women, who just want to raise their families in peace.

It is our government that is bad. A small minority of our population has gained considerable control over everything we see and hear, and they have used it for nefarious purposes. They come from moneyed elitist families, mostly, and believe it is only by their benevolence that any of the rest of us are here, so the shots are theirs to call.

Nothing will change until we take it all back, but that will get messy, and nobody wants to do it right now. (We are too distracted by some dude showing his fake tits off at the “White” House atm.) As history has shown, that will change once nobody has anything (like, once the middle class is gone). Then the cycle repeats.

We are not bad. As long as there are those who would oppose them, which reads ‘White Supremacists’ these days, there is still more good here.

That is why they want us dead.

flash
flash
June 17, 2023 7:57 pm

Anyone else seen?

flash
flash
June 17, 2023 8:02 pm

Is this a current thing.

This was Philadelphia yesterday. I am
Told that they are strategically placing equipment all over the country and even in Canada. pic.twitter.com/dnm6fm8Gma

— Derek Broes (@WillingWitness) June 17, 2023

flash
flash
  flash
June 17, 2023 8:06 pm

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flash
flash
  flash
June 17, 2023 8:07 pm

Hollywood pic.twitter.com/03tmrmOWDB

— Derek Broes (@WillingWitness) June 17, 2023

flash
flash
  flash
June 17, 2023 8:08 pm

I have seen a lot of videos being posted for 2 days. None of it with any supporting evidence- date, time, location, maps, etc. For now I am labeling it fear porn. This seems to be the primary source of it. https://t.co/jE7kABvP6P

— Shiny Penny 🦶🐍 Luke 10:14✝ (@ShinyPenny3) June 17, 2023

Tom Cullen
Tom Cullen
  flash
June 18, 2023 12:08 am

Let’s assume it’s not fear porn for the sake of conversation. What’s your take in that circumstance Flash?

And yes, I’ve seen Derek Broes twitter feed. I trust him as far as I could toss a crown vic full of feds. Hal Turner is also pushing this one. So yeah, maybe we don’t need to talk about it just yet. Or, Monday is going to be a very interesting day, enjoy the weekend.

VOWG
VOWG
  flash
June 18, 2023 8:09 am

As we waiting for supporting “evidence” we are being …….

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  flash
June 17, 2023 8:31 pm

It’s summer. Nat Guard and Reserves play war in the summer. Convoys and maneuvers.
By the way. Wheel that stuff through town to use against the people and do you see how vulnerable it is to Molotovs and aerosol bombs?

Eud
Eud
  flash
June 17, 2023 8:27 pm

This is what happens when you leave Fetterman alone in a room with Major General Mark J. Schindler unsupervised.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  flash
June 17, 2023 10:54 pm

this reply is to flash’s comment of 8:02 pm —
follow that thread & below the hilarious shot of barack & michele there is a post about samuel bankman fried suggesting that charges against him are being dropped —

Caitlin Jenner's testicles
Caitlin Jenner's testicles
June 17, 2023 8:17 pm

As of this moment, I’m not aware on here of a better place to put this. I see this first stop as more or less a scare tactic, which may or may not be followed by either veiled or outright threats. Yet, depending on how it goes, if they gain confidence, it’ll go nationwide, so this may be the beginning of the big one.

Federal Stormtroopers Descend on Montana Gun Shop

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
June 17, 2023 8:20 pm

Sun Tau would say Putin is playing it right. Feign lack of strength. Like fools NATO keeps pouring it in only to have it destroyed on the cheap by artillery over and over. NATO has expended their stores. Douchebag Biden has drained the SPR in addition to sending all of our 155mm shells and all of Europe’s. They are talking about building new munitions plants to make enough to supply only 2/3 of what the ZioNazis are burning up. I sure hope the shitheads are not sending them .50 BMG weapons. We were already down a couple of years ago to using deep storage M33 Ball stored in 1945!!!!!
Any, who like me think Biden is the Manchurian Candidate betraying us daily will recall that we are sending weapons systems bought and paid for but not delivered to Taiwan, to the ZioNazis. And who do we think is about to be attacked by the PLA? FJB.

k31
k31
  Harrington Richardson
June 17, 2023 10:56 pm

Why do I care if Taiwan gets attacked?

falconflight
falconflight
  k31
June 17, 2023 11:10 pm

Because the other side of our forked-tongued Lizard Masters said so. One China policy since the 1970’s, but lets prepare for war to protect its independence. Amazingly duplicitous, just like Ukraine.

Tom Cullen
Tom Cullen
  Harrington Richardson
June 18, 2023 4:22 am

President Depends is merely the sock puppet of the Manchurian Syndicate, we were overthrown a long time ago, they’re just rubbing your face in it now and daring you to do something about it. Which is also part of the plan. Behind the syndicate is another level of evil. The brainwashed soul dead masses are looking for a hero, and they’re damn sure gonna get one.

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 17, 2023 8:23 pm

Maybe Putin is a WEF puppet and intentionally dragging Russia down like Trudeau and Biden are doing to us?

Jeremy
Jeremy
  Anonymous
June 17, 2023 8:39 pm

Knowing that Putin was also a WEF Young Global Leader, I do believe they are ALL in on it. Everything is distraction, while they carry out the plan. They have made their covenant with death and hell, and like an overflowing flood God will annull that covenant.

Tom Cullen
Tom Cullen
  Jeremy
June 18, 2023 12:18 am

Hard to believe someone could downvote this factual and coherent observation. But I would have never believed 2/3 of the population would self murder over their fear of the common cold either.
Strange days indeed.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
June 18, 2023 1:32 am

And Putin waited 20+ years to trigger his master evil plan… why exactly?

Tom Cullen
Tom Cullen
  Anonymous
June 18, 2023 4:31 am

It’s called globalism anon, and behind that, luciferianism. Old horn head was the first born of all Gods creation, he’s been around a while, what’s 20 years? WWIII isn’t about to begin, it started right after WWII. War is the forces of darkness vs all of humanity, always has been.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Tom Cullen
June 18, 2023 11:38 am

Globalism makes Putin immortal?

Observer
Observer
June 17, 2023 8:39 pm

It is a mystery why Putin invites escalation after escalation.

How about “because Russia actually does not have the means to easily win this conflict”? Putin (“Putin regime”) has obviously mis-calculated something at the beginning of it all. Now they must be happy they managed to bring it to a stalemate.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Observer
June 18, 2023 1:34 am

LOL, now tell us how many KIA the Russians have so far!

falconflight
falconflight
June 17, 2023 8:50 pm

No longer Z, now Slava Ukraini! This did it…. Yeah, this should do it for us…right onto that waste bin of history.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12206825/Putins-regime-condemned-using-horrific-animal-circus-entertain-Ukrainian-war-orphans.html#comments

Is It?
Is It?
June 17, 2023 10:08 pm

“It is a mystery why Putin invites escalation after escalation.”

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World War Zero
World War Zero
  Is It?
June 18, 2023 1:38 am

You posted these tired memes 3 months ago. Get updated material or Haines will cancel your contract for non-perf.

Dyslexics of The World: Untie!
Dyslexics of The World: Untie!
  World War Zero
June 18, 2023 8:42 am

“You posted these tired memes 3 months ago”

Tired but TRUE, imho.

NO reason, given the assorted nefarious methods ascribed to The Russians! The Russians!, That poot’n did NOT (@ Least) snipe hunt that little Stiletto Prancin’ FAIRY Looong Ago.

But 1 (one) possibility.

AND if he was REALLY a White Knight? WHY no videos of said Bio-Weapons Labs? NOT even a mention. By ANYBODY. Now.

Picture worth a 1000 words? Clearly, occasionally.

Posted EVERY time the Co – Captain (GSST) is mentioned…”Hebe gonna save the white race, The Nuclear Family, AND Christianity!”

Same. People. Biblical. New World Order is NOT ‘New’. Just a Faction.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”

King James Version (KJV)
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Have some fun Yourself. EZPZ. Don’t think One even has to register.

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Maty
Maty
June 18, 2023 1:06 am

The plan is to demilitarize and denazify the Ukraine. This is a war of attrition which Russia is winning no matter how long it takes. If you look at what’s been going on you’ll discover that Russia is dug in like WW1 allowing the Ukrainians to come to them. What’s the hurry PCR? Putin doesn’t refer to the Ukraine as a country anymore but a geographical region. Now calling Putin in on it because he is a WEF young global leader is absurd and blatantly false. There is no evidence of this. In fact since the late 90s his actions have proven otherwise. He tried to make peace with the west and look what happened. The west shat on him. Now listen to his rhetoric.

Tom Cullen
Tom Cullen
  Maty
June 18, 2023 4:41 am

Another poor soul in search of a hero. Putin is playing a role, my favorite character in this sci-fi horror show that passes for reality, but he’s just another actor. He may have even become one with the role, the best ones do, but not likely.

What happens in war? Lots of people are impoverished or die, innocent and otherwise, power is consolidated, and wealth is generated for a select few. Lather rinse repeat. And we never learn. Because the men who fight our wars, and those who support them, continue to focus on the honor and glory of the combat but never wake up to wars grim reality. God and country. Patriotism, nationalism, jingoism, it’s all just pride. And pride always precedeth destruction.

parsec parser
parsec parser
  Tom Cullen
June 18, 2023 7:44 pm

Exactly.

Israel couldn’t possibly be a prouder midwife of USA’s forever war-mongering against its enemies – while they easily dunk us into nigger-worshiping, LGBTQ-idolizing, anything goes liberal immolation of our children’s future.

So, how long after their promotion of Pride Month before the hook-beaked tribe’s destruction? Will ‘always’ need another cycle through the Mayan calendar?

Will it be before or after Zion’s shit-fly larvae sprout on Uncle Shlemiel’s wrinkled, monkeypox’d ass?

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 18, 2023 5:09 am

Its all part of the script, the Russians do enough to prolong the war not end it. The military industrial complex loves that, they get to offload all there surplus weapons inventories and also crank up their armament factories for the ongoing circus. Unfortunately for the average person this circus actually costs lives, the globalists love this too. Never let a good crisis go to waste

Earl
Earl
June 18, 2023 5:47 am

When you know that you are strong, allow the enemy to believe that you are weak in order for them to continually throw their poorly-trained men and badly-utilised weaponry at your impregnable defence lines … Sun Earl.