Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The Russian government including President Putin now publicly acknowledges that Western provocations are increasing in scope and seriousness and are spinning the Ukrainian conflict out of control.
The Russian government has stated that the American F-16 aircraft supplied to Ukraine by the idiotic governments of Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, and Belgium will “be treated as nuclear-capable weapons.”
Dmitry Medvedev, former President of Russia and currently deputy director of the Russian Security Council has declared the West’s leaders to be “infantile morons” whose ignorant arrogance is leading to their destruction.
Alarmed by the increasing likelihood of NATO and US soldiers deployed to Ukraine and by the British Foreign Secretary’s statement that there are no prohibitions on Ukraine’s use of the UK-provided long range missiles to strike deep into Russian territory, President Putin has ordered the Russian Ministry of Defense to conduct exercises to guarantee Russia’s ability to rapidly deploy battlefield nuclear weapons.
Medvedev stated that while the moronic French president speaks of “strategic ambiguity,” for Russia there is no ambiguity. Russia’s “response will not be in Ukraine. There will be no hiding on Capitol Hill, in the Elysee Palace or at 10 Downing Street.”
These developments confirm that I was correct that Putin’s never-ending conflict would permit ever increasing Western interventions until the situation spins out of control. As Putin has never enforced any of his many red lines that the West has crossed in Ukraine, the West no longer regards Russian warnings as meaningful. The warnings are welcomed and used as propaganda to further rouse Western populations to “the Russian threat.”
I find it bewildering that Putin, and apparently Xi, still think the West will come to its senses and accept a multipolar world. The ignored reality is that Washington cannot possibly reposition Russia from enemy to trusted partner. Despite the enormous increase in provocations and elevation of tension, Russia and China are still unable to accept reality. In his inaugural speech Putin again gave his assurance that Russia does not renounce dialogue with the West. Apparently Putin is willing to be forever deceived as he was for eight years by the Minsk Agreement. Putin thinks the atmosphere has changed and today “reliability, mutual responsibility, sincerity, decency, nobility and courage” are highly valued. By whom, President Putin? Most certainly not by the West.
Putin’s aversion to reality is buttressed by that of Russian foreign affairs “experts.” For example, Andrey Bystritsky of the Valdai Discussion Club claims that Putin’s openness to dialogue with the US about a mutual security system will “undoubtedly be heard in the West. There is no doubt about it. They are listening carefully.” Please name one leader in the West who is seeking “diplomatic solutions.” If any such leader exists, he clearly has no influence. The French president has sent French Foreign Legion troops to Ukraine. The UK foreign minister has sent Ukraine long-range missiles with which to attack deep into Russia. The Lithuanian prime minister dismisses Russian warnings and says she is ready to send troops to Ukraine. Biden calls the Russian president “Hitler” to justify more armaments and money for Ukraine. These are not the words and deeds of those seeking diplomatic solutions. Russians have a difficult time engaging with reality, and it is the Russian failure to accept reality that is leading to nuclear war.
Putin does not understand that in America ruled by anti-national, anti-white, anti-gentile, anti-heterosexual ideologies, the only remaining cement holding a dissolving society together is propaganda about “foreign enemies.” American conservatives and super-patriots (USA! USA! USA!) oppressed by their own government rally to the support of their oppressive government against “foreign enemies.” The designation of Russia, China, and Iran as enemies is essential for unity and for the power and profit of the powerful military/security complex. Without the propaganda, expressed by UK, EU, Biden and US Congressional leaders that Russia will next invade Europe, what would hold the West together? With the enormous investment Washington has in the portrait of Russia as Hitlerite evil, how can the Kremlin possibly entertain the hope of a partnership?
If Putin does not quickly bring an inexcusably over-long conflict to a victorious end before Ukraine fills up with Western troops, he will bequeath nuclear Armageddon to the world.
https://www.rt.com/russia/597054-medvedev-nuclear-drill-nato/
https://www.rt.com/news/597053-democrat-leader-us-troops-ukraine/
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-warns-ukraines-f-16s-will-treated-nuclear-threats-1897700
https://tass.com/politics/1784091
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1948389/
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Oh he will eh?????….aren’t you blaming the victim?..by saying PUTIN will unleash nuclear Armageddon due to inaction?…..
This DEFLECTION seems more obvious every day….your average American doesn’t realise the Bolshevicks are running his country any more than Vlad wants to admit the same…..and on top of that we get constant AH comparisons and NOTHING regarding the Holodomor or Night of Red Terror…..nothing………its the SAME DAMN PEOPLE,PEOPLE!…..
How is Putin a victim? How have Biden or Zelensky done anything to hinder any of Putin’s ambitions, or accomplished anything but the systematic elimination of White Nationalists on both sides of the staged for primetime Ukraine-Russia conflict?
Mr. Roberts you write the same article every week yet here we are, still no nuclear war. Thankfully because no one wins in a nuclear war contrary to what some think tank neocons in DC opine. I think HSF is correct when he says how can you be at war with a country and want them destroyed yet still do business with them as many countries still do with Russia. Once again, I think we are being played probably by both sides.
“I think we are being played probably by both sides”
That is exactly what is happening!
The ‘Kings of the earth’ have declared war with Jesus Christ. They. Just like Nimrod the masonic hero, are going to try and build the tower of Babel 2.0…..
One World Government
One World Religion
One World Military to ‘end all wars’
One World Financial System
And a One World Dictator
Prophesied on the masonic motto:
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum
What, this is what Jesus promised. What Mohammed and Satan promise too, but we’re just talking name brands now.
Fuck you, PCR. It’s NOT Russia who started this. It’s not Russia who is continuing this. But it WILL be Russia who ENDS it.
Cock knockers like you are the REASON it isn’t already over. Not Putin.
Aw, calm down big brother…let’s go check out the wlidebeast fight at Walmart
Knew from the title it was a pcr screed. Its always puties fault. If only Putin would just invade the ukies full throated it would be better. Run full tilt into ww3 is the only way to go.
Why is it this douche bag can’t/refuses to see that if the asswipes in dc/london etc quit funding this debacle that ww3 wouldn’t be a thing. What is so obscure about the wests feverish pushing to get ww3 into hot action that this douche bag can’t see??
Same dumb shit sa ever, same dumb shit coronel klink writes all the time. Don’t even read it anymore.
As I remember, All the world leaders enforced some sort of vaccine during C*vid. It appears that they are all in it together. To the average person, they seem to want an appearance of infighting. As long as they can pay someone to enforce they will continue to get away with it. So, does it mean that the true traitors are the enforcers? Not everyone can fly a plane. The pilot has a choice to drop a bomb or not.
‘…appears that they are all in it together.”
Not necessarily. The answer could be as simple as a few rotten apples leading many sheep astray.
You assume that everyone basically knows WTF they are doing, when my own observations tell me the exact opposite.
This is a great illustration of the current phenomenon: Red Pill vs Black Pill
The truth is that it doesn’t matter their motivation. The end result is the same and we’re all gonna have to find a way to live through it. Or rise above it.
You had me..then you lost me.
Oh well.
Nuclear armageddon=New clear garden of Eden
good play on words.
Vlad is baffled by the band of idiots that operate the governments of the West. Biden’s inept staff of misfits is notable in not knowing WTF is required to conduct a functional government that has a unified set of values and fails in projecting those values consistently to friend and foe alike. The price of corruption is high and every one of America’s adversaries are taking advantage of the situation of ineffective leadership in Washington.