Will Schryver this morning briefly describes the status in Ukraine: The Ukraine proxy army (AFU 1.0) has been destroyed and now the Ukraine-NATO proxy army (AFU 2.0) is well on the way to destruction: And a reply makes the excellent point that we’ve harped on continuously:
Unhappy with Germany's increasing reliance on cheaper Russian gas, the US apparently (according to Seymour Hersh) started planning to blow up Nord Stream in 2021, long before Russia invaded Ukraine. Kind of looks like Putin's claims of 'provocation' have some merit. Undoubtedly there were additional US provocations of which Putin was aware. Then in 2022, Hersh says the US pushed the button. The US has denied Hersh's report.
I would have thought that blowing up another person's pipeline is just a little bit illegal. It appears, according to Hersh, that the order to push the button came down straight from the Big Guy.
Thanks for the bleak summary, but look at the bright side. This will not escalate. The West is so stupid, Biden above all others, that we have created a win-win situation and Russia can just continue to wear us down militarily and economically forever. Our media will continue to inform us that Russia is in bad shape and on the verge of losing. A few more tanks, a few more missiles.....
While it's still unclear whether the US, UK, and NATO have definitively committed to these sorts of escalations, it certainly can't help any attempts at back-channel negotiations to have Zelenskyy running around on camera thanking the UK Parliament "in advance for these powerful English planes." If the US State Department were serious about a negotiated peace, one would think they'd clip his wings a bit.
Descending from a grandfather who came to the US as a result of, well, releasing himself on his own recognizance from His Majesty's custody in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916, I'm no fanboy of the British Crown, but, FFS, Z, show some respect!!! We in the West have to abandon our traditions and protocol just so Z-Man can run around playing G.I. Joe. SMH.
The problem with the US's proxy wars is not just that they don't know their enemy, but that they don't know their supposed friends either. In every war they've fought in the last 70 years, proxy or not, they continually underestimated their enemy and overestimated their friends. They thought Diem and the South Vietnamese generals were a genuine alternative to communism that the people there would support; they thought that their guys in Iraq and Afghanistan were budding democratic stalwarts just waiting to install free and fair elections and open local McDonalds. Now they are doing it with Z, thinking he is some kind of little "Mr Smith goes to Washington" guy trying to save "democracy" against the Russian steamroller. They get it wrong time after time because they refuse to do put their blinkers aside and do the real research.
One would think Rachel Maddow would have her head out of her arse by now since Russiagate blew up.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/02/07/people_pushing_peace_talks_in_ukraine_dont_get_it_russia_news_to_lose.html
Mike Lee
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If true, the executive branch has unilaterally waged war against a near-peer nuclear power.
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
Uh oh.
Unhappy with Germany's increasing reliance on cheaper Russian gas, the US apparently (according to Seymour Hersh) started planning to blow up Nord Stream in 2021, long before Russia invaded Ukraine. Kind of looks like Putin's claims of 'provocation' have some merit. Undoubtedly there were additional US provocations of which Putin was aware. Then in 2022, Hersh says the US pushed the button. The US has denied Hersh's report.
I would have thought that blowing up another person's pipeline is just a little bit illegal. It appears, according to Hersh, that the order to push the button came down straight from the Big Guy.
Thanks for the bleak summary, but look at the bright side. This will not escalate. The West is so stupid, Biden above all others, that we have created a win-win situation and Russia can just continue to wear us down militarily and economically forever. Our media will continue to inform us that Russia is in bad shape and on the verge of losing. A few more tanks, a few more missiles.....
While it's still unclear whether the US, UK, and NATO have definitively committed to these sorts of escalations, it certainly can't help any attempts at back-channel negotiations to have Zelenskyy running around on camera thanking the UK Parliament "in advance for these powerful English planes." If the US State Department were serious about a negotiated peace, one would think they'd clip his wings a bit.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-pledges-fighter-pilot-training-ukraine-zelensky-surprise-visit
Descending from a grandfather who came to the US as a result of, well, releasing himself on his own recognizance from His Majesty's custody in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916, I'm no fanboy of the British Crown, but, FFS, Z, show some respect!!! We in the West have to abandon our traditions and protocol just so Z-Man can run around playing G.I. Joe. SMH.
The problem with the US's proxy wars is not just that they don't know their enemy, but that they don't know their supposed friends either. In every war they've fought in the last 70 years, proxy or not, they continually underestimated their enemy and overestimated their friends. They thought Diem and the South Vietnamese generals were a genuine alternative to communism that the people there would support; they thought that their guys in Iraq and Afghanistan were budding democratic stalwarts just waiting to install free and fair elections and open local McDonalds. Now they are doing it with Z, thinking he is some kind of little "Mr Smith goes to Washington" guy trying to save "democracy" against the Russian steamroller. They get it wrong time after time because they refuse to do put their blinkers aside and do the real research.
Why has Boris Johnson been going this extreme?
Perhaps he needs to fund a top 1% lifestyle?