Be careful which wars you provoke — the Great Satan is looking decidedly weak

© 2022 Peter Free

 

24 February 2022

 

 

Today's theme

 

One can only talk shit for so long.

 

And then an irritated someone will force the lips-flapper to back it up.

 

 

Background — Russia in Ukraine

 

To get accurate reviews of what led up to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, one has to go

'alternative' media sources. Meaning people who still have a regard for accuracy in analysis and reporting.

 

For example, a summary overview of how NATO expansion (and Western intransigence regarding it) forced Russia into what is happening now can be found here:

 

 

David Stockman, George Kennan Warned NATO Expansion Would Lead to This, AntiWar (24 February 2022)

 

 

A longer, outstandingly well-reasoned review of the background to Russian move into Ukraine comes from Glenn Greenwald. He was interviewed at YouTube's "The Vanguard" a few hours after I had already posted the entirety of this essay.

 

Greenwald's view and mine of the history underlying the Ukraine crisis correspond:

 

 

The Vanguard, Live with Glenn Greenwald - Russia Invades Ukraine, YouTube (24 February 2022)

 

 

US talking trash and not being able to back it up — again?

 

Stone-headed provocation — combined with weakness in follow-through — is a bad strategic idea.

 

After putting on a display of murderous incompetence during our Afghanistan withdrawal, President 'Dementia' Joe Biden and his Secretary of State — the figuratively appropriately named and effetely pompous Antony Blinken — have been escalating the Ukraine situation for months.

 

And now that the Russian Federation has taken the bait, suddenly the US cannot do much in response except steal the equivalent of Russian pennies.

 

Losing actual American blood in defending the Ukro-Nazis — those happily corrupt and anti-democratic folks that the United States couped (here a verb) into power in 2014 — is a step too far for our Biden administration's swagger boys.

 

Do not think that eastern Europeans and China will not notice the Great Satan's paper-tiger-ness.

 

In short, the Biden Administration's constant neoconservative trash-talking has put the United States in face-losing place. Russians and Ukrainians are not the only ones, who are dealing with a lose-lose proposition.

 

 

The American public, also, is taking it on the chin

 

Tucker Carlson dissected the boorish stupidity of the Biden Administration's handling of Ukraine invasion's consequences. Those are going to greatly escalate inflation and deprivation in the United States.

 

The following clip is notable for its incorporated sequences of Biden Administration people infuriatingly acting like We the People-squashing fools:

 

 

Fox News, Tucker: These are the realities that actually matter, YouTube (23 February 2022)

 

 

Carlson's entirely reasonable points are that:

 

 

Ukraine is not a democracy

 

the US has no business pretending that it is one

 

America has no genuine strategic interests to protect (in defending Ukraine)

 

and most importantly

 

the American public should not be asked to put Ukrainian interests ahead of its own.

 

 

Bigger picture — consider China

 

China's leadership may opportunistically come up with a way to draw attention to the United States' expanding powerlessness. Exactly while the strategically attention-distracting Ukraine tragedy is unfolding.

 

The PRC's leaders may decide to depants the US somewhere near the South China Sea.

 

Just for fun. As an added reminder to the United States that the People's Liberation Army can do what it wants, when it wants, in its own backyard.

 

 

American rockheadedness

 

Stupidity is dangerous. Not listening to other people's explanations of their own interests reinforces this negative trait.

 

Unfortunately, American leadership is (historically demonstrably) both stupid and deaf.

 

The American Military Industrial Complex's bottomless avarice — and its inability to foresee and prepare for obvious consequences — are well illustrated by the strategic idiocy involved with having literally forced Russia and China into an informal alliance.

 

Why would we, knowingly, turn the two other most powerful nations on Earth into a united front against us?

 

Given the implications of such an appalling depth of fossilized US brain stone, we received Putin's uncharacteristically emphatic warning, yesterday:

 

 

'To anyone who would consider interfering from the outside - if you do, you will face consequences greater than any you have faced in history,’ he said on a television broadcast around 6am Moscow time.

 

© 2022 Brian Stieglitz, Putin's terrifying warning to the West: 'To anyone who would consider interfering from the outside - if you do, you will face consequences greater than any you have faced in history' as he claims he is ‘de-Nazifying’ Ukraine, DailyMail (23 February 2022)

 

 

The Russian president has never, to my knowledge, spoken so inflammatorily

 

He is either (a) at the end of his patience with the constantly encroaching West or (b) wants us to think so.

 

Keep in mind that Putin is far more historically knowledgeable and strategically competent, than virtually all of our own, constantly blowharding, American Pomposity Class.

 

For Putin to speak as uncharacteristically threateningly as he did last night, suggests that Russian leaders have prepared the entire range of their military options.

 

I interpret Putin's statement to mean that sinking NATO (or American) ships in the Black Sea, shooting down NATO (or American) aircraft, and escalating to tactical nuke use on the Russian periphery are acceptable means of defending the Russian Motherland from the West's continued encroachment.

 

I further suspect — also on the basis of last night's Putin statement — that Russian leaders have considered that it might be necessary to go on to full-scale nuclear war, if further provoked.

 

In that regard — meaning realistically looking ahead to likely geopolitical consequences — Putin has no evident strategic equal in the West.

 

Putin, for instance, knows his history. Including the death tolls amassed along World War Two's Eastern Front, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

So, when Putin says — 'consequences greater than any you have faced in history'— y'all better recognize the measuring stick that he is using.

 

 

The moral? — Will reality finally intrude . . .

 

. . . into the Great Satan's delusions of deity-like powers?

 

That Russian president Putin felt it necessary to be so plain-spoken with his Western adversaries says something about how the Federation perceives the West's aggressively delivered granite-headedness.

 

Y'all better be praying that American leadership now manages to attain some (at least temporary) sense.

 

As for the freeloading — and equally shit-talking — Europeans, they need to begin pulling their silly heads out of their behinds. One of the planet's Alpha Dogs has finally removed its self-imposed Patience with Dumbasses chain.

 

If we continue with the US-led West's stream of provocative recklessness, a very-very Bad Thing is likely to occur.