English Outsider - The 'West' Is A Farce

 

 

by English Outsider
lifted from a comment

There's nothing funny here, though it's true that the Western military and political establishments are now pure farce. Nothing funny because the farce has had lethal consequences. The unrestrained carnage in Gaza will be a reproach to the West for ever. As for Ukraine, "b" summed up, must be two years ago now, what we are putting our proxies in Ukraine through. A "crime", he stated. So it is. Has been since 2014. Worse now, after a million and more deaths and economic and societal ruin for Ukraine to match.

As for the military reality Putin, in the video embedded in the Simplicius article above, sums up the military reality that has been clear to us Europeans since February 2022. NATO, the US and all, is a paper tiger. Even with the substantial manpower of the original Ukrainian armed forces NATO has neither the troops nor the equipment for a ground war on Russia’s doorstep and never has had. All we do have is the nuclear threat and neither Biden, nor, now, Trump, will risk Chicago frying for Vilnius. Nor for Berlin. Nor for London. That accepted, the only puzzle lies in working out what the European politicians hope to gain from prolonging a war long since lost.

Seems a simple enough puzzle assuming, that is, that the European politicians are rational. The gamble they took in 2022 was a gamble on destroying Russia with sanctions. Their only way out of that failed gamble is to save face by taking us into the new Cold War. We must strain every nerve, they tell us, to face the Russian threat. Only keeping us in a state of permanent war hysteria will serve. Otherwise, should we recover from that hysteria, the danger is that we shall look about us and hold the politicians to account for the damage they have done and are still doing to our own economies and to our own societies.

The outcome of the war with Iran is still unknown. That of the war in Ukraine is set in stone and always has been. It remains only to attempt to guess how the Russians will accomplish their local objectives there.

Those local objectives are simple enough. To protect the inhabitants of the Donbas, an objective often forgotten or glossed over but the primary initial objective of the SMO. To prevent NATO's use of Ukraine, and now of whatever remnant Ukraine turns out to be, as a means of attacking Russia.

That means no more sabotage and assassination missions run out of Ukraine into Russia from the bases we set up in Ukraine for that purpose. No more "look no hands" missile and drone attacks from out of Ukraine. If we wish to continue with those various lines of attack we'll have to do so out of Europe, or from elsewhere along the Russian perimeter. Remnant Ukraine will no longer be at our disposal for those purposes.

The wider Russian aims, those set out in the 2021 draft treaties, it's less certain the Russians will achieve. They might get somewhere with the Americans. That depends on whether the Trump team, itself divided, can manage to negotiate the conflict between the "populists" and the Ancien Régime in the States. But whether or not they get anywhere with the Americans, the Russians must know they'll get nowhere with the Europeans as long as the European Ancien Régime remains in the saddle. In 2022 I was writing on English blogs that all the Russians want to do with Europe is to shut the door on us and make sure that door has locks. I doubt they’ll manage to do any better with us now, so the garden in the jungle will remain an impotent and embittered enclave in a world that has long since moved on.

No wonder Boris Johnson told us that what was at stake in Ukraine was nothing less than the hegemony of the West. So it was, and looking at what we've put our proxies through in Ukraine, and at what we're doing or have assisted in doing in Gaza, who can regret that lost hegemony?

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As for the attempt to keep us in a state of “permanent war hysteria”, examples of that abound in Europe, to such an extent that it’s difficult to find any statements from any European politician, that don’t illustrate it. An example from the States is to be found somewhere in this video of a discussion between two of the best American analysts, Daniel Davis and Andrei Martyanov.

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