Written By Paul Craig Roberts
Dear readers,
Don't you think it's strange that humanity faces the possibility of disappearance and that there is no peace movement? Does our carelessness reach so far that we are indifferent to our existence? Even alternative media sites like Simplicius downplay the threat.
The U.S. and NATO are 18. November 2024. they fired missiles from Ukrainian soil at Russia despite the Russian government's clear announcement that such a reckless action would trigger a war between the West and Russia. Western representatives reported that Ukraine fired missiles supplied by the US and the UK, but that is a lie. The Ukrainians are not trained to operate a missile system and have no ability to fire. The missiles must be operated by US / NATO personnel.
The missiles were intercepted by Russian air defenses. However, their firing led the US and NATO to war with Russia. Russia responded by demonstrating a new missile, for which the West has no counterpart or ability to deter, the complete destruction of Ukraine's military production facility. Putin hoped the demonstration of a new hypersonic Russian missile would deter further attacks. But it's not. Ironically, Putin's attempt to limit the conflict by restricting it to Donbass gave the West the opportunity to expand the war greatly.
23. and 25. in November, the US / NATO again fired missiles at Russia. We are waiting for a response from Russia.
Putin, a democratically elected leader with popular support unmatched by any Western leader, including Trump, is at a disadvantage to the West because of his humanitarianism. He slowly recognizes evil, and after the events he responds to the Western threat to the existence of Russia, not in a proactive way. All initiatives are in the West.
Probably Putin noticed that any new reckless action that the West put forward as a way to help Ukraine was first rejected and then approved. Step by step, the weapon system was initially rejected after the system was approved, including long-range missiles that Washington said would never be sent. When they were sent, Washington said the missiles would never be allowed to be used outside the battlefield.
Now the missiles, which would never have been sent or used outside the battlefield, were used 3 times to strike inside Mother Russia itself. This irresponsible, reckless action by the Biden regime and NATO was done in the face of a clear statement by the Russian government that it means that the US and NATO are at war with Russia, and it runs counter to the revised Russian military doctrine that now allows Russia to attack any country, whether it is a nuclear power, with nuclear weapons if the country attack Russia with conventional weapons. The doctrine allows all NATO countries, including the United States, to be attacked with nuclear weapons if any state allied with them, such as Ukraine, attacks Russia with conventional weapons. In the context of the conflict in Ukraine, an attack on Russia means beyond the battlefield itself.
With three missile attacks inside Mother Russia outside the battlefield itself, Washington and NATO have made it legal under Russian war doctrine for the West to receive a Russian nuclear attack. As I wrote earlier, only a foolish government in Washington would open the door to nuclear war. Putin's patience with the West is what prevents nuclear war.
Putin is likely to maintain his patience with the madness of the West until Trump is in office and Putin determines whether the mutual defense agreement, denied by the Mad Biden regime, is possible with the Trump regime. If not, there is no basis for Putin's hope of avoiding a major war. Sooner or later Putin will have to switch from a reactive regime to a proactive one if Russia wants to be protected. Indeed, determined to poison relations with Trump, Washington could target the Kursk nuclear power plant and send radioactivity over Russia or target Moscow itself. Any of this could break Putin's patience.
Trump's appointments seem unpromising when it comes to ending the conflict. The director of Russia's Federal Security Service said Trump's election "is unlikely to lead to radical changes in Washington's foreign policy." More provocations are expected.
The question ignored is how much more provocations Putin will accept before his humanity is overwhelmed by his commitment to Russia?
When we witness, as is obvious, that the West is pushing Putin to this decision, how can we conclude anything other than that the West is pushing the world into nuclear Armageddon? According to Tass, the Russian news service, President-elect Trump did not contact Putin. Accordingly, Trump may never get his 24 hours during which he can end the conflict. The world could be over by then. I find it remarkable that Trump did not try to alleviate the dangerous situation.
In Poland and Romania, there are US missile bases on the Russian border with missile systems capable of firing nuclear weapons at Russia. Putin has complained for years about the threat these American bases pose. Washington did not remove them, and Putin did nothing about them. If the US and NATO continue to fire missiles from Ukraine into Russia in the face of Putin's clear warnings, Putin, if realistic, must admit that Polish and Romanian American missile bases are threats of the highest order. Both, as recently reported by the Russian Foreign Ministry, are on the list of Russia's goals for elimination.
The U.S. response, as White House National Security Adviser John Kirby said, "we take our obligations under Article 5 to our NATO allies incredibly seriously. They are strong and that won't change."In other words, if Russia protects itself from the possibility of a nuclear attack by the United States, Washington will launch World War III. Washington morons believe that the existence of nuclear missile bases on Russia's borders with Poland and Romania is worth a nuclear war. Tell me this isn't crazy.
What is extreme, My fact-based warning, or the irresponsible actions of delusional people in Washington lost in their own false narratives, in their own hubris and mistrust of their invincibility and Justice?
It's a delusion. Here is Frederick Starr, president of the Central Asian Institute for the Caucasus at the US foreign policy council, who proclaims that Putin has lost the conflict with Ukraine and is facing internal overthrow. Putin's domestic front is collapsing, he says:
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/ukraine-and-russia’s-collapsing-home-front-213869
What are the facts? The Ukrainian Front is collapsing. The collapse is so complete that NATO is discussing supplying Ukraine with nuclear weapons. Putin has the strongest public support of any leader on Earth, re-elected to office for 25 years with margins no Western leader can hope for, not even Trump. But according to Frederick Starr, "Putin has already lost the war and the only question is what cheek-saving measures can be extracted through a bargain." Star reports that Putin's defeat is so complete that his presidency is in danger.
Next we have The Telegraph, formerly a sensible English Tory newspaper, which speaks hyperbolic thoughts. The Telegraph writes a week after Russia in action demonstrated a new weapons system that the "advanced" West did not even dream of "Putin would be crazy to fight the West because modern weapons production in Russia is impossible without Western components." So where did the Oreshnik missile come from?
I do not know of any Western weapons system that does not have a superior Russian counterpart. It is obvious that in Ukraine The praised Western weapons were easily defeated. Indeed, driven from the battlefield.
The" leaders " of the Western world live in faith in their own lies and propaganda. Their propaganda took control of their own thinking, forcing them to ignore reality. There is something seriously wrong with Western nations electing to office extremely stupid people capable of destroying life on Earth simply on the basis of ignorance resulting from their self-control.
Unless Trump survives the Deep State, responds to the challenge, and makes peace - a victory to be achieved, the world seems doomed.
Source: The Western World Retreats Deeper Into Unreality
Translation from English: Center for geostrategic studies
Photo: protests in Washington, D.C., January 2021
1. December 2024.
