When the Soviet Union fell, the Global American Empire got the thinly disguised control of Russia that it has over so many countries.
And proceeded to behave a grossly corrupt, exploitative, disruptive, destructive, and incompetent manner, with the result that it lost control.
And immediately started plotting to take control back through military means “extending Russia”.
Because the Deep State is many, this involved coordination between many plotters, so the plot was planned in semi public. Brian Berletic has no end of citations of government documents on this. Which of course means that the Russians can read it also.
The basic plot is to pressure Russia to make a small concession, each one far too small to fight a nuclear war over, but one that will reduce its capability to resist further concessions. And then demand another, and another. Until Russia is no more.
So Russia knows that if it makes any further concessions, it will get not peace, but a subsequent war that is more difficult than the one it just fought.
So it has to demand the equivalent of what it demanded in 2022, just before it invaded the Ukraine. Anything less, if the various papers that Brian Berletic keeps talking about are indicative, the various papers that the Russians have also have undoubtedly read, will lead to war more terrible than the current war.
Brian believes that the merely temporary government supports the permanent governments plan. Which is sort of true, and sort of false. That the merely temporary government goes along with very bad things does not mean it supports those things. It means it is irrelevant and impotent.
Trump had very little control during his first term. In this term, he is grasping for a lot more control, and is succeeding in some important areas, in particular immigration. He is also grasping for more control of the military, and it looks like he is succeeding. But it is plain he does not have control of the Global American Empire’s many satrapies, nor their militaries.
Europe has been threatening to start seizing Russian shipping. Estonia attempted to seize a Russian ship in international waters. The Russian military intervened. Russia has now issued, in the most public way possible, a threat to end maritime trade world wide by war on the oceans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7c75mrMzc4 A threat that the entire west has silently ignored, and as far as is possible silenced. Obviously the suggestion that if we attack their commercial ships, they will attack our commercial ships, is just too unthinkably absurd to possibly be taken seriously. Also Russia is just a gas station. It cannot possibly have the capability to do any harm to our shipping should we harm their shipping. Didn’t the Ukraine just defeat the Russian fleet?
The west demands that everyone accept as perfectly obvious and undeniable that the west can set sail for world war III, and Russia will inevitably back down to avoid World War III. Will it? If Russia takes the papers issued by the deep state on regaining control over Russia seriously, they cannot back down.
Europe and the deep state demand Trump escalate war on Russia. The end of that path is not Russian concessions, but nuclear war, for every escalation, in the context of the plans that they have read, implicitly threatens that if Russia makes any concession for peace, the result will be worse war, slightly delayed.
Russia cannot make the smallest of concessions under military pressure, because any concession will lead to demands for further concessions under greater military pressure.
Suppose Russia had agreed to to an “unconditional” ceasefire. This would immediately result in the movement of European troops under European flags into the Ukraine, and Russia would have to attack them. And if Russia failed to attack them, arms would continue flowing into the Ukraine, and the Ukraine would continue conscription, growing its army and receiving more arms, which it due course it would use to regain control of Russians resident in the 1990s Ukrainian borders.
Russia has demanded that Russians in the near abroad be let alone, and that Russian Orthodoxy be let alone. Having demanded this, and gone to war over it, it cannot, in the context of the Deep State’s plans for Russia, yield on that demand. The usual Ukraine shills have been telling me that it is totally reasonable to put the knackers on Russian minorities and pluralities, and it is really horrible that Russia takes exception to this. Maybe it is totally reasonable. Maybe it is really horrible. But having made that demand, and gone to war over it, Russia cannot back down even if the nukes fly, for another totally reasonable demand would swiftly follow.
The problem is that there is no concession that Russia could make that would get it off the path to World War III. Any concession means that the path to World War III will swiftly resume with Russia in a worse position than before that concession. No concession, however great, in which Russia continues to exist, will get it off that path. Russia cannot make the smallest concession for peace, for peace by concession is not on offer.
There was no reason for Russia to have invaded Ukraine.
Russia has plenty of empty land, resources, and funds and could have simply and easily imported all of its “Russian Speakers”, etc.
Ukraine and the West/NATO were never going to invade Russia, because nukes, and because Russia has plenty of other free non-Western borders to trade and move via.
Russia chose to initiate cross-border war.
Putin is no more Saint than Hitler or Muhammad, nor anyone else for that matter.
All just assholes trying to get away with whatever they can get away with.
Which just continues breeding a world full of assholes.
Russia has no natural borders. Ethnic cleansing, if successful, will continue all the way to Moscow.
Russia’s borders keep moving over people’s heads. Always have. If people go and follow the borders, the borders will follow them. Russia has a lot of history about the lack of natural borders.
The US has regularly sent large scale conventional regular US forces over supposedly sacred international borders all over the world, and even more often sent proxy forces, and even more often sent small scale proxy forces, and has been rather regularly sending small scale proxy forces across Russian borders since not very long after 2000.
Ukraine and the West have been invading Russia since 2015, in the sense that the west has been sending in people from outside to assist its proxies making war inside Russia.
Because nukes, no conventional full scale Nato invasion of Russia is likely. But low level proxy invasions, of which Kursk was the biggest example, low level wars, have been happening all the time, with the intent of maintaining pressure on Moscow to make concessions, and these operations have had deniable western operators in them, notably the Kursk operation that had a group of Poles and Americans. Notoriously the “free russians” did not speak Russian in their internal communications.
The intent, stated since 2000, was steady military pressure to impose never ending concessions but pressure short of World War III. A Nato attack on Russian commercial shipping in international waters is getting mighty close to World War III. That is pretty high military pressure, not very far short of World War III at all. And any time Russia makes any concession, the demands just get worse, and the pressure just gets higher. The pressure over that demand goes away, but very soon there are new demands.
The plan since 2000 has been low level forever war on Russia, to conquer Russia by imperceptibly small degrees. So Russia responded by escalation to high level war, since it was losing at low level war.
If Russia had quietly accept the cleansing of Russians from the Ukraine, next up on the drawing boards, it has been on the drawing board since about 2010, was cleansing Kalingrad. There is no stopping point. Not in American planning (they wanted to liberate the Chechens next) and not in the geography of Russia.
Break up of Russia into smaller division has been the plan since 2000. There is a long long list of areas with Russian majorities outside current borders that America thinks should not be have Russians in them, and there is a long long list of areas inside Russian borders that America thinks should not be inside Russian borders. Kalingrad was up next, but America has been trying to manufacture real or astro turfed support for breaking away for Russia in numerous areas inside Russia.
There are one hundred and one ethnic minority groups inside Russia, and there have been ever since 2000 US operators telling them they are oppressed by Russians, they need their own independent state, and their own independent state would somehow become free from Russians. The Americans hear their own voices from inside Russia, and tell us it is the voice of the people. Remember how when the Greatest Ukrainian Counter offensive started, the usual voices were telling us that Russian defeat would lead to the break up of Russia. If Russia had been defeated and had conceded that defeat, dismembering of Russia would be up next. They were planning to start with Kalingrad, but they made it plain they did not intend to stop at Kalingrad. So Russia just has to keep on fighting even if militarily defeated. Any concession leads to the next demand. Given the ambitions revealed in numerous papers issued by the Deep State, and frequently stated in the media, as when they were expecting a major Russian defeat in the Greatest Ukrainian Counter offensive, Russia has no choice but to keep on fighting till it wins the deal it asked for in 2022, or the world goes up in nuclear fire.
If Russia won’t make further concessions, either the West stops demanding concessions, which might happen if Trump takes control, or the deep state will have to escalate or give up (at least for now).
Western Europe doesn’t have much options for escalation outside of the Baltic Sea. Looks like any attempt to size a Russian ship will be met with military force. If sizing ships does not work, they can sink Russian ships. What will Russia do then?
Nothing? Maybe, but retaliation seems more likely, e.g. destroy whatever platform (ship, plane, coastal artillery) sunk the Russia ship. What can the deep sate then do? Western Europe doesn’t have much military to escalate further in response.
Nuclear war is some escalation steps away from the present situation, not many, but some. If Russia stands firm, I don’t see how the deep state could match all steps on the way to nukes.
Re Yes Minister “salami tactics” in reverse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-UqIIvang
“Russia cannot make the smallest concession for peace, for peace by concession is not on offer.”
Greetings,
Peace is always a temporary solution. Often a puny solution. War is the natural state of mankind. War of power. Power for its own sake. War for control, resources, land, and acquiring women. It is our visceral need that drives us. The animal side.
In the time of nukes, we are going to have to remedy this.