Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org April 5, 2024
The United States government, speaking through the mouth of Secretary of State Blinken, defied all of Russia’s warnings this week with this declaration:
“Ukraine will become a member of NATO. Our purpose at the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership.”
By Putin’s refusal to use the necessary force to deal with the dangerous situation and by continuing to insist that the conflict is nothing but a limited operation to clear Ukrainian forces out of the Russian provinces, not an invasion of Ukraine, Russia will soon find herself at war with NATO. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hungary-vows-thwart-natos-newly-proposed-100bn-5-year-fund-ukraine
I have warned consistently without effect, only to be denounced by idiots as “bloodthirsty,” that Putin’s unrealism about the conflict, like his previous unrealism about the Minsk Agreement and his unrealism about the overthrow of the Ukrainian government in the so-called Maidan Revolution, is a direct path to World War III.
The minute Ukraine becomes a member of NATO, Putin will find himself at war with NATO. Russia has only a short time to knock out Ukraine, destroy the government, occupy the country and build a wall around it.
The ascension of Ukraine to Nato “is literally how the nuclear apocalypse movie starts,” says Elon Musk, one of the few remaining intelligent Americans.
Putin’s “limited military operation” has achieved nothing but two new NATO members–Finland and Sweden–attacks on Russian civilians inside Russia, mounting deaths from Western weapon system after weapon system supplied to Ukraine along with NATO military personnel to operate them and Western intelligence to target them. All the while Putin has been unable to comprehend that Russia is at war. Putin’s lack of response to mounting provocations has convinced Washington that Putin’s warnings are meaningless. Putin’s failure to enforce his red lines has caused Washington to loose belief that Putin has any red lines.
Just as Putin was forced into his “limited military operation” by the insulting cold shoulder Washington gave his plea for a mutual security pact, Russia will be forced into wider war with NATO by Washington’s defiance of Putin’s warning that Russia will not allow NATO membership for Ukraine.
Putin has a few months to end Ukraine’s existence, a country that never existed until Washington created it, before Putin’s inability to act brings on World War III.
Despite the dire situation, Putin remains unable to come to terms with reality. The Russian government continues to demonstrate to Washington weakness and irresolution by repeating its willingness to negotiate. Here we see Putin’s failure as a war leader. It should be Washington and NATO pleading with Putin to negotiate.
We are traveling along the road to Armageddon exactly as I predicted. One ignored provocation leads to another and worst provocation, and then to another and another, and now we have reached the red line that Putin cannot ignore. At this point the only way Putin can avoid World War III is to surrender or to terminate the existence of Ukraine before Washington elevates Ukraine to NATO membership. There is no other choice.
OMG, after me saying this for over a year, PCR now repeats what I’ve been saying, Putin is weak, and that he’s consistently been playing his cards all wrong.
Before the SMO, when Putin asked Biden for talks and was blanked. Putin should gone into UKraine very hard, six say shock & awe, then 2 tactical nukes on the 7th day, and two more each day until total surrender.
This would’ve ended NATOs game, just like that.
While Russia has been winning from the start, and you need to understand Russian military doctrine, to withdraw to protect Russian lives, than Russia has been winning, but only to reach the current position, which doesn’t look good.
I’ve been saying it since year dot, that Putin needs to go, and a real hard man needs to take over. Cools has had its day.
If I were the new Russian leader, I’d suggest Western UKraine evacuate, give em 72 hours, and then nuke a few key cities, maybe Kiev. A kind of warning shot over Nazi NATOs bows. Why, because the current situation required drastic measures to stop the fire getting out of control.
How long before the Nazis do another terror attack, and how much worse will this be?
We are holding the burning match and two things can happen. We put the flame out, or we get burn, assuming we don’t drop it and burn to death.
Half the articles today have WW3 in the title, and that is disgusting: think of something better to do, instead of obeying the world’s shittiest people
nuclear bombs do not exist
it is not Putins neverending war !
IT IS PENTAGONS JEWMAFIA NEVERENDING WAR
LIKE THEIR FAKE WAR ON TERROR .
terror they created themself like corruption + perversion !
like in UK the USA voting system is most disgusting + perverted !
What PCR is dreaming on is a knockout blow. It took years to wear down Germany in a campaign of total war, there was nothing left in the end. Japan actually tried the knockout blow strategy at Pearl Harbor and it didn’t work out well. Only nuclear bombs could do the job but they are probably inexistent, a Jewish orgasmic fantasy.
By their fruits you shall know them. Jesus, or what he represents, is on the side of life while the Jew and his minions are on the side of death (entropy). Death is the god of the Jews. Actually their ‘G-d’ is just a beast from the pits of hell.
In fact any White society naturally thrives in life if left unchecked by the destroyers. Russia prospered in a couple of decades, enough to bring the destroyers’ attention. It doesn’t have to be a White society though. Japan was a prominent nation leading production of high quality items until it crashed & burned in a financial crisis in the 80s, now they are talking about mass immigration – good luck with that!
Now the destroyers have Russia on the scope. Historically Russia is a resilient nation, however in WW2 it counted on material support provided by Washington. The WW2 Russian helmet is the American helmet. Hitler miscalculated it badly, he could not foresee that America, or London, would support the bloody terrorist Bolsheviks hated by everybody except… you know whom.
This is a very complicated chess game. The strategy that Romans used to defeat Hannibal seems to fit the situation, Romans decided to attack Hannibal’s homeland, Cartage. In order to defeat the destroyers (the Tribe & its minions) once and for all, Russia must increase the pressure on ‘Israel.’ Simultaneously, evil minions inside Russia must be dealt with.
@NBTT
“Japan actually tried the knockout blow strategy at Pearl Harbor and it didn’t work out well. Only nuclear bombs could do the job but they are probably inexistent, a Jewish orgasmic fantasy.”
A few posters including Bob Smith and myself (no relation) have given countless arguments with links relating to Hiroshima/Nagasaki and the timeline of the USSR’s entrance into the war against Japan. These including quotes from Japanese ministers. Bottom line: the Japanese wanted to end the war as honourably as possible. If there was a weapon of unspeakable force deployed, it suited both them and the coming hegemony. Bob Smith, myself, and others have also dealt with the physics aspect of “nukes”. Personally, I find the geopolitical aspects the most interesting.
Interestingly, I have been reading a book called “The Economic Weapon” by Nicholas Mulder. It is about the use of sanctions during, before, and after WWI. The timeline also being extended to WWII. Some saying that WWII was just WWI with an intermission. The older empires; Britain, USA(yes), France, and Russia had reasons for keeping the Johnny-come-latelies of Germany, Japan, Italy from territorial expansion. (Apparently, Spain under Franco were flexing to reinvent Spanish imperialism in Africa but needed oil from the USA.) Propaganda-wise, the Mulder falls into this bias as the “Allies” as perpetrators of the status quo are the “good guys” and the “protectors of democracy” etc, while the others are “fascists”, “nazis”, and “imperialists” etc. We still exist in this mindspace of white versus black cowboy hats even today of course.
Other than in the propaganda war, or maybe as an extension of the propaganda war, the weapon of sanctions was lauded as a major reason for the Allies victory in WWI by the self-same, while German generals eager to ease the fault of the German army, also exaggerated the use of sanctions as a reason in Germany’s WWI defeat. The German army were worn out. My point is this: there is a parallel here between the victors and the vanquished of WWI and WWII. Both being in accord for the reason for victory and defeat. My understanding is that both Germany in WWI and Japan in WWII were defeated on the ground. It suited the purposes of all players to have a reason for the result to have been as it was.
Leading up to WWII, Mulder writes of “temporal claustrophobia”. Germany and Japan had been sanctioned and felt that since war was actually upon them anyway, were incited to expand in order to obtain raw materials to protect themselves. Sanctions in other words were responsible for precipitating WWII. The terms of the Treaty of Versailles and German “reparations” were tribute in any case – an ongoing aspect of economic warfare. It is the leaderships of countries who juggle their own position by engaging in war to persist. Conquest means the acquisition of resources. I believe it is possible to view the twentieth century as various empires in alliance and contention.
The following link is from a guy who while believing in nukes, describes why civilian depredation has never been a reason for nations to surrender. It is called, “5 Myths About Nuclear Weapons”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBX5vo1KBiw
Essentially, nations(oligarchies) fall when the military loses not when the civilians are killed are starved.