Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org Aug 22, 2024
The Kremlin has an amazing inability to confront reality. Peter Koenig explains that NATO has now invaded Russia by entering Kursk, and the Kremlin still pretends it is involved in a limited border conflict with Ukraine in Donbas. Indeed, the Kremlin is so far removed from reality that Russia’s leaders were incapable of imagining a NATO led and equipped force would cross into Russia herself that the Kursk region was left entirely unprotected.
This humiliation Russia is suffering is the direct consequence of the mindless way the Kremlin has conducted the conflict with Ukraine. The West has made it clear from the beginning in 2014–a decade ago–when Washington overthrew the elected Ukrainian government and installed a neo-nazi puppet that the West was at war with Russia. One might have thought that the Kremlin would have recognized it was confronted by an aggressive Western enemy. Instead the Kremlin wasted eight years pleading for the Minsk Agreement and for a mutual security agreement with the West, while the West built and equipped an army for Ukraine. The Kremlin was finally forced into action, for which it was not prepared militarily, when the Ukrainian army was about to attack the two breakaway republics in Donbas and massacre the Russian population.
The Russian belated intervention was so weak and so limited that it surprised everyone. The Kremlin stressed that its intent was limited to Donbas and was not an invasion of Ukraine. Consequently, Kiev was left unhampered to conduct war against Russia. The Kremlin has done nothing to destroy Ukraine’s ability to conduct war, as the Ukrainian/NATO invasion of Russia herself demonstrates.
It has been clear to me from the beginning that Putin’s inability to accept reality would result in a progressively widening war and that Putin was not making sufficient conventional efforts to keep the conflict conventional. A large Russian army seems not to be on the table, as Putin’s numerous reassurances that there will be no conscription indicates. Consequently, the Kremlin has set in place tactical nuclear forces to destroy NATO’s ability to conduct war. It seems that my long ago prediction that Putin’s everlasting patience was leading directly to nuclear war is correct.
I wonder if the non-Western world is capable of understanding the evil that the West and Israel represent. (Ilana Mercer, herself a Jew and former Israeli resident, describes the Israeli legalization of war crimes here: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/08/ilana-mercer/de-sade-at-sde-teiman-when-genocide-snuff-films-extra-judicial-assassinations-rape-are-de-facto-legal/ ) Putin still seems to think that the conflict with NATO in Ukraine can be negotiated to a reasonable settlement. If he thinks this, he has no idea what he and Russia are confronted with.
The Kremlin has miscalculated every step along the road to Armageddon. Putin did nothing to stop Washington’s overthrow of the Ukrainian government. Putin refused the requests in 2014 of the Donbas republics to be reincorporated into Russia like Crimea. Had Putin accepted the request, there would have been no war. Putin watched for eight years the West’s creation of a Ukrainian army and undertook no comparable buildup of Russian forces. He had to rely on the semi-private Wagner Group during the initial stages of the conflict. Putin has done nothing to enforce any of his declared red lines, thus always encouraging more provocations that widen the conflict. He has not built a conventional army. What NATO should be confronting is a four or five million army of highly trained troops armed to the teeth with the superior Russian weapons systems. Instead, there are Russian war games practicing the launch of a disarming tactical nuclear strike on NATO capability.
In the Kremlin’s defense one can say that the Kremlin believed in good will, in the sanity of the West, and in the West’s ability to live and let live. But believing this despite all the hard evidence to the contrary is inexplicable.
So, Peter Koenig tells us, war is upon us: https://www.globalresearch.ca/has-president-putins-patience-reached-its-limits%E2%80%A8/5865408
PCR talks as if he has no influence in the West and can do nothing to tame what he sees as a mad dog
We’re still alive. Maybe if we all get destroyed in fire and brimstone Putin finally listened to PCR? I also get frustrated with the slaps Putin allows NATO to give Russia, but Russia likely has a plan they follow, because without such a plan they’d surely have lashed out with force because that’s what attack victims do.
It won’t just be a plan to win the war but to dominate the settlement.
I read the first little bit.
The truth, Putin is in the crosshairs, his head is on the chopping block.
This has been a long time coming. He’s played from the back of the court, with a totally defensive game giving Nazi NATO continues opportunities to tease the bear, and now Putin has lost his cloak of invincibility.
I was warning about this moment when the scales would tip away from Putin. All very well being the only adult in the room, but never lose control of the Nazis.
It’s not Putin’s responsibility to concern over the consequences of nuclear annihilation. MI6 doesn’t care, & we have respected pundits saying they believe it’s mainly MI6 behind the Kursk incursion, which is what I said from the start.
Putin doesn’t have much time to change course and save his reputation.
Ffs, nuke London, or New York, nuke the Nazi West.
Putin (and Russia) are controlled by the very same folks we can see here in good ole USA. Russia has been since their fake revolution, and continue being a colony of the Phoenicians. ( But what is not a fake is that Russia has had more than 1000 years fighting wars and sort of have experience). The USA first invaded the Ukraine and placed a fake actor in there to involve Russia in a very long fake war. Too long. Russia could have wiped out Kiev along with Z and his generals and ended this crap. Folks on both sides are making lots of money, raiding their treasuries, and providing us with fake images. It is scripted. Actors playing the part on both sides. It is a fake war being managed among cousins.
More disinfo from Roman Catholic Roberts. What they don’t tell you is that both ‘sides’ (NATOUkraine/Russia) are governed by the same supranational cabal of Jew-Commie bankers/rabbis/oligarchs setting up whites to be exterminated in a coordinated ‘war’.
“The Kremlin has an amazing inability to confront reality. Peter Koenig explains that NATO has now invaded Russia by entering Kursk, and the Kremlin still pretends it is involved in a limited border conflict with Ukraine in Donbas.
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It has been clear to me from the beginning that Putin’s inability to accept reality would result in a progressively widening war and that Putin was not making sufficient conventional efforts to keep the conflict conventional.”
Paul Roberts is being dishonest. Russia knows damn well that it is in a fight for its survival against the Satanic collective West and Roberts knows that Russia knows this. Roberts has to keep misrepresenting the situation because he is incapable of admitting that his initial assessments of the situation and his criticism of Vladimir Putin were wrong.
Roberts has been claiming from the beginning that Russia should’ve used overwhelming force and destroyed “Ukraine” early on, and that Putin’s failure to do so would make him responsible for a (most likely nuclear) WW3. But what Roberts can’t admit to is the fact that WW3 was always unavoidable no matter how Putin handled the “Ukraine” problem. IOW there was nothing that Putin could’ve done since 2014 that would’ve prevented the coming showdown.
In light of this, it makes sense for Putin to delay the showdown as much as possible because with each passing day Russia gets stronger while the Satanic West gets weaker. Realizing this, the Satanists would apparently like the big war to start ASAP, while it is in Russia’s best interest, to continue deploying the latest weapon systems e.g. S-500, S-550, Sarmat, etc., and refurbishing and restocking bomb shelters.
better Putin uses tactical Neutron nukes in 500 ft altitude
radiating ukra headquarters like Saudis did with israel sponsered
neutron nuke in yemen . no distructions, no fallout, no poisoning
soil, just only radiating the leaders . dead in several days !
Nico X: is a comedian.
So, to kill the whites, they need to destroy the Joo cash cows, and flush Israel down the pan????
Complete and utter madness from Nico X!
Nico X appears to think that 700,000 white Nazi UKrainians and NATO Nazis constitues the elimination of white sheeple’s. There’s around 575 million whites in Europe, there’s 60 million in the UK. Most Russians are white, so 80 from 128 million Russians, then we have the US, another 250 million from 340 million, and you can throw in much of Canada, Australia, and NZ. Nearly a billion whites, and he’s bases his argument on 700k???
Yep, Nico X must be right, Israel is going down the shitter, dragging bankrupt Amerika and Britain with it. The Western Nazi financial system is bust, and Nico X thinks it’s all to kill 700k of parasitic Nazis?
No doubt, there was a time when they were all in on it together. That’s when there was plenty of corn to go around. They are out of corn! They have a cancer, and it’s eating them from within. When there’s food, the pack of dogs works together, there’s a pecking order, but when there’s no food, the fight and eat each other.
Do the kind thing Mr Putin, nuke the Nazis!
Putin you have no tactical neutron nukes ?
your friend Satanjahu has them he will
give to you like he gave to the Saudis . he has them
used already at Beirut port + other places .Putin
did you until now not understand that your friends
Rabbi Lazar, Rothschilds, Chabad Lubawitch +
Satanjahu are hell bend for apocalyptic war worst
than Gaza ? hellbend to destroy all americans,
europeans + russians . when will you learn that
you have very insidious friends they only like
to use you as a Golem .
Carl Jones–as I often say, humans are a tiny part of the biosphere and only someone with a tiny mind that stinks would think of “nukes” to solve his frustrations
Harold Smith
Well said. Somebody said yesterday on video, one of the regular commentators on YT, that Russia has decided to arm Yemen with Russian weaponry…
Russia now is certainly no longer an ally of Israel.
Russia very unhappy with NATO invasion of Kursk
I see the 2 sides of the same far LEFT coin spouting their ignorance again If only Lewis and Carl were employable rather than the freeloading shirkers they are!! Absolute scum!! How can we BAN this 2 faced piece of scum from this site??
“truth will out”–not for you, though. You think I am Carl Jones? Ask any human among the commenters about that