{"id":246514,"date":"2021-12-03T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=246514"},"modified":"2021-12-04T07:54:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T07:54:36","slug":"the-kremlins-strategic-blunders-are-leading-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=246514","title":{"rendered":"The Kremlin\u2019s Strategic Blunders Are Leading to War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org Dec 2, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

While US Whore Media and Whore \u201cscientists\u201d dependent on Fauci-controlled NIH and Big Pharma grants whip up fear over a relatively harmless \u201cOmicron variant,\u201d a real dangerous situation that I have anticipated for seven years is raising its deadly head.<\/p>\n

The arrogant fools in Washington lost in their own hubris have been practicing nuclear attacks on Russia within 20 kilometers of Russia\u2019s borders.\u00a0 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that Washington\u2019s operation\u00a0 Global Thunder rehearsed launching nuclear weapons against Russia from both western and eastern directions.<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Washington was not taking seriously Moscow\u2019s warning not to cross Russia\u2019s red lines.<\/p>\n

Putin is correct.\u00a0 But it is the Kremlin\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n

The only decisive action the Kremlin has taken in response to intense provocations from Washington and NATO was the Kremlin\u2019s decision to accept the overwhelming vote of the people in Crimea to be reincorporated into Russia where the territory had resided for 300 years.\u00a0 The Kremlin\u2019s alternative was to lose Russia\u2019s Black Sea navy base.<\/p>\n

In a strategic blunder of the first magnitude, the Kremlin refused the same plea from the Russian people in the\u00a0 Donetsk and Luhansk republics, territories that also had been part of Russia for centuries.\u00a0 By refusing to honor the vote of the Donbass Russians to again be a part of Russia, the Kremlin subjected them to war and destruction by the Ukrainian army and various neo-nazi Ukrainian militias.\u00a0 If the Kremlin had accepted the vote of the Donbass Russians to be returned to Russia, the conflict would have ended as Ukraine would not destroy itself by attacking Russian territory. \u00a0Without the ongoing conflict, Washington would have been unable to continue its machinations against Russia in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

In an effort to salvage the situation, the Kremlin put together the \u201cMinsk Agreement,\u201d which Western powers were to support, but didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Thus, the conflict has continued to smolder since 2014, providing Washington with 7 years to use anti-Russian propaganda to define the narrative.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin\u2019s passivity and attempt to rely on agreements with the US and NATO to resolve a Ukrainian situation that Washington most certainly does not want resolved has convinced Washington and NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg that there is no fight in Russia, thus producing the situation that I have feared:\u00a0 Washington has concluded that Russia\u2019s red lines are merely rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Many other Kremlin failures have contributed to this dangerous outcome.\u00a0 The Kremlin still permits Israel to attack Syrian territory when one telephone call from Putin is sufficient to halt the attacks.\u00a0 The Kremlin still permits the occupation of a small part of Syria by US troops and CIA Arab mercenaries hostile to the Syrian state.\u00a0 The Kremlin receives massive insults to the Russian president and still refers to those insulting Russia as \u201cour Western partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are not responses that create the impression that there is any force behind the Kremlin\u2019s red line.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin has also failed miserably in anticipating Washington\u2019s moves, indicating an incompetent intelligence service or a willing disbelief in the Kremlin of Russian intelligence reports.\u00a0 Despite its obviousness, the Kremlin failed to anticipate the invasion of South Ossetia in 2008 by a US and Israeli-trained and equipped Georgian army.\u00a0 Putin was at the summer Olympics in Beijing.\u00a0 The Kremlin failed to anticipate Washington\u2019s obvious overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine and the replacement of a Russia-friendly regime with a neo-nazi regime. Putin was at the Sochi Olympics.<\/p>\n

Washington simply will not take seriously a government incapable of paying attention to what is happening to its interests in its own backyard.<\/p>\n

One might think that the Kremlin would learn by experience, but apparently not. With reports that half of the Ukrainian army is in the Donbass region threatening the Russian inhabitants, US Secretary of State Blinken threatens Russia with \u201cserious consequences\u201d if Russia protects the Donbass Russians.<\/p>\n

Imagine, a cipher like Blinken, a person of no ability or accomplishments, a representative of a second-rate military power that discriminates against its own white troops, issuing threats to the world\u2019s dominant military force.\u00a0 This is hubris run amuck, hubris encouraged by years of Kremlin low-key response to major provocations.\u00a0 As I have warned, the low-key Russian response, despite its good intention, encourages more provocations, and sooner or later Washington will go too far and cross a red line that will force a Russian military response.\u00a0 My fear of nuclear war is the reason for my warning that Russia needs to put a strong foot down in order to stop the progression of provocations that can only end in war.<\/p>\n

Why has the Kremlin been so meek in response to insults and provocations?\u00a0 I have no inside information.\u00a0 The speculations are that (1) the Kremlin wants the Donbass Russians to remain in Ukraine in order to water down the influence of anti-Russian attitudes in Western Ukraine;\u00a0 (2) the Kremlin did not want to confirm Washington\u2019s propaganda that Russia was rebuilding the Soviet Empire by reabsorbing the Donbass Russians in addition to Crimea;\u00a0 (3) westernized Russian intellectuals have more confidence in the West than in their government;\u00a0 (4) the Atlanticist Integrationists desire to be part of the West than to be allied with China;\u00a0 (5) the Kremlin thinks that by continuing to be low-key and open to cooperation with the West all difficulties will be resolved;\u00a0 (6) Russia knows the horrors of war and wants to avoid war at all costs;\u00a0 (7) Russian billionaire oligarchs want the West as a haven for their stolen wealth.<\/p>\n

All of these are sound reasons as far as they go.\u00a0 The problem is that all of these reasons ignore that Russia is Washington\u2019s enemy of choice<\/em>.\u00a0 Russia is the enemy that justifies the $1,000 billion annual budget of the US military\/security complex.\u00a0 Russia is the enemy that strengthens Washington\u2019s hold on NATO and Washington\u2019s European empire. Russia is the enemy that keeps the Washington-abused American population loyal to the government that is destroying American liberty.\u00a0 Russia is the enemy that can be blamed, along with China, for every failure of Washington.\u00a0 How can the Kremlin forget that the hostility of the American Elite to Russia is so overwhelming that President Trump was confronted with a CIA\/FBI\/Justice Department orchestrated \u201cRussiagate\u201d for simply stating that he intended to restore normal relations with Russia?<\/p>\n

Normal relations with Russia are impermissible to the extent that a President of the United States was removed from office in a stolen election after trumped-up \u201cRussiagate\u201d and \u201cImpeachgate\u201d attempts failed.\u00a0 To complete the lesson to all future presidents that normal relations with Russia are impermissible, Trump supporters are being prosecuted for attending a rally in support of Trump, a rally now known as \u201cthe Trump Insurrection.\u201d\u00a0 Six hundred innocent people are held in prison in violation of habeas corpus and First Amendment rights.\u00a0 Not even the US Constitution can protect them.<\/p>\n

And this is a government that the Kremlin thinks it can reach an accommodation with !<\/p>\n

God help the Russians and all of us as Washington\u2019s provocations continue their march to war.<\/p>\n

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