{"id":316897,"date":"2025-10-17T06:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=316897"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:23:29","slug":"reality-like-facts-is-no-longer-applicable-to-western-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=316897","title":{"rendered":"Reality, Like Facts, Is No Longer Applicable to Western Decision Making"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org Oct 16, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I have emphasized the extreme danger Western peoples face from empowering leaders or decision makers who do not exist in reality.\u00a0 Instead, they live in false narratives of their own construction.<\/p>\n

At a meeting of defense ministers of NATO countries, the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte presented a fantasy picture of overwhelming NATO military superiority over Russia. Rutte declared that \u201cour military is infinitely superior to the Russian military.\u201d He said the Russian air force cannot \u201ceven stand in the shadow\u201d of NATO\u2019s powerful force and that the Russians do not have \u201cwell trained fighter pilots.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is difficult to imagine a person as stupid as Rutte. The British Home Secretary says Britain cannot even defend her own borders, and neither can France, Germany, the Dutch, Italy, Spain, but they can defend Ukraine\u2019s borders and Europe\u2019s borders from Russia. \u00a0How can these towers of babel defend against Russians when they are totally incapable of defending against immigrant-invaders? \u00a0There is no Europe, no NATO. \u00a0There is a Muslim Caliphate.<\/p>\n

Trump lives in the same make-believe world. He recently announced that the Russian economy is collapsing, that the Russian work day is lost to the work force standing in long gas lines due to successful Ukrainian attacks on Russia\u2019s energy infrastructure, and that Ukraine has inflicted 1.5 million casualties on Russian military forces.\u00a0 1.5 million casualties is the size of the Russian military. So why isn\u2019t Ukraine in Moscow?<\/p>\n

The statements by Rutte and Trump have no relationship to reality.\u00a0 The Russian military would not permit Putin to fight the war in the limited and restricted way Putin has been doing if the result was so dire for Russia.\u00a0 The Russians have restricted their efforts to driving the Ukrainians out of the Russian province of Donbas and have made no effort to prevent Kiev from continuing its resistance.<\/p>\n

I have presented the case many times that this is a strategic blunder by Putin resulting from his misunderstanding of the West and its intentions toward Russia.\u00a0 But the fact that Putin has chosen not to conquer Ukraine, but only to evict them from the Russian areas, does not mean Russia lacks the means.<\/p>\n

Putin has made no attempt to prevent Kiev\u2019s ability to continue the conflict.\u00a0 He hasn\u2019t told me the reason.\u00a0 Possibly, he did not want to lend confirmation to Western propaganda that he was on a path to restoring the Soviet Empire.\u00a0 Possibly he did not want the responsibility for restoring a destroyed Ukraine, whose existence except for the last 30 years was a province of Russia and the Soviet Union.\u00a0 Ukraine as an independent state is the artificial creation of the collapse of the Soviet government in 1991 when the Soviet Politburo placed Soviet President Gorbachev under house arrest. Washington rushed in, and created brand new independent countries out of former Russian and Soviet provinces.\u00a0 This was done in order to reduce Russia\u2019s ability to defend itself.\u00a0 Russia\u2019s population and resources were reduced.\u00a0 Russia lost its buffer zones, and the West went to work creating animosity toward Russia in the new countries Washington created out of former Russian provinces.<\/p>\n

All of this should have told Putin what the score is.\u00a0 However, it does seem that Putin is so much an out-of-date early 20th century American liberal that the reality of the situation is unacceptable to him.<\/p>\n

To again state what I see as the inevitable nuclear war:\u00a0 Rutte and Trump and all of Western foreign policy makers and war planners are misreading Putin and the situation.\u00a0 The are convinced that they are dealing with a militarily incapable Russian pussycat that will collapse under enough pressure.\u00a0 Putin, as a result of his own misreading of the situation, has given them this dangerous misconception.<\/p>\n

Sooner or later Putin\u2019s illusions of Western good will, delusions of Western rationality, will desert him.\u00a0 And that is when SHTF.<\/p>\n

Donate<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Like most western politicians Trump lives in make-believe world. He recently announced that Ukraine has inflicted 1.5 million casualties on Russian military forces. 1.5 million casualties is the size of the Russian military. So why isn\u2019t Ukraine in Moscow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316898,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316897\/revisions\/316898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}