The U.S. and NATO can recognize they’ve lost in Ukraine, or they can go full-bore war with Russia. From Pepe Escobar at strategic-culture.su:
Washington is actively splitting the EU in favor of a rabidly Russophobic Vilnius-Warsaw-Kiev axis.
Yeah, darlin’ gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild, 1967
The world has got to be thankful to the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council Dimitri Medvedev. Paraphrasing that iconic Cold War era string of ads about a beer that refreshes the parts other beers cannot each, Medvedev refreshes those – sensitive – parts the Kremlin and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for diplomatic reasons, cannot reach.
As astonishing tectonic shifts keep turning geopolitics and geoeconomics upside down, and the Angel of History looks East while the United States, corroded from the inside, desperately clings to scraps of its dwindling Full Spectrum Dominance, Medvedev makes no bones about how much he enjoys “smoke and lighting”, not to mention “heavy metal thunder”.
Exhibit One is something for the ages. It deserves a full quote – complete with colorful English translation:
“Western politicians who have shat their pants and their mediocre generals in NATO have once again decided to scare us. They launched the largest military exercises since the Cold War.
These involve 90,000 soldiers from 31 countries of the Alliance and ‘almost block’ Sweden, about 50 warships, 80 aircraft, 1,100 ground combat vehicles, including 133 tanks.
Some stages are expected to take place in the most blatantly Russophobic and most disgusting countries to us, such as Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, that is, in close proximity to Russia’s borders.
The NATO blabbers were afraid to directly say who these exercises are aimed against, and limited themselves to empty chatter about ‘practicing defense plans and deterring potential aggression from the nearest opponents’.
But it is quite obvious that this convulsion of flabby Western muscles is a warning to our country. It’s like they’re saying, shouldn’t we properly threaten Russia and show the Russian hedgehog a fat transgender European ass.
It turned out not scary, but very significant.
After all, if the Alliance itself decided to conduct exercises of this level, it means they are really afraid of something.
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Ape hangers and a Captain America jacket!
Only to be killed at the end by Americans, ain’t that America as Johnny Cougar said.
Peter Fonda knew and trained his boys up for the engineered collapse and WAR of all against ALL.
This just in from Benjamin Willard:
Don’t leave the boat if you don’t intend to go all the way up the river.
Wishing for WAR don’t whine when you get it good and hard.
“And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.
Matthew 24
With apologies to Black Sabbath:
Kagans sitting on their fat asses
As the meatgrinder consumes UKE lads and lasses
Two bit minds that plot other’s destruction
Warlocks of Hell’s construction
On the UKE plains the bodies burning
as their fat guts keep churning
Doom and hatred for all mankind
Poison spews from their feeble minds