Recently, many publications have appeared dwelling upon the United States’ intent to shell Russian territories while hiding behind the Kiev junta that will stop at nothing: “It’s not us, it’s them.” And yet, it is American personnel who sit at the control panels of sophisticated US-made missile technology, and the ominous button is going to be pressed by a Yankee officer after all. Casus belli. The most dangerous thing about this entire thing is that the Americans have a clear feeling of being able to waltz away from, deeming Russia as unqualified to respond in a proper way. And in general, the West keeps believing (surprisingly enough) that Russia builds its missiles by removing chips from American washing machines. They are pretty sure of this, just fancy! Isn’t it a moron thought pattern?
We must be needing to laugh at their stupidity, but misconceptions at the level of those making military and political decisions in the United States has grown utterly dangerous. Has the Bologna educational system, created by the West to upbring and provide pseudo-education to “qualified consumers,” generated elites unaware of what life on Earth looks like in the 21st century? They chew their snot and look at the world casually, without normal deep knowledge. They see it as featured in their incompetent opinion! They act on the basis of what seems true to them personally, often guided by false though convenient and pleasant illusions. Their view of reality has become unfocused, and this may entail the most dangerous consequences ever, including for themselves. Orwell saw where the West, familiar to him from the inside out, was moving when he wrote his “1984” novel. Here we are: “War is Peace”, “Ignorance is Strength” and so on, perspicaciously seen by the English author — a special service analyst — in life around him...
To illustrate the thesis, let’s quote several excerpts from critical articles that have appeared in the West over the past few weeks, to show how distorted their view of reality is. And this applies to both politicians and so-called “experts” who shape public opinion with their pieces. It didn't take long to search for quotes. Admire of the kind of human material we now have to deal with, which may — God forbid! — slide into a nuclear exchange. They do crave for our defeat, while completely unaware of what might come in response. This has resulted from incorrect assessments of developments going on in the world, because the only thing the Westerners know about us is what they read and see on their local press and TV, hear from politicians and “experts” even at the level of the US State Department and NATO leaders. So, here are these quotes from the Western press over the spring 2024.
— NATO Allies must accelerate deliveries of the crucial weapons that Ukraine needs to defeat Russia’s war of aggression and should lift restrictions that prohibit their use against military targets inside Russia, the Alliance’s Parliamentary Assembly said. Their declaration was approved by an overwhelming majority of over 200 MPs from 32 member states at the plenary meeting in Sofia. NATO PA President Michal Szczerba stressed as follows: “Ukraine can only defend itself if it can attack Russia’s supply lines and Russian bases of operation. It is time to recognize this reality and let Ukraine do what it must." The document notes that allies must move beyond incremental steps towards “a strategy that provides Ukraine with all that it needs as quickly as possible and for as long as it takes for it to win.” (NATO members do not even contemplate Russia’s retaliatory moves. They are confident that “the Russians will not dare” responding to the aggression of “the most successful military alliance in the world”, as they would put it themselves, and will immediately... surrender — author’s note).
— US Senator Lindsey Graham demands nuking US enemies, for which read Russia. He stated: “I know what my country did when we were attacked by the Japanese. We did everything necessary to protect our way of life. And was it disproportionate to use nuclear weapons to end a war we could not afford to lose?” (Graham is sure that all the Russians’ missiles “have rusted long since,” which is not a figure of speech but conviction of many Washington hawks reading much of the local press. Confident in Russia’s weakness, he does not even imagine a retaliatory strike — author’s note).
— US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said there were no civilians in the Russian city of Belgorod left, only the military. So, he regards the entire place as a legitimate military target for strikes. (Blinken’s office has finally revealed its total incompetence — author’s note).
— Courtesy of Ukrainian propagandists, an opinion become deeply seated in Western social media that “Western shells and mines are better than Soviet/Russian/Iranian/Korean/etc.” But in real practice, half of shells purchased by the Czech Republic for Ukraine have turned out unfit, Asia Times writes.
— And here is an excerpt from a Radio Atlantic interview with renowned and seemingly knowledgeable political observer Anne Applebaum, who said: “There’s a story that circulated on social media a few months ago that said that President Zelensky of Ukraine had purchased two yachts, and there were pictures of the yachts that came in some kind of post. Obviously, President Zelensky has not purchased any yachts. Kiev is landlocked. What does he need the yachts for anyway? It was a completely made-up story that nevertheless was passed around.” (The US "expert" is not able to make head or tail of geography! Doesn't she know Ukraine has access to the Black Sea?! Maybe she thinks Odessa will soon be a Russian city, or someone in Washington has confided this to her? In the interview, she also resolutely denied the facts of US bio labs in Ukraine, although it was proved by addresses, participant names and specific files in the course of Russian Defense Ministry’s investigations, with their results released at numerous briefings — author’s note).
— “The Western response to Russia’s invasion has been so flawed. It’s about persistent misjudgments, hypocrisy and amateurism. The West has misjudged the economic impact of sanctions [against Russia],” New Statement magazine admits.
— “The delusional belief that there is a pathway to total victory for Ukraine is based less on evolving military or geopolitical realities than on a simple psychological dynamic, one best summed up in the concept of ‘commitment escalation.’ According to this concept, individuals or groups sometimes exhibit a tendency to persist with a failing argument, even as that argument becomes increasingly untenable in light of the facts. This behavior is marked above all by an adherence to prior commitments — sunk costs, as the economists might put it — regardless of their present plausibility or rationality. It is a psychological dysfunction. Applying this concept to Ukraine explains the delusional belief that despite all of Ukraine’s devastating defeats and strategic setbacks, victory is just around the corner,” wrote Andrew Latham, a professor of international relations at Macalester College, Minnesota, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy.
— Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh Michael Brenner has thus touched upon the mindset of Western leaders: “Anxiety and self-doubt masked by false bravado is the hallmark sentiment among America’s political elites. That is a poor starting point for a re-engagement with reality. Americans are too attached to their exalted self-image, too narcissistic — collectively and individually, too lacking in self-awareness, too leaderless to make that wrenching adaptation. Those appraisals apply to Western Europe as to the United States <…> Defeat in Ukraine entails much more than the military collapse of the Ukrainian forces that is in the cards. For the United States has led its allies into what amounts to a campaign to permanently diminish Russia, to neutralize it as a political or economic presence in Europe, to eliminate a major obstacle to consolidating American global hegemony. The West has thrown everything they have into that campaign: their stock of modern weapons, a corps of advisers, tens of billions of dollars, a draconian set of economic sanctions designed to bring the Russian economy to its knees and a relentless project aimed at isolating Russia and undermining Putin’s position. It has failed ignominiously on every count <…> That outcome derives from hubris, dogmatism and a flight from reality."
… We would have made similar conclusions ourselves, but the comments looks a lot more convincing when you give the floor to the Western authors themselves, whether it be the weird “experts” who know nothing or reasonable analysts who have been unfortunately pushed away from real decision-making and are only left with the option of sadly watching convulsions of Western politics based on false postulates.
The question arises for us: “Do the Westerners at least acknowledge what is going on?” The United States and NATO seem unable to answer it, just as they sang dumb in 2015, when Vladimir Putin, addressed them at the UN General Assembly regarding the war in Syria: “...I’m urged to ask those who created this situation: do you at least realize now what you’ve done?”
To come up with the right answers, one needs to have a realistic view of the world before his/her eyes. But today it feels like NATO countries’ decision-making and visibility are really too far apart.
