A good analysis, but I judge it fails to explain why the decision has been taken and why now? And frankly I am confused and can offer no better answers. Reading around the consensus seems to be either this is a move related to domestic politics, designed to hamstring Trump before he takes office, or, [more cynically] to escalate tension to create WW3 and some sort of crisis. I don't know but this action is reckless in the extreme howsoever dressed up in the MSM. A virtually brain dead POTUS ordered this and yet no one seems to question the decision??? Someone has an agenda here but I cannot see the {any} prize is worth the risk. I hope the wiser heads in the Pentagon slow walk this fiasco. You really could not make up this sh*t.
The decision has been taken now because Biden and the oligarchs in Ukraine that own him, and the military industrial complex in the US largely owned by the US oligarcghy, have been playing the "boiling frog" strategy on the western public. But now that Biden is getting ejected from office, they are turning up the slowly rising fire to a huge flame.
Stupid, yes.
But this is where you need to begin to grasp just how stupid the oligarchy and the politicians that control the west are. Chris Hedges has been writing about this for a long time, now and people still think its hyperbole on his part. But really these are stupid people. The west is run by fools, and the public is hardly better.
I'd guess it might be because they figure with The Trump incoming, they will be able to rely on the Russians being more restrained - the Kremlin would certainly view the same policy with a continuity of a Harris admin as tantamount to a declaration of a 4 year war.
And so by pushing the envelope NOW - hoping Russia hopes that Trump will rescind such imbecilism - this will also give Trump more leeway with his own idiotic "maximum pressure" notions.
I suspect that whatever response by Russia will be commensurate with the damage they take, rather than an overt act of deterrence necessarily going up the escalation ladder.
But Trump won't have a very long 'honeymoon' period if the attacks continue once he takes over, in that regard.
I think the whole of Russia is sick and tired of the West's evil little games, pitting Slav against Slav, and counting each bodybag as some victory.
Have you noticed how many non military 'donors" have suddenly jumped on X twitter to support this madness? Can these idiots really be risking this to attempt to hurt Trump? Holy Hell this is taking stupid to another level. You are right, you cannot make this shit up
Today the neo-nazi supporters are condemning that it is 1000 days ago that Russia invaded Ukraine. And nothing about the invasions´ obvious background and connection to the illegal CIA-nazi coup in 2014 that finally provoked Russia´s response. Indeed we live in an anti-analytical and anti-intellectual period that makes people dumber and dumber.
So everything is ready for a third world war.
Only Russia´s restraint, and absolutely nothing else - which of course has been interpreted as empty threats and weakness by the US, Europe and their programmed mainstream masses, including the cost of hundreds of thousands of Russians killed and maimed, has so far prevented this scenario from becoming a reality.
May this note find us all ever closer to God, and His Peace.
As a alt-media news follower of the Ukraine-Russia conflict starting back on the 2014 CIA overthrow Ukraine gov and replacing it with Zionist's minion's, the murder of 14,000 Russia speaking Ukraine etc., to now.
When it was clear that the Zionists were genociding white Christian men, a Holodomor part II, I was hoping early-on Putin would have actively threatened USA-NATO with a missile with dummy-warhead traveling of USA and Europe to splash-down in sea - after warning of launch with no warhead ahead of time - to focus the world on the mass murder of Christian men that the Zionists were using Russia for.
And Biden and the European leaders who are close to lead the world into a nuclear war against Russia deceive the public into thinking that they are pursuing security policy...
I thought that we sleepwalked into previous 2 world wars. Everyone takes babysteps until you hit each others head. I'm currently listening to Theo Francken, he's saying that Putin will not push the button. The idea and concept of nuclear ware doesn't resonate withing their minds. He doesn't push the button until he does.
For over a year I was for shooting down AWACS. If they spy, you shoot them down. It's direct confrontation with NATO but not territory. AWACS are participating in the war so it would be legit. That would be a strong response.
Why exactly would the "presence of North Korean troops" change ANY dynamic whatsoever? Are they plague spreaders or similar, who absolutely must be repulsed?
The narrative itself simply doesn't add up. There is no connection between "North Korean troops alongside Russians"; and "Therefore NATO has no alternative but to attack them directly".
This emperor is sunbathing on Brighton nudist beach.
Russia can simply call it a "Coalition of the Willing", and say they are getting rid of an evil dictator who is OPENLY threatening to acquire and use WMDs, and who has conscripted and slaughtered over half a million of his own people.
As should have been expected. Typical US conduct is to say NO and do YES. And to say YES and do NO. It is now simply saying YES: as it should have been expected.
We are in a madhouse. More scientific publications exist on dung beetles than on studying how to feed the world in the event of nuclear weapon induced sudden global cooling.
Biden is, one has to be frank, a deranged, russophobic coot. He is an absurd carry-over, a fossil from a bygone era in which the Soviet Union was portrayed as the ultimate evil and threat to US interests. But life keeps changing all the time. That era is gone, and gone are all those Cold War Yankee warriors. Except a few. Like Biden, for example.
Now Russia is a capitalist and Christian (regrettably) country; the Soviet Union is dead. And dead also should be Biden, but he is still a walking zombie and in his deranged zombiness he can still provoke an Armageddon. A theatre of the grotesquely insane.
BTW: Greetings to Norway: I still remember fondly my Fulbright gig at the University of Tromsø.
But, there are interpretations that point to US restraint in choosing targets inside Russia. However, one should not be too optimistic, war serves to establish the truth, the true balance of powers, when this balance is in doubt, or questioned, and although everyone agrees Ukraine has lost the war, still the fact that US can fire missiles into Russia proper without retaliation is a fact, a fait accompli.
This is dangerous. Because it incites US to escalate.
What is the next step in escalation ladder?
Decapitation strike.
Zelensky and assorted madmen offer plausible deniability, no one in Washington cares much whether Kiev, Eastern Europe, Europe will disappear in mushroom cloud.
I know it is difficult to press the nuclear button but it can be done in the skies over Ukraine, with only satellites as victims,
and if it is not done, one will face a much more difficult decision of having to start a response -nuclear strike after absorbing the first nuclear strike.
One could fantasize about detonating Gibraltar, or striking a British naval base, invading Islas Malvinas, or destroying an US AWACS over Black Sea,
but nuclear would be the best deterrent. I seriously think the necessary deterrent. Anything less will not be understood. Nuclear means, no more bluffing.
It is possible that nuclear explosion is needed to save the world from entering World War Three.
Something serious has to be done, if the world is to be saved from WW3.
IMPORTANT !!
ATACMS - 100% it cannot be operated by anybody but the United States.
- Scott Ritter
Hence US has attacked Russia !!!!
A good analysis, but I judge it fails to explain why the decision has been taken and why now? And frankly I am confused and can offer no better answers. Reading around the consensus seems to be either this is a move related to domestic politics, designed to hamstring Trump before he takes office, or, [more cynically] to escalate tension to create WW3 and some sort of crisis. I don't know but this action is reckless in the extreme howsoever dressed up in the MSM. A virtually brain dead POTUS ordered this and yet no one seems to question the decision??? Someone has an agenda here but I cannot see the {any} prize is worth the risk. I hope the wiser heads in the Pentagon slow walk this fiasco. You really could not make up this sh*t.
The decision has been taken now because Biden and the oligarchs in Ukraine that own him, and the military industrial complex in the US largely owned by the US oligarcghy, have been playing the "boiling frog" strategy on the western public. But now that Biden is getting ejected from office, they are turning up the slowly rising fire to a huge flame.
Stupid, yes.
But this is where you need to begin to grasp just how stupid the oligarchy and the politicians that control the west are. Chris Hedges has been writing about this for a long time, now and people still think its hyperbole on his part. But really these are stupid people. The west is run by fools, and the public is hardly better.
I'd guess it might be because they figure with The Trump incoming, they will be able to rely on the Russians being more restrained - the Kremlin would certainly view the same policy with a continuity of a Harris admin as tantamount to a declaration of a 4 year war.
And so by pushing the envelope NOW - hoping Russia hopes that Trump will rescind such imbecilism - this will also give Trump more leeway with his own idiotic "maximum pressure" notions.
I suspect that whatever response by Russia will be commensurate with the damage they take, rather than an overt act of deterrence necessarily going up the escalation ladder.
But Trump won't have a very long 'honeymoon' period if the attacks continue once he takes over, in that regard.
I think the whole of Russia is sick and tired of the West's evil little games, pitting Slav against Slav, and counting each bodybag as some victory.
Have you noticed how many non military 'donors" have suddenly jumped on X twitter to support this madness? Can these idiots really be risking this to attempt to hurt Trump? Holy Hell this is taking stupid to another level. You are right, you cannot make this shit up
Today the neo-nazi supporters are condemning that it is 1000 days ago that Russia invaded Ukraine. And nothing about the invasions´ obvious background and connection to the illegal CIA-nazi coup in 2014 that finally provoked Russia´s response. Indeed we live in an anti-analytical and anti-intellectual period that makes people dumber and dumber.
So everything is ready for a third world war.
Only Russia´s restraint, and absolutely nothing else - which of course has been interpreted as empty threats and weakness by the US, Europe and their programmed mainstream masses, including the cost of hundreds of thousands of Russians killed and maimed, has so far prevented this scenario from becoming a reality.
May this note find us all ever closer to God, and His Peace.
As a alt-media news follower of the Ukraine-Russia conflict starting back on the 2014 CIA overthrow Ukraine gov and replacing it with Zionist's minion's, the murder of 14,000 Russia speaking Ukraine etc., to now.
When it was clear that the Zionists were genociding white Christian men, a Holodomor part II, I was hoping early-on Putin would have actively threatened USA-NATO with a missile with dummy-warhead traveling of USA and Europe to splash-down in sea - after warning of launch with no warhead ahead of time - to focus the world on the mass murder of Christian men that the Zionists were using Russia for.
God Bless., Steve
Another excellent read, Thanks
Keep these commentaries coming Glenn Diesen! SHARING!
And Biden and the European leaders who are close to lead the world into a nuclear war against Russia deceive the public into thinking that they are pursuing security policy...
I thought that we sleepwalked into previous 2 world wars. Everyone takes babysteps until you hit each others head. I'm currently listening to Theo Francken, he's saying that Putin will not push the button. The idea and concept of nuclear ware doesn't resonate withing their minds. He doesn't push the button until he does.
For over a year I was for shooting down AWACS. If they spy, you shoot them down. It's direct confrontation with NATO but not territory. AWACS are participating in the war so it would be legit. That would be a strong response.
Why exactly would the "presence of North Korean troops" change ANY dynamic whatsoever? Are they plague spreaders or similar, who absolutely must be repulsed?
The narrative itself simply doesn't add up. There is no connection between "North Korean troops alongside Russians"; and "Therefore NATO has no alternative but to attack them directly".
This emperor is sunbathing on Brighton nudist beach.
Russia can simply call it a "Coalition of the Willing", and say they are getting rid of an evil dictator who is OPENLY threatening to acquire and use WMDs, and who has conscripted and slaughtered over half a million of his own people.
It would sound familiar...
Thanks Glenn. I linked to your article.
A Skeptic War Reports - Todays Reports
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/war-reports-2024-11-19
As should have been expected. Typical US conduct is to say NO and do YES. And to say YES and do NO. It is now simply saying YES: as it should have been expected.
We are in a madhouse. More scientific publications exist on dung beetles than on studying how to feed the world in the event of nuclear weapon induced sudden global cooling.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/analysis/sleepwalking-towards-nuclear-war/
Biden is, one has to be frank, a deranged, russophobic coot. He is an absurd carry-over, a fossil from a bygone era in which the Soviet Union was portrayed as the ultimate evil and threat to US interests. But life keeps changing all the time. That era is gone, and gone are all those Cold War Yankee warriors. Except a few. Like Biden, for example.
Now Russia is a capitalist and Christian (regrettably) country; the Soviet Union is dead. And dead also should be Biden, but he is still a walking zombie and in his deranged zombiness he can still provoke an Armageddon. A theatre of the grotesquely insane.
BTW: Greetings to Norway: I still remember fondly my Fulbright gig at the University of Tromsø.
If what we hear is true, we are already in WW3.
But, there are interpretations that point to US restraint in choosing targets inside Russia. However, one should not be too optimistic, war serves to establish the truth, the true balance of powers, when this balance is in doubt, or questioned, and although everyone agrees Ukraine has lost the war, still the fact that US can fire missiles into Russia proper without retaliation is a fact, a fait accompli.
This is dangerous. Because it incites US to escalate.
What is the next step in escalation ladder?
Decapitation strike.
Zelensky and assorted madmen offer plausible deniability, no one in Washington cares much whether Kiev, Eastern Europe, Europe will disappear in mushroom cloud.
I know it is difficult to press the nuclear button but it can be done in the skies over Ukraine, with only satellites as victims,
and if it is not done, one will face a much more difficult decision of having to start a response -nuclear strike after absorbing the first nuclear strike.
One could fantasize about detonating Gibraltar, or striking a British naval base, invading Islas Malvinas, or destroying an US AWACS over Black Sea,
but nuclear would be the best deterrent. I seriously think the necessary deterrent. Anything less will not be understood. Nuclear means, no more bluffing.
It is possible that nuclear explosion is needed to save the world from entering World War Three.
Something serious has to be done, if the world is to be saved from WW3.
AWACS.