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.
Dr. Diesen provides a clear, rational explanation as to the kind of decision made by the Biden administration, as well as its timing. And yet, somehow, that fails to satisfy you. Perhaps the burden is on you, to explain why you don't accept such explanations.
To start with, you are operating under false assumptions. Biden did not make this decision, his handlers did. I seriously doubt that Biden has made any decisions at all over the last four years, other than what flavor of ice cream to slurp. You also fail to understand the mindless, visceral hatred of Trump by the deep state, neocons, and woke leftists in charge of the US government and most US organizations. These people were already operating in a state of mental illness prior to Trump's presidency, and now that Trump has won again, their insanity has come absolutely unhinged. They feel morally entitled to say any lie, do any crime in order to destroy what they consider to be an existential threat. If all that is not explanation enough, then you either aren't living in the US, or else you're totally oblivious to what's been happening all around you.
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.
So, the same group that thought that western sanctions would topple Putin, and that this proxy war using the Ukrainians would weaken Russia, now think that they can prolong the war, long enough so that after Biden leaves, they can saddle Trump with the "loss", and gin up a few weeks of anti-Trump/pro-Democrat/NeoCon headlines, by continuing their escalations, just long enough for it to be a "Trump loss in the Ukraine" story.
Never mind that western intel has been famously wrong for decades, failing to predict the student uprising in Iran, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, or the invasion of the Ukraine... but now "they" just KNOW that Putin and Russia are "bluffing", and that all of their redlines are merely bluster, and that they can get away with creeping escalations, just for some headlines!?
As I have been saying for years- US domestic politics, played as a zero sum game, have corrupted our international relations, and led our "leaders" to think that they can get away with anything, because the main stream media will cover for them, and promulgate their spin, lies, and deceptions, as truths, and cast their failures as victories. However, as the old saying goes, "in war, the enemy gets a vote".
Positive headlines won't win a war, or stop a missile, or breathe life back into a dead man. Gambling on the humanity, tolerance, and level-headiness of the guy they have openly vilified for decades, Putin, is just about the most foolish game in our collective lifetime's.
If "Evil Putin" was merely 10% as craven, reactionary, and foolish as the so-called leaders of the west, Europe would be a post nuclear hellscape already, and potentially, all of the western world for that matter. Frankly speaking if I were Putin, I would have already shot down some satellites, sunk an aircraft carrier or two, and probably assassinated about a dozen "world leaders", after helping our enemies, destroy every base outside of the NATO and the west.
He's more patient and plotting than I am, probably smarter too, thank God!
It should be accepted that NATO by all definition has openly declared war against Russia. Any action by Russia now is a "reaction" to a declaration of war by NATO against Russia. Russia must react visibly and proportionately to deter further escalation. If not Russia will invite more aggressive attacks from NATO.
I might be the black sheep here, but I think the hype (“world war 3”) is largely exaggerated. I also think that Trump is FULLY aware of and in FULL agreement with what’s going on, thinking he can get some kind of ‘magic leverage’ over Russia. Trump is TOTALLY quiet about this latest Biden move, which to me signals that he agrees, and it’s just a sick game of good-cop-bad-cop:
It is high Russia retaliates. Otherwise Nato, like a border-seeking teenager will continue to attack Russia deeper and deeper via Ukraine ending up in an all out war. As reflected by the course of escalation, the US and the EU have no respect for empty threats, which they regard as weakness, only for the use of force. So only by counter-attacking against Nato is there any hope that the level of escalation can be kept down and lead to de-escalation.
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.
Dr. Diesen provides a clear, rational explanation as to the kind of decision made by the Biden administration, as well as its timing. And yet, somehow, that fails to satisfy you. Perhaps the burden is on you, to explain why you don't accept such explanations.
To start with, you are operating under false assumptions. Biden did not make this decision, his handlers did. I seriously doubt that Biden has made any decisions at all over the last four years, other than what flavor of ice cream to slurp. You also fail to understand the mindless, visceral hatred of Trump by the deep state, neocons, and woke leftists in charge of the US government and most US organizations. These people were already operating in a state of mental illness prior to Trump's presidency, and now that Trump has won again, their insanity has come absolutely unhinged. They feel morally entitled to say any lie, do any crime in order to destroy what they consider to be an existential threat. If all that is not explanation enough, then you either aren't living in the US, or else you're totally oblivious to what's been happening all around you.
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...
dementia & INSANITY… Time for a diaper change…
So, the same group that thought that western sanctions would topple Putin, and that this proxy war using the Ukrainians would weaken Russia, now think that they can prolong the war, long enough so that after Biden leaves, they can saddle Trump with the "loss", and gin up a few weeks of anti-Trump/pro-Democrat/NeoCon headlines, by continuing their escalations, just long enough for it to be a "Trump loss in the Ukraine" story.
Never mind that western intel has been famously wrong for decades, failing to predict the student uprising in Iran, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, or the invasion of the Ukraine... but now "they" just KNOW that Putin and Russia are "bluffing", and that all of their redlines are merely bluster, and that they can get away with creeping escalations, just for some headlines!?
As I have been saying for years- US domestic politics, played as a zero sum game, have corrupted our international relations, and led our "leaders" to think that they can get away with anything, because the main stream media will cover for them, and promulgate their spin, lies, and deceptions, as truths, and cast their failures as victories. However, as the old saying goes, "in war, the enemy gets a vote".
Positive headlines won't win a war, or stop a missile, or breathe life back into a dead man. Gambling on the humanity, tolerance, and level-headiness of the guy they have openly vilified for decades, Putin, is just about the most foolish game in our collective lifetime's.
If "Evil Putin" was merely 10% as craven, reactionary, and foolish as the so-called leaders of the west, Europe would be a post nuclear hellscape already, and potentially, all of the western world for that matter. Frankly speaking if I were Putin, I would have already shot down some satellites, sunk an aircraft carrier or two, and probably assassinated about a dozen "world leaders", after helping our enemies, destroy every base outside of the NATO and the west.
He's more patient and plotting than I am, probably smarter too, thank God!
By retired Swiss intelligence advisor Col. Jacques Baud
https://www.youtube.com/live/0JPb60TTWtU?si=C4VkHHrnQgOEzZ7y
It should be accepted that NATO by all definition has openly declared war against Russia. Any action by Russia now is a "reaction" to a declaration of war by NATO against Russia. Russia must react visibly and proportionately to deter further escalation. If not Russia will invite more aggressive attacks from NATO.
I might be the black sheep here, but I think the hype (“world war 3”) is largely exaggerated. I also think that Trump is FULLY aware of and in FULL agreement with what’s going on, thinking he can get some kind of ‘magic leverage’ over Russia. Trump is TOTALLY quiet about this latest Biden move, which to me signals that he agrees, and it’s just a sick game of good-cop-bad-cop:
https://open.substack.com/pub/fulgurite4779/p/good-cop-trump-bad-cop-biden
It is high time Russia retaliates...
It is high Russia retaliates. Otherwise Nato, like a border-seeking teenager will continue to attack Russia deeper and deeper via Ukraine ending up in an all out war. As reflected by the course of escalation, the US and the EU have no respect for empty threats, which they regard as weakness, only for the use of force. So only by counter-attacking against Nato is there any hope that the level of escalation can be kept down and lead to de-escalation.