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    Re: Crooke: Is this Western war on Russia simply stupidity? Archived Message

    Posted by Dovetail Joint on January 23, 2023, 4:27 pm, in reply to "Crooke: Is this Western war on Russia simply stupidity?"

    When Nuland, an arch Neocon, shouted '#### the EU' she was echoing thought in Washington. To them the Europeans lack the virility of true imperialists. The Europeans had given up on their once vast empires and chosen the cosy armchair instead, looking at the world from inside their kind welfare states, but refusing the challenge of shaping the world.

    Empires, according to the Neocons, and this may be true on some level, are either expanding, or contracting. Empires don't know equilibrium. Like a plate balancing on the end of a bamboo rod, it has to keep spinning, or fall off.

    Unfortunately, an empire needs strong legions, homegrown military power. The American people are increasingly sceptical of empire and bloody foreign engagements. Fighting in wars they don't understand in far-off countries they don'g care a fig about.

    Attempting to topple Putin's government by a massive military defeat, through creating a powerful proxy army in Ukraine, was an incredibly reckless gamble. One that hasn't worked. Russia far from being ruined in Ukraine, is emerging stronger and is in the process of decisively defeating Ukraine and Washington's grand strategy for destroying Russia.

    Now, the crucial time is coming. Will Washington really escalate and expand the war in Ukraine by supporting Poland and dragging the rest of NATO into the conflict? Pulling the coals out of the fire at the last minute.

    The American expeditionary force in Rumania is too small to make a decisiv difference. Poland doesn't want to confront Russia alone. Russia is preparing and ready to fight the whole of NATO if forced to. That leaves Washington with only one card to play, the nuclear one, or accept defeat in Ukraine.

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