Due primarily to NATO brinkmanship, the risk of an all-out conflict between Europe and Russia is higher than it’s ever been — even at the height of the Cold War
Thank you for this alarming reality check. So the public should be making waves to try to stop this catastrophe, the problem is most of the public at least in the UK seem to be fearing a Russian invasion any moment, such is the outrageous, hysterical media hype about Russian aggression. I'm truly sick to death of people not understanding any of these conflicts in terms of who is the aggressor, namely NATO, and the continued provocation from the West. One aspect is certainly attractive is Russian suggestion of eliminating the elites themselves, I think they'd be doing us all a favour. .
"Western leaders have convinced themselves, through a combination of wishful thinking and institutional inertia..."
I would be interested to know to what extent Western leaders have fed all the data into a computer model of war, and the computer says there is a 0.51 chance of winning, and so the Western leaders continue on their path because they have ceded control to the model. They are convinced by that element of techne which they dare not gainsay.
"What makes the current situation uniquely perilous is not just the military escalation but the complete collapse of the political imagination that might arrest it. There are no Cold War realists, no back-channel, no serious European leader with the standing and the will to propose a negotiated settlement. There is only the momentum of the war machine, now distributed across a dozen countries and thousands of companies, producing weapons in Finnish factories, German joint ventures and British workshops — all of them feeding a conflict that, in the absence of urgent political intervention, has no logical terminus short of catastrophe."
Imagination is human; cowardice -- ceding control to a model made possible by technology -- is also very human, like the avarice.
The europoliticians will simply ban the AfD and RN, or cancel election results they don't like. Worked in Romania, and to cheers from Brussels. The populace went along like sheep to the slaughter.
Something I wrote yesterday:
As a practical matter, "defending democracy(tm)" in europe means "escalate The War On Russia" and nothing else, as the european elites have no other priority, besides they and their spawn not personally fighting in that war. Remember the mewling over Meloni in Italy? Once it became clear that she would be brought to heel and act as a proper european warmonger, all the objections were forgotten, all was forgiven.
For that matter, if an AfD, an RC or a Reform in the uk to actually get into office, they could toss migrant children alive and screaming into piranha tanks, and nobody would raise a peep, as long as they supported The War On Russia.
And yes, prepare to be disappointed. Even if Democracy Has Failed, an RN or AfD candidate gets into office, the leash will be snapped, and the party will fall in line. They may grumble, they may even stall, but in the end, by hook or by crook, by bribes or blackmail, the Good Europeans will keep the war going.
How many times have humans fallen for the bait and switch already? Unless Trump ended the War On Russia in 24 hours and just hasn't bothered to inform anyone yet.
Russian dithering and indecision have led to this, have made more more likely and not less likely.
And believe me, I've heard all of the excuses a million times already. I've been called all the names already.
In 2022, NATO was terrified of the Russian response, should they ship a few crates of old Soviet stockpiles of ammunition. Not any more, as Russian timidity and meekness have caused them to lose all fear of Russia.
What Russia likes to think of as reasonableness and humanitarianism us seen by NATO as contemptible weakness. A lead pipe to the face, over and over again is the only language that they understand.
Thank you for this alarming reality check. So the public should be making waves to try to stop this catastrophe, the problem is most of the public at least in the UK seem to be fearing a Russian invasion any moment, such is the outrageous, hysterical media hype about Russian aggression. I'm truly sick to death of people not understanding any of these conflicts in terms of who is the aggressor, namely NATO, and the continued provocation from the West. One aspect is certainly attractive is Russian suggestion of eliminating the elites themselves, I think they'd be doing us all a favour. .
Scary but compelling reading
"Western leaders have convinced themselves, through a combination of wishful thinking and institutional inertia..."
I would be interested to know to what extent Western leaders have fed all the data into a computer model of war, and the computer says there is a 0.51 chance of winning, and so the Western leaders continue on their path because they have ceded control to the model. They are convinced by that element of techne which they dare not gainsay.
"What makes the current situation uniquely perilous is not just the military escalation but the complete collapse of the political imagination that might arrest it. There are no Cold War realists, no back-channel, no serious European leader with the standing and the will to propose a negotiated settlement. There is only the momentum of the war machine, now distributed across a dozen countries and thousands of companies, producing weapons in Finnish factories, German joint ventures and British workshops — all of them feeding a conflict that, in the absence of urgent political intervention, has no logical terminus short of catastrophe."
Imagination is human; cowardice -- ceding control to a model made possible by technology -- is also very human, like the avarice.
Well, Thomas, there are two critical elections in 2027, in Germany and in France.
The europoliticians will simply ban the AfD and RN, or cancel election results they don't like. Worked in Romania, and to cheers from Brussels. The populace went along like sheep to the slaughter.
Something I wrote yesterday:
As a practical matter, "defending democracy(tm)" in europe means "escalate The War On Russia" and nothing else, as the european elites have no other priority, besides they and their spawn not personally fighting in that war. Remember the mewling over Meloni in Italy? Once it became clear that she would be brought to heel and act as a proper european warmonger, all the objections were forgotten, all was forgiven.
For that matter, if an AfD, an RC or a Reform in the uk to actually get into office, they could toss migrant children alive and screaming into piranha tanks, and nobody would raise a peep, as long as they supported The War On Russia.
And yes, prepare to be disappointed. Even if Democracy Has Failed, an RN or AfD candidate gets into office, the leash will be snapped, and the party will fall in line. They may grumble, they may even stall, but in the end, by hook or by crook, by bribes or blackmail, the Good Europeans will keep the war going.
How many times have humans fallen for the bait and switch already? Unless Trump ended the War On Russia in 24 hours and just hasn't bothered to inform anyone yet.
Russian dithering and indecision have led to this, have made more more likely and not less likely.
And believe me, I've heard all of the excuses a million times already. I've been called all the names already.
In 2022, NATO was terrified of the Russian response, should they ship a few crates of old Soviet stockpiles of ammunition. Not any more, as Russian timidity and meekness have caused them to lose all fear of Russia.
What Russia likes to think of as reasonableness and humanitarianism us seen by NATO as contemptible weakness. A lead pipe to the face, over and over again is the only language that they understand.