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Roms

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Notes on a hypersonic alliance​

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• A specialist in Middle East affairs, and in particular Iran, explains the acquisition by this country hypersonic missile capabilities. • This is the result of cooperation with Russia, the master of hypersonic technologies.• The Iranians have themselves largely helped the Russians, especially in the area of drones that are particularly effective in Ukraine, while Iran commands Russian fighters. • The two countries have started intensive military cooperation, obviously corresponding to political proximity as part of the development of “ Sud Global ”, and in organizations such as BRICS and OCS. • All this is done for the purpose of asserted opposition to the hegemony of the USA, and more generally to what is called the collective West. • The Russia-Iran alliance, or the new form of reports becoming “ alliance ”, is an interesting and remarkable event a complete destructuring-restructuring of our world, at the heart of an unparalleled crisis, – what we call “Great Crisis”. • With a text from E.J. Magnier.

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It was a « metahistoric assassination »
June 16, 2023 – We remember that the assassination of General Soleimani, commander of the ‘ Guardians of the Revolution ’ had been presented by ourselves on January 6, 2020, as a « metahistoric assassination ». We had no doubt that 2020 would be deeply marked by the confrontation, – one more, – between the USA and this country in the Middle East.

It was not. The Covid starred the two actors in January 2020, then the things of the Great Crisis continued on Ukraine. Today we return to Iran: we left it by the window, we find it by the big door, and more than ever within the framework of the Great Crisis, – but under such different conditions ! Let’s judge...

At the heart of “ Sud Global ”
• Iran is part of a major coalition de facto, called “ the South Global ” ( ‘Global South’ ), which formed under the impulse of the Ukrainian shock, or ‘Ukrisis’, from February 2022. Iran is one of the greats of this coalition, which is a cohort of countries bringing together the majority of the world, which we find or will find among the BRICS and the Shanghai SCO, – in a kind of anti-“BAO block”.

• Meanwhile, since the Soleimani assassination, things have changed in the Middle East. Iran is friends with Arabia, the Gulf States and Turkey, and Syria returns to the Arab League. Chained to the USA and forced to taste the neo-Nazi cup of Ukraine, Israel, facing an internal crisis existential, is increasingly alone and his hostility to Iran becomes risky.

• Relations with the USA are not more deteriorated than before, – they were already so considerably. Iran is not the bile cup of old Biden; as for Trump, who realized that he had been had with the assassination of Soleimani if he still thinks about it, he understood that his worst enemies are the FBI, the DoJ, the Democrats, etc.

• Finally, – and this is the main part of our subject, – Iran’s relations with Russia have been “ clarified ” in the greatest secrecy. This is the character of the relations between these two countries: clarity in the shadow of secrecy, and this according to events.

Russian-Iranian highs and stockings
Since 2010 ( the so-called “ Arab Spring ” ), Russia-Iran relations have evolved quite favorably, but with ups and downs. There was a phase of negotiations for the JCPOA nuclear treaty, where Iran and Russia were present but where the evolution of Iran's relations mainly sought to bring the BAO block ( USA + EU ) closer, without worrying too much about Russia, which itself wanted to spare the BAO block. From 2015-2016, the situation brought them closer but in ambiguity.

• Russia was present in Syria from September 2015, therefore closer to Iran since both of Assad's main allies.

• But Russia wanted to maintain good relations with the USA and Israel, while Iran's relations with the USA deteriorated ( Trump's hostility, closer to its side of Moscow ).

• In 2020, there was therefore the assassination of Soleimani, without anything being able to conclude from it, – since immediately began in an uncontrollable explosion the enormous crisis of the Covid where geopolitical logics dispersed in all directions.

• The year 2021 saw the clarification of things. With on the one hand the failure to relaunch the JCPOA, on the other the Ukrainian crisis, Iran and Russia were ostracized by the respectability of the “ rules ” of the West eruptive, with formidable trains of confirmed or all-new sanctions. The rapprochement was that of the situations by that of the actors.

‘Geranium’ hypersonic
In 2022, Ukraine and the extremely rapid hatching-flowering of the flower of “ South-Global ” sealed just as quickly and unnecessarily the proximity of a completely new kind of Iran and Russia. There was fairly quickly, from the end of spring 2023, the case of drones used by Russians in Ukraine ( ‘Geranium’, or ‘Geran’/Shahed 136): Iranian drones delivered to Russia or not ? Some formally denied this news which seemed to scratch the conception of Russia's autonomous capacity in all armaments (Martianov, in particular, in a tone of furious denial ). It’s E.J. Magnier, whose text concerning the hypersonics below, which affirmed the delivery-cooperation. Since then, the news has fragmented into an assertion in the manufacture of licensed Iranian drones, with modification, in Russia. Unnecessary controversy has subsided, leaving room for much more important fact now due to the asserted cooperation of Iran and Russia in the field of armaments, in many forms...

PhG-Bis note : « In other words and in any case, considers PhG, no need to dwell on the details of this question of drones in Ukraine which loses all its interest, – if she ever had one. The interest, precisely, is the installation as a natural thing in the communication of this intensive, operational and direct cooperation between Russians and Iranians. »

Iranians have shown very large electronic capabilities, and operationally in guided weapons, drones and missiles. The USA noticed during “ revenge ” strikes after the assassination of Soleimani. The Russians themselves obviously recognized this ability of excellence of the Iranians and showed it by ordering drones. In exchange, they resumed deliveries to the Iranians, which they had blocked for several years ( of the S-300 of anti-aircraft defense ). Very recently there is an important Iranian command of Sukhoi ( Su-25 and Su-35 ) fighters and certainly air defense systems ( the famous S-300 and others, more advanced, like the S-400 ).

The crowning achievement of this cooperation noted here, through the text of Magnier, is the affirmation of the aid provided by Russia, as much by deliveries as by technology transfers, giving Iran hypersonic capabilities that even the US has so far not. In this regard, this is a very new situation...

These new capabilities give Iran a position that is no longer regional or only tactical, but a strategic position, especially vis-à-vis Israel, which is obviously devoid of a defense against this hypersonic category, – since no defense exists today in this regard.

An alliance of very solid nature
We certainly do not have the beautiful montages of the Pentagon and the richly endowed trays of such qualified experts going from CNN to LCI as we go from Kiev to Crimea as tangible proof that these Magnier's revelations reflect reality. We have the logic of the situations, the experience of the actors involved, their characteristics and their behaviors, and the necessities of the hour in the face of the extraordinary disclosure of the satanic nature of the System animating various elements and ilotes of circumstance of this West-revulsive and -self-destructive,. This is called a situation truth.

From this point of view, Iran and Russia are made to be allies of marble hardness, both operational and cooperative. These two countries have fairly similar character and behavior. They have very assured and very strong beliefs, which in no way undermine their will to act in the necessity of the circumstances. They know how to give and keep their word. They do not fear the use of force and have in them a strong capacity for the measurement of Evil that they must face, and knowing that with it we can neither negotiate nor finish, otherwise to get a tactical respite.

For example, from our point of view, Iran is a firmer ally ( we do not say “ safer ” nor “ more important ” ) from Russia than China, – and vice versa, of course. It is not a question of establishing comparison measures and of competing to distribute good and less good points ; it is the hypercapitalists of the anglosphere and their Wokenist friends in the framework of Americanism who are involved in these exercises. It is about measuring the strength of the ties between these two countries, Russia and Iran, in times and thunderstorms of extreme and extraordinary danger like the one we are going through. Russia needs China ( and vice versa ), as it needs Iran ( and vice versa ), but in another way and in a different way. For this reason too,it seems to us entirely justified to accept Magnier's thesis, by considering it effectively fed by first-hand information and confirmations as he used to dispose of.

If Magnier finds that « Iran was the only country to bring [ to Russia ] unfailing military support and not to fear American and Western sanctions », he is right to use the past and therefore to leave room for the present and its developments. We should see the effects that this kind of cooperation will have in the midst of other countries hitherto suspicious if not enemy, and suddenly promised to get closer ( BRICS and OSC ) in the face of what they can finally perceive in full light of the infamy of Americanist and modernist hegemony. We never cease to be surprised by the aggressive audacity of a country like Arabia against the USA, of this country that was deemed to be subject in the widowhood and corruption of its submission to the USA for decades...

On the other hand, we will admit and admire Russian flexibility, which is to seem to make a major area of its current strategic superiority an instrument for acquiring and fertilizing essential alliances, without an obsessive concern of “ secret ”. Russians differ from the USA: they prefer the sharing of the most advanced forces to the submission of fools. In this sense, Russia is neither hegemonic nor exceptional; it does not specifically maintain a huge narcissistic superiority complex as the remains of a shameful and upsetting childhood. In short, she does not sell her soul to the devil, knowing full well that he is a formidable loan shark who will bury you in debt.

To follow...
It is therefore with all these observations in mind that we recommend reading the article of E.J. Magnitude, come to us through ‘International Network’. We have allowed ourselves to offer a title other than that, a little hasty, of the French version of its initial text, which the Magnier site proposed ( « Russia's strategic tactics hit the United States and Israel with Iran's hypersonic capabilities » ).

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Iran, hypersonic ally of Russians
In an astonishing turn of events, Russia dealt a calculated blow to the United States and to Israel, by arming Iran with advanced hypersonic missiles making countries an essential component of a strategy to which the two countries subscribe. The implications of this strategic maneuver are considerable and could change the balance of power in the unstable region of the Middle East.

The conflict between the United States and Russia has gradually turned into a proxy war. The US first rallied Western countries to their cause. By joining this Western Alliance, Israel has closely aligned itself with the American Central Command ( CENTCOM ), responsible for protecting American interests in the vast region stretching from the Horn of Africa to Central Asia. Tel Aviv leaders openly condemned Russia’s actions and actively supported Ukraine by providing listening materials and security information to kill Russian soldiers. This joint effort, which brings together fifty countries, was coordinated at the American base in Ramstein, Germany. In this context, Russia, which works diligently but discreetly,dealt a terrible blow to the United States and to Israel by providing Iran with advanced hypersonic missile technology, a capacity that only a few countries have in the world.

Iran’s announcement of Al-Fatah’s development, a 1,400 km-range hypersonic ballistic missile, marks an important milestone. With a Mach speed of 13-15, or about 15,000 kilometers per hour, the Al-Fatah can change gears in mid-flight, making its interception practically impossible. This feat places Iran in an exclusive group of countries that have this advanced technology, including Russia, China and North Korea, what many European countries had not seen.

For years, Russia has maintained a precarious balance in the Middle East, refraining from arming Iran with advanced missiles to avoid provoking the United States and Israel. But this reluctance changed in mid-2022, shortly after the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and the West in Ukraine. At that time, a historic defense cooperation agreement between Iran and Moscow paved the way for the transfer of thousands of Iranian drones to Moscow ( an agreement I was the first to talk about) and in support of the construction of a drone factory in Russia. The Kremlin’s decision to turn to Iran is explained by the fact that he realized he was fighting alone. Iran was the only country to provide unfailing military support and not to fear American and Western sanctions.Iran has shown its determination to stand up, support Russia and challenge the United States, despite the approximately 3,800 sanctions it has suffered since the 1979 Revolution. Tehran has demonstrated its commitment to its friends by remaining unshakable despite long-standing adversity.

Iran’s possession of hypersonic missiles represents an unprecedented qualitative leap and demonstrates close cooperation between Russia and Iran. It sends a clear message to the United States, which maintains a significant military presence around the Islamic Republic, that Iran has advanced deterrence capabilities to safeguard its interests in Asia and possibly threaten the Israeli ally of the United States.

The message to Israel could not be clearer. By allowing Iran to acquire missiles capable of escaping the defense system « Iron Dome » from Tel Aviv, Russia has effectively neutralized Israel’s ability to intercept Iranian missiles. This development represents a major challenge for Israel, which is now faced with the prospect of potential strikes on its soil if it attacks Iranian nuclear installations. Iran has already been bold in attacking Ain al-Assad in 2020, the largest American military base in Iraq, in response to the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani by the president at the time, Donald Trump.

As a result, Iran has several powerful deterrent cards in its game :

1. He has strong allies in the Middle East, ready to go to war to defend the Axis of Resistance set up by Tehran.

2. Its arsenal of drones has proven to be very effective, wreaking havoc in the Ukrainian army and destroying Western weapons in the conflict in Ukraine, which helped Russia regain control of the battlefield.

3. Iran’s missile capabilities have demonstrated their potential and effectiveness by carrying out successful attacks on Daesh bases in Syria, bases of the Iranian People’s Mojahedin Organization in Iraq and even a base of the Israeli Mossad in Iraqi Kurdistan.

By providing its allies with advanced and precise missiles, Iran has created a balance between terror and deterrence, which limits Israel’s freedom of military action in Lebanon and Syria against Hezbollah for fear of a rapid and robust response.

Russia has not publicly acknowledged its involvement in the Iranian missile program, just as Iran has repeatedly tried to deny having supplied its drones to Moscow. Nevertheless, Russia’s actions speak volumes about its determination to respond to grievances and mark a new strategic approach to Tehran. The Kremlin opened its doors to a country ( Iran ) which held firm in the darkest circumstances, who ignored American and European threats and who displayed an unshakable conviction while remaining impervious to Western intimidation.

The Russian message has repercussions for the parties concerned in Washington and Tel Aviv, because it clears the last red lines and paves the way for an unprecedented future for Russian-Iranian cooperation. This partnership, forged by compliance with the agreements, is likely to produce other surprises which could have lasting repercussions. When the dust settles, the costs of implementing the agreement will become more and more evident, reshape the geopolitical landscape and eventually change the dynamics of power in the region.

Faced with Russia’s strategic initiative, the world is holding its breath over the repercussions of Iran’s possession of hypersonic missiles. Endowed with cutting-edge weapons and an unwavering commitment to its interests, Iran is ready to protect its sovereignty and challenge the traditional dynamics of power in the Middle East. While tensions remain high and the stakes continue to grow, the evolution of the Russian-Iranian alliance becomes a focal point of international attention, whose potential benefits extend far beyond the borders of these countries.

Elijah J. Magnitude
 

Blue Rhino

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Yeah, your fellow remind me of Ukraine so much…
I agree. Ukraine has the broken knuckles while Russia has the busted up face as a result of those knuckles.
From "Kyiv in three days" to bombing their own citizens in Belgorod region to blowing up dams out of sheer desperation. And now Russia is also burning on a daily basis. I mean Jesus, the clowns couldn't achieve air supremacy. They can't even achieve local air dominance.

All Bedpan and his generals have are the same tactics the Soviets used in WW2. Trying to use overwhelming numbers via meat assaults. But they don't have the numbers the Soviet army of WW2 had and the weapons of today are more destructive, more precise and more efficient than in WW2.

It took Fagner PMS MONTHS to take the little city of Bakhmut. 20,000 Russian casualties, countless pieces of military equipment destroyed all to "capture" a 99% destroyed city with no real tactical or strategic importance. And now it's the Ukrainians who hold the high ground around Bakhmut and the Russians who are stuck in the Bakhmut cauldron. I see them losing the city in a matter of weeks.
 

Microbeman

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You had a much kinder mother than we did. She was a drunk he used to say to my brothers and I that we wouldn't live to see 40. But two months ago I proved her wrong :D

WW2 was not even comparable to today's conflict. That was a country that invaded a dozen nations and tried to wipe out a race of people. This is a Russia/Nato conflict with the ukranians being used as cannon fodder. Its a business man and Washington wants to keep a war going, at all times, to keep business going.

Yes Russian invaded Ukraine. Yes, Nato was never suppose to expand this close to Russia. Theres just nothing good about it. Ask yourself how the U.S. would respond if Canada decided to align with Russia and place nukes up there. Wildfires would probably be the least of your worries. Its a scary untrustable world we live in and its going to get a hell of a lot worse before it gets any better. if it does
You will get no huge arguments from me on those points, except that one does not know what is really in Putin's nor others' minds. As I attempted to state, time may reveal the truth.

Happily wildfires are not a present worry for me, as I reside in my adopted lands south of you (I believe), however your example of alignment and missiles is applicable here. Not too far off reality actually, as China owns the major shipping ports in Mexico and is heavily invested in industry here.

The victors in our crazy world hold power in wads of cash and real estate ownership.
 

RobFromTX

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You will get no huge arguments from me on those points, except that one does not know what is really in Putin's nor others' minds. As I attempted to state, time may reveal the truth.

Happily wildfires are not a present worry for me, as I reside in my adopted lands south of you (I believe), however your example of alignment and missiles is applicable here. Not too far off reality actually, as China owns the major shipping ports in Mexico and is heavily invested in industry here.

The victors in our crazy world hold power in wads of cash and real estate ownership.

What part of Mexico? My wifes family is from Guerrero. Infact her cousin was kind enough to sneak me back some seeds from a recent trip there that came from a farm somewhere outside of Ometepec. I'll be growing them out this fall, indoors ofcourse. I hope its some of that good sativa shit instead of those crummy hybrids that the cartels are sending to Texas these days
 

entropical

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That is better, so at least I can hear him presenting his opinion but I did not really note an establishment supporting; "Reminder again that the United States started the war by installing a Nazi regime in Ukraine 2014". as you stated and the weaponry mentioned in the video is contemporary and not circa 2014.
Anything is certainly possible, including US operatives controlling the 'nationalist' crowd but the overwhelming covert influence over so many masses is a little far fetched, at least from my perspective
Joe Biden, shaking hands with Tanyebok, is no evidence of what you call establishment support lol. Well I have already provided a picture with the Nudelman woman, should I also provide you with the telephone recording in which she said that ”Yats is our guy”?



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There is the picture again of Nudelman and her US Nazi puppets.
 

Roms

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By using its nuclear weapons, Russia could save humanity from a global catastrophe​

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This article caused a great debate among Russian experts on nuclear weapons, their role and the conditions of their use.

This is all the more the case since Sergey Karaganov is a former presidential adviser to Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, and that he heads the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, a renowned Moscow think-tank.

Some personalities reacted with dismay, while others were less critical. RT decided that it would be beneficial for our readers to read the article in its entirety. The article has therefore been translated and lightly edited.

Russia Today

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by Professor Sergey Karaganov

Our country and its leaders seem to me to be faced with a difficult choice. It is becoming increasingly clear that our confrontation with the West will not end even if we win a partial – or even overwhelming – victory in Ukraine.

Even if we completely liberate Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, it will be a small victory. A slightly greater success would be to liberate all of eastern and southern Ukraine within a year or two. But that would still leave a swath of the country with an even more embittered and weapon-ridden ultra-nationalist population – a bleeding wound that will threaten inevitable complications, leading to a new war.

The situation could be worse if we liberated the whole of Ukraine at the cost of monstrous sacrifices and we ended up with a country in ruins and a population that largely hates us. It would take more than a decade to "re-educate" them.

Each of these options, especially the last, will distract Russia from the necessary shift of its spiritual, economic, military and political center to eastern Eurasia. We will remain stuck in an unnecessary focus on the West. The territories of present-day Ukraine, especially the central and western ones, will suck up our resources, both human and financial. These regions were already heavily subsidized in Soviet times.

Meanwhile, hostility from the West will continue; it will support a slow-burning guerrilla-style civil war.

A more attractive option would be the liberation and reunification of the east and the south, and the imposition of surrender on the remnants of Ukraine with full demilitarization, thus creating a buffer and friendly state. But such an outcome will only be possible if we are able to break the West's will to back the Kiev junta and use it against us, forcing the US-led bloc into a strategic retreat.

I come here to a crucial question, but which is hardly addressed. The root cause – and indeed the main reason – for the Ukraine crisis, as well as many other conflicts around the world, and the general increase in military threats, is the accelerating decay of contemporary Western ruling elites.

This crisis is accompanied by an unprecedentedly rapid change in the balance of power in the world in favor of the world majority, led economically by China and partly by India, with Russia as a military and strategic anchor point. This weakening not only infuriates imperial-globalist elites (US President Joe Biden and his ilk), but also frightens imperial-national elites (like his predecessor Donald Trump). The West is losing its five-century advantage of siphoning wealth from around the world by imposing its political and economic order and establishing its cultural dominance, mostly through brute force. So there will be no quick end to this defensive, but aggressive, confrontation that the West has unleashed.

This moral, political and economic collapse has been going on since the mid-1960s, was interrupted by the collapse of the USSR, but resumed with renewed vigor in the 2000s (the defeats of the Americans and their allies in Iraq and in Afghanistan, and the crisis of the Western economic model in 2008 were milestones).

To slow down this seismic movement, the West temporarily consolidated. The United States has made Ukraine a punching bag to tie the hands of Russia, the politico-military linchpin of a non-Western world freed from the shackles of neocolonialism. Ideally, of course, the Americans would simply want to blow up our country and thus radically weaken the emerging alternative superpower, China. We have been slow to react, either because we have not realized the inevitability of confrontation or because we have accumulated our forces. Moreover, in accordance with modern, mainly Western political and military thinking, we were reckless in raising the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, inaccurate in assessing the situation in Ukraine and not entirely successful in launching of the current military operation.

In their internal failure, Western elites have actively nurtured the weeds that have taken root in the soil of 70 years of prosperity, satiety and peace. These are anti-human ideologies: the denial of family, country, history, love between men and women, faith, service to higher ideals, everything who is human. Their philosophy is to eliminate those who resist. The goal is to sterilize people in order to reduce their ability to resist modern "globalist" capitalism, which is becoming increasingly manifestly unjust and harmful to man and humanity.

Meanwhile, the weakened United States is destroying Western Europe and the other countries that depend on it, trying to push them into the confrontation that will follow the one in Ukraine. The elites of most of these countries have lost their bearings and, panicked by the crisis of their own positions at home and abroad, are dutifully leading their countries to the slaughterhouse. At the same time, due to greater failure, a sense of helplessness, centuries of Russophobia, intellectual degradation and loss of strategic culture, their hatred is almost more intense than that of the States -United.

Thus, the trajectory of most Western countries clearly points to a new fascism, which could be described as “liberal” totalitarianism.

In the future, and this is the most important thing, the situation will only get worse. Truces are possible, but no reconciliation. Anger and despair will continue to grow in successive waves. This tendency of the Western movement is a clear sign of the drift towards the outbreak of World War III. It has already begun and could erupt into a full blown conflagration, either by accident or through the growing incompetence and irresponsibility of Western ruling circles.

The introduction of artificial intelligence and the robotization of war increase the risk of unintended escalation. Machines can act outside the control of bewildered elites.

The situation is aggravated by “strategic parasitism”: in 75 years of relative peace, people have forgotten the horrors of war and have ceased to fear even nuclear weapons. Everywhere, but especially in the West, the instinct for self-preservation has weakened.

I have spent many years studying the history of nuclear strategy and have come to an unequivocal conclusion, albeit an unscientific one. The advent of nuclear weapons was the result of the intervention of the Almighty who, appalled that mankind had started two world wars within a generation, costing tens of millions of lives, gave us the weapons of Armageddon to show those who had lost the fear of hell that it existed. It is on this fear that the relative peace of the past three quarters of a century has rested.

But today, that fear is gone. The unthinkable in terms of previous notions of nuclear deterrence is happening – a group of ruling elites, in a fit of desperate rage, have unleashed full-scale war in the backyard of a nuclear superpower .

The fear of atomic escalation must be restored. Otherwise, humanity is doomed.

It is not only, and not even really, what the future world order will look like that is being decided in the battles in Ukraine right now. It's more about whether the world we're used to will be preserved or whether only radioactive ruins will remain, poisoning the remnants of humanity.

By breaking the will of the West to impose its aggression, we will not only save ourselves and finally liberate the world from the Western yoke of five centuries, but we will also save all of humanity. By pushing the West into catharsis and pushing its elites to abandon their need for hegemony, we will force it to back down in the face of global catastrophe. Humanity will have a new chance to develop.

Proposition of a solution​

Of course, this is a tough fight. It is also necessary to solve our own internal problems – to finally get rid of our Western-centrist mentality and the Westernists who populate the administrative class. Especially the compradors and their particular way of thinking. Of course, in this area, the NATO bloc involuntarily helps us.

Our 300 years of traveling around Europe has provided us with many useful lessons and helped shape our great culture. Let us cherish our European heritage. But it's time to come back home, to ourselves. Let's start, with the baggage we have accumulated, to live in our own way. Our friends in the Foreign Ministry recently made a real breakthrough by calling Russia a civilizational state in their concept of foreign policy. I would add: a civilization of civilizations, open to the North as to the South, to the West as to the East. Today, development is mainly directed towards the south, the north and, above all, the east.

The confrontation with the West in Ukraine, whatever its outcome, must not distract us from the internal strategic movement – spiritual, cultural, economic, political, military and political – towards the Urals, Siberia and the Pacific Ocean. A new Ural-Siberian strategy is needed, a strategy that includes several powerful projects for spiritual upliftment, including, of course, the creation of a third capital in Siberia. This movement should be part of the indispensable formulation of the “Russian dream” – the image of Russia and the world to which one aspires.

I have often written, and I am not the only one, that great states that do not have great ideas cease to be such or simply disappear. History is littered with the graves of powers that have lost their compass. This idea must be created from above and not depend, as fools or lazy people do, on what comes from below. It must correspond to the deepest values and aspirations of peoples and, above all, it must move us forward. But it is up to the elite and the leaders of the country to formulate it. The delay in presenting such a vision is unacceptable.

But for the future to become a reality, the resistance of the forces of the past, that is, of the West, must be overcome. If we fail to do so, it is almost certain that we will witness a real world war. It will probably be the last of its kind.

And here I come to the most difficult part of this article. We can keep fighting for another year or two or even three, sacrificing thousands and thousands of our best men and crushing hundreds of thousands more who are unlucky enough to fall into the tragic historical trap of what is now known as Ukraine. But this military operation cannot end in a decisive victory without forcing the West into a strategic retreat, or even a capitulation. We must force the West to give up its attempts to turn back the clock, to give up its attempts at world domination, and force it to face its own problems, to manage the multifaceted crisis that it is currently going through. To put it bluntly, it is necessary for the West to simply "go screw yourself" and end its interference in the direction of Russia and the rest of the world.

However, for this to happen, Western elites must rediscover their own lost sense of self-preservation by understanding that attempts to wear down Russia by playing the Ukrainians against it will be counterproductive for the West itself. .

The credibility of nuclear deterrence must be restored by lowering the acceptable threshold for the use of atomic weapons and moving cautiously but quickly up the deterrence-escalation ladder. The first steps have already been taken through statements by the President and other leaders, starting to deploy nuclear weapons and their means of delivery in Belarus and increasing the combat effectiveness of strategic deterrent forces. There are quite a few steps on this ladder. I count about two dozen. We could even go so far as to warn our compatriots and all people of good will of the need to leave their homes in case they are near the targets of possible nuclear strikes in countries that directly support the Kiev regime. The enemy must know that we are prepared to launch a preemptive retaliatory strike in response to his present and past aggression, in order to avoid descending into a global thermonuclear war.

I have often said and written that with a good strategy of deterrence and even use, the risk of a nuclear or other "retaliatory" strike on our territory can be minimized. Only if there is a madman in the White House who also hates his own country will the United States decide to strike to "defend" the Europeans and invite retaliation by sacrificing a hypothetical Boston for a fictional Poznan . Americans and Western Europeans are well aware of this, but they prefer not to think about it. We, too, have contributed to this recklessness through our pacifist declarations. Having studied the history of US nuclear strategy, I know that after the USSR acquired a credible nuclear response capability, Washington never seriously considered using nuclear weapons on Soviet territory, even though he publicly bluffed. When the use of nuclear weapons was considered, it was only against "advancing" Soviet forces in Western Europe. I know that Chancellors Helmut Kohl and Helmut Schmidt took refuge in their bunkers as soon as the question of such use arose during an exercise.

The movement down the containment-escalation ladder should be fairly quick. Given the current orientation of the West – and the degradation of most of its elites – each decision made is more incompetent and more ideologically veiled than the last. And, at the present time, it should not be expected that these elites will be replaced by more responsible and more reasonable elites. This will only happen after a catharsis, which will lead to the abandonment of ambitions.

We cannot repeat the “Ukrainian scenario”. For a quarter of a century we were not listened to when we warned that NATO enlargement would lead to war. We tried to delay things, to “negotiate”, which led us to a serious armed conflict. Today, the price of indecision is an order of magnitude higher than it would have been before.

But what if current Western leaders refuse to back down? Perhaps they have lost all sense of self-preservation? We will then have to hit a group of targets in a number of countries to bring those who have lost their senses to their senses.

It's a morally frightening choice – we would use God's weapon and condemn ourselves to great spiritual loss. But if we don't, not only will Russia perish, but most likely all of human civilization will die out.

We will have to make this choice for ourselves. Even our friends and supporters will not support us at first. If I were Chinese, I wouldn't want an abrupt and decisive end to the conflict, because that would set the American forces back and allow them to muster their forces for a decisive battle - either directly or, in the best tradition of Sun Tzu, by forcing the enemy to retreat without a fight. As a Chinese, I would also oppose the use of nuclear weapons, because taking the confrontation to the nuclear level means intervening in an area where my country is still weak.

Moreover, decisive action is not in line with Chinese foreign policy philosophy, which emphasizes economic factors (with the accumulation of military power) and avoids direct confrontation. I would support an ally by providing rear cover, but I would act behind their back and not enter the fray. (In that case, maybe I don't understand this philosophy well enough and attribute motives to my Chinese friends that aren't theirs). If Russia uses nuclear weapons, Beijing will condemn it. But the Chinese would also be glad to know that the reputation and standing of the United States has been hit hard.

How would we react if (God forbid!) Pakistan attacked India, or vice versa? We would be horrified. We would be upset if the nuclear taboo was broken. In this case, let us help the victims and modify our nuclear doctrine accordingly.

For India and other countries of the world majority, including nuclear-weapon states (Pakistan, Israel), the use of nuclear weapons is unacceptable, both for moral and geostrategic reasons. If used “successfully”, the nuclear taboo – the idea that such weapons should never be used and that their use is a direct path to nuclear Armageddon – will be devalued. We are unlikely to win support quickly, although many Southerners would find satisfaction in seeing the defeat of their former oppressors who plundered them, perpetrated genocides and imposed an alien culture on them.

But in the end, the winners are not judged. And the saviors are thanked. The political culture of Western Europe does not remember, but the rest of the world does (and with gratitude), how we helped free the Chinese from brutal Japanese occupation and many Western colonies. to get rid of the colonial yoke.

Of course, if they don't understand us at first, they will be all the more motivated to educate themselves. Nevertheless, it is very likely that we can win and concentrate the minds of enemy states without extreme measures, and force them to retreat. After a few years, we will become China's rear base, as it is currently doing for us, supporting it in its fight against the United States. This fight can then be avoided without there being a great war. And we will win together for the good of all, including the people of Western countries.

At this point, Russia and the rest of humanity will have passed through the field of thorns and all the traumas to enter a future that I see bright - multipolar, multicultural, multicolored - and which will give countries and peoples the possibility to build their own destiny in addition to the common destiny, which should unite the whole world.

source: Russia Today
 

entropical

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I agree. Ukraine has the broken knuckles while Russia has the busted up face as a result of those knuckles.
From "Kyiv in three days" to bombing their own citizens in Belgorod region to blowing up dams out of sheer desperation. And now Russia is also burning on a daily basis. I mean Jesus, the clowns couldn't achieve air supremacy. They can't even achieve local air dominance.

All Bedpan and his generals have are the same tactics the Soviets used in WW2. Trying to use overwhelming numbers via meat assaults. But they don't have the numbers the Soviet army of WW2 had and the weapons of today are more destructive, more precise and more efficient than in WW2.

It took Fagner PMS MONTHS to take the little city of Bakhmut. 20,000 Russian casualties, countless pieces of military equipment destroyed all to "capture" a 99% destroyed city with no real tactical or strategic importance. And now it's the Ukrainians who hold the high ground around Bakhmut and the Russians who are stuck in the Bakhmut cauldron. I see them losing the city in a matter of weeks.
Yeah, lets look at russian casualty figures since you bring them up.
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So a little higher than what you stated, and on the ukranian side?
 

Microbeman

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Joe Biden, shaking hands with Tanyebok, is no evidence of what you call establishment support lol. Well I have already provided a picture with the Nudelman woman, should I also provide you with the telephone recording in which she said that ”Yats is our guy”?



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There is the picture again of Nudelman and her US Nazi puppets.

Many people appear in photos together. I believe there is one of Zelenski and Putin shaking hands. There are certainly ones of Trump and Hilary having a good ole time as well as Trump with Epstein, even aboard his jet. Can you use these as evidence to MAGAs that Trump is not what they believe? Hell no. They, like others we may converse with, cling to their reverent beliefs.
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Blue Rhino

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Yeah, lets look at russian casualty figures since you bring them up.
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So a little higher than what you stated, and on the ukranian side?
LOL How old is that graph? From the first two months of the war? Fagner PMS alone had at least 20,000 casualties in the battle for Bakhmut. Total Russian casualties in Ukraine are over 200,000. Total Ukrainian casualties are at least 100,000 and likely higher.

All Bedpan has managed to do is show the world that his Russia is nothing but a criminally aggressive paper tiger.
 

entropical

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Many people appear in photos together. I believe there is one of Zelenski and Putin shaking hands. There are certainly ones of Trump and Hilary having a good ole time as well as Trump with Epstein, even aboard his jet. Can you use these as evidence to MAGAs that Trump is not what they believe? Hell no. They, like others we may converse with, cling to their reverent beliefs.
So Biden shaking hands with the leader of a fringe Nazi party that conspired with US state department officials to overthrow the elected government and start a civil war in Ukraine, is really no different than from him meeting with world leaders, such as Putin.

Cling to your belief if you want. Ignorance is a choice and you placed yourself on MAGA level retardation by your own hand.
 

entropical

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LOL How old is that graph? From the first two months of the war? Fagner PMS alone had at least 20,000 casualties in the battle for Bakhmut. Total Russian casualties in Ukraine are over 200,000. Total Ukrainian casualties are at least 100,000 and likely higher.

All Bedpan has managed to do is show the world that his Russia is nothing but a criminally aggressive paper tiger.
Those are the latest numbers from MediaZona, actual confirmed numbers, while those you present are ukranian fantasy figures.

But yes, we have known that ukranian casualties are at least 100.000 ever since EU von der Leyen woman revealed classified information on their number of dead some six months ago.
 
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