Ed. Note: Is Russia Waiting for the West to Implode, or Will it Implode First?
It seems the Russian modus operandi becomes clearer and clearer no matter what the theatre of operation is :
- feebly react against NATO encroachment
- conclude some half-assed deal
- sit on their hands while NATO prepares quietly for the next round and rearms
- get caught with their pants down (fooled again !)
- complain (it’s not fair !)
- Try to arrange another half-assed agreement
- act surprised when concluding that NATO is not a truthful partner
… - pack up and leave ?
Posted by: Micron
Not just Russia.
The “Axis of Resistance” did even worse.
I didn’t see much resistance from them, they largely just laid down and conceded defeat. Surprisingly easily considering the capabilities they supposedly had.
Certainly much easier than the Israeli-Arab wars from the 1960s and 1970s.
What happened?
Posted by: ANON2022
Oreshnik: The reality is that everything we know boils down to those three videos of the 6 x 6 streaks in the sky coming down at hypersonic speeds. That is all the actual data.
We don’t know the range, we don’t know the speed, we don’t know the trajectory (is it a ballistic, quasi-ballistic, or even some kind of a high-altitude cruise missile), can it be nuclear or not, what those 6 x 6 things are, how widely they can spread, are the 6 independently targetable or all 6 x 6, are any of them maneuvrable, if yes, just the 6 parent one or the 6 x 6 daughter ones, etc. etc.
None of that is known or there is data to know it based off.
Presumably NATO does have that data. Plus they have of course seen the aftermath. But publicly all we have is those three videos and that’s it.
Posted by: ANON2022
The dollar is backed up by the threat that if you don’t hand over your real wealth (natural resources and the products of the labor of your people) to the US in exchange for inherently worthless greenback IOUs (and these days not even that, but symbols on a screen), then you will be bombed or couped.
As long as people are sufficiently afraid, the dollar will keep its value and there will be no financial crisis.
That is the whole point of the increasingly savage US behavior internationally.
Until Russia resolves its internal contradictions and starts fighting seriously, there is no hope. Same applies to the other enemies of the West.
It doesn’t matter if you have the best rocket and nuclear science on the planet if leadership is never going to strike where it has to.
Posted by: ANON2022
Quite well. Russia is being kicked out of the Middle East with a minimal investment in the space of two weeks. I mean that’s what we would have liked to see Russia doing in Ukraine in 2022.
Posted by: Micron | Dec 6 2024 16:41 utc | 110
Russia has a radical winning move here – provoke Turkey to start a direct war with Russia. There are ways to do it – start systematically targeting the Turkish soldiers on the ground, start hitting the border crossings, bait the Turkish airforce to try to intervene on the side of the rebels, then shoot it down, etc.
Then do the nuclear multiplication by zero exercise with Turkey.
This solves a lot of strategic problems in way than doing the same with Poland would not have (that would have been only a tactical victory). And again, you can do it in such a way that it will look like Turkey started it.
But Stalin was the last Russian ruler capable of playing such games, while in the Kremlin today they want to do business with Erdogan, not to defend vital Russian interests.
Russia is finished if Syria falls, but they are not doing anywhere enough to save it.
Posted by: ANON2022
