Up until February 23rd, 2022, the powerful countries of the world played a very rarified game.
Too many people try to analyze geopolitics like it is a game of chess. Move, counter-move. Push a pawn? Threaten a knight, that type of thing. It’s easy to understand and makes for good copy.
In the past I’ve tried to liken it to a multi-player version of Go, with anywhere from four to 6 different colored stones on the board trying to take territory. It was a better metaphor but nearly impossible to describe adequately. In fact, at times, it was exhausting.
The reality is that neither of these metaphors are explanatory.
Because the only accurate model for geopolitics is actually Calvinball.
You know that game. That’s the one from Calvin & Hobbes.
Contrary to your memory of the legendary comic strip, there were rules to Calvinball that went something like this: Calvin got to make the rules up as he went along.
In geopolitics it pretty much comes down to whoever is the strongest player got that power.
Here’s the thing. Up until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (and yes, it is an invasion, justifiable or otherwise) there was something called the ‘rules-based order’ promoted mainly by the US but also supported directly by the European Union and the Commonwealth.
The rules of the ‘rules-based order’ were simple. We make the rules, you follow them. We reserve the right to change the rules whenever we want to suit our purpose.
It was the geopolitical equivalent of Sam Francis’ idea of ‘anarcho-tyranny,’ which boils down to, “rules for thee, but not for me.”
We’ve heard the Russian diplomats complain about this for years. Why have these rules if they are not ever enforced?
As I point out all the time when talking about leftist ideologues purity spiraling towards self-destruction, we have these rules because only others’ hypocrisy counts. Sub-humans are not allowed to talk or even be a part of the conversation.
And in the world of diplomacy as practiced by the collective West, the Russians are definitely sub-human, just like the unvaxxed, anyone to the immediate right of Karl Marx and who isn’t a furry.
All that changed when Russian tanks crossed the border, stand off missiles hit anti-aircraft and artillery batteries, and marines came onshore in Ukraine.
For months we’ve been treated to the dumbest and most infuriating facsimile of diplomacy I’ve ever witnessed. It beggared belief listening to the nauseating virtue signaling of US ‘diplomats’ who refused to engage Russia’s concerns in even a half-serious manner while blaming them for every issue on the planet.
It was as clumsy as it was stupid, to quote Darth Vader.
It was clear that Putin and his staff would be given this ultimate option, invade Ukraine and face global opprobrium or kneel before Zod.
Their miscalculation was in thinking that Russia actually cares one whit about that global opprobrium at this point. By their actions in Ukraine this week, it is clear they do not.
They weren’t afraid of NATO’s posturing, Biden’s threats of sanctions or of Liz Truss’s difficulties with basic geography. The longer this standoff over Ukraine went on the more it was clear that most of the people in positions of power and their support staff have less than zero understanding of the parameters of their jobs.
Because of this their constant invocation of the ‘rules-based order’ rang more and more hollow since they were simply acting like a precocious six-year old boy playing with his stuffed tiger.
Pronouncements of consequences and ‘sanctions from hell’ and threats of holding our breath until we pass out were rightly ignored by Putin and his staff.
For decades NATO enjoyed the luxury, thanks to US military primacy, of making up the rules and forcing everyone else to react to them.
It goes back to the statement, most likely made by then Vice-President Dick Cheney, on the ‘reality-based community,’
“That’s not the way the world really works anymore … We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’“
What’s been clear to me is that those placed in positions of power by Klaus Schwab and the rest of The Davos Crowd they still think we live in this type of world. That no matter what the people want or other countries need, they will dictate the time, place and parameters for any and all confrontations.
However, the longer this went on the more it was clear that Putin and his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, were inching towards that moment where they would change the rules. I wrote back in March 2018 that Putin’s State of the Union address where he unveiled new weapon systems was a major turning point.
For the next four years we have seen a steady escalation of neoconservative insanity in a vane attempt to push US missile systems closer to Moscow, contra to all signed international agreements, UN resolutions about resolving the breakaway republics of Ukraine and, frankly, common decency.
After a 2021 where things in Ukraine kept getting hotter and hotter, Putin and Lavrov, having backed Biden down over the summer with June 16th’s summit, knew the time had come to change the rules of the game.
If they didn’t Russia would cease to be.
The old game entered its spiral towards conclusion when Russia sent and published publicly its draft proposals for a new security architecture concerning Russia and NATO’s relationship in Eastern Europe.
Russia acted, setting the operational tempo from that moment forward. It forced the US and Europe to react to them as they created a new reality, set new rules.
The US was now the rule-taker rather than the rule-maker. You knew this because it prompted multiple rounds of scurrying to Moscow by officials from all over the West trying to talk the Russians off their new game.
To zero avail.
As The Saker pointed out in his initial thoughts on Russia’s recognition of the breakaway republics of the Donbass, this operation in Ukraine was a long time in the planning. This was not an action that was taken lightly.
Again, I will repeat here what I wrote above: this recognition should NOT, repeat, NOT, be seen in isolation. It is just ONE PHASE in a PROCESS which began at least a year ago, or more, and there is much more to come.
Truer words and all that.
For months I’ve been telling you that Nordstream 2 would eventually be turned on and that Russia would not be kicked out of the SWIFT telecommunications network regardless of what happened.
The former is still on the table, as Germany was the most vocal about not doing the latter.
Even I missed that Russia was planning to change the game this radically, thinking there was always a Davos-approved solution which didn’t involve extensive use of the Russian military, but still ended with the US looking foolish.
In retrospect, it was obvious we were always headed to this end-game because Russia saw the opportunity to change the rules.
Less than a day after Russia wiped out both Ukraine’s military power and political architecture, President Sundowner confirmed that all the West’s threats were as empty as the heads of the Millennials running the propaganda desk at the State Dept.
After months of threatening Russia with expulsion from the SWIFT financial messaging system, Europe complained and someone finally showed some sense.
Cutting Russia out of SWIFT would mean the end of the EU as anyone has known it or wishes it could be in the future. It would mean the end of the petrodollar system.
Russia is too systemically important to the global commodity trade that goes far beyond energy. It supplies not only the marginal barrel of oil and BTU of natural gas, but pound of nickel, palladium, titanium, enriched uranium and tungsten. It’s a major supplier of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, potash, and urea.
Do this and Europe not only freezes to death with their three days of gas reserves but starves once the global food supply is disrupted. Do this and Biden enters the mid-terms with $8/gallon gas, and 20% real inflation.
The Fed raising rates will be the least of anyone’s worries.
Russia held all the cards in the negotiations over Ukraine and we recklessly pursued a policy of insults and amateurish propaganda, refusing to believe Russia wouldn’t make her final stand.
By putting boots on the ground, planes in the air and missiles up the ass of every Ukrainian military installation across the country, Russia turned the ‘might makes right’ argument of the US and Europe on its head.
The game has changed because the rules have changed. It’s no longer a game of rhetorical chicken and virtue signaling.
Realpolitik doesn’t matter a bit when missiles are in the air. This is the point that was lost on so many in the professional commentariat for the past few months. They’ve never contemplated the idea that someone could do this, no less did it.
They are now confused and angry, working through their ‘cope’ in public. If it wasn’t so pathetic it would almost be hilarious.
For nearly a decade the West poured billions into Ukraine to arm it and prepare it for this week. Those billions were essentially wiped out in a matter of hours. It took a day to expose all of NATO’s posturing as nothing but that, posturing.
We now have to come to terms with this new game. It’s a game where the rules will be far more equitable because the unthinkable alternatives are no longer theoretical, they are real.
It’s real because the threats to Russia posed by NATO’s designs on Ukraine were always real no matter what was said.
So Biden and Davos got the war in Ukraine they’ve been begging Russia for. The problem for them now is Russia isn’t playing their game anymore and they are wholly unprepared for the next one.
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Putin and Russia are not attacking the West, They are defending Western Civilization from the crazy woke Marxists who are well along in their plan to destroy our people and our civilization, Christian Russia stands against the woke tyrants who are destroying our civilization and our humanity. Pray that Russia succeeds in this great task for if it fails the future will belong to the Obiden Junta and the likes of Trudeau, Obama, Biden, Kerry, Boris Johnson, Klaus Schwab, Soros and their legions of vermin who are eating us alive.
Yes, it boils down to the adage: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”. As a Canadian, it is very clear to me that my government is my enemy. My government considers Putin its enemy, so that makes Putin my friend.
It’s interesting that in the run-up to the 2020 election, there were numerous video’s floating around the web of Black, Hispanic and Asian American’s who were crystal clear at that point of what was at stake, and who the real enemies were. Even then many of us knew it was a global adversary in the form of EU, Davos and tech oligarchs.
So, there isn’t any question globalists and their agenda 21 took a throat punch here at the hand of Putin, but it would be naïve to think the bought-and-paid-for corruptocrats in the US, EU, UK, UN, Davos and NATO, and all of their moronic Flying Monkeys won’t double, triple, quadruple down.
they will, now the question is how does he respond? Will this escalate to nuclear weapons? The morons in Brussels and DC are not beyond that outcome, sadly
Putin is part of the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab club. How does that figure in?
Thoughts???
https://www.georgesoros.com/2022/02/26/we-must-stand-with-ukraine-as-they-stand-with-us/
He’s hoping to win a losing war
Well said, my friend Tom. On my bucket list is a strong desire to sit down with you, a fine cigar, a favorite adult drink (or two or three…), a bowl of pretzels, and a nice long conversation about whatever we decide to talk about and whoever gets to make the rules for that time.
Tom, just one thing — like Sam Elliot (the narrator) told Jeffrey Lebowski (The Dude), “Do you have to use so many cuss words?”
yes he does. It is his language
Thank you for an excellent post Tom.
While it is obviously necessary to look at what is happening from a large geopolitical perspective, it might be helpful to hear what precisely it was like for ordinary Russian speakers living in the Donetsk region. My only first hand experience was speaking (listening more correctly) to a dental nurse while having some minor dental surgery. I was told that along with her husband (an engineer) they had owned a small holding close to the ‘Ukraine’ border. (Yes they were of course part of the Ukraine).
Over the years, the intimidation became progressively worse. Over time and always at night, their small number of cattle were shot along with the few pigs that they owned.. Then as a final straw their dogs were killed and a small store building burned. They fled and were accepted as immigrants to Canada. She said that she “thanked God every day for their escape”.
Like to ask her what she thinks of our own home grown Canadian tyrant, Trudeau but….
In no way do I mean to belittle or show disrespect for your very serious post, but I had one small amusing (to me at least) memory that I wanted to add.
During the time of the break up of the USSR I had need to be at the British Embassy in Moscow. There was a story that went: The Embassy building was originally build by a Russian sugar baron and was situated directly across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. Stalin was one or the few Presidents to live in the Kremlin and his quarters looked directly towards the embassy. Apparently it annoyed him no end to see the Union flag being raised each morning and lowered each evening. On his instructions, his staff offered to buy the building from the British Government on numerous occasions but all offers were rejected.
Well Stalin had his wish in the end; as the beautiful building was sold some years ago and a new embassy opened in the Arbat region of Moscow.
We live in interesting times.
I am reading The Arbat Tetralogy now…fabulous. Stalin was a piece of work. Great reading.
Thoughts????
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/russia-want-take-chernobyl-rcna17615
Putin took control of ukraine’s plutonium production
Hi Tom, I have always been of the mindset when it comes to major powers when one nuke goes off they all go kaboom. Is this rational thinking or is there any scenario in which you could see a nuclear war between countries like the US & Russia somewhat contained?
Russia didn’t invade. A couple battalions immigrated without documents to Ukraine.
“Even I missed that Russia was planning to change the game this radically, thinking there was always a Davos-approved solution which didn’t involve extensive use of the Russian military, but still ended with the US looking foolish.”
…- Don’t sell yourself so short, Tom: – Your general analysis of the big picture in your recent “Will Lagarde and the ECB Survive…?” piece sounded about right…
As a matter of history, whenever the Banksters decide to call time on the current imperial hegemon/global reserve currency and have ’em pass the torch on to the next up-and-coming new kid on the block, an unquestionable, undeniable, irrevocable and *Absolute* political/cultural loss of face is required of the former, if not also the complete degradation of its economic and military potency and prestige as well…
I’m still trying to make sense out of the blizzard of chaff-and-static conflicting reports out of the various news tubes and on social media, and so spent most of yesterday increasingly puzzled, as the day wore on, as to Putin’s logic in apparently going beyond the borders of the Donbas towards what appears a general ground campaign across wider Ukraine… – My provisional conclusion, and taking him at his own word regarding ‘de-militarization’ and ‘de-nazification’ (ie: regime change in Kyiv) as well as ‘peacekeeping’ with respect to the Donbas, is that he is:…
…- 1: – Provisionally, attempting to secure a *Deep* territorial ‘buffer zone’, extending outwards from the historical Donetsk/Lughansk Oblast borders to somewhere along a line, *At Least*, from Kharkiv to Dniepro and Zaporizhia, then along the Dniepr to the coast at the western extremity of Crimea (Probably will extend further down the coast from there to also include Odessa, since the Russkies conventionally consider that a part of ‘Novorossiya’ as well…).
…- 2: – Further ensure the security of the Donbas by permanently removing the entire regime of Nazi crazies in Kyiv.
…- 3: – (The *Real* cherry on top…) – By freely maneuvering ground forces and occupying territory with apparent impunity *Right Across* Ukraine, deliver a *Massive* upraised middle finger to the US/UK/NATO, into the bargain… – As you point out in the article, Putin has fundamentally called them on their bullshit, seized both the initiative and the whole damn game from them and promptly turned the tables, then established the ‘new rules’ in a game-set-and-match fait accompli – *Tic-Tac-Toe*…
…- The various PR responses out of the US, et al (*Much* wailing and gnashing of teeth, with F-all meaningful *Action*, or even ideas for that matter), amply demonstrate that a possibly terminal loss of face is *Already* in effect…
We live in a world, in the west, whose leaders are obsessed with preventing World War Two breaking out again, but have failed to heed the lessons of World War One. The particular one this time is that of Versailles: we humiliated the Russians in the 1990s as we did the Germans in 1919. Nobody should be surprised when the result is the same.
Cannuck210’s story about the British Embassy in Moscow is absolutely true. I was told by a British diplomat that the Soviets were trying to get us out of it for years, and we (I am British) were under strict instructions not to agree even though it was far too small and very inconvenient as a building. We managed to stay there until after 1991.
I mentioned in comments to one of your earlier posts that the most likely course of action would be Russia unilaterally disarming Ukraine, which of course means it would be “Finlandised.” I also suggested a threat to unilaterally disarm the Balts might be in the cards.
Now we see that Finland, feeling their oats by the NATO bluster up until 24 February, also wanted membership in NATO. That is not going to happen. Well,
I should hedge … it might happen on paper.
The more likely outcome, assuming the Davos crowd don’t want a bigger kinetic shooting match, which I believe they don’t, is that serious offensive capabilities in the Balts and other states bordering Russia will be dialed back, while they remain in NATO … in name only.
The whole point of the Davosians, even paramount to returning the masses to serfdom, is to prevent kinetic actions that destroy and dissipate the wealth of the elites. Unless a back-room deal has been cut, Creepy Joe and Mr. Wild-Hair are on thin ice with the Davos gang. Then again, Mr. Putin has ties to the WEF, so maybe it is all one big pantomime.
If anybody monitoring this situation , keep in mind that Putin and also all Eastern European action is long game.
We can not go to the new post Empire and post Davos era with bloodbath, lies and millions of people demanding justice and revenge.
Basically Putin tries to avoid WW II where winners enforced their own fake narrative with bloodbath . But because hundreds of millions of people never accepted this narrative, then post WW II order actually never settled. Big lie was and is constantly needed and one small war followed to another.
Because of that, all anti communist actors working slowly and carefully . Instead of working like ax killer , anti communist forces working like surgeons to ensure that cured patient will live happily many many years.
So if anybody is interested why Russia does not use its full military power and is so slow, this is the reason. The rest of the Eastern European resistance also works slowly and carefully.
This is just another distraction. NATO targetted Georgia and Ukraine, but failed with Byelorussia.
The greatest strategic mistake in history was made by the USA at Aceh. Artificial tsunami is one thing, but the attack on one party to a ceasefire showed all that Putin and others needed to know about the controllers of the USA.
No nation can trust ‘Oceania’ of 1984. Its cities are vulnerable to the calthrate enhanced attack they already used twice.
Very good article Tom. Just one small detail regarding the statement you attribute to Cheney. That statement was made by Karl Rove.
Its attributed to rove, who denied it. No one knows for sure. The best guess now is Cheney
I suspect it is entirely spurious; a comment that someone who disliked the entire neocon cabal, including Rove, Cheney and all the rest, made up and then attributed anonymously. However, it does seem to accurately portray the general mind set of that crowd, whom I equally despise.
The Russians saved the world from Fascism once in WW2 and may have to save it again from the same Fascists…after all, what country was it that snatched up all the NAZI war criminals and brought them into their home country and gave them jobs in top science & research positions? Oh yeah the USA. Pathetic.
Read The Arms of Krupp (Manchester), a deep history of a 500 year old arms dealing family who had clients all over the world and were fabulously wealthy. During the Hitler era, they used slave labor in their factories and it was known to all. One such factory was in Essen, Germany. The last Krupp, Alfried, was put into prison for war crimes. During his term in prison, he became the richest man in Europe, consolidating business and moving others around the world. The US knew it needed Alfried to rebuild Europe so everyone looked the other way. At the trial, Alfried denied the war ccrimes and said it was his father, who was demented by this time and could not stand trial. When the US sent John J. McCloy to run the trials at Nurenberg, McCloy let out Krupp and he became a free man creating an international conglomerate. McCloy became a member of the Warren Commission.
You are living on what planet? Remember 1917- 1989? A world of misery, corruption, gulags, and massacres of civilians and soldiers? Want any of that? They invented fascism … Hitler was competition, that’s all.
And many in my home country Canada .Chrystia Freeland ancestry .
Like the boogieman virus, this is Banker Theatre. Keep the sheep on edge, fearful and comatose while you strip their rights and rob them blind. Everything’s been offshored and stolen. ZOG slouches East, leaving empty husks and shells.
I’ve been waiting anxiously for your analysis, Tom. Please continue to communicate as this unfolds. Fascinating and scary all at once.
FYI, Scotty, I’ve done three livestreams on the subject on my Odysee channel and just published a private post for my patrons.
I’ll be busy this weekend with my work for Newsmax, My best work is behind the patreon paywall where i’m in contact with everyone every day.
The hypersonic missile was a unit function technology game changer. Like jet engines. Who needs aircraft or aircraft carriers? Instant BSD on demand. Like spec ops guys behind enemy lines placing detonating devices with no spec ops guys.
I hope Vlad goes all the way. He has to have dirt which is obvious to the most duped Lib that their gang is filled with corrupt, Marxist gangsters. Hunter, Big Guy, correspondence between obama, HRC, and the big guy…They -the Libs -are so delusional they may not be convinced by anything. As the old KGB agent said, “they will not be convinced until the boot is on their neck and then it will be too late.”
Ironic. The old KGB agent (Vlad) might save us
Putin chooses his words very carefully. I believe he called for “demilitarization” (done) and “denazification,” Are those people Nazis? I don’t see it, personally.
Your comment does tie in to a question that I have. If Putin’s term of surrender is for an independent and neutral Ukraine, how can that be achieved? It has been shown over the past decade to be one of the most corrupt nations on the world. Independent nations (Switzerland, Sweden) do best with a reputation for trustworthiness and ,um, independence.
Russia has crafted a position of power in the world through self-reliance and holding a bunch of valuable things (natural gas, valuable metals, and fertilizer chief among them). “Cleansing” a neighbor of Nazis and corruption (so that independence can work) seems like an external focus that they haven’t attempted since rolling into Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc. mid-20th century. Why?
Putin’s reference to ‘denazification’; he’s specially talking about the Asov Battalion. My understanding is there are around 60K of them, scattered across (mostly) Western lines.
Perhaps the recent vote on the Resolution to Condemn the Glorification of Nazism – which was opposed by only two countries – offers a clue.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/21/us-ukraine-vote-against-un-resolution-against-nazism/
This is now the perfect setup for the Davosians.
With Putin having reluctantly or willingly allowed himself to be drawn into conflict, the Davosians can now pull the trigger on almost any type of large scale false flag crisis event and the world will blame Putin for it.
My money is on CyberTonkin.
If they do it, they will immediately capitalize on it with a media saturation effort designed to convince us that their Great Reset is the only remedy.
And if they do that they will all be personally killed Ivor. The setup is there. The threats have been made (on both sides). I’m betting on Putin’s spies/missiles and special forces rather than Schwab’s terrorists.
Seriously. The setup here is if they do any of this it will be the end of Davos as all of these MF’ers will be killed. Those statements by Putin of “We know who gave the orders…” means far more than who ordered the mass killing of civilians in the Donbass.
Their control system depends on all of this.
You’re convinced that Putin is not on their payroll?
https://www.weforum.org/press/2021/10/russia-joins-centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution-network/
I wonder if a serious cyber disruption might further discredit the lunge toward the all-encompassing “personal e-passports” Davos is trying to implement. Trudeau/Freeland said the quiet part out loud about trusting your money to such a system–seems like the public dread of having it controlling everything in your life would grow hugely after a all-encompassing cyber attack. Don’t think that is what Davos is shooting for.
On the contrary – a serious cyberattack will collapse our current monetary system and usher in the Great Reset, of which the digital IDs are a vital part.
Convenient that they are in place ready to be used. Almost as if COVID was a plandemic.
Wonder how many WEF flunkies and members made Putin’s list for Direct Action?
It’s gotta include a couple hundred people. Heads of govt, heads of NGOs, media, UN, etc
His anti-NGO law from a few years ago, wiped them all out. The CIA and MI6 have very little presence in Russia.
It’s not a libertarian paradise by any stretch, but it is the state necessary to get them through this period of history.
Biden has just read the CyberTonkin script off his teleprompter, warning us all that a Russian cyberattack is imminent.
And the central banks’ recent tightening charade has sufficiently rehabilitated their reputations.
Time for the existing monetary system to die.
I can tell you that I’m more convinced than ever that the Fed is working overtime to destroy the Eurodollar system which is where Davos gets most of its power.
I will be writing about this soon.
This is why Biden was instructed to accelerate the cyber polygon talking point
Touche.
The end of the Davos designs on Russia and China etc is clear. Russia has now displayed an undeniable military superiority – real power – Davos has nothing but fake news, fake social media, and fake economic influence based on the ability to print money out of thin air. Will Russia extend the invasion to economic measures against Blackrock etc the big money of Davos. Will they move against Schwab and the other global zionists personally? I’m so glad that Biden and the Marxist Democrat party just got a big punch right in the face.
The west is in trouble. It has become a society of children led by children, too far detached from reality and incapable of distinguishing those things that matter from those that don’t.
We are a society obsessed with gender issues, a disease that is barely distinguishable from the common cold and unproven theories about climate evolution.
Now that it’s time to play serious ball with actual grown ups, we are lost.
The fiasco in Ukraine started when Obama (with Biden as his VP) sent CIA operatives into Ukraine to stage the Maiden massacre and install a bunch of actual Nazis (complete with swastikas and goose stepping… and oh yeah this subset of Ukranians identify themselves as Nazis).
Obama destablized Ukraine in 2013-14. Period. Amen. Doesn’t matter if western media outlets attempt to cover this up.
Today it is well known that the Bidens received, from Ukraine, at least $50,000 per month in bribes **that we know of**. Who knows how much more the Bidens are getting that has not yet been revealed?
So now the world is left to rely on Putin to be the adult in the room. Love him or hate him, Putin is the world’s only hope to re-stabilze Ukraine.
Even if Biden wasn’t taking bribes, are we supposed to put any faith in the people who screwed up the Afghanistan withdrawal? General Milley is a woke traitor. Lloyd Austin is just a woke screw up. And Biden has lost cognitive ability.
Any American who doesn’t like it that Putin is now the adult in the room — should have found some better morons to run Washington DC (that accusation applies to BOTH parties).
As Americans, we need to get used to having less and less influence in the world. We keep electing morons. We are so deep in debt that our children will live their entire lives as debt slaves. We neglected infrastructure. We off-shored all manufacturing (some of it should have been off-shored, but not all of it).
And ****WE**** continue to elect rank morons to Congress and to the oval office.
Our fault. Not Putin. Not Xi. Not the Iranian guy. Not Kim dong doo-doo in Korea. Its 110% our own fault for electing a long long list of morons.
Thoughts? What security?
…Next, that must be repeated again, this is NOT about the LDNR, the Donbass or even the Ukraine, this is about a new security architecture on Europe and, therefore, on our entire planet….the saker..
Who provides the security for Europe. I agree with Andrei completely on this point.
Does Putin follow the US/EUropean imposed rules when he gives himself a life mandate as king, poisons journalists, and emprisons protesters for treason?
Hear this, Putin does not care about rules, he always did whatever he wanted. Except he longs for his lost empire and he’s not going to get it, because noone wants a miserable life by choice.
The pandemic is fading, and we are back to the guns… he waited for his moment.
Putin actually plays by the rules. The West has been making up rules of preemptive war for the last several decades decimating countries while “the West” siphons off the spoils. And Western people have let it happen.
Yes we have
It could be argued that the NATO/Russia dispute is helping the globalists by driving Russia and China together. Creating a bloc where there used to be sovereign countries. And both are pushing digital id/qr codes. Although NATO appear stupid, The article makes a good point in saying that we probably don’t even understand the game. But it is human nature to try to make sense of the events around us. And Tom does that very well. Thank you.
Thank you Tom for your analysis today. You have a great mind!
“Vain” and “Vane” are not the same thing. Your editor should be checking for this type of error.
might or might not agree with your conclusion;
but it’s more by accident and not by design.
unless there is some invisible (to human) eyes behind it all
The smoke-and-mirrors propaganda machine is going full-bore, churning out photos and videos purporting to show ‘huge explosion in Kyiv today’ (factory explosion in China years ago), and ‘Russian fighter plane shot down over Ukraine’ (a MiG at an airshow in 2015), get your war porn served up piping-hot. To their grudging credit, ‘fact checkers’ employed by international news agencies like Reuters are exposing some of these and urging readers to be cautious about inflammatory material flooding social media. But overall the media show pushes viewers and listeners in one direction – Putin has crossed the line, and this cannot be allowed to stand.
Inspires rejoicing in some quarters, I imagine. The DNR and LPR, for two, who must be ecstatic at having someone finally stand up for them after the western members of the ‘Normandy Four’ whistled and looked out the window at nothing while their allies pumped Ukraine full of weapons and money, ostensibly for its ‘defense’, although some of the weapons were sold on the international market within days and most of the donated money likely went straight into some oligarch’s pocket. France and Germany were urgently petitioned at several intervals, by Russia, to press Ukraine to abide by its commitments in the Minsk Agreements. Neither did anything of the sort.
And it must inspire rejoicing in Washington, too, where they finally got the war they wanted, and pushed and pushed until they got. However, the last couple of days have exposed some whopper lies. One, the west ‘stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Ukraine’. In the lineup at the airport departure counters, maybe. The USA and UK would rather inject weapons and money into the conflict from a safe distance, stirring the pot and hopefully fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian. Two, the laughable fiction that the strained might of the Ukrainian Army is all that has held back the red horde from ravening through Europe these many years. It collapsed like something that collapses fairly easily in nothing flat. Russia could have done this at any point, just as it could have recognized the republics’ independence at any point rather than holding on, patiently waiting for diplomacy’s effect to be felt. Had that ever happened, rather than being subverted at every turn by those whose interests would be served by violence, this would not have happened.
They’re starting to worry in the Kremlin now.
No, they really aren’t. Ignore the propaganda that Russia is ‘getting bogged down’ in Ukraine. It’s a complete wish fulfullment fantasy.
Reality on the ground is that Russia is moving at Russia’s speed with different objectives than how the US wages war… which is to blow everything up and then move in.
Russia isn’t fighting that way.
Here’s a quick lesson:
https://youtu.be/1vdiEABLFoo
Thank you, Tom, for all of this ADULT clear and well-reasoned thinking. Truly.
We are tired of being spoon-fed childish death-wish gibberish by maladjusted psychos in media, government, and academia.
Hopefully there are enough of us left to bring back some sanity, reason, and faith to a tired world.
Thank God for this analysis of geopolitics from alternative media. Mass media is a mouthpiece for the corporate state with its warmongering ways.
Biden to Zelenski…. Here’s some shiny new weapons. Now let’s you and Putin fight. Can’t believe that even Zelenski was dumb enough to fall for it.
Because it was Zelenskyy’s job to fall for it. Davos wanted this war. Now they have to deal with a Putin and Xi who have prepared for it. They may not like what happens next.