Hello everybody!
Can’t help it: it remains amusing to read all the ‘shock and awe’ reactions to Dumpf’s latest actions. At least I find it funny to monitor Dumpf, Musk & AG realising all the ‘worst case scenarios’ – or, actually: ‘worse than thought possible’ scenarios – in the USA, and on the international scene.
At least as amusing is to watch all the related reactions. Efforts to ‘fact-check’ their statements.
…as if such like Dumpf, Musk, Pudding, Farrage, Orban etc. could ever care about fact-checking?
…and, that, while nobody is doing the other sort of fact-checking: a comparison between what have all of such brownie-characters announced in so many of their glorious statements – and what have they ever realised at all.
Which is nothing. Or next to nothing. Exactly the same with Pudding’s security guaranties for the Ukrainian safety and sovereignty, and his threats with nuclear weapons…
If nothing else, check Dumpf: actually, he’s bankrupt, has bankrupted almost every of his business partners, too (including several of Russian mafia-bosses controlled by Pudding’s FSB), and ruined every single of his megalomaniac projects. And when not, he first imposed ‘tariffs, tariffs, tariffs’, then recalled them almost as quickly as he imposed them… and is boasting about ‘Mexico sending thousands of troops to better protect the border to the USA’ – where Mexico did so long before Dumpf came to the idea to demand this…
As said: I find that amusing. Even more so because all the possible talking heads are ignoring such facts.
Less amusing is to watch the total incompetence of the European politicians/decision-makers (the two is far from being the same).
I can understand if there is ‘shock and panic’ in Kyiv: Zele might really still enjoy 57% support in the Ukrainian politics, but this is not making him – nor Yermak – ‘competent’. Only the – in the opinion of the public – the ‘best known as suitable’. Even less is this making Zele cold-blooded enough to get through these ‘turbulent times’ with the necessary coolness. Instead, this is almost equal to ‘cheapest but fairest offer’ you can get from your car dealer...
Further west it’s, largely, even worse: don’t know who there is more stunned, and unable to react in any serious fashion? That list is long. Lets thus re-focus on those who can. That list is next-to-non-existent. Ah yes: the German Minister of Defence seems to be the sole honourable exception. But: he said his opinion already to Vance, now nearly two weeks ago – and then the procedures- and diplomacy-obsessed-, and indecisive Scholz has silenced him…
Where, actually, nothing of what is Dump doing was ‘unpredictable’, as widely claimed over the last 4-5 months. At least since the closing stages of the last year’s election campaign in the USA – at least since all the racism and neo-Nazism expressed at different opportunities back in late October and early November – things must have been crystal clear: we all have to expect the ‘most evil’ things from that character. And much worse things too, then the longer he remains in power the more is he going to feel free to do even more ‘insane’ things.
And, still: Europe – and Ukraine – were, once again, caught entirely unprepared. Literally, ‘with their underwear down’. And that ‘despite’ numerous conferences and meetings and agreements and whatever else, about what to expect from Dumpf and what to do - held back in January and ever since.
‘Nobody here saw it coming’, eh? What a brilliant work of our intelligence services! (…not to talk about our ‘inteligentsiya’…)
And, can you imagine and what a surprise: all the appeasement – this time that of Dumpf, and especially by Zele, but also by that useless babbler Macron – didn’t work. Once again…
…sigh…
Well, considering what I’ve written in Parts 1 and 2 of this feature, is that surprise?
What do you expect, how shall people who are refusing to study so many valuable experiences from so many of recent wars, ‘learn’ anything at all and do their job – like advising their incompetent political show-masters? How shall there develop any kind of ‘clear vision of the future’ a ‘strategy’ for what to do as next, and thus become something at least roughly resembling the description: ‘leader/s’?
If there are any doubts, see the example from the last week, when some silly over there in France filled a big ‘opinion’ article in Le Monde, explaining how Ukraine isn’t going to ‘last’ for six months without US financial and military aid…
Guess, the character in question overslept from late September 2023 until around May 2024 (not to talk about the one from 2014 until 2022) – or was too busy with cheering the Israeli genocide on the Palestinians, but to pay attention about ‘Ukraine’, and the fact it was Biden who froze all the aid for Ukraine, and didn’t deliver anything at all… and not only for ‘six months’?!?
And mind: that’s Le Monde… the ‘hotbed of the French left-wing scene’… and the high-nosed French politics & diplomacy scene, too… the same scene that (just like similar parties in Germany, in USA, and few other places around the world) can’t sort itself out well enough to return to power, but loves declaring certain books about recent wars for ‘written by CIA shills’ or ‘review’ them with single stars and ‘booof’ in the internet – instead of reading them, so they would inform themselves.
Of course, any sane person knows, late ‘September-to-May-period’ is a bit longer than ‘six months’, but hey: who can expect the people arrogant enough to think they need not studying wars – to know how to talk about wars, to know what to do and when while at war, at least to argument any other way but ‘we or Ukrainians are lost’? Who can expect such people to think soberly? To know what is ‘Europe’? What is ‘Ukraine’ – and ‘Ukrainians’…? …what is six months?
Yes, I’m repeating myself, esteemed reader, but I cannot but say it once again: here in Europe, we’re really in the same situation like what somebody once said about the British Army: lions led by idiots...
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OH MY, WHAT NOW?
Ok, so what do we have to do in order to get our system back to (at least) the status ‘functioning’?
As first, there are a few things both the governments in Ukraine, and all over Europe, have to figure out. The primary is that we’re now all at war. Yes, there might be no bombs and missiles falling ‘anywhere else but in Ukraine’, but still, we’re ALL at war. We’re at war against Pudding’s Russia and now against Dumpf’s… I’ve got no idea what is the ‘USA’ going to look like in 5 days from now.
Sure: while I’ve got no doubts there are plenty of friendly US-Americans, people I consider close friends, and I hope we’re going to continue our friendship… sorry guys: cold fact is that they are simply not in power… indeed, that they have permitted their own political system to be subverted by outright Nazis into something that can only be named with ‘Communism for the (Super-)Rich’. So much so, meanwhile I have extreme doubts they might ever get a chance to elect somebody else instead of the Orange Head, and thus recover their democracy.
Thus, beg your pardon, but: we’re at war.
That’s a matter of fact - and then since years already:
What’s left of ‘democracy’ in Europe (and Canada, plus Australia and New Zealand) is at war at least with the megalomaniac US-oligarchy. Just like we’re at war with Pudding’s oligarchy and megalomania.
…which in turn means that now it’s already ‘5 after 12’ for our own zombie idiots to start figuring it out: we’re at war and need to act correspondingly (and not just ‘like we’re at war’).
The first, obligatory step is for all of ‘our’ intelligence services – anywhere from Lisbon to Kyiv (better would be: from Ottawa via New Delhi to Sydney) – to cut off all the links to the US intelligence services. It’s not like I would mistrust the US intelligence services or their people (and that despite the fact that they’re espionaging ‘allies’ as much as they’re ‘espionaging’ al-Qaeda, and Pudding and what-/whoever else, and that for decades already), but: one can’t trust their Clown-in-Chief… ahem.. sorry: Commander in Chief. Because his closest aides are revealing even US’ own ‘top secrets’ in the public, and can do so at their own discretion (or without any, by pure accident), and that without having to fear any kind of consequences. Plus because Dumpf is an KGB/FSB-asset. That is a matter of fact.
Therefore, the intelligence links must be cut off. And the US intelligence activities in Europe – the mass of which is run openly – must all be massively curtailed: forced into the illegitimacy.
Next: if Dumpf wants to withdraw US troops from Europe – whether it’s ‘just’ eastern Europe (i.e. ‘former members of the Warsaw Pact’) or ‘more’ – fine: let them go. There was never, and there might never be another more opportune moment in time for the US armed forces to leave Europe.
How comes? And, is that (any kind of a US military withdrawal) going to leave Europe ‘naked’ – fully exposed to the threat of a Russian invasion?
…and all provided we stand united, of course, instead of petty-bickering over unimportant affairs…
A) It’s simple, and B) no.
Firstly (where, actually, this is the answer to the ‘Question B’), thanks to Ukrainians mauling the Russian armed forces into oblivion, no: there is no serious threat of a Russian invasion of the Europe north or further west of Ukraine for at least 5-10 years (if not longer). At least it’s so that ‘what’s left’ of non-US NATO-troops would be capable of countering such a threat. Indeed, the way the situation is right now, we – ‘Europe’ – not only can, but must afford building-up our armed forces to the necessary levels (those necessary to at least discourage, if not utterly defeat any kind of Pudding’s possible future designs). That would be great for our economies, too…
Secondly, whether partial- or complete, a US military withdrawal from Europe would force Dumpf into facing bitter complaints from those segments of his oligarchy that are earning billions through maintaining the US military presence in Europe (see: maintaining bases, providing supplies, ammo, equipment etc.) – and for which this is going to cause a massive financial loss (in quite a few cases: that would be really an ‘existential threat’). ‘Best’ of all: the US armed forces would be massively crippled in their overall capabilities: they would lose their ‘aircraft carrier Europe’, which they need for the mass of their operations in the Middle East, Africa, and much of western Asia... Indeed, we can ‘return the favour’ to Dumpf and demand high fees for any US aircraft landing to refuel, or any US warship docking to refuel in Europe.
If you think that all is ‘just peanuts’: fine with me. But, don’t tell me I didn’t tell you.
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FOCUS
The next few steps would be ‘automatic’, ‘but’: they require a serious cooperation (instead of the usual petty bickering about unimportant affairs) between 50 countries of Europe, too… and they require something called ‘focus’.
At latest now, we (Europeans) must start searching for ways to not only survive, but to defeat and destroy the Pudding regime. Yes, gloves are off: we need to focus on this task.
This regime if literally feeding Dumpf, Farrage, Le Pen/NR, AfD and the likes all around Europe: people working hard to disunite us and busy is by separating us into ‘pitchfork’- and ‘torches’-people. This is going to so far that meanwhile there’s no doubt that Pudding is dictating such characters what to say and what to do, day-for-day. Therefore, it’s not going to be enough to ‘survive’ that regime’s invasion of Ukraine: to ‘remain afloat, one way or the other, until that regime runs out of steam’: Pudding’s regime is a mortal threat for all us. It must be destroyed.
Therefore, another step necessary is a total embargo on all the ties between such actors here in Europe, and Pudding. Plus total embargo on activity of any kind of organisations, but especially political parties, media and social media presences propagating pro Pudding & Co.
Yes, tolerance is fundamental for our ‘ideology’, but tolerance has its limits. After all, we also like to pride ourselves with not tolerating murder, just for example…
BTW, whether the ‘destruction of the Pudding regime’ then results in ‘Russia falling apart’ and ‘warlords in control of nukes’… who the hell cares? Right now, that’s not the case, and thus irrelevant. And, ‘sometimes in the future’… well, in the future, there will always be some other, new kind of threat for the humanity (if the Climate Change doesn’t get it, already much earlier that big asteroid meanwhile tracked by multiple astronomers, which might hit the Earth in around 2023 or so, and do the job).
Cold fact is: right now, it’s a matter of our own – European – survival to destroy that regime. Whatever happens and follows afterwards: we’ll see what and when it happens, and can take care of that once the Pudding regime is down.
With other words: our politics, our politicians – yes, this means our own oligarchy, too – must, finally, focus on what really matters. Otherwise, our oligarchy is not going to continue extracting handsome profits from all of their possible deals: these are going to end up sacked by the likes of Musk.
Perhaps the best example for that ‘focus’ is that of the government in Kyiv. So far it was doing ‘a little bit of this and a little bit of that’, or if ‘focusing’ then focusing on pipe-dreams (like, ‘we’re going to drive to Melitopol and then to the sea’..). Unsurprisingly, it ended being a jack of all the trades, and master of exactly none: a master in depending on ‘the West’ to do for it, while doing very little at home.
…except for lots of babbling, and running politically-motivated combat operations) at home, or
…creating the fake impression that the members of that government are the only ones having a clue about how to rule Ukraine, and are thus something like ‘irreplaceable’; that nobody else between all the Ukrainians could do this better. Have described this ‘Mubarak Syndrome’ already several times (late Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt, once publicly announced he cannot pick a Vice-President, because there is no suitable person for that job, in all of the country…)
Actually, the only of that government’s instances doing anything ‘right’ right now, is the SBU (the main ‘internal’ security service of Ukraine) – and then through its campaign of (meanwhile, and thanks whomever) sustained UAV-strikes on the Russian oil industry. And that, merely, over the last 1-1,5 months. Sure, that campaign is still not big enough, but: even if seriously sustained for only the last 1-1,5 months, and although still lacking in range and precision, it can be described as ‘focused on what really matters’. Ironically, yes, this means the SBU is not really actual job (‘protection of the Constitution and internal order’ in Ukraine), which actually means that somebody else should assume the responsibility for that campaign (unless this would ruin it), but, the fact is: the SBU is mauling the Pudding’s primary source of income. One only has to hope it’s going to continue doing that – and then not just for the next 1-2 months, but until there’s not one oil- and/or gas refinery, and not one oil depot in Russia within its reach, left in operational condition.
This is even more important considering the following: the Russian industry can’t provide the mass of heavy machinery necessary to repair its oil/gas industry. It couldn’t do so already 15-20 years ago, when in ‘cordial’ relations with ‘the West’, and now even less so. It has to import this – and that from the West. So far, the last three years, it could – largely – not do so. But, with Dumpf, Musk etc AG in power… this could quickly change (even more so considering the Chinese are always at large). Therefore, this industry – the Russian oil/gas industry - must be destroyed as quickly as possible. At least mauled into becoming non-operational for the next 6-12 months.
Considering all of this, it’s entirely unsurprising that the Zelensky government still has no idea how to defeat the Russian invasion (in this regards, there’s no difference between that government and any other European government), nor that – as a result of its ineptitude – also the Glavcom (Syrsky) and the GenStab-U have no idea how to do that, nor even how to reform the armed forces. In this regards, one can go as far as to say that, for reasons discussed in the Parts 1 and 2 of this feature, also the mass of European armed forces have no idea how to reform themselves.
That’s going to be the topic of the Part 4.
(…to be continued…)
I remember Biden trying to create all kind of European-Ukrainian agrrements to finance the war after the elections. He explained that trouble is coming, they need to be carefull, etc.
Fast forward the Europeans are shocked and with empty pockets, Zelenski is shocked about the European shock.
That's because nobody warned them.
I think Western elites are now doing a perfectly fine job of dividing Western democracies into rival camps of pitchfork and torches people without Putin's help, and they have been for quite some time. Divide et impera. Only one side of this oligarchy believes in the traditional post-1990 security architecture, the other side believes in something else; what that is exactly is hard to say, but the 2016-era typing of Trump as an FSB plant has even gone out of fashion on CNN. He may well be, but perhaps it is less relevant if he is. Just like the last time, he got on the order of $100M from a certain Adelson. The ludicrous technofeudalist-cum-"libertarian" Musk bought his way into executive power with something like $40M, so what's $100M? $40 per West Bank Palestinian? Or an even "better" "deal"?