Vlad and Xi's Excellent Ukrainian Adventure
This all makes no sense unless it is bigger than we know. This could be the precursor to unrestricted world war like nothing seen before.
I, like many, have a bucket load of questions about Vlad’s (and Xi’s) Excellent Ukrainian Adventure.
So much of it makes little sense, seems needlessly chaotic and wasteful – both in resources and human life – and seems to expose serious weaknesses in the air and ground power of the Russian Army and Air Force.
Nobody, not even bad authors of military and espionage thrillers, sends Chechen fighters and Wagner Group operatives in AFTER the war starts to take out the leadership of a country, especially after having Russian aligned assets operating in the Donbas region for a decade.
I mean, what the hell, Pootie Poot?
How about the newfound friendship between rival communist powers, Russia and China?
One just has to ask just what kind of Frankenstein’s monster of a world war is going on here.
What if Putin sees Ukraine as a side-benefit?
What if Russia and China have decided neither alone can take down the US, even as weak as it has become under feckless and myopic leadership and decades of wasted war and nation building efforts.
What if the real result is Russia taking over a Europe (except for the UK), reestablishing an expanded Russian Empire, China gets Africa, South Asia and the Pacific Rim (primarily Taiwan, a reunited Korea, and Japan). A Russian allied Iran gets hegemonic stewardship of the Middle East, something they have wanted since the fall of the Shah.
Both China and Russia benefit by putting America and the rest of the Western Hemisphere in a box, with a diminished production capacity, a weakened financial system, and a mountain of national debt – all because the dilletantes in government have decided global leadership and Pax Americana is a thing of the past.
With America on the sidelines, Putin gets his empire, China gets a captive market for their manufacturing output as well as Russian and Middle Eastern oil (which they desperately need), and control over resource rich Africa. The petrodollar becomes the petroyuan and America is further crippled as it loses the advantages of the dollar being the global reserve currency.
Canada is significantly messed up under Justin Castreau, Mexico is controlled by cartels, Central America is a corrupt and poverty ridden catastrophe and South America is in a constant state of revolution. Without strong American leadership, there isn’t much fear from the Western Hemisphere + the UK Commonwealth. The Russians and Chinese watch as fools in American government declare the sanctity of aspects of Ukraine nationhood, aspects which they deny to their own country, thereby revealing the malignant hypocrisy of American leadership.
Russia and China are very old countries with a lot of patience. Why mount a costly attack on America when we are in the process of destroying ourselves from within? Why not just grab some popcorn, settle in, and see how the movie ends?
It could very well be that the attack on Ukraine was a probing attack, just so Russia and China could see how the West would react. That might explain why it just looks clumsy. Maybe the point was never the taking of Ukraine, something Putin has always had the military and financial wherewithal to do, but the outcome was learning just how weak the West has become and to show the world that noting NATO, the UN or America says can be trusted?
What if Russia and China have decided the American Departments of State and Defense have lost the ability to think strategically, preferring to see the geopolitical map as consisting of small ongoing tactical wars of convenience rather than an evolving global strategy?
What if this was just a test whether the leaders of the “free world” would accept a return to a more barbaric time when might makes right?
And what if we have failed that test?
There is a concept called "unrestricted warfare" that comes from a book on military strategy of the same name written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui.
Literally translated, the Mandarin title means "war without bounds or boundaries."
It details a set of strategies, tactics, and avenues a less technologically advanced country (i.e., China) can use to defeat a more technologically advanced country (the USA). In its most basic form unrestricted warfare encompasses actions in four major areas:
Lawfare: tie your enemy up in courts and with legal battles, even if those battles are based on lies.
Economic: harm your enemy economically - fight your enemy with economic sanctions, unfair trade, tariffs and even to the point of calling in loans and bonds. Crash his economy.
Networks: Attack and/or infiltrate your enemy's information systems and his alliances.
Terrorism: encourage, fund, and carry out terror attacks against your enemy's people, show the people the target country cannot protect them.
What if this is that?
Pandemic porn has been replaced by war porn almost overnight. Fauci and his acolytes have had their fifteen minutes, and now no longer useful, have been put back in their boxes. Western media has done the Russian’s propaganda for them, driving a singular focus on just what is happening in Ukraine.
But this is a war of global dimensions, it cannot be contained within the borders of any country, much less Ukraine.
It is unrestricted warfare in the internet age, something we have never seen before.
I never thought I would live through something like this in my lifetime. Am glad I am at the end and art of my life at 66!
Rest in Hell, Tony Fauci. You have been displaced and sent down to the minor leagues. Meanwhile, the attention of the world has been distracted by the Russian feint in Ukraine. Goodby Taiwan. Goodbye Korea. Goodbye America.