{"id":152149,"date":"2022-12-29T12:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T16:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=152149"},"modified":"2022-12-29T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:41:47","slug":"this-is-by-far-thee-most-serious-crisis-on-planet-earth-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=152149","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This is &#8212; BY FAR &#8212; <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thee. Most. Serious. Geopolitical. Crisis.<\/span> on planet Earth this Millennium!!!<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The most important question<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->The Saker<\/p>\n<p>Looks like we will make it to Dec 31, 2022. Will we make it to December 31, 2023?<\/p>\n<p>This question is not hyperbole.\u00a0 I would even argue that this is the single most important question for at least the entire northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>I have been warning that Russia is preparing for a fullscale war since at least 2014.\u00a0 Putin basically said just that in his recent speech before the Russian Defense Ministry Board.\u00a0 If you have not seen this video, you really should watch it, it it will give you a direct insight into how the Kremlin thinks and what it is preparing for.\u00a0 Here is that video again:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid127673\" title=\"Vladimir Putin Addresses the Russian Defense Ministry Board Dec 21, 2022 - English Subtitles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ina98-IN9k8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I will assume that you have watched that video and that I don\u2019t need to prove to you that\u00a0<strong>Russia is gearing out for a massive war, including a nuclear one<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Lavrov has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/568971-us-threatens-russia-putin-assassination\/\">publicly declared<\/a>\u00a0that \u201c<em>unnamed officials from the Pentagon actually threatened to conduct a \u2018decapitation strike\u2019 on the Kremlin\u2026What we are talking about is the threat of the physical elimination of the head of the Russian state, (\u2026)\u00a0 If such ideas are actually being nourished by someone, this someone should think very carefully about the possible consequences of such plans.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, we have the following situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For Russia this war is clearly, undeniably and officially an existential one.\u00a0 To dismiss this reality would be the height of folly.\u00a0 When the strongest nuclear power on the planet declares, repeatedly, that this is an existential war everybody ought to really take it seriously and not go into deep denial.<\/li>\n<li>For the US Neocons this is also an existential war: if Russia wins, then NATO loses and, therefore, the US loses too.\u00a0 Which means that all those SOBs who for months fed everybody nonsense about Russia loosing the war to the general public will be held responsible for the inevitable disaster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82663 lazy loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Russia-running-out-of.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Russia-running-out-of.jpg 900w, https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Russia-running-out-of-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Russia-running-out-of-768x574.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"673\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Russia-running-out-of.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Russia-running-out-of.jpg 900w, https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Russia-running-out-of-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Russia-running-out-of-768x574.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" data-was-processed=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So much will depend on whether US Americans, especially those in power, are willing to die in solidarity with the \u201ccrazies in the basement\u201d or not.\u00a0 Right now it sure looks like they are.\u00a0 Don\u2019t count on the EU, they have long given up any agency.\u00a0 Talking to them simply makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>Which might explain\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/568924-medvedev-rift-western-nations\/\">Medvedev\u2019s recent words<\/a>\u00a0\u201c<em>Alas, there is nobody in the West we could deal with about anything for any reason (..) is the last warning to all nations: there can be no business with the Anglo-Saxon world because it is a thief, a swindler, a card-sharp that could do anything<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia can do many things, but it cannot liberate the USA from the grip of the Neocons.\u00a0 That is something which only US Americans can do.<\/p>\n<p>And here we hit a vicious circle:<\/p>\n<p>The US political system is most unlikely to be effectively challenged from within, big money runs everything, including the most advanced propaganda system in history (aka the \u201cfree media\u201d) and the population is kept uninformed and brainwashed.\u00a0 And yes, of course, a major defeat in a war against Russia would shake this system so hard that it would be impossible to conceal the magnitude of the disaster (think \u201cKabul on steroids\u201d).\u00a0 And that is precisely why the Neocons cannot allow that to happen because this defeat would trigger a domino effect which would quickly involve the truth about 9\/11 and, after that, all the myths and lies the US society has been based on for decades (JFK anybody?).<\/p>\n<p>There are, of course, plenty of US Americans who fully understand that. \u00a0 But how many of them are in a real position of power to influence US decision-making and outcomes? The real question is whether there still are enough patriotic forces in the Pentagon, or the letter soup agencies, to send the Neocons back down into the basement they crawled out of after the 9\/11 false flag or not?<\/p>\n<p>Right now it sure looks like all the positions of power in the US are held by Neolibs, Neocons, RINOs and other ugly creatures, yet it is also undeniable that people like, say,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/tulsi-gabbard-interviews-tucker-carlson\/\">Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard<\/a>\u00a0are reaching a lot of people who \u201cget it\u201d.\u00a0 This *has* to include REAL liberals and REAL conservatives whose loyalty is not to a gang of international thugs but to their own country and their own people.<\/p>\n<p>I am also pretty sure that there are many US military commanders who listen\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/bakhmut-has-turned-into-ukrainian-bloodbath-col-macgregor\/\">to what Col. Macgregor has to say<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will that be that enough to break through the wall of lies and propaganda?<\/p>\n<p>I hope so, but I am not very optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>First, Andrei Martyanov is absolutely spot on when he constantly decries the crass incompetence and ignorance of the US ruling class.\u00a0 And I very much share his frustration.\u00a0 We both see where this is all headed and all we can do is warn, warn and warn again.\u00a0 I realize that is is hard to believe in the idea that a nuclear superpower like the US is run by a gang of incompetent and ignorant thugs, but that IS the reality and simply denying it won\u2019t make it go away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5167 lazy loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/get-a-brain-morans-300x296.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/get-a-brain-morans-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/get-a-brain-morans.jpg 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/get-a-brain-morans-300x296.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/get-a-brain-morans-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/get-a-brain-morans.jpg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-was-processed=\"true\" \/>Second, at least so far, the US general public has not (yet) felt the full effects of the collapse of the US-controlled financial and economic system.\u00a0 So flag-waving \u201cmorans\u201d can still hope that a war against Russia will look like the turkey shoot \u201cDesert Storm\u201d was.<\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>The real question here is whether the only way to wake up the brainwashed flag-waving \u201cmorans\u201d is by means of a nuclear explosion over their heads or not?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo USA\u201d is a mental condition which has been injected into the minds of millions of US Americans for many decades and it will take either a lot of time, or some truly dramatic events, to bring these folks back to reality.<\/p>\n<p>Third, the US ruling elites are clearly going into deep denial.\u00a0 All this silly talk about US Patriot missiles or F-16s changing the course of the war is infantile and naive.\u00a0 Frankly this would all be rather comical if it was not so dangerous in its potential consequences.\u00a0 What will happen once the single Patriot missile battery is destroyed and the F-16s shot down?<\/p>\n<p>How soon will the West run out of\u00a0<em>Wunderwaffen<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>On a conceptual \u201cescalation scale\u201d what would be the next step up from Patriots and F-16s?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tactical nukes?<\/p>\n<p>Considering the rather idiotic notion that a \u201ctactical\u201d nuke is somehow fundamentally different from a \u201cstrategic\u201d nuke irrespective of how it is used and where it is used is extremely dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I submit that the fact that the US ruling class is seriously contemplating both a \u201climited\u201d use of \u201ctactical\u201d nukes and \u201cdecapitating strikes\u201d is a very good indicator of the fact that the US is running out of\u00a0<em>Wunderwaffen<\/em>\u00a0and that the Neocons are desperate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And to those who might be tempted to accuse me of hyperbole or paranoid delusions I will say the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>This war is NOT, repeat, NOT about the Ukraine (or Poland or the three Baltic statelets).\u00a0 At its absolute minimum this is a war about the future of Europe.\u00a0 Fundamentally it is a war about the complete reorganization of our planet\u2019s international order.<\/strong>\u00a0 I would even argue that the outcome of this war will have a bigger impact that either WWI or WWII.\u00a0 The Russians clearly understand this (see video above if you doubt that).<\/p>\n<p>And so do the Neocons, even if they don\u2019t speak about it.<\/p>\n<p>The current situation is much more dangerous than even the Cuban missile crisis or the standoff in Berlin.\u00a0 At least then both sides openly admitted that the situation was really dangerous.\u00a0 This time around, however, the ruling elites of the West are using their formidable PSYOP\/propaganda capability to conceal the true scope what is really going on.\u00a0 If every citizen of the US (and EU) understood that there is a nuclear and conventional cross-hairs painted on his\/her head things might be different.\u00a0 Alas, this is clearly not the case, hence the non-existent peace movement and the quasi consensus about pouring tens of BILLIONS of dollars into the Ukrainian black hole.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the crazies are playing around with all sorts of silly ideas, including booting Russia off the UNSC (not gonna happen, since both Russia and China have veto power) or even creating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/568965-ukraine-un-peace-summit\/\">a \u201cpeace conference\u201d about the Ukraine without Russia\u2019s participation<\/a>\u00a0(in a remake of the \u201cfriends of Syria\u201d and \u201cfriends of Venezuela\u201d thingie).\u00a0 Well, good luck with that!\u00a0 Apparently Guaido and Tikhanovskaia are not enough to discourage the Neocons and they are now repeating the exact same nonsense with \u201cZe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So, will we make it to December 31, 2023?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, but this is by no means sure.\u00a0 Clearly, this is not an assumption the Kremlin makes, hence the truly immense strengthening of all of Russia\u2019s strategic deterrence capabilities (both nuclear and conventional).<\/p>\n<p>God willing, the old adage \u201c<em>si vis pacem, para bellum<\/em>\u201d will save the day, as Russia is very clearly prepared for any time of conflict, including a nuclear one.\u00a0 China will also get there soon, but it is likely that 2023 will see some kind of end to the Ukrainian war: either a Russian victory in the Ukraine or a full-scale continental war which Russia will also win, (albeit at a much higher cost!).\u00a0 So by the time the Chinese will be truly ready (they probably need another 2-5 years) the world will be a very different place.<\/p>\n<p>For all these reasons I submit that 2023 might well be one of the most important years in human history.\u00a0 How many of us will actually survive it is an open question.<\/p>\n<p>Andrei<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thesaker.is\/the-most-important-question\/\">https:\/\/thesaker.is\/the-most-important-question\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most important 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