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\u2013 Sun Tzu, \u2018The Art of War<\/em><\/p>\n by\u00a0Dragan Filipovic<\/a> During the signing ceremony on the accession to the Russian Federation of the four new regions on September 30th president Vladimir Putin declared that a \u2018revolutionary transformation of the world is underway and stated that there will be \u2018no return to the old order. As expected, his oration was largely ignored or distorted by Western mainstream media:<\/p>\n \u201cOur compatriots, our brothers and sisters in Ukraine who are part of our united people have seen with their own eyes what the ruling class of the so-called West has prepared for humanity as a whole. They have dropped their masks and shown what they are really made of.<\/p>\n When the Soviet Union collapsed, the West decided that the world and all of us would permanently accede to its dictates. In 1991, the West thought that Russia would never rise after such shocks and would fall to pieces on its own. This had almost happened. We remember the horrible 1990s, hungry, cold, and hopeless. But Russia remained standing, revived, grew stronger, and occupied its rightful place in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMeanwhile, the West continued to look for another chance to strike a blow at us, to weaken and break up Russia\u2026 to set our peoples against each other and to condemn them to poverty and extinction. They cannot rest easy knowing that there is such a great country with this huge territory and its natural wealth, resources, and people who cannot and will not do someone else\u2019s bidding.<\/p>\n Western countries have been saying for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other nations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of bringing democracy they suppressed and exploited, and instead of giving freedom they enslaved and oppressed. The unipolar world is inherently anti-democratic and unfree; it is false and hypocritical through and through.<\/p>\n Do we want to have in Russia, \u2018Parent number one, parent number two, and Parent number three\u2019 instead of Mother and Father? Do we want our schools to impose on our children perversions that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want to drum into their heads the idea that other genders exist besides females and Males, and offer them gender reassignment surgery? This is all unacceptable to us. We have a different future of our own.<\/p>\n Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves. This is a challenge for us all. This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble the reverse of religion \u2013 pure Satanism. Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ preached in the Sermon on the Mount: \u201cBy their fruit, ye shall know them.\u201d These poisonous fruits are already obvious to people, not only in our country but in all countries, including many people in the West itself.<\/p>\n The world has entered a period of a fundamental, revolutionary transformation. New centers of power are emerging. They represent the majority of the international community. They are ready not only to declare their interests but also to protect them. They see in multipolarity an opportunity to strengthen their sovereignty, which means gaining genuine freedom, historical prospects, and the right to their own independent, creative, and distinctive forms of development, to a harmonious process.<\/p>\n There are many like-minded people in Europe and the United States, and we feel and see their support. An essentially emancipatory, anti-colonial movement against unipolar hegemony is taking shape in the most diverse countries and societies. Its power will only grow with time. It is this force that will determine our future geopolitical reality.\u201c<\/p>\n \u201cThe destruction of the Western hegemony is irreversible,\u201c Putin concluded.<\/p>\n JFK\u2019s Forgotten \u2018Peace For All Time Speech\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n President John F. Kennedy, under the influence of the Cuban Missile Crisis when the world was brought to the brink of annihilation, made an equally momentous speech at the American University on June 10, 1963:<\/p>\n \u201cI have chosen this time and place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived \u2013 yet it is the most important topic on earth: world peace.<\/p>\n What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave.<\/p>\n I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children \u2013 not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women \u2013 not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resorting to those forces. It makes no sense in an age when a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by all the allied air forces in the Second World War. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn.<\/p>\n Today the expenditure of billions of dollars every year on weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never need to use them is essential to keeping the peace. But surely the acquisition of such idle stockpiles \u2013 which can only destroy and never create \u2013 is not the only, much less the most efficient, means of assuring peace.<\/p>\n \u2026wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete. It is the responsibility of the executive branch at all levels of government \u2013 local, State, and National \u2013 to provide and protect that freedom for all of our citizens by all means within their authority\u2026<\/p>\n All this is not unrelated to world peace. \u2018When a man\u2019s ways please the Lord,\u2019 the Scriptures tell us, \u2018he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.\u2019 And is not peace\u2026 basically a matter of human rights \u2013 the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation\u2026?<\/p>\n The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough \u2013 more than enough \u2013 of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on \u2013 not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.\u201d<\/p>\n Rise and Fall of a Hegemon<\/strong><\/p>\n Kennedy\u2019s speech was quickly relegated to the memory hole after his assassination only five months later with his successor Lyndon B. Johnson quickly ramping up the war in Vietnam, choosing to ignore painful\u00a0French colonial lessons there a decade earlier<\/a>\u00a0as well as president Charles de Gaulle\u2019s warning that \u201c\u2026you will sink step by step<\/a>\u00a0into a bottomless military and political quagmire\u201d. LBJ forged full steam ahead, using a false flag attack in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964 to commit\u00a0half a million<\/a>\u00a0U.S. troops to the jungles of Indochina.<\/p>\n Even though it was done under the banner of \u2018defending democracy and freedom\u2019, it nevertheless gave a lie to JFK\u2019s assertion that the United States would never start a war.<\/p>\n Former Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl\u00a0concurs<\/a>\u00a0with Putin\u2019s portrayal of the West\u2019s exploitative colonial mindset:<\/p>\n \u201cThe era of the \u2018Seven Sisters,\u2019 a cartel of oil companies that divided up the oil market, came to an end (in the 1970s). However, for US policymakers \u2013 at least, psychologically \u2013 this era still persists. \u2018It\u2019s our oil,\u2019 is an expression I often hear uttered in Washington. Those voices were particularly loud during the illegal US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. To really understand the core of the conflict in Ukraine \u2013 where a proxy war rages \u2013 one must break down the confrontation thus: The US and its European allies, who represent and back the global financial sector, are essentially engaged in a battle against the world\u2019s energy sector. \u201c Kneissl wrote for The Cradle on October 13th.<\/p>\n Political Studies professor Radhika Desai\u00a0lectures in the same vein<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cThe conflict that the West calls Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine\u2026 is not a conflict between Ukraine and Russia; it is a phase in the hybrid war that the West has been waging for decades against any country that chooses an economic path other than subordination to the United States. In its current phase, this war takes the form of a US-led NATO war over Ukraine. In this war, Ukraine is the terrain, and a pawn \u2013 one that can be sacrificed. This fact is hidden by wall-to-wall Western propaganda portraying Russian President Vladimir Putin as either mad or a devil hell-bent on recreating the Soviet Union. This pre-empts any questions about why Putin might be doing this, and about the rationale for Russian actions.<\/p>\n The United States, has sought without success to dominate the world, wages this war to stall its historic decline, the loss of what remains of its power. This decline has accelerated in recent decades as neoliberalism turned its capitalist economic system unproductive, financialised, predatory, speculative, and ecologically destructive, massively diminishing Washington\u2019s already dubious attractions to its allies around the world.\u201c<\/p>\n With an annual budget\u00a0approaching a trillion dollars<\/a>, the U.S. military is far removed from its Hollywood image of a \u2018mean, lean fighting machine<\/a>\u2018, and has turned into a bloated dinosaur mired in monumental corruption. This was confirmed by no less an authority than the former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld who, on September 10, 2001, revealed that Pentagon auditors found that\u00a025% of the military budget<\/a>\u00a0could not be accounted for and that $2.3 trillion was missing.<\/p>\n The very next day, however, the war on waste was overtaken by the \u2018war on terror and everything was forgiven and forgotten. Business continued as usual.<\/p>\n The current decrepit state of the U.S. military is aptly reflected in its dismal recruitment figures, with the army announcing on October 1st that \u2013 despite offering sign-up bonuses of\u00a0up to $50,000<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 it had still managed to miss its\u00a0enlistment target by 25%<\/a>.<\/p>\n The most likely causes:\u00a0one in three<\/a>\u00a0Americans are overweight or otherwise unfit, the Covid \u2018vaccine\u2019 mandates, and lastly, the Pentagon\u2019s advocacy of LGBTQ\/transgender ideology which has become the\u00a0centerpiece of the Biden regime\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0\u2018numerous accomplishments\u2019 but which a priori eliminates potential conservative and religious-minded candidates who usually form the backbone of the military.<\/p>\n Winner Takes All<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cUkraine\u2019s Blitzkrieg\u00a0<\/a>Means That Russia Cannot Win The War,\u201d runs a typical headline used by the mainstream media as it downplays Russia\u2019s strategic success and amplifies the tactical setbacks in order to make it look like the war is turning into a quagmire for Putin.<\/p>\n This is something that geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar\u00a0takes issue with<\/a>: \u201c \u2026 in only 7 months, Russia annexed 120,000 km2 \u2013 or 22% of Ukrainian territory \u2013 that produces nearly 90% of GDP and has over 5 million citizens. Along the way, the allied forces basically destroyed the Ukrainian army, which they continue to do 24\/7; billions of dollars of NATO equipment; accelerated the demise of most Western economies, and evaporated the notion of American hegemony\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n The U.S. military has shown itself incapable of beating a ragtag Taliban force in Afghanistan and does not stand a chance against Russia, as the military expert Scott Ritter confirmed in 2017:<\/p>\n \u201cNATO would be\u00a0totally outmatched<\/a>\u00a0in a conventional war with Russia\u2026 Today, NATO and American anti-armor weapons continue to play catch up to new innovations being fielded by the Russians. The Americans like to quantify the Russian Army as being \u2018near peer\u2019 in terms of its capabilities; the fact of the matter is that it is the U.S. and NATO armored forces that are \u2018near peer\u2019 to their Russian counterparts, and there are many more Russian tanks in Europe today than there are NATO and American.\u201d<\/p>\n Instead of Russia\u00a0running out of missiles and ammunition<\/a>\u00a0as is often claimed, it is the U.S. and NATO which have emptied out their warehouses and run out of weapons, as reported by CNBC<\/a>: \u201cIn the U.S. weapons industry, the normal production level for artillery rounds for the 155mm howitzer \u2013 a long-range heavy artillery weapon currently used on the battlefields of Ukraine \u2013 is about 30,000 rounds per year in peacetime. The Ukrainian soldiers\u2026 go through that amount in roughly two weeks.\u201d Pentagon is now looking for U.S. companies\u00a0to build more shells<\/a>, while new HIMARS systems promised to Ukraine won\u2019t arrive for years.<\/p>\n The painful truth for NATO is that the decades-long offshoring of manufacturing to low-wage countries has left it with the insufficient industrial capacity required to wage a protracted war against a \u2018near-peer\u2019 adversary.<\/p>\n All this is ignored by the Western media which, through sensationalistic headlines like \u201cIn Washington, Putin\u2019s Nuclear Threats Stir\u00a0Growing Alarm<\/a>\u201d and \u201cPutin Prepared to Use Nuclear Weapons<\/a>\u201d, is creating the illusion that Russia is losing badly and will resort to anything to turn things around.<\/p>\n Former CIA director and retired general David Petraeus was thus interviewed by ABC News on October 2nd and stated how Russia is \u201cdesperate after a string of setbacks\u201d and then promised that if it used nuclear weapons, the US\u00a0would destroy the Russian military in Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0and sink its naval fleet.<\/p>\n What Petraeus \u2013 better known for having lost both \u2018surges\u2019 in\u00a0Iraq<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Afghanistan<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 fails to mention is that the U.S. is the one nuclear superpower with a\u00a0first strike<\/a>\u00a0policy which is defined as an \u201c\u2026attack on an enemy\u2019s nuclear arsenal that effectively prevents retaliation against the attacker. A successful first strike would cripple enemy missiles that are ready to launch and prevent the opponent from readying others for a counterstrike by targeting the enemy\u2019s nuclear stockpiles and launch facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n Under this policy, \u201cThe\u00a0U.S. president has the authority<\/a>, without consulting anyone, to order a pre-emptive nuclear strike \u2013 not merely in retaliation\u2026 Our warheads could be launched in defense of allies, after the onset of a conventional war involving our troops\u2026 or in response to a bellicose threat posed by a nuclear state.\u201d<\/p>\n On the other hand, Russia\u2019s\u00a0Basic Principles doctrine<\/a>\u00a0does not allow for the unprovoked use of nuclear weapons \u2013 tactical or strategic. In any case, Russia has absolutely no need to resort to tactical nukes as it possesses the most powerful\u00a0conventional weapon<\/a>\u00a0in existence, nicknamed FOAB \u2013\u00a0Father of All Bombs<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a thermobaric bomb with a blast yield of 44 tons TNT; more importantly, these weapons do not emit any radiation, as nuclear fallout would pose both an immediate and lingering threat to their troops as well as to local civilians \u2013 most of whom are expected to one day become loyal Russian citizens.<\/p>\n FOAB dropped from a Tu-160 bomber at the Opuk training range, the Black Sea in 2016; this ordinance is designed to vaporize targets and collapse structures by igniting a fuel-air mixture in midair<\/p>\n Warning from an American in Novorussia<\/strong><\/p>\n American Russel \u2018Tex\u2019 Bentley, who has been living in the Donbas for the past eight years, posted this warning on his Telegram channel:<\/p>\n \u2013 October 2, 2022<\/p>\n Look \u2013 here is the most important thing about Liman \u2013 coming on the heels of the Bucha and Kharkiv retreats and the disgraceful prisoner swap, it makes it look like Russia is losing. And that is a strategic fuckup. Because if Russia only looks like it\u2019s losing, the US Nazis can and will detonate a tactical nuke on Ukrop soil and blame it on Russia, saying \u201cThe Russians had to use nukes because they were losing.\u201d And all the idiots in the world will believe it.<\/p>\n Then, US\/NATO says \u201cAnd now we have to respond in kind (with nukes) and they vaporize all 500,000 new Russian troops before they even get deployed. And of course, the \u201cRussian decision-making HQ in Ukraine\u201d also gets nuked \u2013 my hometown, Donetsk.<\/p>\n The tactical nukes are already in Ukraine. The USA using a nuke false flag is absolutely not just possible but probable to the point of inevitability. They have the means, motive, and opportunity, and a long history of false flags. In fact, it would be stupid to think they wouldn\u2019t. And if Russia looks like it\u2019s losing the conventional war, it makes the USA false flag more credible and more inevitable.<\/p>\n And then Russia nukes USA Navy ships in the Black Sea and Med, then USA bases in Germany and Poland, and the US\/NATO hits Sevastopol, Kaliningrad, and Rostov. Then Russia hits Washington and USA hits Moscow, and it\u2019s all over but the screaming and the crying for all of us.<\/p>\n And this is what is going to happen if Russia does not regain the military initiative and start winning the conventional war (if it still can) in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n As goes Donbas, so goes the world. And only an idiot cannot understand this. You have been warned. Again. \u2013<\/p>\n High Noon for NATO, Midnight for Humanity?<\/strong><\/p>\n 100 Seconds to Midnight according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists who now warn that we have never been closer to a nuclear holocaust and\u00a0find ourselves at doom\u2019s doorstep<\/a><\/p>\n NATO has on October 17th launched \u2018Steadfast Noon\u2019,\u00a0 its annual nuclear drill set to last until October 30th which is taking place 600 miles from the Russian border with \u201c14 countries and air forces from across NATO to exercise nuclear deterrence capabilities involving dozens of aircraft,\u00a0<\/a>including fourth and fifth generation fighter jets as well as surveillance and tanker aircraft,\u201d as per the NATO press release.<\/p>\n As luck would have it, \u2018Steadfast Noon\u2019 will likely coincide with Moscow\u2019s own annual\u00a0nuclear drills dubbed \u2018Grom\u2019<\/a>, when Russia tests its nuclear-capable bombers, submarines, and missiles.<\/p>\n This is a Do-or-Die moment for the western hegemon which is not willing \u2013 or rather, cannot \u2013 back down under any circumstances. Conscious of its inability to win a conventional war against Russia, it will resort to any measure in order to win, even if it means setting the world ablaze.<\/p>\n The U.S. has managed to convince itself that it can emerge victorious from a\u00a0pre-emptive nuclear war<\/a>, but cannot afford to be seen as the aggressor in the eyes of the global community; a \u2018False Flag\u2019 event is therefore set to be staged in Ukraine using a low-yield device for which Russia would quickly be blamed, triggering an immediate NATO response. As inadvertently confirmed by Ukrainian president Zelensky while\u00a0addressing<\/a>\u00a0the Australian Lowy Institute on October 6th, the scheme involves a\u00a0\u2018decapitation strike\u2019<\/a>\u00a0on Moscow against Putin and his Cabinet, after which the rest of the regime would collapse like a house of cards.<\/p>\n Assuredly, if this suicidal policy is ever applied outside a computer simulation, the world would have to concur with Mr. Putin\u2019s assertion that the collective west is being run by Satanists.<\/p>\n Sadly, that realization will have come too late to save humanity.<\/p>\n
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