The West had always viewed Ukraine as a means to an end (destroying Russia as a major world power). They have now seem, to their astonishment, that neither economic sanctions nor a hundred billion dollars of assistance to proxy Ukraine can do the job so it’s time to pull the plug on hapless Ukraine.
The West had always viewed Ukraine as a means to an end (destroying Russia as a major world power). They have now seem, to their astonishment, that neither economic sanctions nor a hundred billion dollars of assistance to proxy Ukraine can do the job so it’s time to pull the plug on hapless Ukraine.
Unfortunately, they have far from given up their goal and will parlay their conquest of the highly profitable European energy market coupled with enormous European rearmament contracts to renew the quest using different means.
The West will fail with the renewed quest as well. They have lost the arms race and are so far behind it will take decades to recover if ever.
It's like Aesop's Fable of the Tortoise and the Hare. The West is the Hare who declared the End of History in 1991 when the Soviet Union fell. So the Hare took a nap while Russia the Tortoise kept plodding along. 30 years later that Tortoise was so far down the road when the Hare realized he better move fast. He ran like Hell and did a face plant with his sanctions, proxies and schemes backfiring and falling apart. The Hare is flailing about and his weapons are proven useless. The arms industry of the West designs weapons to line pockets instead of winning. Russia the Tortoise has developed a weapons industry that builds superb, reliable and cost effective weapons by methodically improving all systems it has.
Russia turned the tables though, and set the same trap for the West that they thought Russia was falling into. Russia is essentially using Ukraine to curb American power. Ukraine may be the kinetic front, but this war encompasses economic and diplomatic (geopolitical) fronts as well, which are arguably strategically more important than the military component.
The 'Zelenski Curse' as Alex Christoforou likes to say. The U.S. has really become the Empire With No Clothes. And I'll huff and I'll puff .... and I 'll blow your house down (!) For as long as it takes .... or ..... For as long as it's possible .... or .... until we get rid of .....(menacing music) THE Putin ..... Run away! Run away!
The West had always viewed Ukraine as a means to an end (destroying Russia as a major world power). They have now seem, to their astonishment, that neither economic sanctions nor a hundred billion dollars of assistance to proxy Ukraine can do the job so it’s time to pull the plug on hapless Ukraine.
Unfortunately, they have far from given up their goal and will parlay their conquest of the highly profitable European energy market coupled with enormous European rearmament contracts to renew the quest using different means.
The West will fail with the renewed quest as well. They have lost the arms race and are so far behind it will take decades to recover if ever.
It's like Aesop's Fable of the Tortoise and the Hare. The West is the Hare who declared the End of History in 1991 when the Soviet Union fell. So the Hare took a nap while Russia the Tortoise kept plodding along. 30 years later that Tortoise was so far down the road when the Hare realized he better move fast. He ran like Hell and did a face plant with his sanctions, proxies and schemes backfiring and falling apart. The Hare is flailing about and his weapons are proven useless. The arms industry of the West designs weapons to line pockets instead of winning. Russia the Tortoise has developed a weapons industry that builds superb, reliable and cost effective weapons by methodically improving all systems it has.
Perfect analogy!
Thank you. Mark is describing my analogy in detail. I'm still listening.
Russia turned the tables though, and set the same trap for the West that they thought Russia was falling into. Russia is essentially using Ukraine to curb American power. Ukraine may be the kinetic front, but this war encompasses economic and diplomatic (geopolitical) fronts as well, which are arguably strategically more important than the military component.
The 'Zelenski Curse' as Alex Christoforou likes to say. The U.S. has really become the Empire With No Clothes. And I'll huff and I'll puff .... and I 'll blow your house down (!) For as long as it takes .... or ..... For as long as it's possible .... or .... until we get rid of .....(menacing music) THE Putin ..... Run away! Run away!
I thought you could use a laugh.