The West is already at war with Russia but its leaders can not wake up from a dream by Martin Jay
(2024-06-05 at 19:58:40 )

The West is already at war with Russia but its leaders can not wake up from a dream by Martin Jay!

Is NATO planning something big in Ukraine? Are we on the cusp now of WWIII really breaking out since the United States has now backed the idea that Ukraine can fire missiles beyond its borders into Russia?

The news that President Joe Biden has given the go-ahead for long-range missiles to be fired into Russia should be worrying for a number of reasons.

The dangerous game of escalation that the West is playing will have a breaking point in the not too distant future.

The question is whether the West really understands how President Putin thinks as it is presently betting on no retaliation from Russia, which is not only erroneous but very, very dangerous.

Recent missile strikes into Russian territory destroyed two radar installations which western press refuse to report. The significance of this strike is important as the more Ukraine loses on the battlefield, the more desperate its tactics, egged on by western leaders who still think that their stake in the war is minimal.

Although just recently Germanys leader Scholz did a U-turn at a conference in Berlin with French President Macron - in backing the missile strikes into Russia plan - the truth is that officially NATO does not support the plan, which is why the United Kingdom is doing it independently using Storm Shadows operated by SAS soldiers.

This has been going on for months and so in many respects the news that the United States has authorised the practice could be taken lightly. What is new? Or, more to the point, is Ukraine going to use longer-range United States missiles to keep up with such strikes like the radar stations? Does it have enough missiles in stock is also an important question.

With this strategy in play, we are looking in all scenarios at the slow demise of NATO as the more that such strikes occur, the more it is evident that NATO is a defunct organisation and only really a talk shop at best.

NATO members are divided on an overall strategy with Ukraine and so member states do their own thing. If we see more of these strikes, the pressure on President Putin to react will be overwhelming but when that time comes, he will practice and eye-for-an-eye strategy and strike the equivalent military installations within Europe or at least Ukraines drones operating in the Black Sea. This will be a shock for the West. It will take some days for such a strike to be seen for what it is: a warning. The message will be the escalation game has its limits and you have gone over a line.

But are the recent reports of a new offensive in the planning from NATO genuine? Probably not. Just like the reports of Putin wanting to negotiate a peace deal now.

Both fake news are part of a strategy of panic from the Biden administration which really needs some sort of victory in Ukraine to present to the American people.

Yet all of the aces are with Putin and he does not seem to be showing any signs of falling into these traps. Putin has been pretty consistent in how he sees any kind of peace deal. Denazification, demilitarisation and no deal on NATO membership. The reasons why peace talks are a mere figment of the imagination of western journalists who sink to new lows is that the West cannot entertain any of these requests and has taken so much control of the media that its leaders are starting to believe their own BS. The fourth requirement also of Putins is that he can not negotiate peace with a leader in the Ukraine who no longer has legitimacy as a president. One wonders how long the West can continue to kick up a fuss about that one.

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