America The Unready by Paul Craig Roberts!
(2024-09-24 at 22:46:59 )

America The Unready by Paul Craig Roberts!

Andrei Martyanov, an emigre from Russia, writes books about military strategy and the United States of Americas lack of one.

He does his best to make us aware that if we are to find ourselves at war with Russia, we need better strategic thinking than we have. His latest book, Americas Final War, published by Clarity Press, tells us that the West is unprepared for the conflict the West is fomenting with Russia.

Martyanov is contemptuous of United States of American military thinking and the American echo chamber that passes for thought. Consequently, the establishment will ignore him and continue on its mistaken path.

Martyanov uses Washington,D.C.s response to Russias Special Military Operation in Donbas to illustrate his point. Much of the book is his defense of his view of the conflict. Martyanov was the leading dissident to the view of Western pundits that Russia would be defeated and Ukraine would be victorious.

The Wests propagandistic response to the conflict contributed to the Wests misunderstanding. Believing its own misrepresentation of the conflict, the West continued to convince itself that just a little more Western intervention would turn the tide. Add this weapons system. Then this one. Then F-15s, and at the present time the Western idiots are deciding whether the United States and NATO will launch long-range missiles into Russia from Ukraine.

Such a desperate measure, which President Putin said would mean the United States and NATO are at war with Russia, is a powerful indication that Ukraine is defeated, just as Martyanov said would be the case.

Martyanov is protective of President Putin.

I think because President Putin did not invade Ukraine and immediately overthrow the neo-Nazi Regime Washington,D.C. has established there.

Instead he limited Russian arms to clearing Ukrainian forces out of Donbas, a former Russian territory that Soviet leaders attached to Ukraine.

President Putin has accepted numerous insults and provocations without expanding the war beyond his Special Military Operation. It is President Putin, not the West, who has resisted the expansion of a limited conflict into a wider war. I join Martyanov in admiring President Putin for his concern with the life of humanity.

Where I depart from Martyanov and Putin is that I regard Russias victory in Ukraine as tactical, not strategic.

It is in strategy that Martyanov sees Russias advantage. President Putins strategy was to avoid wider war by limiting the conflict to clearing Donbas, a Russian area of Ukraine, of Ukraine forces that were killing Russian people.

I appreciate the good will in President Putins decision, but he misread his adversary, and his decision was a strategic error of potentially immense consequences.

To keep the United States-NATO from becoming ever more involved in the conflict and, thus, ever widening the conflict, President Putin needed to quickly prevail.

He could not do this without attacking Kiev, preventing the government from continuing the fight, and sealing Ukraines borders with the West.

Thus, President Putins Special Military Operation guaranteed increasing Western involvement, more casualties, and a wider war which, if Washington,D.C. joins the European and British decision to fire missiles into Russia, brings us World War III!!

This is a total failure of strategic thinking on Russias part.

How do we explain this?

I think that Martyanov is correct that Russia has a war strategy whereas the West has bluster and delusion.

But why did strategy not come into play in Ukraine? How did President Putin convince himself that he was going to keep Ukraine out of NATO simply by evicting Ukrainian forces from Donbas?

One possible answer is that President Putin did not realize who the enemy was. It was not the puppet in Kiev. The enemy was in Washington,D.C., London, Berlin, Paris. Did President Putin only see the enemy in Donbas? Did he not know that he was at war with the United States and NATO?

The neoconservative doctrine that the principle goal of United States foreign policy is the prevention of the rise of any country that can serve as a constraint on American unilateralism is perhaps too absurd for the Russians to take seriously. This policy declaration is known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine. It has been in effect since 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, which removed constraint on United States unilateralism.

In public statements President Putin shows awareness that Washington,D.C. expects Russia, China, and Iran to accommodate themselves to Washington,D.C.s "rules based order." Washington,D.C.s rules, of course.

This is not subject to discussion and negotiation. It is a requirement. Not realizing the implications of this requirement is the mistake of the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian governments.

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