Say It Ain’t So! On July 11, 2023, I sent emails to NATO, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and the U.S. Department of State. The basic questions were:
1. When the Ukraine finally collapses, what will NATO’s/DOD's/STATE’s postwar policy be?
2. Will the current NATO/DOD/STATE leadership resign as the result of its ill-conceived war against the Russian Federation?
3. Do NATO/DOD/STATE believe that the ill-conceived war against the Russian Federation has destroyed the EU's economy?
4. Did NATO willingly follow the American effort to destroy the Russian Federation? Or was there some debate?
As of July 18, 2023, none of the organizations have replied.
Kharkov, Ukraine. Who Fixes What? And How?
Is That Understandable? Sure. Sensible people and organizations, once they see they are in a hole, tend to stop digging. However, the United States government and the organizations it controls, like NATO, are not sensible. Rather, they are pig stupid and extremely fearful of abandoning any policy, no matter how wrong-headed. Bucking group think costs promotions, jobs, and rank.
It's the Ukraine, Stupid. No, not at all. During America’s destruction of Indo-China more than 60 years ago, there were some sensible people in the U.S. government. They opposed the war, noting it had no purpose, noting it was wasteful of lives and money, and noting that the entire world disputed American policy. Their careers were curtailed, they did not advance into the higher echelons, and their incomes stagnated. Those who left government fared no better.
US Destruction of Hue
No Thinking Allowed. No reading, either. The Nazified Ukraine and its penile piano-playing president, Volodymyr Zelensky, desperately want to join NATO. July 8’s [2023] Washington Post reported on the front page above the fold: “Kyiv ups pressure in bid to join NATO.” Fortunately, the so-called Alliance’s meeting in Lithuania denied Kiev’s demands. As noted in the July 11, 2023 edition of Al-Jazeera , “NATO leaders say Ukraine should be able to join the military alliance in the future but stopped short of offering Kyiv an immediate invitation, angering President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.”
NATO Member States
The subtext in all this is Article 5 of the NATO Charter. In brief this means:
…if a NATO Ally is the victim of an armed attack, each and every other member of the Alliance will consider this act of violence as an armed attack against all members and will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the Ally attacked.
Sensible people reading Zelensky’s remarks at the Lithuania confab can recognize that the failed actor in Kiev’s presidential palace wants General War—against the Russian Federation to “save” his country. If the Ukraine is a NATO member, it can claim the right of collective self-defense, bringing in the U.S. and Europe to his aid. They would directly, not indirectly, fight. Now the battles are costing just Ukraine lives and infrastructure.
They also can’t count.
Uncle Vlad in the Kremlin commands over 800,000 active-duty servicemen, with about 150,000 initially sent into the Ukraine. He’s since called up 300,000 of Russia’s 2 million reserves to supplement these forces. According to the Federation of American Scientists, the Russian Federation has more nuclear warheads (5,977) than the U.S. (5,428). The U.S. has about 1.4 million soldiers, sailors, and Marines under arms, with a reserve force of about 800,000 men. This Yankee military establishment is desperate, now running short of recruits and enlisting ill-educated, sometimes illegal alien, fighters, and now, more often, members of the LGBTQ+the rest of the alphabet group. This is most likely a “fighting force” that won’t or can’t fight.
Who else can see that NATO’s 30 members can field about 1 million men, of indifferent quality? Who else remembers that in the 1970s, the Germans fiercely opposed America’s stationing nuclear-tipped Pershing missiles on their soil? In the event of war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact forces, they didn’t want their country turned into a radioactive slag heap. But now, it’s fine with them if the U.S. and the U.K. send depleted uranium weapons to the Ukraine—and if German tanks sent there are armed with such. A major turnabout, especially since the Federal Republic is about 1,100 miles (1,770 km) from the Ukraine. Berlin needs a lesson in geography—as does Kiev.
This War Started in 1918. America and the U.K. and Canada invaded what was becoming the Soviet Union, a new country growing out of the wreckage of the old Russian Empire. [cf. (1) THE 100 YEAR WAR - by J. Michael Springmann - Hausfrauleaks (substack.com)] When this failed, and the war against the German Nazis ended, the U.S. created NATO and began two cold wars against the old U.S.S.R. and its successor, the Russian Federation.
So far, the 100 Year War has been good for the Merchants of Death, greatly improving the profits of military contractors. It’s also been good for the giant bureaucracies, getting lots of jobs for the boys at the various defense ministries and different intelligence services. Politicians also benefitted. They could always campaign against the godless Communists or the evil, expansionist Russians and their leader, Vladimir Putin, the new “Tsar”.
But How Will It End—And What Will Be the Result? From a reading of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Ukrainians seem to have forgotten all they ever knew of geography (and history). Bordering on a reconstituted Poland:
In the aftermath of World War I and the revolutionary upheavals that followed, Ukrainian territories were divided among four states. Bukovina was annexed to Romania. Transcarpathia was joined to the new country of Czechoslovakia. Poland incorporated Galicia and western Volhynia, together with smaller adjacent areas in the northwest. The lands east of the Polish border constituted Soviet Ukraine.
Not having a crystal ball or gypsy fortune-teller handy, my views on the end of the war are as follows:
· The U.S. and its NATO “allies” will eventually tire of Zelensky’s whining like a Jewish grandmother, as one wag put it
· They will finally reach their limit on sending money and weapons to Kiev (already, some American congressmen are questioning unlimited support for the Ukraine)
· Poland, which I was once told, likes to live on the edge, will seek the return of territory lost to the Ukraine, essentially what is now Kiev’s western portions)
· The Russian Federation will retain control of the Donbass (eastern Ukraine) and the Crimea
· The Ukraine will remain devastated, with no money coming from the U.S. and the NATO countries due to their economies being wrecked by their support for Zelensky
· The Russian Federation might offer to help rebuild what’s left of the Ukraine in return for economic and mineral advantages (which in 2014 touched off American efforts to overthrow the Ukrainian government because Russia’s financial deal was more advantageous than the EU’s)
· Zelensky will end up in Miami with the rest of his rich co-religionists
If the flow of money and weapons were shut off at 5 p.m. on a Monday, the war would end at 9 a.m. on Tuesday.
J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. He is a frequent commentator on Arab and Russian news programs.
He is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, the country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that its government is Nazified.
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