Maybe now we know why the senile old grifter who was humiliated on national TV back in June was seen on TV beaming with bonhomie at last week’s sit-down with incoming president Trump, who humiliated him on national TV. Maybe he – the senile old grifter, that is – knows that Trump will not be incoming. On account of what may be incoming any day now.
From Russia. 
The people wanting a real war with Russia are doing everything they can to start it. They have provided weapons – missiles – to the dictator of Ukraine (accuracy is important; Zelensky cancelled elections and so is a “president” in the same way that Idi Amin was one) and have all-but-actually fired those missiles themselves, leaving the actual button-pushing to token Ukrainians for appearances sake.
Those missiles have now been fired into Russia, which by definition constitutes an act of war. Russia now has every legal (under international law) and moral right to defend itself against these attacks, just the same as the United States would if it were subjected to missile barrages fired by Russian proxies that everyone knows are Russian proxies. The fig leaf that it isn’t Russians– or Ukrainians – actually pushing the button is just that.
No one’s buying it. 
The question at hand now is whether the Russians will respond to it.
More finely, will he?
Vladimir Putin is many things but an imbecile he is not. He surely – hopefully – understands that the people wanting him to push the button are desperate for the real war he has been carefully avoiding for the past four years because they will no longer be in a position to goad him into pushing the button in about six weeks from now. That is how long Putin must be patient in the face of provocations that would ordinarily require an immediate response. 
No serious leader of a serious country can afford to allow another country to attack his country without responding. This is no doubt what the maniacs (and imbeciles) still in control of this country are counting on that by giving the “green light” to the dictator of Ukraine to launch American-made, American-provided and American-guided missiles into Russia. This happened just yesterday. It is nothing shy of a miracle there is still a today.
Missiles fired into Russia from Keeeeeeeeeeevvvv could be nuclear missiles. How could Putin be sure they aren’t? Is it on Putin to assume they aren’t – and allow his country to be attacked by missiles that could be nuclear? How about those F-16 fighters that are draped in Keeeeevian colors but very possibly flown by American or NATO pilots? These F-16s are reportedly fitted-out to be capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Whether they are actually carrying them is anyone’s guess. Or rather, it is up to Putin to guess.
You begin perhaps to see the danger. 
Luckily – for the world – the evidence of the past four years suggests Putin is not the imbecile the people trying to goad him into pushing the button are. His reticence to go to war even when he has cause is remarkable. This strongly suggests he does not want to go to war and that strongly suggests he is not a psychopath. As a contra case-in-point, do you suppose Stalin would have not pushed the button if America (via obvious proxy) shot missiles at Moscow?
Stalin was no imbecile, either. But he was a psychopath. One of those creatures willing to burn the world down if he felt he was going down.
Putin – so far – does not seem to be such a creature. And thank God for that. 
We may just avoid a real war if he can remain patient for about another six weeks or so. If the psychopaths-in-charge are unable to overcome his patience. The worry, of course, is that they just might escalate – for exactly that reason.
Or – rather – for the necessity. A real war may be the only way, at this point, of preserving their hold on power. A real war could even provide the pretext they will use to remain in power. There is nothing like a war to justify the suspension of elections – and if inaugurations.
Just ask the dictator of Ukraine.
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Should Russia retaliate by, say, an EMP attack, it’d be the perfect pretext for Sleepy Joe to declare martial law and thus nullify the election.
Funny, the Bad Orange Man also had a pretext to declare martial law with the Covfefe Virus…but didn’t. Perhaps it’s because he’s not really a dictator?
The only way Putin can prevent this war is to let Russians die. I’m not sure the Russian military will go along with that. If this situation were reversed, cowardly Americans would have been screaming to nuke Russia years ago. Today Americans are hoping Putin will allow his country to be bombed until Americas new savior is installed. Of course some Russians may have to die but that’s how the cookie crumbles.
Well, the UK has gotten in on the action, and Storm Shadow missiles have rained down on Russian territory (Kursk), presumably in retaliation for Russian use of NK troops, a laughable pretense if there ever were one. Biden significantly escalates the war in Ukraine and then leaves Trump with the turd.
The UK, which has no navy to speak of, no troops that are capable of battle, is overrun with third world migrants, and is broke, is leading the charge against Russia.
I’ll bet Germany and France now want to show that they have weapons that can be used against Russian territory, so maybe we’ll see those attacks soon.
None of these will gain Ukraine territory, and I still expect Putin to continue to hit Ukrainian military targets hard, but it would be interesting if he decided to take out the UK and US embassies in Kiev. What would the response be?
Just heard a radio news report that said US Embassy personnel in Keeeeeev should “shelter in place”. I’d call them Sitting Ducks.
“A real war may be the only way, at this point, of preserving their hold on power.” And keep them out of jail. Which is why Netanyahu is killing Gazans by the truckload.
The outcome may depend on Russian polling. Putin probably won’t sit on his hands if he risks being voted out over it.
Indeed. Putin’s political opponents are Russia’s own version of neocons and are thirsty for war with the West.
No one “Wins” a War. I read somewhere that under sea communication cables between Finland and Sweden to mainland Germany were cut? Perhaps this was a response to those missiles being launched into Russia. Communication systems not to mention power generation, including pipeline infrastructure to transport fuels are all subject to disruption or destruction, not to leave out refineries, Water processing facilities etc. If Russia wanted to cause massive disruption it would be easy. The question remains why haven’t they? Make Love, not War.
Curtis LeMay lives on in this psychopathic regime. Good God.
I hope Putin reads your article.
Jack D. Ripper.
Outside of Tampa, 2000-2010, I lived around what I called “Colonel Bat Guano” types who worked for the freak show commands at MacDill. Lots of booze and sexual perversions.
One even ran a torture room at Gitmo if neighborhood legends were accurate.
Following the 2008 election, they briefly freaked out and a couple even put their houses up for sale, fearing the worst after Obama was immaculated, but someone dropped a dime on Big Mike’s husband early, and, by March, the word had gone out that the soup bowls would be preserved and Gitmo would stay open.
Jim H’s comment, “Now we see another lost generation of Europeans ready to kill, kill, KILL.” got me to thinkin’ of this song:
‘Alice’s Restaurant – Original 1967 Recording’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM
The brief period when the Left was anti-authority and anti-war. Excellent song to celebrate Lincoln’s holiday.
[The brief period when the Left was anti-authority and anti-war. ] Mister Lib
The were anti-draft. Haven’t been a war they didn’t love since they eliminated the draft.
And that’s where I lifted Arlo Guthrie’s bon mot. 🙂
Ukraine has been the cash cow for Marxist Democrats and the deep state. The gambit is to start a real war to leave Trump to deal with, so the party keeps on rolling. The missiles are like sending out for another kegger while the party guests wait to hope the beer arrives before the cops.
American or at least NATO crews would have been required to push the buttons to launch the missiles. Training for the ATACM system is involved, expensive, and requires an IQ higher than what a typical draftee would possess.
Friends who drove M1 tanks during the first Gulf War doubt Ukrainians are driving those either.
Scott Ritter gave what should be the Trump team’s response to crooked Joe and crooked Vlad. About 13:50 into the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezQ0aY-csFM
Joe Biden is either a demented old fool whose administration is run by sociopaths bent on starting WWIII in order to burn down the U.S. (and the world) to disrupt Trump 2.0, or Biden is a sociopath himself who’d rather burn the whole country down than allow Donald Trump to return as president. I’m leaning toward the former given Biden’s AWFUL term as “President” and the fact his administration was blatantly doing the bidding of Big Pharma, the military-industrial complex, globalist sociopaths, and who knows what else the past 4 years.
Your first premise is the correct one John,
The USSA is clearly run by bloodthirsty psychopaths who would rather burn down the world rather than admit they are wrong and give up power. The Biden thing is still sending weapons to Israhell in support of genocide and now thinks Putin will just ignore American made weapons fired into his country. I was in high school in 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis and wouldn’t be typing this today if JFK hadn’t stood up to the crazed warmongers in his administration; probably one of the factors in his murder.
Geez, think of how all those mushroom clouds will be bad for the cliiiiimate! /s
Hi Mike,
It’s crazy how it’s not just the U.S. that is run by sociopaths bent on starting wars. From what I’ve read on “alternative media”, many other countries around the world, including in Europe, are also run by leaders hell bent on starting war or even WWIII. Are those countries also in massive debt that they’re willing to go to war over it?
What an ethical dilemma faced by Putin. We can only hope his extraordinary patience holds. No doubt if the pants shitter pulled this stunt with Kameltoe incoming, a goodly portion of us would be ashed in due course. I just can’t fathom the level of evil and depravity that emanates from the nutcases running what used to be the US government. Because they can’t be this stupid.
I agree they are not stupid. Evil is the operative term.
Prep harder is all I can say when our side is led by lunatics.
Putin is cool as a cucumber. He is not going to let a few, largely ineffective ATACM pin prick attacks derail him from his ultimate goal, which is Ukraine not in NATO and the ceding of the eastern territory of Russian speaking population to Russia. In the meantime, he will continue to attrit the Ukrainian army with a constant barrage of artillery and wait out the West. I do not expect him to place a few of his hypersonics into the US embassy in Kiev.
Nonetheless, the US is playing a dangerous game with a nuclear power. If there were any doubt that we are led by psychopaths, this latest game is the proof of it. The ATACMS will win the Ukrainians no territory, nor will they bring the Russians to the bargaining table.
The US is incapable of winning a war with a peer rival like Russia. The US has lost nearly every war it has fought since WW2 to less than peer rivals. Do we really want to fight the Russians near their territory? We would need millions of trained men.
Ukraine is lost. Russia has won. It’s just a matter of time. Maybe the psychopaths want to burn down the world so they can rule over its ashes?
‘The people wanting a real war with Russia are doing everything they can to start it.’ — eric
‘Europeans are focused on the very real possibility that the Biden–Harris administration is going to start World War III on its way out the door. All over the continent, authorities are working hard on civil defense preparations and planning for armed conflict with Russia.
‘Sweden is sending out five million pamphlets to its citizens telling them how to prepare. The pamphlets include instructions on stockpiling food and finding shelter during a nuclear attack.
‘Germans are making their own preparations for the coming apocalypse. The Operations Plan Germany paper is a thousand pages long and classified, but details have begun to leak publicly.
‘For example, it lists all buildings and infrastructure facilities to be protected for national security reasons. It also details how Germany will transport hundreds of thousands of soldiers east to engage with Russian forces.’
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/europe-braces-for-war-as-biden-shovels
Death trains transporting hundreds of thousands to the east? I thought Germans quit doing that shit. Stupid Krauts. [NB: I’m half German by ancestry.]
It was widely believed, after WW I and again after WW II, that Europe had had its fill of mass bloodletting. Now we see another lost generation of Europeans ready to kill, kill, KILL.
After three generations of keeping yankee occupation troops in Europe, it’s time to cut the cord. Let the bloodthirsty European rabble fight to the last man. It’s not our frickin’ problem.
Bring the troops home before their checks bounce. AMERICA FIRST — OR ELSE!
The preparations of the Europeans for war is absurd. They have virtually no means to resist anything. Their armies are mostly gone, their ships are in dry dock. They have no wartime manufacturing capability. This is all meaningless gesture designed to panic the population. Russia is not interested in Europe outside of eastern Ukraine, but it’s necessary for the crazies in these countries to convince their gullible population otherwise, just as they panicked them over COVID.
Furthermore, if the war were to turn nuclear, there’s no sense in preparing anyway. The winners are those who die first. The survivors will have a long and miserable life that ultimately results in slow and painful death.
Once Putin has those new pipelines to Beijing pressurized, he can just start a real “Cold War” in Europe by shutting off the gas. This might expedite the process. Heck, if he’s selling contracts, china might just allow him to close the valves early.
Revenge is a dish best served cold. It is very cold in Northern Europe.
‘Just ask the dictator of Ukraine.’ — eric
Or the butcher of Israel. Message sent to Senators just now:
Please support your colleague Senator Sanders today as his three Joint Resolutions of Disapproval are considered:
S.J Res. 111 – to block 120 mm tank rounds
S.J.Res. 113 – to block 120 mm high explosive mortar rounds
S.J.Res. 115 – to block JDAMs
“The United States government is currently in violation of the law. Every member of the U.S. Senate who believes in the rule of law should vote for these resolutions.
“The Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act are very clear. The United States cannot provide weaponry to countries that violate internationally recognized human rights or block U.S. humanitarian aid.
“Israel is clearly in violation of these laws. It is illegal for the U.S. government to provide Israel with more offensive weaponry. JRDs are Congress’s tool to enforce those laws.”
– Senator Sanders, press conference, Nov 19, 2024. Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrSp3DUlujo
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By tonight, we will know which Senators are pro-genocide, and which Senators oppose genocide. It’s a stark, black-and-white choice between an ethical respect for human rights, or the degenerate orgy of mass murder committed by the little Jewish apartheid colony.