If NATO does not wish to negotiate in good faith with Russia, then Russia’s options are necessarily limited to more forthright methods of solving the Ukrainian question.
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When Russian President Putin eventually gets around to sitting down for tea and muffins with former Syrian President Assad, he will have a lot on his mind. Starting with Syria, Putin will have to think through the consequences of the Russian navy and air force being booted out of northern Syria and, much like Hannibal in reverse, trying to fund refuge in Libya or, perhaps, even in Carthage itself.
Allied to that is the main EU trollops demanding that Russia “be made small again” are Zelensky barnacles from America’s puppet Baltic states. Putin, as he sips his tea and munches on his muffins, should give thought as to why Russia is being pitted against such contemptible nobodies as Baerbock, von der Leyen (nee Albrecht) and Kaja Kallas, Dracula’s Estonian Medusa. Why is it that Uncle Sam has so much contempt for Russia’s diplomats that all they send their way are Estonian blood suckers and bow-legged Germans, who are too thick to be Oktoberfest baristas? If all the world is a stage, that part of it looks like one of those earlier Hollywood Three Stooges comedies, with Kallas, Albrecht and Baerbock playing the roles of Larry, Curly and Moe? Or is it Chico, Harpo and Groucho?
Whatever game Uncle Sam is playing with their EU vaudeville acts, Russia must show it is playing hard ball and playing to win in Ukraine. Far be it from me to give the Russian High Command advice but they have blown Ukraine far too many kisses. Time to give the Yanks a taste of Raqqa, Fallujah and the other Iraqi and Syrian cities America criminally flattened. Bomb them back into the Stone Age, son.
Hyperbole aside, if NATO does not wish to negotiate in good faith with Russia, then Russia’s options are necessarily limited to more forthright methods of solving the Ukrainian question, as well as the related one of NATO’s terrorism within Russia and even as far afield as Africa.
Although Putin professes to believe in jaw jaw over war war, I cannot think of one instance where either NATO or any of its constituent parts acted in good faith. Russia’s problem is that it must show it has the necessary mettle to put an end to all this Ukrainian pussy footing, irrespective of what POTUS elect Trump may think, say or do. The Russian bear must show it has not only claws but a fearsome stockpile of weapons and trained soldiers to use them as well.
Although Russia’s MiG-35 and Su-57 are useful pieces of kit, the Russian High Command must wonder how it might fare against China’s sixth generation fighters and the countless other advanced toys China’s vast economy is developing. The Indian High Command is certainly pondering such things as they drink their Darjeeling, masticate on their French croissants, and listen to the Japanese, British and Italian serpents whispering in their ears that it is curtains if China can out-muscle them.
Not that India is in imminent danger. That can wait until Russia falls and when China, India and other emerging nations have fully cannibalised Russia’s arms exports markets. With Russia off the chessboard, then it will be the time of China and India to bleed, and to recognise the talk of intra BRICS solidarity for the hot air that it is when NATO’s push comes to NATO’s shove.
When we compare GDPs, GDPs/CAP or when we use some of the hard and soft power metrics China uses, we see that informed sources like the Central Bank of France and the CIA’s Orwellian named Institute of Peace (LOL) are right to dismiss the threat to American hegemony that wafflers say BRICS poses and that countries like India are right to stick to the dollar and the Indian High Command are to be commended for seeing all this.
Beyond treating Assad and his wonderful wife with the utmost respect that they deserve, Putin has little more to gain from that meeting of minds as his Russian admirals and generals will have already briefed him in full on the consequences for Russia of Syria’s fall. Because the task for Russia’s High Command is to ensure that Russia does not also disappear down the same rabbit hole that has already claimed Syria, their task is to put Russia totally in the driver’s’ seat in Ukraine by removing from that chessboard all those, like Zelensky and Kallas, who want war without end and without personal consequences.
If that means knocking out all Ukraine’s sources of energy and leveling Kiev’s diplomatic and political quarters, the Russian air force should get on with it, when they are not otherwise engaged assisting the Russian navy sinking every ship and rowing boat that flies a Ukrainian flag in the Black Sea. If German troops want to play in Ukraine, then let them come and ditto if the Romanian navy once again gets notions in the Black Sea. And, as for the Ukrainians spreading terrorism in Africa, that too must come with the heaviest personal costs for those CIA hirelings.
But none of that is my problem as much as it is the issue the Russian High Command has to immediately grapple with. As must Putin when he wishes Assad GodSpeed and visits Syria’s inestimable First Lady. And, though meeting the great Asma Assad is undoubtedly one of the perks of the Russian Presidency, that office comes with the weighty responsibility of making all of Russia’s soft and hard power enemies eat Ukrainian dirt. Once Putin does his duty with the Assads, then it is time for him to get the hard chaws of the Russian High Command do their duty of turning Ukraine into hell on earth.
