War Is The Ultimate Debate.

WAR WRITES HISTORY!

Nathan Curry: I read your recent articles. I think that it’s almost certain that America is headed for ruin

The rumor that America heads for ruin has been greatly exaggerated. The plutocracy connected to the Deep State is doing its best to create a moral hazard (universities, corporations, big banks, think tanks, etc.)… Right… And they are playing with fire. The present US Deep State anti-“populist” hysteria reminds me of the ever increasing insults against the Populists in Rome (starting 150 BCE)… Ultimately, the anger led to Civil Wars, and the destruction of the Roman Republic…. And the Populists were right: redistribution of wealth was necessary. Consul Caesar imposed it in 59 BCE, over the hate of the Senate. So the plutocrats assassinated Caesar in 44 BCE in the most treacherous circumstances.

Yet the US is stronger than ever. Why? The USA is mostly a federally organized local part-direct democracy (especially California). One fights best from ruins. The integration and exploitation of characters like Musk, initially an illegal immigrant, helps make the USA strong.  Musk spent just one day as a student in Stanford (alma mater of mine).. in the Applied Physics Department. Then Musk was not a student anymore, thus Musk was illegal, but got massively funded by VCs before that was revealed. European immigration is often, overall, of a lesser quality, for reasons which are obvious to whoever tried to immigrate to the US and also, to the EU (as yours truly did).

The only thing which could ruin the USA would be an all-out attack by a thermonuclear armed power. The best way to prevent this is high military spending, especially in research and developments of new weapons (there is such a thing as ruinous, ineffective weapon systems. Arguably, two of the slow US stealth planes…)

USA-MILITARY/BIDEN-BROWN. Irish-American Biden nominates Commander In Chief of the US armed forces a pilot, the chief of the US Air Force, four star general Charles Brown, on the right. The secretary of defense is another (ex-) four star general with some obvious African ancestry, Austin… No racism there… According to many the USA is a racist moral failure. They don’t know what they are talking about. Actually, the USA is one the less racist countries in the world, if not the less racist, period.

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NC: China and Russia are on a mad path

PA: Indeed. Completely mad. Replacing the more democratic constitutions of China and Russia put in place more than two decades ago by “presidencies” for life, has brought tyranny, and tyranny plus nukes is madness. The Chinese and Russian militaries should move in, terminate the tyrants and re-democratize (that can be done: consider Chile, Brasil, or most of the EU countries). Meanwhile, we are on the brink…

Nathan Curry: I don’t see Ukraine as innocent in any way

PA: Aren’t we all culprit? That one was taught by the all-too real acolytes of the mythical Christ. We The People are sinners, etc.

Ukraine has been at war against the tyrannical principle which made the Kremlin powerful, ever since 1240 CE. The aggression of the Kremlin against Kyiv’s democratic principle comes all the way back from the genocidal Mongols having made the Kremlin’s founder, Alexander Nevsky, Prince of… Kyiv. War has been pretty much continuous for the last three centuries when the Ukrainian Cossacks discovered, to their dismay, that the Kremlin viewed their alliance treaty (against Poles and Lithuanians) as an annexation agreement.   

NC: But I do believe America has gotten cocky.

PA: Indeed. The best proof of that cockiness was Biden’s demolition of the French submarine naval contract with Australia. That was sheer hubris on the part of the USA. Biden called that AUKUS. Biden used a tissue of grievous lies, many extremely dangerous for the safety of democracy. It turns out that Biden is incapable of maintaining the US submarine fleet, let alone build one for Australia. But, in the US Deep State’s imagination, France should not exist, or at least not exist in the Pacific. That’s total hubris. In truth, the USA needs Europe, just to safeguard democracy in the West. Even Trump understood this. But the US Deep State is extremely cocky, and Biden is their man. The fact that Deep State could make their man president boosted its cockiness. It’s a virtuous circle of cockiness.

NC: And Britain is dancing with the devil with NATO

NATO itself is not per se a problem. NATO operates often unanimously. For example, Turkey has blocked the accession of Sweden, all by itself. The problem arises when the USA uses NATO to achieve dominance in ways not militarily justified. Britain depends upon the US with its submarines and the F35 fleet. Britain should have instead more programs in common with France like the Typhoon/Eurofighter or the Storm Shadow/SCALP missile or the METEOR air to air ramjet. SCALP (mostly French) uses AI to recognize the targets independently of jammed GPS… And the precision can be devastating: two SCALPs hit a billion dollar sub, destroying it completely.

NC: I predict Trump will win

PA: May well happen, in spite of all the bogus indictments. Most voters in the USA increasingly feel that Trump’s governance has been better than Biden… who, for most of the important stuff (re-industrialization, China, Border, even fossil fuels!) has just followed Trump, like the sheep follows the man. Biden is even building the Wall Trump started… The anti-Trump New York Times admitted last week that Biden building Trump’s wall was…. “confusing“… The 219 wells in Alaskan North Slope wilderness, just for Conocophillips, are just as “confusing“…. I think all these decisions make sense BTW, but Biden ran against them as candidate for the presidency.

NC: And something will happen in the South China sea… that will lead to a tipping point.

PA: Xi is stupid enough for having an accident in the South China sea. Best way to re-industrialize the West, cynics would add…

NC: There is a major bloodbath on the horizon

PA: When Antarctica melts big time, it will be a bath. Bloodbaths can even arrive prior to that. The war in Ukraine is a climate change war. 

NC: Everything you wrote rings true. But we have a Chamberlain in Biden. And the kind of primitive leader in Trump who would take his nation to war over a triviality.

PA: Chamberlain made a mistake in Munich. However, from his point of view, he gave (a shameful, idiotic) peace a chance. Meanwhile, he was rearming Britain, in particular with newer, better planes, and a Royal Navy full of aircraft carriers. On rearmament, Chamberlain was more right than Churchill (who wanted to mass produce right away obsolete types of planes).

NC: I never got what was going on with the Australian deal until I read your commentary about the same.

PA: The US does not have the capability of providing any sub to Australia, and certainly not the new, most advanced Air Independent Propulsion subs the French Naval Group was going to provide to Australia. France has long sold a number of AIP sub types to a number of countries. Six countries, including China, have the tech, the USA does not. The South China sea confrontation is all about the Chinese AIP subs. Xi hopes Chinese AIP subs could interdict the South China sea. 

NC: France is still so important. Britain has gone down the tubes politically.

PA: Britain is undermined by Brexit. At this point, Britain is the most institutionally disconnected country in Europe. Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, even Turkey are more European-connected than Britain. However, when the wind goes down, French electricity will come to the rescue thanks to undersea cables.  

NC: Biden in my view is better than Trump.

PA Fossil fuel cynics could argue that Biden opened Alaskan wilderness for oil exploration.

Biden authorized 219 new oil wells for Conocco-Philips on Alaska’s North Slope. Trump could never have done that. So Biden is better that Trump, fossil fuel-wise…

NC: I really see the larger story is related to a breakdown of western culture. The woke liberals have gone mad. And bred their nemesis. It’s a shit show. I think feminism has done far more harm than good in recent decades. 

PA: Plutocracy, the rule of the ultra wealthy and their enablers, is evil both in its nature and by self-preservation. So, throughout history, plutocracy fosters ideologies which disempower those plutocracy rules over. The best way to accomplish this is to make We The People stupid. Christianism is not just a slave religion (Nietzsche), but also a stupid religion with its all-powerful, omniscient god who lets himself be crucified and then whines about it. 

NC: I see a world that is about to be overcome by a Greek word which Jung liked. It means when we don’t account sufficiently for the opposite, which is what 2000 years of Christianity has done. I have been thinking what’s the tipping point.

PA: Jung worried about hybris (= hubris). Superficially, hubris was the undoing of Athens. But in truth, it’s STUPIDITY which made Athens lose the Peloponnesian War. Hubris was the motivation, stupidity was the enabler. Pericles himself said it, speaking about the “plague” which affected Athens:”I didn’t anticipate that!”… Well, it was EASY to anticipate, as Pericles crowded the entire population of Attica behind Athens’ walls… And overcrowding was well-known to cause plagues. Then Pericles doubled up by stuffing the warships of the entire navy, and going on the attack that way… He was tried for the latter catastrophic decision. 

Arrogantly letting war blossom when time was on the side of Athens was stupid. Passing aggressive ultra nationalistic laws excluding citizens from citizenship, including Pericles’ own son, in the middle of all-out war of survival, was stupid. Attacking Syracuse was stupid. Firing Alcibiades for superstitious unfounded allegations after accepting his project to attack Syracuse, was stupid. Having the top Athenian general at Syracuse being afraid of a (predicted) solar eclipse, and acting accordingly stupidly, was stupid. Destroying Melos was stupid. Executing the victorious Athenian general officers after their great victory was stupid. Leaving the fleet on the beach with the Spartan fleet a few miles away was stupid, etc...

Nathan Curry: I was looking to the future. But then I realized it’s already happened. Letting Russia invade Ukraine in 2014.

PA: Obama did that. But I know Obama, and I know he knows nothing about military history. Obama sent meals ready to eat. Trump sent Javelins. Then the Democratic Congress blocked the Javelins, Afghanistan fell to ultra misogynists, and Putin attacked… Did somebody real smart lay a trap? Is Putin a CIA agent?

Ukraine will get stronger and stronger against Russia. Putin will get more and more desperate.

PA: Zelensky suggested Putin will be back with nuclear threats before soon…

There will be a skirmish in the straits of Taiwan or off Palawan. Leading to a full on attack. The eastern front is Taiwan. The western front is Ukraine. It’s just a matter of time. In the middle east the Zionist agenda will become a major war. I mean it is already. We have reached genocidal proportions now with the attack on Israel

PA: War is the ultimate debate.

Patrice Ayme

Biden Submarine Fiasco Grab Invites Xi Attack

Biden torpedoed the contract with France which would have provided Australia with state-of-the-art Short Fin Barracuda Air Independent Propulsion submarines, the AIP version of the nuclear Suffren class. The Suffren class is the world’s most advanced sub, with electric only silent mode.

Why did Biden do that? Many in the US Deep State want the Pacific to be a new Mare Nostrum, American style. And guess what? France occupies a gigantic maritime domain right in the middle of this would be Anglosphere lake… Last thing the US needs is an Australian republic tightly allied to France: US plutocracy could lose control. The treacherous Australian PM which broke the contract with France’s Naval Group, Morrison, is now enjoying payments from US plutocratic universities and other think tanks…

At the time Biden and company lied by presenting the US nuclear attack subs as more advanced than AIP subs. Actually, in the shallow waters off China, it’s certainly the other way around as AIP subs can be less noisy than nuclear subs (the most advanced run on fuel cell and electricity… no noisy turbines and pumps).

But it turns out that, while Biden torpedoed France, its own fleet was sinking from sheer neglect. To wit a recent article in the Wall Street Journal repeating a lot of the same notions in the New York Times a few months ago (The Times censored my comment, of course, but the WSJ published it):

The Sorry State of America’s Submarine Fleet
To preserve its undersea advantage over China, the Navy should procure subs from Japan and South Korea.
By Seth Cropsey, Sept. 29, 2023. Hey, anything but French subs… Precisely because the French subs are the best, thus most threatening to the US military dominance. Nevermind that France was a founding member of NATO, and Japan and South Korea are not in it.

WSJ: The U.S. submarine fleet is in a dire state. The U.S. doesn’t have the domestic infrastructure to repair and sustain its existing subs, much less expand the fleet. America needs to get creative to sustain its undersea advantage. The Navy should procure conventionally powered submarines from U.S. allies, namely Japan and South Korea…. In the Sino-American military balance, America’s greatest advantage is its submarine fleet. Our 50 nuclear-powered attack submarines are heavily armed with torpedoes and missiles …

The U.S. Navy’s submarine fleet, however, is in lamentable shape. Of the total U.S. fleet, about 40% of vessels are in maintenance and repair facilities at any given time. This puts the fleet at roughly 30 deployable boats at best, rather than the 40 to 45 expected at operating level. In addition, the Navy is retiring two submarines a year on average, but building only three every two years, leading to a net annual decline. U.S. production looks unable to reverse this. The issue isn’t yards—although another short-term maintenance yard would ease the stress on larger facilities—but parts. Submarines are extraordinarily complex, requiring components in a lengthy supply chain. It takes years to procure the specific undersea sensors, fire-control systems and other crucial internal parts for each boat. 

So now, ironically enough, it turns out that the US can’t even maintain its attack sub force, let alone building one for Australia. A solution should be to buy French AIP subs (as many countries, including India did).

But many in the US Deep State seem to consider France to be more of a threat than China, and would rather have China dominate the sea with a considerable number of subs more silent than US nuclear attack subs…

Weakness, in military matters, invite war and aggression. The attack against Ukraine shows that the West is not ready to fight a major war. If one wants to defend the West optimally, one should augment the Defense Industrial Base, not just of the USA but also of Europe. The US can’t do it alone. So indeed civilization needs as many subs as possible, and the US should purchase a technology that it does not have (like French hydrogen fuel cell AIP from diesel!)

By withdrawing all forces from Afghanistan, even aircraft maintenance (even though Europe proposed to leave 10,000 soldiers!) Biden not only left twenty million females to the mercy of ravenous male abusers, but Biden also enticed Putin to finish his invasion of Ukraine (started under boiled noodle Obama in 2014).

By making it so that the West is weak in its submarine force, Biden is inviting Xi to attack. For historical comparison, the US submarine force was extremely strong when the imperial fascist Japanese Navy attacked Pearl harbor and the Philippines. However, a severe problem for the first two years or so, was that US torpedoes would not explode, or explode prematurely, or circle back to strike the ship which had launched them (by comparison the Japanese torpedoes worked very well). This was caused completely by policy decisions (insufficient financing, insufficient testing, etc.) [1].

Meanwhile in Ukraine, the war is turning into a drone war… 200 Ukrainian companies are producing drones. A $300 drone can destroy a million dollar tank. It takes less than ten minutes for any force to be detected and attacked, be they soldiers or armor. Western weapons have proven not superior at all. And the invading Kremlin fascists are adapting… With their own army of drones… Thanks to leaky electronics embargo against Russia…

Si vis pacem, para bellum! And if you want war, keep on lying about your weapons….

Patrice Ayme

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[1] The Mark 14 was central to the torpedo scandal of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Submarine Force during World War II. Inadequate production planning led to severe shortages of the weapon. The frugal, Depression-era, peacetime testing of both the torpedo and its exploder was woefully inadequate and had not uncovered many serious design problems. Torpedoes were so expensive that the Navy was unwilling to perform tests that would destroy a torpedo. Furthermore, the design defects tended to mask each other.^[36] Much of the blame of the Mark 14 came from the Mark 6 exploder. In twenty months of war, torpedo after torpedo either missed by running directly under the target, prematurely exploded, or struck targets with textbook right angle hits (sometimes with an audible clang!) yet failed to explode.^[37]

The Mark 14 torpedo:

• Tended to run about 10 feet (3 m) deeper than set.
• The magnetic exploder often caused premature detonation.
• The contact exploder often failed to detonate the warhead.
• It tended to run “circular”, failing to straighten its run once set on its prescribed gyro-angle setting, and instead, to run in a large circle, thus returning to strike the firing ship.^[39]

Some of these flaws had the unfortunate property of masking or explaining other flaws. Skippers would fire torpedoes and expect the magnetic influence exploder to sink the target ship. When the torpedoes did not explode, they started to believe the magnetic influence exploder did not work. Against orders, some submariners disabled the magnetic influence feature of the Mark 6 exploder suspecting it was faulty, and went for contact exploder hits; such efforts confused the issues.

Once the torpedoes were made to work (from live testing), the Japanese merchant and war fleets were devastated, and the immense Japanese maritime empire fell apart in thousands of pieces which could hardly communicate with each other. Left stranded on desert islands, most Japanese soldiers starved to death: that’s how most Japanese who died in World War Two actually died… Around two million soldiers, while aerial bombings, including the two nukes killed *only* around 750,000…

Xi will not attack if confronted to a mighty submarine force. That’s all what pacifists need to know.

China Is A Tyranny And Plutocracy, It Needs The Help Of Imminent War

SOUTH (of) CHINA SEA: XI WANTS VIRTUAL WAR!

Abstract: Dictator Xi stabilizes his cruel rule by creating the militaristic solidarity and the apparent need for a tough, monolithic rule brought by an exterior conflict in the South China Sea which he hopes to manage in a way satisfactory to itself. AIP subs have to do with it.

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China has built gigantic fortifications in the EEZs, Exclusive Economic Zones, of nine nations in the sea between Borneo, the Philippines and the rest of South-East Asia: Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam. Over most of it, China is the furthest country. This is a gross violation of international law, and the competent international tribunal ruled that way, but Obama let it happen.

What is going on?

The so-called “nine dash line” is there not as much to grab territory as to grab war by the tail.

The rule of one man, Xi, over 1.4 billion people is unnatural. Xi has to be perfect, but it turns out that he keeps on nominating corrupt individuals (he says) for the highest jobs such as defense or the economy. Then he fires them, for crimes so terrible, they can’t be described. The Chinese economy is riddled with failures, directives and terror, as one does not know who will disappear next.

Pluto-cracies, in its full meaning does not mean just the rule of wealth, but also the rule of evil ways (Pluto merged the lord of hell Hades, with the lord of wealth, Pluto). So Xi has to maintain a state of quasi war, accusing the US, in a style already found in the novel 1984. To stabilize a tyrannical regime an exterior danger is best especially if it is existential.

The nine dash line is there for that: create the impression of near-war to mobilize the naive Chinese population against the unspeakably evil West.

A danger is that a shooting war starts. But Xi thinks he can control that by backing off. He also knows that he is building plenty of Air Independent diesel subs which could defang the US Navy… The US does not have this type of sub, which is better adapted to war in a shallow sea. So at some point Xi thinks that the US will not dare starting to exchange torpedoes. Stalin used the method of stabilization by war, so did Hitler, Hirohito, or Mussolini. They were all allies, and they were unchallenged until 1939. So challenge early, and to prevent an alliance of malefactors

Patrice Ayme

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P/S: The gist of the essay above is that Xi stabilizes his cruel rule by creating an exterior conflict in the South China Sea which he hopes to manage in a way satisfactory to itself. The NYT censored twice the notion, as it refused to publish my comments.

From NYT:

The Chinese military base on Mischief Reef, off the Philippine island of Palawan, loomed in front of our boat, obvious even in the predawn dark.

Radar domes, used for military surveillance, floated like nimbus clouds. Lights pointed to a runway made for fighter jets, backed by warehouses perfect for surface-to-air missiles. More than 900 miles from the Chinese mainland, in an area of the South China Sea that an international tribunal has unequivocally determined does not belong to China, cellphones pinged with a message: “Welcome to China.”

The world’s most brazen maritime militarization is gaining muscle in waters through which one-third of global ocean trade passes. Here, on underwater reefs that are known as the Dangerous Ground, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, or P.L.A., has fortified an archipelago of forward operating bases that have branded these waters as China’s despite having no international legal grounding. China’s coast guard, navy and a fleet of fishing trawlers harnessed into a militia are confronting other vessels, civilian and military alike.

Ukraine War: Slow Going World War, But Putin Wants You To Know He Is A Killer

Opinions about where and how Ukraine should attack, with its depleted means, are to be taken with a grain of salt:  disinformation played a crucial role in 1944. The Nazis were told, and believed, that the attacks would come through the Pas De Calais, or the airfield in the alpine Vercors mesa in south-east France. So the Nazis held (Pas de Calais), or sent (Vercors) crack divisions which would have thrown allied troops back into the sea, had they been sent to Normandy.   

For a few weeks, the Nazis were one division short of throwing the Allies in the sea. They engaged more th 10,000 troops in Vercors, including rare elite SS paratroopers.

France has tripled her 155mm shell production, to feed Ukraine’s needs, and has sent long range French made Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles to Ukraine. However the number of these missiles is less than 2,000. NATO was not, and is not ready for world war… which is what we have… and why we have it. War production, the Defense Industrial Base, needs to grow enormously to satisfy Ukraine’s needs 

The “combined arm approach” means nothing with that capability the Russians have to make enormous, extremely dense minefields in a few minutes, seeded by rockets. 

The First World War lasted as long as it did because Germany was able to obtain, from “neutral” countries (US, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden) the crucial materials it needed. When the US entered the war, the blockade became effective and German explosive production collapsed to a tenth of the french production.

We have a similar situation now. Russia rains missiles on Ukraine, and those missiles are full of Western electronics. That needs to stop, the blockade must be made effective. 

The “Kaiserreich”, the military dictatorship cum plutocracy run by Kaiser Wilhem II was a fascist regime which knew itself to be condemned long term by socialism, democracy and obsolescence from more open, smarter societies. Its top leaders determined those facts to be true, and decided that a world war was the way out, defeating in quick succession the French Republic, then democratizing and modernizing Russia, before Britain, which did not have an army, could react. Then Britain was supposed to negotiate. This was decided in December 1912. US meddling on June 1 1914, promising a world government with Britain, and the Sarajevo assassination, removing a partisan of peace, the dour Archduke, heir to Austria Hungary but also best friend of the Kaiser, cleared the way.

The Kaiser’s dream of world supremacy crashed down as France counterattacked and nearly destroyed the entire German army at the First Battle of the Marne, 5 weeks after the treacherous attack by a regime of war criminals. A stalemate resulted, until the blockade became effective.

There are lots of analogies between Putin’s Reich and the Kaiserreich. Putin, thought is more of a direct killer… and Putin’s plans and motivations are public. Putin also wants the world to know he will kill whoever is in the way: thus the killing of the boss of the Wagner Group, Prigozhyn was made in full daylight, with a nice video of his crashing plane. 

Wagner boss Prigozhyn’s plane shot down north-west of Moscow, August 23, 2023.

Truth telling by Prigozhyn:

The invasion was nothing more than a massive land grab by the Russian oligarchy, Prigozhin charged, designed to enrich the country’s powerful elites while poor Russians served as cannon fodder. Russian claims that a Nazi regime in Ukraine, backed by NATO, was about to attack Russia were lies, Prigozhin said. The war was started by the Russian oligarchy to benefit themselves and gain power. In his rant, Prigozhin did not criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin by name, focusing instead on the broader Russian elite, and specifically on his personal enemy Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

“The Ministry of Defense is trying to deceive the public and the president and spin the story that there were insane levels of aggression from the Ukrainian side and that they were going to attack us together with the whole NATO bloc,” Prigozhin said on his Telegram channel on June 23. The truth, he said, was that “there was nothing extraordinary happening on the eve of February 24,” the day last year when Russian invaded. Ukraine was not planning any kind of attack against Russia, he added.

Russia’s invasion “was started for a completely different reason,” Prigozhyn said. “What was the war for? The war was needed for Shoigu to receive a hero star. … The oligarchic clan that rules Russia needed the war,” he said. “The mentally ill scumbags decided: ‘It’s OK, we’ll throw in a few thousand more Russian men as cannon fodder. They’ll die under artillery fire, but we’ll get what we want.’” What they wanted was Ukrainian land the plutocrats around Putin could real-estate speculate with… Prigozhyn explained.

“Shoigu killed thousands of the most combat-ready Russian soldiers in the first days of the war,” Prigozhin said, adding that the invasion began even as Zelenskyy and Ukraine were eager for peace. The Ukrainian leader “was ready for agreements. All that needed to be done was to get off Mount Olympus and negotiate with him.” [Zelinskyi was the pro-Russian presidential candidate, ready to make concessions to Putin. He was elected on that peace plan over his more combative predecessor Perevshenko!]

Prigozhin thus destroyed the main argument used by Russian propagandists and their Western lackeys: that NATO’s eastward expansion since the end of the Cold War caused the war in Ukraine. Putin has constantly railed against NATO, and his misleading narrative that the U.S. caused the war in Ukraine by pushing for alliance’s expansion has resonated widely among pro-Putin fascist lovers in the West.

It will be a slow grind, like the world wars of the Twentieth Century. An old Kremlin mentality, that tyranny is best for Mother Russia, is trying to expand against a more democratically inclined world. The forces in presence are unbalanced in many ways: the leader of Russia is probably even more unbalanced, more pathologically evil, and in a very similar way, than Adolf Hitler himself (after all Hitler never threatened to kill all of humanity, just a long list with the French, the Jews, etc.)… but then Putin masters the imbalance of nukes… Yet can only be unbalanced as his greatest ally, China, wants to recover much of what the Kremlin owns or controls…

With such a set of ambushes and imbalances all over, the West has to be careful and steady… But re-armament must be a priority (it’s not yet).

Starting with rearmament of moods… In the past, the Netherlands and Denmark, served, crucially, the fascist invading Kaiserreich, and Hitler’s Reich… Now they are going to send F16s to Ukraine… Not very many, but the right mood, the democratic mood, is now animating them. Progress.

Patrice Ayme 

SUPERIOR MORALITY = DEFEAT ULTIMATE EVIL. First Think, Then Shoot.

MORALITY: NO WIN FOR MUCH GREATER EVIL. Think First, Then Shoot Evil Down. 

Not sending fighter planes to Ukraine is a moral failure of the West, and it’s only making a bad situation worse. 

However, sending cluster bombs as Biden just decided to do, was a courageous moral decision. Morality done right means that a greater evil does not win.

A number of Russian sponsored trolls objected… Or then maybe they are clueless immoral idiots like Human Right Watch, which claimed it was a scandal that Ukraine would defend itself. For Human Right Watch, the ideal Jew in World War Two was probably the one who walk straight to the gaz chamber, without any fuss, and not dangerously fighting back in any sense.

“Prof Chaos” from Massachusetts, or maybe Saint Petersburg, but in any case in the New York Times, objected to my wisdom with the talking points obsessively made by the Putin thugs: “This war is in a stalemate, Ukraine’s counteroffensive has largely failed, as our government now admits. The war will end at the negotiating table, only those mired in perverse fantasy assert otherwise now. So why must the fighting go on? Which young Ukrainian should be the last to die or be maimed over a few feet of trench warfare?“

All this is false, and an attempt to freeze the frontline in Putin’s favor: the offensive has not failed, the Ukrainians are going slowly through giant mine fields, up to 50 kilometers deep. The Kremlin losses are enormous, and the US governement never said that the offensive had failed, just the opposite. All the perversity is in the Kremlin, not those defending from invasion. It’s the ultimate perversity to pretend that defending civilization is perverse.

Further answer: @prof.chaos There are evils so great, no negotiation is possible. An example was World War Two. The fighting must go on because the tyrant in the Kremlin has threatened all of humanity, not just Ukraine, with extermination. So the fighting will be finished when he is.

Otherwise utter moral and strategic chaos would result. Threatening to destroy all of humanity on a whim is a concept which should have no future. Putin has to be terminated in a tribunal, as the major war criminal that he is, or killed by the military which he massacred.

Mushroom cloud after a strike by a hypersonic Iskander missile in Western Ukraine, in Khmelnytskyi, May 13, 2023. Many of the explosions caused by Putin’s orcs have been as strong as nuclear blasts.

“mm” supposedly from New Jersey, but more probably located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was really incensed by my answer. Human Right Watch style, “mm” inverted all values by ignoring all of history:

mm @Patrice Ayme This kind of thinking is the cause of endless wars, suffering, deaths, destruction. You believe we are good, Russia is evil. We dropped not just one but two atom bombs on entire cities of civilians – women and children – in Japan. We invaded Iraq illegally. We imprisoned and tortured human beings in GITMO without giving them trials or in some cases even accusing them of any crimes. We illegally assassinate people. Our govt officially “deplores” autocrats except the ones we find useful. “Russia is evil, we are good” is a naive and dangerous attitude.

“mm’ claims to know no history whatsoever. History is pretty much the history of war. This is why so many are not keen to learn it. History is politically incorrect, and not at all woke. History, real history, will keep most people awake and terrified. And that’s a good thing.

The kind of thinking “mm” advocates is that when somebody comes to eat you, you should offer the other limb. Yes, inverter of all values, the Kremlin’s tyranny is evil. Even the head of the Wagner group, the elite of the Russian army said so, and explained why: the war of aggression against Ukraine was entirely justified by enormous lies, known by Russian commanders to be lies.

@mm At the time the bombs were dropped on Japan, the Japanese army was killing more than 10,000 civilians in China every single day. Within three days after Hiroshima, the emperor had decided to stop the war, and overruled the fanatics. So, purely on a humanitarian level, the nuclear bombs saved millions of lives… in the next few months alone.

That’s why no apologies should be given for Hiroshima (although I admit more than once I had tears in my eyes reading a description of the horrors some atomized children went through…)

On September 3, 1939, the French Republic declared war on the hideous Nazi regime. To its immense and eternal shame, the USA never did, and waited until a few days after Pearl Harbor, at the end of 1941, to receive a declaration of war from the Nazi tyrant. 

The non-assistance of the USA to France in her struggle against Nazism started in 1933, supposedly to break the alleged war cycle vile pacifists speak of: US capitalists flocked to Nazi Germany, with the benediction of the Roosevelt administration. So the US systematically opposed France, even enticing Belgium not to build their part of the Maginot line (that happened in 1937; the Nazis went through the unconstructed part of the Maginot line in Belgium… not only they were not resisted thanks to the non-existent fortifications thanks to the Roosevelt gang, but the Nazis were not even DETECTED… As they squeezed in most of the German army… Thanks Uncle Sam and Belgium’s “neutrality). 

The USA pushed to collaborate with Nazism, and conspired to have the Nazis organize the Olympics in winter of 1936, and also in summer of 1936! When the French Republic led by the Jew Leon Blum, wanted to fight the Nazis who had attacked the Spanish Republic, in 1936, the USA refused to allow it: France would be a horrible warmonger if France came to the rescue of the Spanish Republic. Neither did the USA did not come to the assistance of France in 1939, 1940 and 1941… in spite of “guarantees”… 

The result was that more than 70 million people died thereafter, as the Axis powers thought they could divide and conquer.

The Nazis were the worst… But they didn’t advertise the fact that they would kill everybody if they didn’t get their way. That, Putin did, and so doing, Putin rose even above the Nazis themselves…

Biden did good by sending cluster bombs. Now F16s, please.

A leading principle has been misused in the past, yet stays valid:

The end justifies the means, when that’s the only way to defeat an evil so great that it compromises everything. The ultimate evil was always the total extermination of another human group. That evil has been most helpful to keep Earth inhabitable, and make humans ever smarter (as the lesser performing ones got eaten). However, with modern weapons of mass destruction, including engineered viruses -we got a foretaste of that with Wuhan’s COVID 19- and a world ecology increasingly dwarfed by human capabilities, it is high time to institute a more law and order… And outlaw tyrannies and dictatorships, and one must start by demolishing their means of power.

That must be started on the battlefields of Ukraine. NATO and the rest of the West inspired democracies must go all out and help Ukraine. If the Wagner Private Military Corporation could march that fast on the Kremlin, shooting many aircrafts on the way, including a precious airborne command post IL22M, certainly NATO should take heed.

It doesn’t just mean that the grotesque cultural deformity known as Putin is easy to bring down, but also that Russian nukes, at least 6,000 of them, are not secure.

The hour is grave, and it’s immoral to pretend otherwise.

Give the Ukrainian army all it needs.

Patrice Ayme

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P/S: In the guise of Human Rights, Human Right Watch has chosen the nuclear tyrant’s side on the question of battlefield weaponry, trying to prevent civilization to use weapons that the tyrant will keep on using. “Bothsideism” was the Nazis’ best friend.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/07/06/ukraine-civilian-deaths-cluster-munitions

France 100% Allied With Ukraine, Must Go To “War Economy”. Francophobic, Treacherous New York Times Allies With Putin

Which side of the Ukraine war is which side of the Democratic establishment on? Well, Obama was on Putin’s side, and clearly Biden is on Zelinskyi’s side. However, the propagandist New York Times does not forget that its number one enemy is France. Let me quote: An Endgame for Ukraine, June 6, 2023:…”How should this end?

We can start by listing the ways in which it shouldn’t. The first is the one suggested last year by President Emmanuel Macron of France. “We must not humiliate Russia,” he argued, “so that the day when the fighting stops we can build an exit ramp through diplomatic means.” At the time, to “not humiliate Russia” was code for allowing Russia to preserve its ill-gotten gains while it was on the offensive.”

That’s a pack of lying shit. And the NYT did even worse, after lying about Macron, the NYT advocates that 20% of Ukraine, including Crimea, should be given to Putin:”Winning comes in two flavors. The first, and riskier, is … to push Russia out of the territories it seized in this war, to retake Crimea and the breakaway “republics” in the east. This is what Ukrainians want, and what they are morally and legally entitled to.

But retaking Crimea will be hard, and even success will come with costs, primarily in the form of populations that aren’t necessarily eager to be liberated by Kyiv. Hence the second flavor: To help Ukraine restore its pre-February 2022 borders, but no further —”

Is the NYT completely senile? It advocates doing exactly what it claims to be outraged by, and, in contradiction of evidence, what it attributes to Macron. 

Amazingly, after sitting on my comment correcting them for hours, the NYT allowed the following to be published. No NYT reader “recommended “ it:.. Showing that not only the NYT is a problem for civilization, but so is its readership, apparently made of decerebrated, angry, gullible robots.

By “not humiliating Russia“, Macron meant just that, and only that. France officially will not negotiate returning Ukraine to anything less than her pre-2014 borders. No reward for aggression. The dozens of long range, high precision, ultra mobile French CAESAR 155mm guns have proven the most useful part of Ukrainian artillery: just one of them mounted on a barge forced the Russian to surrender Snake Island. Other howitzers tend to get destroyed by counter-battery fire… while a CAESAR is gone in seconds after a volley.  

Zelinskyi was provided, during his last tour, a jumbo jet from the French Republic, and he went all the way to Japan and back with it, under french colors for the whole world to see. So definitively, Macron is in Zelinskyi’s camp. 

Putin can’t be rewarded with one centimeter of Ukrainian territory, because, if he were, all could see that aggression pays… In any case, Putin will not negotiate… because his regime would collapse if he did. 

Even if Putin’s forces were ejected from Ukraine, Putin would keep on fighting. Fighting justifies Putin’s tyranny. So the West has to get ready for a very long war, barring the miracle of Putin’s personal disappearance…. Which could well happen as units of the Russian army and Wagner PMC have started to ambush and shoot at each other…

The run-up to full world war two in 1939  started in 1931, in China, and lasted 8 years. Too few countries took it seriously (or then, like the USA, and the USSR, decided to take advantage of the increasing conflict: US plutocrats made money all over, especially from trading with fascist regimes, for example selling oil to Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito; or developing Stalin’s oil). French president Macron has said that “France needs to go into a war economy”. Well, all the West does need to go to a war economy if it does not want the war with fascism to get way worse. Deterrence works, even during a world war! After all, the Nazis didn’t even try to use the gigantic reserves of nerve gas that they had, knowing that if they did, their population would be exterminated in return!

Patrice Ayme. 

How To Abort A World War

An emerging alliance of nuclear armed tyrannies threatens the world: Russia, Iran, China (let alone North Korea, Venezuela, etc.). Some say China controls a huge proportion of the African economy. The Iranian tyranny, besets by a well justified rebellion against its terror superstition, has interest to brutalize its suffering population with another tremendous war. Russia is in a parallel situation. So is Xi’s dictatorship, which pretends to go to the Moon, while embracing the Middle Ages. 

World wars spread as moods. Moods of pragmatism from tyrants and appeasement from the victims and corruption from leaders entangled. Similar entanglements of devolution into violence can be observed when the Greek city-state democracies fell under the Macedonians, or when the Greco-Roman state and civilization failed, seven centuries later. The pattern of an emotional spread of belligerence was found in many European wars, including WWI and WWII.

WWII started slow and obscure, with an invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese in 1931, fueled by US oil and indifference. Then the mood that aggression paid spread among dictators: Mussolini, Hitler, Hirohito and Stalin got infected by it.

We are facing a similar situation. Dictators love exterior wars, because they justify their ferocious rule. Iran, China, Russia will wage outside wars if they believe they can get away with them, as those wars stabilize them. In turn weakness in the democracies opposed to tyrannies encourage tyrannies as they believe they can get away with waging war. A compounding factor, as in the 1930s with Hitler and Stalin, is that many Western businesses had good deals with the dictators, and that much oligarchic capital from tyrannies found its way to the West.

A world war can be aborted. The time is now. The way to the abortion of worldwide belligerence is to rearm, intervene, and not collaborate with tyrannies ASAP. In other words, do the exact opposite of what was done, or rather not done, in the 1930s.

Patrice Ayme

 

While aggressing and devastating China and then Indochina for a full decade, the Japanese tyranny was fueled by oil extracted, controlled and sold by the West. Hirohito riding a white stallion. Japan may have killed as much as 40 million Chinese, while suffering neglectable losses… Most of the up to three million or so Japanese who died in WWII died as soldiers… from starvation, as their own military let them starve to death. Bombings, including the nukes, and the famous Tokyo fire bombing, killed less than 750,000 Japanese.

When FDR cut off California oil, the Japanese High Comand had just enough oil to strike Pearl Harbor and make it to Indonesia (Dutch West Indies, with their oil… where the Japanese army killed… 4 millions…)

Let Ukraine Free Crimea

Illogical cowards say: Czar Putin threatened to nuke us, let’s do what he wants, whatever he wants, this is safer! Logical heroes say: a terrorist threatened to nuke us, let’s arrest him! 

“You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war.”…sadi Winston Churchill to those who ephemerally appeased Hitler. 

Prince Vladimir of Kyiv, more than 1,000 years ago, conquered Crimea from the Khazars who had invaded and occupied the peninsula a few generations earlier. So the Ukrainians liberated the Greeks! Dorian Greece had settled the area 17 centuries before Hence the Greek names of southern Ukraine: Melitopol (City of honey), Mariupol (city of Mary), etc… 

Prince Vladimir then converted to Christianity (from his original Viking faith).

Kievan Rus was the largest state in Europe, and was so democratic, it turned into its undoing when the Mongols invaded: no coherent defense could be mounted as the Mongols picked up one Kievan principality after another, finishing with the annihilation of Kyiv in December 1240. Then Alexander Nevsky, an enthusiastic Mongol collaborator who founded the Kremlin anti-democratic and theocratic doctrine, was made Prince of Kyiv. The Mongols would return to destroy Kyiv again later, and then the Kremlin, for centuries tried all it could to destroy ever more any democratic state in and around present day Ukraine.

Thus this is an old fight: obscurantism and tyranny from Moscow against enlightenment and diversity in Kyiv. 

Nowadays, though, with a small planet and nukes all over, democracy can’t afford to lose that fight, because it would be the last it would lose.  

Modern tech enables tyranny to become worse than ever. We can’t have tyrant blackmail democracy with nukes. Actually tyrants should have no nukes: hated by their own populations, they have interest to wage foreign wars to justify domestic terror, as the Kremlin did, for 8 centuries.

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The attempted destruction by the Kremlin of a democracy has already lasted a quarter as long as the attempted destruction of democracy in Europe by the Kaiser and his goons in 1914-1918. 

“We think now is the right time to intensify our support for Ukraine,” Britain’s foreign secretary, James Cleverly, said while on a visit to Washington in 2023. “We can’t allow this to drag on and become a kind of First World War attritional-type stalemate.”

The reason for the length of WWI was that the Kaiser and his goons were able to avoid a full Franco-British blockade in 1914-1917, as crucial goods, typically shipped from the USA, reached Germany through the “neutral” Netherlands and “neutral” Denmark. France and Britain protested in vain: they were not going to issue an ultimatum to their rambunctious, self-obsessed US child.

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When the US belatedly joined its democratic parents, France and Britain in war against the fascist Prussian invader, the blockade became effective. The German military and civilian economy collapsed: by 1918, the French explosive production was more than ten times that of Germany; and the Allied breakthrough in southern Europe deprived Germany of food… 

At this point, the genocidal Kremlin tyrant has few friends: India and China informed him that he must not use nukes. So Putin has decided to boost the size of his army and weapon production, the latter rendered possible by a breaching of the blockade (say through the Caucasus mountains). 

However, during a long war, tyrants can make friends, or force coups in otherwise unfriendly nations: history is replete with such examples of desperate tyrants going for broke: faced with torturous extinction, they try whatever… and sometimes they score. Putin claims to have achieved an “union” with Belarus. Well, not really, but conveniently Putin’s main opponent in Belarus died… As so many of Putin’s opponents have died recently.

The longer this war goes on, the more dangerous it gets.

And democracy, representative or not, can’t afford not to win it: should thermonuclear tyranny win, the same concept will go for broke, again and again.

Let’s not forget, as the forces of evil known as the WEF, the World Economic Forum, gather at Davos to conspire in plain sight of the entire planet, protected by 5,000 soldiers, that the WEF made Putin one of their masterpieces. Putin even became one of the architects of Davos, as the Kremlin nuclear dictator met very officially with his chairman and founder, Klaus Schwab, his evil name, to plot in plain sight.

Amazingly, so great is Putin’s propaganda control on the Western pseudo-left, pseudo-ecology, and much of the population of failed states, that many deluded souls believe that Putin, that master piece of world plutocracy, is actually an opponent of the world plutocracy.

The credulity, stupidity and venality of many on the left has been amazing consider the French and German supposedly socialist PMs around 2000 CE, making deals with the Kremlin and its agents, such as European pseudo-ecologists… How did that advance socialism, or Europe? Or on the right: consider Brexit, or the invasion of Iraq (which aimed at making fracking profitable and lift the US as the world’s fossil fuel superpower, once again…). Or consider the subprime, zero-interest, and COVID Ponzi scheme… Consider Fauci, financing the Wuhan Institute of Virology to make lethal and hyper contagious bat coroonaviruses, even more so… Biden finally fired him discreetly, and his successor’s discourse is diametrically opposed…  

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One may wonder how come 51 (fifty-one) representative democracies are arming Ukraine? … if they are controlled by the world plutocracy? As I hold…. 

The answer is that those representative oligarchies claim to be democracies, people-powers. So world plutocracy attempted to control them, and achieved great, but not full control: appearances have to be maintained, lest mobs overrun national assemblies… 

When the armed people of Ukraine showed their power by repelling 200,000 professional maniac killers of Putin, killing many in the process, the representatives of these representative democracies, who view themselves as really representing democracy, had to get along. Now they are progressively warming up to the realities of war….  When Obama let Putin invade Crimea and then the Donbas, a process was started, as when the world let Japan invade Manchuria in 1931: Japan claimed it was reconstructing China… Representative democracies condemned, 42 to 1 the Japanese army invasion. Japan, one of the League four permanent members (with France, UK, Italy) had to resign.

In retrospect, clearly, what should have been done was to arm China and blockade Japan. By the late 1930s, Japan produced only 7% of the oil it consumed. It imported the rest, with 80% coming from the U.S., mostly California, and 10% from the Dutch East Indies. The USA waited until August 1, 1941 to block the exportation of oil to Japan. By then Japan had killed millions in China and Indochina. 

Arming China was done much later and through a Private Military Corporation, the Flying Tigers…

Wisdom teaches to do all of this, to make war, faster. Extending torture and temptation will be bad for all… So let the Ukrainian free Crimea again!

Patrice Ayme

The Greeks colonized Southern Ukraine 16 centuries before Prince Vladimir/Vlodimir freed Crimea from the Khazars, and two millennia before Kremlin Russia arose from being the tax collector of the Mongols:

P/S: The essence of the essay above was banned, censored, vilified and unpublished by the New York Times.

France Wakes Up In Ukraine Bringing Fatally Comical Kremlin’s Antics

PUTIN, TERRORIZED BY FRENCH & US ADVANCED WEAPONS, CALLS FOR A CEASEFIRE!

Abstract: Victim of its own philosophy of  hedonism, laziness, entitlement, superficialism, wokism, Politically Correct thinking and judiciary, Europe disarmed to the point that most European weapon programs were experimental and demonstrative, rather than practical and capable of fighting a serious war. Meanwhile Europe encouraged the Kremlin to believe it could get away with being a force that mattered, and still mysteriously profited from the aura of decolonization from way back in the 1950s, when the tyrannical USSR and its gigantic empire was presented as good and liberating, and democratic Europe colonizing and oppressive..

When Putin invaded in a way that couldn’t be denied anymore, European countries found themselves defenseless. This greatly explained the apparent French and German reluctance to help Ukraine: they were not ready to fight Russia, from lack of armaments. This has not changed much: building weapons takes years. But the Russian military power has been considerably degraded.

French president Macron suddenly changed his ways, deciding to send to Ukraine the world’s most sophisticated anti-ballistic … And then… tanks!

Finally!

But there may be a method to the madness: European countries, NATO, were too weak militarily to counterattack boldly. Within a day, tyrant Putin proclaimed a unilateral ceasefire!

Just as in a comic book for little kids: the Putin chicken was not playing anymore!

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So the ex head of Roscosmos, the Russian NASA is a fanatic of Putin and the Kremlin Above All spirit. So Dmitry Rogozin goes to Ukraine to fight.Next he and a vast throng of Kremlin grandees gather in a hotel to celebrate Rogozin’s 59th birthday. What do you think happens? Shells fired by Ukrainians explode, the head of Roscosmos is hit in the spine. He is evacuated, operated on. He is a man of the world, he has negotiated and collaborated with NASA, ESA, and the French CNES, among others. 

The surgeons extract shrapnel from the Roscosmos chief’s spine. The Kremlin grandees thought they were too far from the front to be shelled. But not far enough for GPS guided rocket assisted shells from a French Caesar gun. 

The French shell shrapnel is identified in that Roscosmos’ spine.

The head of Roscosmos thinks of himself as smart. So he sent the shrapnel to president Macron of France, the one who provided the Caesar guns. “Please pass on the fragment cut from my spine by surgeons to Emmanuel Macron,”

What does Macron do? Well, he reacts as he should have had, from the start. With a bit of delay, Macron has become smart too. Macron may have finally discovered that talking to Putin is like talking to Hitler: no point talking to hate personified, and self-delusion of such grandeur, one can remake history as it never was.

Or maybe Macron and France, just as Scholtz and Germany, confronted to the unthinkable, Hitler reincarnated, thermonuclear version, were trying to gain time. Eastern Europe gave lots of weapons to Ukraine, but often from old Soviet procurement.

You see, unbelievably, the leaders of the West didn’t see the obvious: in a mechanism very similar to what happened with Hitler, the leaders of the West and their think tanks, or more exactly their Western oligarchs, had decided that, because Putin, like Hitler, had been enabled by them, they owned him, just as in the 1930s their predecessors thought they owned Hitler, or Mussolini, or Hirohito, or Stalin… But all they were left with was Spain’s Franco.... 

Indeed, vainglorious vengeance minded idiots like Putin and Hitler resent being owned, and they are too stupid to know their masters. 

The end result is that the West, including to some extent the US, but particularly Western Europe, was not ready for war: they thought that, since they wanted peace, they should make war impossible, by being unable to conduct it. Putin only saw he could grab the cake, and nobody could stop him. The tyrant said so explicitly in 2014: “the problem Europe has is that I can be in Kyiv in two weeks“. To appease Putin, Obama sent MREs (Meals Ready to Eat to the Ukrainians). Later, Trump would send some anti tank weapons… But then, shortly after Biden’s election, the US Democratic Congress stopped the planned delivery of those weapons. Delivery was resumed six months later, in November 2021, but by then Putin had decided to attack (because he withheld gas delivery to Europe as soon as summer 2021)

Germany was, and is, incredibly weak, Britain had no army, as usual, and France was only strong in her aviation and nuclear forces. Western European weapons were better than the Russian ones (which used crucially Western electronics, or even French military equipment)… But there were all too very few. 

Thus France and Germany had little to provide, and budget constraints. Ukrainians, though, were told to pass direct contracts with the French and German military industrial complexes. Until recently, they didn’t (I don’t know why; maybe they have no  money; US weapons are free… They just buy good will…)

In any case, Macron gets Rogozin’s shrapnel… back to the sender!

What does he do? Macron suddenly sees at last that he is confronted to madmen who feel so entitled they take for granted that them getting hurt when they invade a democracy is… An outrage! In other words Putin and his entourage are maniacs beyond belief (Macron had already said this about Putin who, Macron said, was laughing when hearing about alleged atrocities of the Russians in Ukraine: those are actors, he told Macron… who added he really didn’t know what to say, in front of such a level of lunacy…

Once I knew a mad woman, and tried to help her. I even visited her in her psychiatric asylum (she apparently became psychotic from smoking pot, by the way…) I remember listening to her. She thought the CIA was after her… They were really coming, at the door… Listening to the entourage of Putin sounds similar… 

Macron decides that France will send French made tanks to Ukraine! These are the first  Western tanks sent to Ukraine… (And from a NATO founding member!).

The French decision was “the first time a Western-designed tank will be delivered to Ukraine. Symbolically, it’s important,” said François Heisbourg, senior adviser for Europe at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

In the following days the US and Germany decided to send armored personnel carriers (which are not tanks)… because France decided to provide tanks with powerful guns, the AMX 10. Germany and the US followed, with simple armored personnel carriers a day later. Those APCs are armed with a 26 mm gun. The AMX10 French tank can pulverize dozens of armored personnel carriers in minutes with its 105 mm gun. By comparison, the famous M4 Sherman tank of WWII had a 75 mm gun…  AMX 10 are also mounted on enormous wheels, not tracks, and this means that they can move much faster, and further, than tracked vehicles… And Ukraine favor swift advances through bewildered Russian orcs (the “orc” label to qualify savage eastern invaders is more than 1,000 years old…)

France is also sending to Ukraine ASTER 30 NT, an anti-aircraft, anti-ballistic, 60 gs acceleration (that is 600 meters per second change of speed, per second, one mile per second interceptor also known as MAMBA, or “Sea Viper” (on UK Royal Navy ships). ASTER is for AeroSpatiale TERminale.  It’s the French Patriot, but more modern.

Finally. Advanced Western heavy weapons for Ukraine.

France often congratulates herself to be the country of human rights, and rightly so… Not just for enabling the USA to win its war of independence, or for the Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1789… Or for recognizing the equal rights of gay people in the… Sixteenth Century. But also for creating England, Germany, repelling enslaving Islam from 721 CE to… much more recent times… and for outlawing the slave trade of citizens as early as the Seventh Century… And even earlier than that, by putting an end to Christian anti-heretic terror.

One must crush infamy, as Voltaire put it.

What’s more infamous than Putin?

Even Hitler didn’t threaten to extinguish all of humanity, but Putin did (and his allies, friends if not lovers like the head of Russia Today insist that Putin will engage in a nuclear world war, and believe that’s a good thing! [1]. After the war, they should all be tried for crimes against humanity.)

Suddenly, apparently struck and dumbfounded by large Western weapons coming his way, Russian Tyrant Vladimir Putin’s claim that Russian forces will conduct a 36-hour ceasefire in observance of Russian Orthodox Christmas. It is likely an information operation intended to damage Ukraine’s reputation… but it may also reflect the desperate state of the Russian Donetsk front, and an attempt to reposition and arm units damaged by Ukrainian fire.

Putin has to be relentlessly defeated. Anything less will actually augment the risk of nuclear war. By encouraging him and his helpers 

Patrice Ayme
Sent to Ukraine now: French tank AMX 10 firing its main 105 mm gun in Afghanistan [2]:

[1] Margarita Simonyan, an intimate of Putin, obviously, and one of the primary mouthpieces for the Kremlin, said: “Either we lose in Ukraine, or the Third World War starts. I think World War Three is more realistic, knowing us, knowing our Putin.

“The most incredible outcome, that all this will end with a nuclear strike, seems more probable to me than the other course of events….“This is an horror… But on the other hand, it is what it is. We will go to heaven, while they will simply croak… We’re all going to die someday.”“

(She said that as early as April 2022. Shortly afterward, RT and similar Nazi Kremlin propaganda was banned from Europe. Since then she repeated it many times. 

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[2] The French invented tanks… Actually, French tanks were the first motor vehicles on land (18th Century; just a few were made). Here’s an excerpt from a former US Marine that once served together with the French forces in Afghanistan, detailing his experience about this Armored fighting vehicle in particular.
“One giant advantage the French had over us was with their use of tanks. We maintain an armored force that’s fantastic at defeating T-80s crossing the Fulda Gap, not quite so fantastic at fighting insurgents in mountainous valleys. The French had AMX-10(RCR)s, light wheeled tanks that were perfect for counterinsurgency combat. They were a tremendous force multiplier.
One night before a major operation, I was laid out in the dirt on an outpost perimeter. I had fallen asleep at midnight. At 3 a.m. a tremendous explosion woke me. I lay still for a few moments, then asked a Marine on guard, “What the hell was that?”
He answered, “I don’t know, but something went right over our heads.”
When the sun rose, I was stunned to see an AMX-10 halfway up a mountain behind the outpost. A brave and/or stupid tank crew had rolled up a narrow trail in the dark, and hit some Taliban.
I didn’t envy the poor driver who had to negotiate that trail. Or the loader who I’m sure had to walk ahead of the tank, knowing that if he made a mistake his crew was rolling down the mountain. As a former tanker, I can tell you that driving a tank up a mountain in the dark isn’t something cowards do.” ~ Chris Hernandez, Former US Marine tanker and infantryman-turned-author.

If You Want Peace, Arm Ukraine To The Max ASAP

There is such a thing as military science, comprising, in part, the study of past wars. There are patterns.

Humanity is good and, or evil, according to prospects and circumstances. According to the law of action equals reaction, any violence will bring at least the same equal and opposite violence. One does not stop a modern military force through negotiations, but by defeating it on the battlefield. Defeat does not imply necessarily direct confrontation: McArthur, through island hopping, defeated the Japanese imperial army by circumventing its strong points and cutting it off: no food, and no fuel or ammunition. Most Japanese imperial soldiers in WWII in the Pacific theater died from starvation.

In 1931, a rogue Japanese army attacked Manchuria, seizing it from China. Tokyo was aghast. But the offensive was lightning fast, and a success, so Tokyo did nothing. In retrospect, World War Two had started: for the next ten years, the Japanese army would invade China ever more, fostering a genocide. Japanese army brutality would encourage Stalin to kill 6 million Ukrainians in 1933 (Holodomor). Hitler followed suit, making the “Axis” with Japan and fascist Italy, and invading Spain in 1936. France nearly helped the Spanish Republic… But the UK and US were opposed to it.

And Japan was fueled… by US oil. 

When France and Britain declared war to Hitler, that dictator was allied to the Kremlin (providing oil to the Reich, among other things). The US reacted by accusing France and Britain of “belligerence” and applied sanctions.

When France fell to the Nazis, the US didn’t even bark (Canada sent troops, which were beaten). Instead, FDR, having forgotten his “guarantees” to France, and after seven years of effectively pro-Nazi policies (covered up by criticism of Hitler), sent his right hand man to the junta in Vichy. The very dark deep US state, its universities, etc. had interest to see the French empire collapse: it would become part of the US empire. World government, ladies and gentlemen! 

Two to three million died in the French empire during WWII, up to 15 times US loss of lives. It’s a general feature of WWII that, so great was the destruction, including of archives, that sometimes one has no idea how many people died. Early estimates of the number of Chinese killed were from six to ten million. Most recent estimates are more than 50 million (even Japanese media now admits very high numbers)! After the war, many governments had no interest in revealing the extent of their failure to protect their own population… Or that they unconditionally, yet stealthy, surrendered to the victorious US deep state and its greedy plutocratic corporations…

In other words, WWII happened greatly because of divisions among the leading democracies and their friends… Many pursued their personal agenda. As usual, US plutocrats were allowed to run rampant, creating not just profit, but havoc by empowering dictators. 

This time, contrarily to what happened in the 1930s and early 1940s, confronted with the blatantly genocidal invasion of Ukraine, democracies have been in one block. Democracies have apparently been instructed by what happened in WWII: then, in the 1930s and early 1940s, the initial languor and disunion of democracies, and even their crass interest (not just the USA, but also Switzerland, Sweden, etc.) made the tyrannies strong. The democracies did not react properly when fascist Japan (invading China), fascist Italy (invading Ethiopia, Spain), and fascist Germany (invading the Rhineland, Spain) engaged in world war activities. Had the democracies acted in one block, early on, World War Two and its holocausts would not have happened.

So the democracies acted correctly this time: a fascist acted up, Putin, and invaded a democracy, which cried for help. The democracies passed the ammunition. In 1936, when fascist Germany organized the invasion of the Spanish Republic by a rogue army, the Spanish Republic asked the democracies for ammunition. Socialist France said yes, and then no, because the Anglo-Saxon leaders seemed to have liked what they saw, war in Europe. 

So this time the democracies are passing the ammunition. Good. But they are running out of ammunition.

At the peak of the fighting in East Ukraine’s Donbas region, Russia was using more ammunition in two days than the entire stock of the British military, according to the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank. Europe has ideas, but no weapons. The Kremlin is the opposite: plenty of weapons, little mind. 

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It has helped this endeavor, helping Ukraine to survive, that the USA is, in the guise of reinforcing and arming Europe, has been able to extend juicy military contracts all over, turning all European powers, except France, so far, into military satellites. In particular, the US has sold F35 “stealth” fighter-bombers all over, and these are contracts meant to last 40 years… When a power agrees to buy 50 F35s, that’s 5 billion dollars, before maintenance and support, and there is no money for an equivalent European system. Now the increasing dependence of US manufacturing and military has been extended to anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems [1]. 

Negotiating with Putin is impossible: as a tyrant who has killed too many already, he has to win, or die, he and his kind. Right, the US is extending its empire, somewhat irreversibly… But, well, the Europeans made love, not war, and now that war is upon them, they are not ready physically or mentally to engage that way. Loving Putin is not an option anymore, love didn’t capture Putin and his clique, so Europeans have to let the US make war on Putin. As ancient Greeks used to say, the weak do what they must, the strong, what they can. By giving Ukraine the means to defend itself, the US incited all of Europe but France to become a US client state. This is a giant investment coup, which will profit the USA long term. The rest is creative destruction, nothing that high quality immigration can’t easily overcome.

The choice now is between the not so benign US empire of plutocracy, or thoroughly genocidal Kremlin Nazism (fake National-Socialism of real oligarchy).  

To prevent Putin’s win, all and any classical weapons should be provided to Ukraine, As Soon As Possible. Ukraine can bomb all Russian cities, just as Russia has bombed all Ukrainian cities. WWII blossomed because maximal war measures were not taken by democracies early enough.

In war, momentum is important: Ukraine has it now. If Putin can get Russia in a state of total war and total mobilization, thus total tyranny, so much the better for him, because he is the tyrant. Now if that tyrant blossoms that way, many other tyrants, or would-be tyrants, will be so inspired. This basically happened after a rogue Japanese army invaded Manchuria: tyrants, would be tyrants and their fellow travelers got inspired all over.

And history doesn’t truly repeat itself: now there are nukes. The Chinese tyranny is set on acquiring enough to destroy the world (by more than quadrupling its strategic nuclear weapons). All this will make the world ever more unstable, by switching from a two body problem (Russian tyranny + USA) to a three body problem (Russia, US, China).

In 1939, it took barely more than a week to expel Russia from the Society of Nations (UN version 1), after the Kremlin attacked Finland to invade and eradicate it. What are we waiting to expel Russia from the UN? That would solve the problem of the Russian veto at the UNSC. 

Russia should stick to culture, and sort of disarm, like the rest of Europe: here below a cathedral in Saint Petersburg… Magnificent:

[1] France has the Rafale active stealth fighter-bomber. The F35 is actually an imitation of the Rafale, but more oriented to passive stealth from the frontal aspect in some radar frequencies. The F35 would be better in some SEADs (Suppression Electronic Air Defenses). The Rafale has proven imminently capable in SEADs during a real war in Libya (F35 has barely been engaged by Israel in combat in Syria). Moreover, the Rafale is much more competent in “beast mode” (fully loaded with ammunition.

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Europe, but for France (and Italy), have opted for US anti-ballistics with Patriot… While France produces the just as competent anti-ballistic Aster (and Italy and the UK are also Aster equipped). By ordering Patriot instead of Aster, countries such as Germany and Poland ingratiate themselves to, and become clients of, the US, not France. Ordering Patriot is an application to the status of a US subsidiary state