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Incrementally, we are moving closer and closer to a direct confrontation with Russia ...
Ukraine used Western made drones
Russia is in its rights to arm Houthis with drones to attack DC from an offshore freighter ship.
Matteo Salvini has said that giving Ukraine weapons to strike targets on Russian soil could lead to a global war
Ukrainian army is striking and trampling Soviet soil with German and British tanks,
As the UK PM Keir Starmer continues to advocate that NATO supply Ukraine with long range missiles, and subsequently use them to hit targets inside Russia ...
Putin orders changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine
“We reserve a right to use nuclear weapons in case of aggression against Russia and Belarus,” the Russian president said, adding that the principle had already been coordinated with Minsk. Nuclear weapons can be used if an enemy poses a “critical threat to either state’s sovereignty through the use of conventional weapons,” he explained.
https://www.rt.com/russia/604681-russia-putin-nuclear-response/
PS: Starmer, Macron, et all think that Putin is 'bluffing.' Many of this very same ilk thought that Putin's repeated threats to invade Ukraine was a threat as well.
Where American leaders believe that they are managing escalation, Russians know that they are managing (our) anxiety. This is what they do, and they do it well. They do it with fervent determination, because they believe in it, and they know that it is their one chance to win.
Or a Mexican standoff initiated by who's not sure his cap&ball revolver would fire while his opponent has a Glock in his hand. It would only work if the Glock-wielding opponent is a fucking pussy (which he obviously is).
blowback nuclear war 80 years after bringing 2 nuclear bombs to war would ring as poetic justice to the impartial observer.
On November 1, 2023 the USSR unsuccessfully tested the RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile, and on October 25, the RSM-56 Bulava ballistic missile.
The Yars missile was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk region) at a target at the Kura test site (Kamchatka) by a combat crew of the 33rd Missile Army of the Strategic Missile Forces of the USSR . The Yars missile went off course, as during the previous command and staff exercises of the strategic nuclear forces of the USSR on October 25, 2023
In addition, on October 25, 2023 a test launch of a Bulava ballistic missile from the Borei missile submarine ended unsuccessfully.
Sen. Lindsey Graham suggests Biden bomb Iran in response to Israel strike
This provocation comes amid an increasingly volatile atmosphere under the Biden-Harris administration’s lack of strong diplomatic and military oversight in the region.
Yesterday, the United States, Japan, South Korea, France and Britain held massive joint military drills near Taiwan. Then, China responded with its own record-setting drills, completely encircling the island nation with China’s Coast Guard, and buzzing it with fighter jets launched from China’s first production aircraft carrier. ...
Beyond describing the military schlong measuring, the article unintentionally confessed an ugly truth. Neocon China hawks often argue China would be easy to beat since it hasn’t “practiced war” since Vietnam. (You could also say China has remained peaceful for the last 50 years, but nobody wants to hear that.) In making that overly simplistic point, the formerly peace-loving Times grotesquely bragged how the United States has honed its warmaking skills over decades of continuous war:
"China is still trying to teach its army, navy, air force and other
military branches to coordinate better. That is a skill militaries like
that of the United States have honed over *decades of continuous
war*, whereas the Chinese People's Liberation Army has not fought
a battle since its brief conflict with Vietnam 45 years ago."
While continuous war might be great for military-industrial complex shareholders, for everybody else, continuous war is noisy, expensive, and every now and then somebody actually gets killed. Continuous war is kind of exactly what we were hoping to avoid.
That’s why we need President Trump!
Trump’s foreign policy is based on competing with other countries economically rather than kinetically. Trump is confident he can outwit, outmarket, and outsell other countries, without anybody having to die or even get mangled in a drone strike.
This kind of competition is out of the left’s reach. Democrats and generals are cowards; they are scared they can’t compete on a fair economic table, so they wield the bully clubs of American military and economic sanctions trying to tilt the scales in our favor.
The very same people whining about Trump’s straightforward proposals for temporary tariffs never saw a sanctions package they didn’t love. This is a terrific example of the structural problem when deep-state bureaucrats pull the levers of power behind the scenes. On the one hand, the deep-staters are over-emboldened by their lack of accountability, which makes them too aggressive when they should be diplomatic. But they are also fundamentally cowards, constantly fearing exposure, so they are also too passive when they should be forceful.
Deep-state bureaucrats experience constant anxiety over professional ‘death,’ which is being thrust into the political spotlight like Fauci and thus rendered useless to the rest of the blob. This results in obsessive secrecy, where it seems like the government classifies almost everything it does.
In other words, we aren’t being told a tenth of what is really going on in the Pacific theater. (Where did the mystery drones flying over US airbases come from?) If China does plan to invade Taiwan anytime soon, the best time might be proximate to the U.S. elections, either just before or just after, especially if a close election is contested resulting in a difficult period when it isn’t clear who’ll be in charge.
Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail, and the election will not even be close.
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"President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday suspended Russian participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty with the United States, warning Washington that Russia had put new ground-based strategic nuclear weapons on combat duty," Reuters reports of the new declaration.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-suspends-new-start-nuclear-treaty-puts-new-missiles-combat-readiness