Garland Nixon explains why the West is now doomed to defeat by its own hubris

In what is without a doubt one of the most lucid explanations of the US empire's current predicament, Garland Nixon parses the strategic realities that spell doom for Washington's obstinate quest for global hegemony. It's worth noting, suggests Garland (and we fully agree) that if America is now in a pickle, it is a pickle of its own making, born of a highly toxic brew of unchallenged exceptionalist beliefs. For this is a nation—a so-called "indispensable nation"— that, while practicing grand treachery and hypocrisy in all its international dealings and even way of domestic governance, also reeks of self-righteousness in all its official pronouncements. (More on this later).

But while that smug pose may count for something in terms of propaganda, it doesn't count for much on the actual battlefield, where bullets, shells, armor, hi-tech weapons, and good generalship—not to mention the capacity to produce the instruments of war at mind-boggling industrial rates— determine the ultimate outcome. In Ukraine, however, America and its NATO vassals, drunk on their own supremacist beliefs, finally bit more than they could chew. For, instead of picking a second—or third-tier—military foe to mess with, like Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan, or Libya, they picked probably the world's top military peer (actually superior in many aspects of advanced military technology), none other than Russia, a superpower long underestimated by the arrogant and shamelessly ignorant Russophobic neocon cliques that run America's foreign policy. Their unrelenting intrigues have now landed America in a trap; she is bouncing around hanging on to the tiger's tail, and there is no escaping that situation alive, or in America's case, with at least a modicum of imperial honor. Why? Because Moscow will not likely permit it. In fact, anything less than that, anything allowing the empire a dignified exit from the Ukraine swamp only to retrain its evil forces on China, could trigger the long-sought coup against Pres. Putin, not by forces controlled by the West but by Russian patriots who might regard any pact with the West at this point—an entity notoriously incapable of honoring any treaty or agreement—as a senseless betrayal of Russia's sacrifices and legitimate quest for a firm and unshakeable security. The constant fatuous noise made by the disgusting Neocons justifies their wariness.

Indeed, the insufferably arrogant Neocons, the US ruling class faction directly responsible for the coming debacle and the general mismanagement of US foreign policy, have actually put Moscow on notice about this. The psychos in the powerful Kagan-Nuland mafia, for example, which includes Victoria Nuland, her husband Robert Kagan, Tony Blinken, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and others of similar caliber, have openly said or intimated that they seek regime change in Moscow and the dismemberment of Russia, pretty much confirming that Ukraine is just a proxy, a tool, for Washington's ulterior criminal designs. (As is well-known, by doctrine, the Neocons seek the same for China and any country posing a threat to US complete hegemony). Considering, this, therefore, and until US politicians and Neocons in general stop trash-talking Russia, or show that they have sobered up, a long wait, no doubt, what Russian leadership could think conducting negotiations with such characters is a good idea?  Judge for yourselves. Here's Nuland fielding questions from one of those inevitable eunuchs one finds in establishment circles these days:

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