ANDREI RAEVSKY—We both see where this is all headed and all we can do is warn, warn and warn again. I realize that it is hard to believe in the idea that a nuclear superpower like the US is run by a gang of incompetent and ignorant thugs, but that IS the reality and simply denying it won’t make it go away.
RUSSIAN MIGHT
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After a long period of trying diplomacy to achieve a just peace with the US bloc, which, for no reason except its perennial impulse to dominate all powerful sovereign nations like Russia, Moscow has finally accepted the reality that a full-blown war between the USA/NATO and the emerging Eurasian bloc, Russia, China, Iran, etc., is now inevitable. It is therefore making serious preparations for a war that (barring a nuclear exchange) may go on for generations. Contrary to constant Western propaganda, Russia does not wish and has never wished to invade and conquer Western Europe. It is basically the Anglo-Americans that have maneuvered for at least a century to destroy Russia as an independent world power. Now they are willing to sacrifice even their European vassals to attain that goal.
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The discussion focuses on the history of Russian/American relations in the recent past, and the US/NATO policies directly provoking the current proxy war in Ukraine, which Moscow correctly interprets as forcing a war against the whole collective West. The host and his guest also touch upon the nature of Russia’s transformation under Putin, and the openly proclaimed objectives of the “Western alliance”, including regime change in Moscow, the defeat and destruction of Russia as a world-class military power, and the balkanisation of Russia into vassal statelets for easier control and exploitation.
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Reviving Russia’s Military Culture and the Officer Caste
34 minutes readGILBERT DOCTOROW—Western electronic and print media have given considerable attention to the speeches that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Shoigu delivered yesterday before a gathering of top military personnel.
Putin spoke about the ability of his government to satisfy all requests for funding that may arise from the armed forces. Indeed, it is rumored that the Russian military budget will double in 2023. Moreover, this increased spend is only partially about the operational costs of the war in Ukraine. What we see is a wholly new concept for the Russian forces prompted by the understanding that Russia is engaged in what will be a ‘long war’ against the United States and NATO.
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The World According to Andrei (Martyanov): Russia prepares for a possible wider war; Eurasian bloc unstoppable.
19 minutes readDuring a Russian Defense Ministry meeting on Wednesday, Shoigu proposed a number of measures to strengthen the security of the Russian Federation, including creating a special grouping of troops on the country’s northwestern border and expanding Russia’s armed forces to amount to 1.5 million servicemen in total, with some 695,000 of them being contract soldiers. … Shoigu went on to suggest creating a number of new military groupings, including five new artillery divisions, eight bomber aviation regiments, and one fighter regiment, as well as six army aviation brigades.