ANDREI MARTYANOV—I am on record, remember? US and NATO cannot do strategy, they never could after WW II. It is a cold hard fact of life. Sure, they love to use the term “strategy” but very few in the military-political top in the US have a grasp of what it is. So, what can I say–I already get flack for my pointing out that John Mearsheimer has no clue about strategy, Russia, and balance of power–he doesn’t have a toolset, as wouldn’t any political “scientist”, to grasp it. His early 1970s background from USMA at West Point and a few years in the USAF are radically not enough, especially lacking serious military engineering background, for understanding modern operations.
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THE SAKER—Furthermore, I also think that Russia, China and Iran should create a multi-national observer battalion ready to be deployed in combat areas which involve Russian, Chinese or Iranian interests. Further down the road, these three countries could invite other countries, but only if their national leaders have true sovereignty and are not comprador administrators for their colonial masters.
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West flooding Ukraine with arms—to no avail.
6 minutes readBRIAN BERLETIC—Despite the relatively large size of the package compared with the last several months of aid, the weapons and ammunition fall far short of replacing even Ukraine’s losses let alone granting Ukraine the ability to match or over power Russian forces. Ukraine will likely use many of these systems to patch up elite units within its deteriorating brigades. Germany and France are also sending armored vehicles, the Mauder infantry fighting vehicle and the AMX-10 RC respectively. This is likely paving the way to send additional heavy weapons like main battle tanks.
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CYNTHIA CHUNG—By 1914, Europe would be dragged into WWI. In March 1918, after two months of negotiations with the Central Powers (the German, Austria-Hungary, Bulgarian, and Ottoman Empire), the new Bolshevik government of Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ceding claims on Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as the condition for peace (Note: the Bolshevik Revolution began in March 1917). WWI would officially end on November 11th, 1918.
As a result of the treaty, eleven nations became “independent” in eastern Europe and western Asia, Ukraine was among these nations. In reality, what this meant was that they were to become vassal states to Germany with political and economic dependencies. However, when Germany lost the war, the treaty was annulled.
With Germany out of the picture and the dissolution of both the Austria-Hungary and Russian Empire; Poland and Ukraine found themselves in a position to establish their independence.
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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.