Will History's payback — after decades of US neocons' avaricious incompetence — be as bad as some think?
© 2022 Peter Free
31 December 2022
Regarding the US-instigated Ukraine War
After former German chancellor Angela Merkel (apparently proudly) confessed what untrustworthy slimeballs she and her Western peers are, Russian leadership became more outspoken about its distrust of the collective West.
See, for instance
. . . Vladimir Putin's (historically accurate) overview of the evolution of Russia's current perspective:
Djuki San, Vladimir Putin - The annual board of the Ministry of Defense (Part 2), YouTube (29 December 2022) (video of 21 December Russian Federation Ministry of Defense meeting)
Of that speech
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, wrote the following:
The year 2022 will be recorded by future historians as the watershed moment when Russia took the red pill and awoke from its delusion that it could be a partner with the West.
Since the break-up of the former Soviet Union, Russian leaders — not just Putin — naively believed that they could be accepted as a partner in the World order controlled by the United States.
Vladimir Putin, in his speech on December 21, 2022 to the collegium of the Ministry of Defense, blamed himself for believing Western promises and announced that Russia would now rely on itself and deal with the West as a hostile threat.
The covert actions of the United States and Europe to try to destabilize Russia have failed.
The coming year, 2023, will witness the end of the unipolar world dominated by the U.S. petro dollar and U.S. military intervention.
Russia is one of the few countries in the world that can grow and prosper without whoring itself to the West.
The United States will discover in 2023 that its multi-billion dollar military is impotent when it comes to projecting power in Russia.
If the dual whammy of inflation and economic deflation hit America, the crisis will be exponentially worse than the 2008 debacle.
© 2022 Larry Johnson, A pox on Pax Americana, sonar21.com (29 December 2022)
In short
US neocons picked the wrong nation to 'dick' with.
The price of their error will be the collapse of the American Imperium.
Not a small historical course change.
The moral? — Parable on parade?
Overall, it seems to me that forcing Russia and China into an informal alliance:
essentially pairing the world's supreme military land power
with
the world's largest manufacturing economy
and
simultaneously shattering the previous (contrived) robustness of the Petro Dollar
by alerting other nations that their own US-threatened survivals were at stake
. . . are two of the most strategically idiotic moves that US leadership has ever accomplished.
We might suspect that rabidly parading the Deadly Sins, as US leadership and corporatism do at every opportunity, may have a price.
Imagine that.