Washington’s eight years of preparing Ukraine and its armed forces for war with Russia was a mistake of historic proportions, due to its misperception of American military power based on its 1991 Gulf War victory against a minor military player. Washington believed its own propaganda about crippling sanctions on Russia, about the viability of its Ukrainian proxy army, and the economic and military weakness of Russia, spelling doom for the American empire and its “rules-based order”.
The United States military as a whole, and the USAF in particular, have no resources or means to close the ever widening gap in capability between American and Russian Air Defenses, insofar as such systems as the S-500 are already being produced serially in Russia with their immense range of more than 500 kilometers against aerial targets, not to mention their full integration with Russia’s Air Force and Air Defense. The air space of Russia is becoming increasingly prohibitive to penetration by any combination of USAF and NATO forces.
The US has fallen behind, and it won’t be able to catch up. — Book promo @ goodreads.com
The United States 2024 elections, if they are held at all, may mark the start of the physical disintegration of the country. The question remains— can the United States, unlike Europe, survive its hubristic pursuit of globalism and the subjugation of its political institutions to Zionism? There is no clear answer to that. What is clear, however, is that the demolition of the best proxy the United States ever had on the battlefields of Ukraine has given birth to the new world.
This book addresses the core structural factors underpinning Russia’s defeat of the combined West militarily—bringing about not just its immediate defeat, but forestalling its ability to launch major wars for decades to come, if not indefinitely—and what this means for the rest of the world. It reflects on the empirical evidence from the SMO battlefields of the West’s humiliating military and political defeat and the demolition of its military mythology—the main pillar on which U.S. and the West’s hegemony relied—just a few decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The collapse of American hegemony and the end of Western global domination promise to eclipse the consequences of that Soviet collapse. We can only await in awe the reconstruction of the world disorder into something which promises to be more just, stable and diverse. — From the Preface
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron. H L Menchken
I know a large number of absolutely wonderful financiers, economists who used to be not very good engineers, but I don’t know a single, even not a very good one, engineer who used to be good financier or economist. — Mikhail Mishustin
…[W]e must stress the obvious fact that no U.S. Armed Forces person, from private to four-star general, ever fought in defense of the United States of America. The U.S. military is not just an expeditionary military, it is also imperial military which fights imperial wars of conquest and doesn’t address the concept of defense of a Mother- or Fatherland in its strategic and operational documents. Thus, it cannot fight a real conventional combined war of scale against a peer or better-than-peer opponents who fight in defense of their own country. This is a fundamental cultural difference which dictates the warfare on operational and strategic levels. And this cultural and intellectual gap cannot be bridged. Thus, while the Pentagon may learn some tactical lessons or tricks—and even that is questionable due to obsolete TOE (Table of Organization and Equipment) of the NATO armies—the operational and strategic paradigms of the SMO indeed don’t apply to U.S. forces, which lack moral and cultural pivot which defines the warrior of continental warfare and the way this warrior fights. The U.S. military doesn’t fight in defense of America, it fights for imperial conquests only. Russian soldiers fight in defense of their homeland.
The Combined West cannot allow the myth of its military power to dissipate, but it also cannot stop it from dissipating due to the battlefield reality of SMO. Once the myth of military power is removed, which is in progress, the West loses its status as a hegemon, because military power from the industrial and technological points of view provides the ultimate proof of one’s claim to the status of a superpower. Military power by definition is the most important geopolitical tool, while also being the most expensive and most technologically advanced one.
The defeat of America’s weapons and tactical concepts at the battlefields of SMO thus has become a defeat of the American vision of technopoly, which is a euphemism for culture. The consequences of this are, indeed, global in scale and scope.
But even more has been accomplished by Russia in staring down a combined West. Modern Western culture has become recognized as ugly in every sense of the word, from freak shows at the demonstration of fashions, to people looking increasingly dirty from tattoos covering their bodies, to the body positive movement extolling unhealthy and aesthetically repulsive lifestyles, to the rampant use of drugs. The modern West has lost the understanding of beauty.
“America right now is a perfect example of what happens to a successful business when you hire all of the wrong people!” — Elon Musk
According to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education, there are about 130 million adults in the U.S. who have low literacy skills. This indicates that 54% of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 read at a level below that of the sixth grade. Anyone that can read at a 7th grade level or higher is considered literate.
I have selected a couple verses from the song Wonderful World by Sam Cook 1960. He didn’t know how true the verses would be some 60 years later.
Don't know much about History
Don't know much Biology
Don't know much about a Science book
Don't know much about the French I took
Don't know much about Geography
Don't know much Trigonometry
Don't know much about Algebra
Don't know what a slide rule is for