The Ever-Widening War
The Ever-Widening War
Paul Craig Roberts
Sunday Nov. 10: According to Reports three Moscow international airports have suspended operations due to an Ukrainian drone attack
https://www.rt.com/russia/607425-moscow-drones-attack/
The Kremlin has failed to explain why Ukrainian drone attacks deep into Russia are permissible without any consequences to the West, but not missile attacks deep into Russia.
The illogical position Putin finds himself in is eroding his credibility. Putin’s official position for three years is that Russia is not at war, merely involved in a Special Military Operation. Consequently, Russia has withheld the military force that would have made it impossible for Kiev to continue the conflict. Instead of limiting the conflict and saving lives, the long war has cost many more lives and permitted the US and NATO to get heavily involved. The limited military operation has thus proven to be a disaster.
Putin will succeed in evicting all Ukrainian forces from the Russian areas now reunited with Russia. But how does he go from this to neutralizing and demilitarizing Ukraine?
Trump offers Putin no Ukraine NATO membership for 20 years. Does that mean that Russia accepts NATO membership for Ukraine in 20 years?
It would have been so much better if Putin had sent in the Russian Army to prevent Washington’s overthrow of the Ukrainian government and installation of an anti-Russian government. Failing this, Putin’s forced intervention to protect the Russian population in Ukraine should have been decisive, using sufficient force to end the conflict immediately.
Instead, Putin’s blunder has presented a situation difficult to unwind.
We are left with a situation in which Trump has to recover from the extraordinary mistakes of his appointments in his first term, and Putin has to find a way to recover from the extraordinary mistake of his Special Military Operation.
Let’s hope they can find a way.
The US and NATO involvement makes it difficult to resolve the conflict as Putin has refused to resolve it by force. Which side is going to lose face by compromising? To whose disadvantage will a compromise play in the media?
Will this consideration prevent a settlement?
My Pleasant Dream of America’s Revival Under Trump Was Followed by a Nightmare
My Pleasant Dream of America’s Revival Under Trump Was Followed by a Nightmare
Paul Craig Roberts
Mike Whitney, one of the few intelligent and realistic commentators in the United States and Western World, has raised a worthy and demanding question. Did the Deep State permit Trump to win so that they can use him to recruit America’s young men to fight a war for Israel against Iran, a task beyond Kamala’s capability?
Whitney makes a case that those of us excited by our expectations of Trump’s presidency will find deflating. Read it here: https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/trumps-triumph-and-the-firing-of-yoav-gallant/
I myself have been wondering how Trump was going to make America great again when he supports Israel’s genocidal wars. How is a country great, especially in a moral and spiritual sense, when it provides the money and weapons used by Israel to genocide Palestine, to bomb women and children in Lebanon, and to attack Iran in the belief that Washington will come to Israel’s rescue?
No such country can be great.
Moreover, no such country can be disengaged from war. It seems the US military/security complex expects to keep the war profits flowing by committing Trump to a war with Iran. There are plenty of Washington-hardened Zionist neoconservatives in positions of power and influence in Washington to override resistance to the war agenda.
Mike Whitney provides scenes of Israeli celebrations of Trump’s election. Trump’s election is regarded as a green light for war with Iran. The crazed Zionist Netanyahu fired the more sensible Israeli defense minister for telling him that the Israeli military was already over-extended, without a credible war plan, and must not risk war with Iran.
Will Trump understand how serious the situation is? Does Trump and his advisors realize that their foreign policy is being set in place by the Deep State prior to the inauguration in order to keep the war profits flowing?
Does Trump realize that for his supporters making America great again includes military dominance? MAGA Americans are tired of losing wars. They want to win. The military/security complex will have Trump supporters in the streets waving the flag. They will wave the flag and expect Trump to win. It is all part of making America great again. It is a war recipe for disaster.
Will my pleasant dream reported on these pages of America’s prospects of renewal under Trump’s leadership be followed by a nightmare of Trump sucked into disastrous war for Israel’s ambitions and the US military/security complex’s profits? Is America’s dominance and success at war part of “making America great again?” If it is, there will be no renewal of America.
Can Trump Succeed?
Can Trump Succeed?
Paul Craig Roberts
There’s many a slip between cup and lip
I have been speaking with MAGA Americans and, as I suspected, there is little comprehension of the vast impediments to renewal. The swamp that Trump is to drain is entrenched and institutionalized, but Trump supporters think that with Trump elected and the Senate and House in Republican hands the job is done.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The majority of Republicans in the Senate and House are RINOs, not Trump supporters. They are part of the establishment and comfortable in it. Mitch McConnell is forever as he is in the process of demonstrating. This Wednesday McConnell is holding the election of the Senate Majority Leader. His two candidates, chosen without any input from Trump, are John Thune and John Cornyn, neither being MAGAs. Senator Rick Scott, more likely to be helpful to Trump, is running against the establishment’s candidates. If the establishment prevails, Trump’s strong appointments are likely to be blocked or to languish unconfirmed. The prospect of being blocked can discourage an appointee from accepting the appointment.
The establishment can also hamstring Trump by rushing through many unfriendly judicial appointments. Trump Americans need to understand that the enemy has not folded its tents and left the field.
Here is Trump himself warning:
President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 10 publicly mentioned one condition for the next leader of the Senate Republican Conference: He or she must clear the way for recess appointments for Trump administration officials.
“Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner,” Trump wrote on social media platform Truth Social on Nov. 10, addressing the upcoming Senate leadership vote.
He noted that such votes can take “two years or more,” which is “what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again.”
“We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY!” he wrote.
Aside from the request, Trump also said that Republicans should not confirm any judges in the coming months before his inauguration “because the Democrats are looking to ram through their Judges as the Republicans fight over Leadership,” adding, “THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-sets-condition-for-next-senate-republican-leader-5757426
I know from experience that there are many ways in which things can go wrong.
Note General Flynn’s warning:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/general-flynn-delivers-bone-chilling-post-election-warning
The euphoria that Trump and his supporters are experiencing can easily lead to deadly mistakes. Appointments that face confirmation challenges can be avoided in the interest of not having a defeat before the new administration is underway. Consequently, when the new administration is underway, it will lack the strength it needs to succeed.
The Biden regime can enter into Ukraine and Middle East agreements that lock-in the Trump administration.
A weak appointment as Attorney General and the Trump administration is finished before it begins.
In order to succeed, Trump will have to bring the power of the people against the establishment. This means he will have to fight. With the wrong appointments the fight will never begin.
Compromise for the sake of unity will be the weapon of the establishment and the presstitutes. Trump said he was going to unify the country. How does one unify with enemies who tried to kill you and who are opposed to the Constitution of the United States? Perhaps Trump should have thought about this before he handed the unity weapon to his enemies.
Trump and his supporters must not forget that Trump is leading an insurrection against the establishment.
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