Lenin’s Question Is the Question of Our Time
Lenin’s Question Is the Question of Our Time
Paul Craig Roberts
Now that some total idiot in the Trump regime has green-lighted an attack on Russian strategic forces, John Helmer raises for Putin Lenin’s question, “What is to be done?” https://johnhelmer.net/what-is-putin-to-do-now/
As I understand it, Washington’s attack on Russian strategic forces is grounds under current Russian war doctrine for Putin to push the button. But Putin, unlike Lenin, is a balancer, not a person who acts. Is Putin so desperate to avoid war that he is bringing war upon us?
There seems to be more awareness among Russian people than in Washington and Europe of the seriousness of the situation. With too long of a wait, it eventually dawned on the White House that Trump must be disassociated from the attack, as otherwise the attack is easily interpreted as Washington’s declaration of war on Russia. According to the White House announcement, Trump was not informed in advance of the attack on the Russian strategic bombing fleet, which in keeping with the treaty is kept lined up openly on air fields. One problem with this disavowal is that the Secretary of State or the Defense Secretary reportedly watched via the digital revolution the attack as it happened. So Trump’s government knew, but Trump didn’t?
What confidence does the attack on Russian strategic forces give Putin that Trump is sincere about peace negotiations?
Why does Trump announce constructing a trillion dollar dome to protect the US from incoming missiles when the costless alternative is a mutual security agreement, a great power agreement, with Russia and China? The answer is that the US military/security complex wants the money. The dome will be useless, because hypersonic missiles on random jig-jag trajectories cannot be intercepted. If Trump is the peace president, why not simply agree to a mutual security agreement?
Another problem with the White House’s disavowal is Trump’s competence as president. Let’s examine the implication of President Trump not being informed of an attack that under Russian war doctrine is sufficient to launch nuclear missiles against the United States and Europe. How can it be that it is not in the hands of the President of the United States whether or not to undertake a military action that could initiate nuclear war? Is this a sign of President Trump’s incompetence or of his irrelevance?
It is not only the White House that is making light of a stupid action that could have unleashed nuclear war, but also all of Washington, Western Europe, and the Western whore media, a collection of despicable people who lie for their living. We are facing an existential threat to the continued existence of life on earth and the idiot whore media is telling us about some celebrity’s concern with her sex life.
Putin’s government itself is making light of the attacks, describing both the attacks on the Russian strategic forces and the destructions of the two railway bridges as “acts of terrorism,” not acts of war. Putin has accepted another humiliation in order not to abandon his false hopes for the “peace negotiations.” Putin’s unrealism is likely to encourage ever more provocative acts against Russia. Both the large circulation newspaper, Moskovsky Komsomolets and the military blog Colonel Cassad make the same point I have been making. As long as the Kremlin refuses to accept that “the enemy is waging a total war, the purpose of which is the destruction of our country and people — and no peace talks will change this — the longer an adequate response is in coming, the more” provocations there will be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQrQGI_Y6hc
From the beginning of Putin’s ever-widening, never-ending war over a few kilometers in the Russian provinces Communist officials assigned to Ukraine I have said that Putin’s unwillingness to use sufficient force to terminate the conflict would result in opportunities for the US and NATO to become involved in the conflict with their prestige involved. Consequently, the conflict would spin out of control, which it came close to doing with the attack on Russian strategic forces.
How many non-responses to provocations can Putin survive? Are Russians so Westernized and brainwashed that they have no national pride? Are they willing to be humiliated forever by leadership that declares red lines but always turns the other cheek? Why is no one in the West concerned with these serious questions? Is it because no one takes Russia seriously? Is Putin causing World War III because he has convinced the West not to take Russia seriously?
Washington’s neoconservatives might succeed in destabilizing Putin, considering all the help Putin is giving them, but will his replacement be an American puppet or a person of action capable of recognizing an enemy when he sees one? No intelligent Russian would sacrifice Russian lives in order to make unrealizable peace deals with people determined to destroy Russia. On what grounds can Russians believe in any agreement with the West?
If Putin is replaced by a Lenin, the Western World is over and done with. Putin is a reasonable, rational, emotionally stable person, not a warmonger. The West should be supporting him, not pushing him into war.
We are watching the Trump regime fall apart. Elon Musk, one tower of strength, has left. Russian strategic forces are attacked, and Trump doesn’t know about it. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, announces that the deadly Covid vax will no longer be recommended for pregnant women and healthy children. The head of the CDC, a subordinate to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, gives the finger to his boss and announces that the Covid vax will be recommended for pregnant women and healthy children. Robert Kennedy announces that no vaccines will be approved without tests, and the CDC approves Big Pharma’s vaccine without the tests.
In other words, there is no Trump Administration in place. The Establishment rules. Trump and his government are irrelevant. Trump does the bidding of Israel and the military/security complex. Big Pharma, not Secretary Robert Kennedy, makes the decisions. Elon Musk gives up and goes home. The FBI director validates the unbelievable Epstein suicide narrative. The Trump Justice Department has held no one accountable for the attempted frame-up of President Trump by the CIA and FBI. Attorney General Bondi says weaponized law is halted, but as those responsible have not been held accountable, the Democrats will again weaponize law. The media remains weaponized.
I warned that this would be the result. I repeat what I wrote when Trump was making his comeback without opposition from the ruling establishment. The American Establishment decided to let Trump again be president. The Establishment knew that they could use the judiciary, the civil service, and Trump appointees who would betray Trump for success in the Establishment. I saw all of this in the Reagan administration with appointees, few being Reagan’s, betraying him for their advancement in the Ruling Establishment
The Establishment reasoned that the easiest way to eliminate “populist opposition” is to put their leader in the presidency, block him at every turn, thereby demoralizing his supporters. With their hope eviscerated, defeated people go home and accept whatever happens.
Trump was America’s last chance. If he were a young Julius Caesar, he might have succeeded. But like Julius Caesar, the Establishment was against him. Trump’s entire government consists of Israel’s puppets. They will do anything for Israel and little for America. The Zionist Trump regime has again vetoed a UN Security Council resolution against Israel’s on-going slaughter of Palestinians by bullets, bombs, starvation, and disease. War with Iran can still result from Iran’s refusals of Trump’s dictates that serve Israel’s interest. We still await the problems that the Trump regime will create with China.
Dear readers, you can expect war. No one in the Western World, nor Putin, has sufficient intelligence to avoid it. It is just a matter of time.
Can Reality Any Longer Be Acknowledged?
Can Reality Any Longer Be Acknowledged?
Paul Craig Roberts
The attack on Russian strategic forces by Ukraine, with or without President Trump’s knowledge and with or without help from Washington and the British, could have been the most dangerous event in East-West relations during my lifetime. The reason is that recently revised Russian war doctrine states that an attack, even by a non-nuclear country, on the Russian strategic triad requires a strategic response. Strategic usually means nuclear or at least a disabling response.
Putin dodged the responsibility (more later), but no one knew for certain that he would. In other words, whoever is responsible for the attack on Russia’s strategic bombers subjected Ukraine, Europe, the US to the possibility of nuclear attack, depending on whom the Russians decided was responsible. This person or persons is a madman, a maniac who must be identified and removed from his position. Try to imagine how it is possible for, say Zelensky, to launch an attack that could result in nuclear war between the US and Russia. How can control over whether or not the US faces nuclear war be in the hands of Zelensky? If Zelensky is responsible, the US and NATO have a massive failure in command and control. If Trump or someone in the Trump administration gave the green light, they should be removed for committing the most potentially dangerous act during my lifetime.
The extraordinarily reckless and extremely dangerous attack on Russia’s nuclear triad is being treated by all concerned as a nothing event, a mere terrorist act, not an act of war. The fact that there is no acknowledgement in Washington, Europe, Moscow, or the media of the seriousness of an attack on Russian strategic forces, and thereby no measures put in place to prevent such dangerous acts, means either full scale, not proxy, war between Russia and the West or Russia’s surrender. Perhaps Putin would like to surrender in order to avoid nuclear war, but he won’t be permitted to surrender.
Putin took the lead in burying the seriousness of the attack on Russia’s nuclear triad. By designating the attack a “terrorist act” he evades the responsibility that Russian strategic doctrine imposes on him for a strategic response.
Nothing of consequence has happened, says the President of Russia. Amen say Washington and Europe. Therefore, whoever is responsible for the attack knows that the next attack can go further. It too will be unacknowledged as an act of war.
How many times can Putin pretend that attacks on Russia’s sovereignty, which is what attacks on Russia’s nuclear triad are, are mere terrorist events before he discredits himself with the Russian people?
The purpose of the recent revision of Russian strategic doctrine was to discourage or prevent attacks by Western proxies such as Ukraine on Russian strategic forces. It failed because Putin has taught the West not to take him seriously. He is ever ready to turn the other cheek. Now Putin has shown that he will not acknowledge attacks on Russian strategic forces as anything other than a terrorist event, not an act of war. So Putin has negated Russian strategic doctrine. It means nothing. Now that the West knows this, Russia can expect escalating provocations. All of Putin’s good intentions have ended in disaster, and a major war will be the consequence.
It could be that Russia is doomed. Decades of successful Western propaganda have turned most of the Russian professional and intellectual class into Atlanticist Integrationists. They think that Russia belongs as part of the West and are willing to make concessions of sovereignty to be part of the West. Clearly this point of view is strong in the Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The zionist American neoconservatives are very much aware of this Russian weakness, and they are adept at taking advantage of it. They don’t have to do much, because Putin does their work for them.
Putin has declared Ukraine to be conducting terrorism, not war, against Russia. Putin’s declaration also absolves Washington and Europe for any responsibility.
Here are English language Russian headlines of Putin’s hiding from reality that apparently he is unable to face up to. Or perhaps he is not yet ready, being at work constructing a powerful military that US/NATO cannot resist.
“‘Illegitimate Kiev regime’ turning into terrorist organization” – Putin
“The latest terrorist acts carried out by Ukraine in Russia are the outcome of decisions made by the Ukrainian political leadership.” Putin added that “the decisions to carry out such crimes were, of course, made in Ukraine” by the political leadership in Ukraine. In other words, Washington and Europe have no responsibility for the act of war, which is not an act of war, but merely terrorism. https://www.rt.com/russia/618651-kiev-regime-rejecting-peace/
In other words, the Kremlin has said that Washington and Europe have nothing to do with the attack on Russia’s strategic triad, and that Ukraine is merely creating terrorist incidents, not making war against Russia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/31/russia-ukraine-rubio-trump/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_opinions
I find it hard to believe that Putin is this stupid. My bet is that he is not yet ready. He keeps the minor Ukraine conflict going while he builds up to remove NATO from Russian borders.
Trump can remove the coming conflict by giving Putin the mutual security agreement Russia has been requesting for years. This would be the costless solution, but Trump is not really in power, and the power and profit of the US military/security complex needs the Russian Enemy.
So, how will a devastating war be avoided? Information such as I have just presented is banned by the official narratives.
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