The Sea of Azov - linked to the Caspian by the Don-Volga canal - is already a Russian lake. And the Black Sea is next, the key connection between the Heartland and the Mediterranean. The Five Seas system - Black, Azov, Caspian, Baltic, White - enshrines Russia as a de facto continental naval power. Who needs warm waters?
Moving "at the speed of war"
The pain dial, from now on, will go up non-stop. Reality - as in facts on the ground - will soon become apparent even to the NATOstan-wide LugenPresse.
The woke Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Mark Milley, expects Operation Z to last years. That's nonsense. The Russian Armed Forces may afford to be quite methodical and take all the time needed to properly demilitarize Ukraine. The collective West for its part is pressed for time - because the blowback from the real economy is already on and bound to become vicious.
Defense Minister Shoigu has made it quite clear: any NATO vehicles bringing weapons to Kiev will be destroyed as "legitimate military targets".
A report by the scientific service of the Bundestag established that training of Ukrainian soldiers on German soil may amount, under international law, to participation in war. And that gets even trickier when coupled with NATO weapons deliveries: "Only if, in addition to the supply of weapons, the instruction of the conflict party or training in such weapons were also an issue would one leave the secure area of "-"-non-warfare."
Now at least it's irretrievably clear how the Empire of Lies "moves at the speed of war" - as described in public by weapons peddler turned Pentagon head, Lloyd "Raytheon" Austin. In Pentagonese, that was explained by the proverbial "official" as "a combination of a call center, a watch floor, meeting rooms. They execute a battle rhythm to support decision-makers."
The Pentagonese "battle rhythm" offered to a supposedly "credible, resilient and combat-capable Ukraine military" is fed by a EUCom system that essentially moves weapons orders from Pentagon warehouses in the U.S. to branches of the Empire of Bases in Europe and then to the NATO eastern front in Poland, where they are trucked across Ukraine just in time to be duly incinerated by Russian precision strikes: the wealth of options include supersonic P-800 Onyx missiles, two types of Iskander, and Mr. Khinzal launched from Mig-31Ks.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed Moscow is perfectly aware the U.S., NATO and UK are transferring not only weapons but also loads of intel. In parallel, the collective West turns everything upside down 24/7 shaping a new environment totally geared against Russia, not caring for even a semblance of partnership in any area. The collective West does not even consider the possibility of dialogue with Russia.
Hence talking to Putin is "a waste of time" unless a "Russian defeat" in Ukraine (echoing strident Kiev P.R.) would make him "more realistic". For all his faults, Le Petit Roi Macron/McKinsey has been an exception, on the phone with Putin earlier this week.
The neo-Orwellian Hitlerization of Putin reduces him, even among the so-called Euro-intelligentzia, to the status of dictator of a nation chloroformed into its 19th century nationalism. Forget about any semblance of historical/political/cultural analysis. Putin is a late Augustus, dressing up his Imperium as a Republic.
At best the Europeans preach and pray - chihuahuas yapping to His Master's Voice - for a hybrid strategy of "containment and engagement" to be unleashed by the U.S., clumsily parroting the scribblings of denizens of that intellectual no-fly zone, Think Tankland.
Yet in fact the Europeans would rather "isolate" Russia - as in 12% of the world's population "isolating" 88% (of course: their Westoxified "vision" completely ignores the Global South). "Help" to Russia will only come when sanctions are effective (as in never: blowback will be the norm) or - the ultimate wet dream - there's regime change in Moscow.
The Fall
UkroNazi P.R. agent Ursula von der Lugen presented the sixth sanction package of the Europoodle (Dis)Union.
Top of the bill is to exclude three more Russian banks from SWIFT, including Sberbank. Seven banks are already excluded. This will enforce Russia's "total isolation". It's idle to comment on something that only fools the LugenPresse.
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