The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause
More than two decades after the Berlin Wall fell, it appears that the United States and Russia are engaging in the same sort of proxy wars that were so common during the Cold War. Everywhere that Western and Russian spheres of influence meet there is the potential for conflict, and the two aging superpowers have shown their willingness fight through their neighbors. However, this game of chess has taken on a whole new dimension that is radically different than what we saw during the Cold War.
The whole point of a proxy war is to resist your enemy without actually engaging with him. Once the nuclear arms race began, it became clear that the massive ground battles of World War Two were a thing of the past. If a war starts between Russia and the US, it’s only a matter of time before the conflict escalates into nuclear annihilation. Like the computer says in Wargames, “A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.” That makes America’s current actions in Ukraine all the more puzzling.
The Ukraine Freedom Support Act (UFSA) of 2014 authorizes lethal and non-lethal aid. Besides what’s already being supplied.
Including communications equipment. Body armor. Night vision goggles. Humvees. Radar. Counter-mortar detection units. Binoculars. Small boats. Various other gear.
Sniper and assault rifles. Hand grenade launchers. Mortars and shells. Stingers. Anti-tank missiles. What’s known may be the tip of the iceberg.
UFSA legislation “authoriz(ing) (Obama) to provide defense articles, defense services, and training to the Government of Ukraine for the purpose of countering offensive weapons and reestablishing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine…”
Gone are the days of quietly supplying the Mujahideen with stinger missiles in Afghanistan. I’m sure Russia knew we were helping their enemies in the 80′s, but our government didn’t really make this fact public, and that’s a crucial strategy with proxy wars.
Remember, the goal is to not fight your enemy directly. But on the global stage, making a public statement to harm your enemy, forces your enemy to take action in a public way. They can’t be seen as weak, so they must swiftly return fire for all the world to see. As you can imagine this has the potential escalate quickly, especially between two nuclear armed superpowers. What starts as a proxy war can quickly turn into a real war with millions of casualties. In the words of Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov “Russia will not be able to leave this without a response.”
But the United States hasn’t just made a public attempt to supply Russia’s enemies. They’ve also directly threatened them in subtle ways.
The Pentagon has threatened Russia with redeploying nuclear cruise missiles to Europe, accusing Moscow of violating two arms control treaties.
“We don’t have ground-launched cruise missiles in Europe now obviously because they’re prohibited by the treaty,” said Brian McKeon, principal deputy undersecretary for policy at the Department of Defense.
“But that would obviously be one option to explore,” he added.
It appears that the United States is playing hardball with Russia, when they’re really in no position to do so. Russia’s nuclear arsenal has recently surpassed America’s, and their ability to deploy these weapons has America’s top brass rather worried. Russia is currently deploying bombers, submarines, and ICBM’s that could be just as advanced and stealthy as our own, if not more so.
It should come as no surprise that Russia’s military may be able to surpass our own in the near future, because they’ve kept their priorities straight. While the United States has spent the past 15 years training and equipping its military to suppress low budget insurgencies all over the world, Russia has never stopped preparing its military to fight our own on a conventional battlefield. While we were busy fighting the War on Terror, they caught up to us.
And now the United States thinks it can bully Russia and arm their neighbors. It’s like they think it’s still 1991, when Russia was in free fall mode. Russia isn’t some second rate backwater we can push around. They’re an advanced nuclear armed superpower that delivers nearly half of Europe’s fuel supply, while all we can deliver is a broken military and an economy that is rapidly circling the drain.
They have all the cards, and yet our government continues to poke the Russian Bear with a stick. It should be perfectly clear by now that our government is hell bent on starting World War Three. There will be no more pussyfooting around like the Cold War. Except this time, I don’t think anyone believes that the US will come out on top. Not only are we desperately trying to start a war, we’re practically begging to lose.
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How the hell does Russia hold all of the cards? We all are f,cked if nuclear war breaks. Seems to me the last count, America still kicks ass in the artillery and naval department. Our airforce is second to none. Who writes this sh..t anyway…
I’ll tell you how Russia holds all the cards, brother. Russia is made up of Russians and the Russian people are the power. The Russians will back their government.
Here in the United States, the people do not back this communist insurgency that occupies our highest seats of power. We’ve got about a million people in our military and more and more of them are seeing the light. If shit broke out right now, Obama and company would find themselves standing alone, as we the American people are the power in this country and we will never join with these traitors on any occasion.
Exactly, I would follow my people who believe in freedom. Those people would kick Russia’s ass,no question about it.
My question is, if Russian planes can do a flyover and shut down one of our most advanced ships systems(if this is true) then what’s to say they can’t do it on land based systems? I have a lot of faith in our military capability’s and I do believe we are superior in strength. I don’t however have any faith in the government having the ability to manage that strength. Therein lays the weakness.
Couldn’t have said it better. We have a bunch of kotex wearing transvestites running our military.
And don’t kid yourself, I’ll bet every weapon I have that they have all of those,so called ,deactivated nukes parked at the test range in ready to go condition. That’s my backyard and the only thing that bothers me is these jello headed morons wouldn’t hesitate to use them.
Agreed.
Reagan lied. The “Cold War” never ended. Once you get this through your head, it all makes sense. George Bush, Jr. hopped in bed with the drug lord Pablo Escobar and allowed white Americans like Adam Walsh to be picked up off of the streets and murdered.
The Russians have been pushing forward just as they have been doing for decades. The whores like the Bush’s have just simply bent over and said, “Give me more (cocaine).”
Simple. Simple. Simple. Don’t waste you time trying to over think this.
I was a victim of Bush’s torture techniques and, as someone serving Pablo Escobar (Hoffa, JFKennedy confessed murder to female Kennedy clan member in early 80’s with room full of witnesses, Jr, Walsh, closed 2008, Tiffany Sessions closed 2010, Escobar, Jon Benet Ramsey closed yesterday according to Abel Danger, Princess Di? (one kilo Cocaine in S. Florida contract kill), knew first hand the reasons behind it.