Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Dan Goure and David T. Pyne have raised valid questions about how well the US would fare in a military conflict with Russia and China. Not well they conclude. See:
Possibly the articles by Dan Goure and David T. Pyne are sincere concerns of military analysts worried about Washinton’s unrealistic hubris. Also possibly Goure and Pyne are consultants to defense firms and are lobbying for an even larger military budget. Nevertheless, both are correct that Washington is no match for Russia and China and is spread too thin in its ambitions to be a match for anyone. Nevertheless, the real military problem for the US is completely different from what they think.
Goure is concerned that Washington’s eyes are too focused on China to the neglect of Russia’s threat to Europe. He doesn’t say why he thinks Russia would invade Europe. The Kremlin has made it clear that Russia has no territorial intentions. Remember, Washington and Israel armed and trained the military of the former Russian province of Georgia and sent them to invade South Ossetia, provoking in response the lightening Russian conquest of Georgia. Did Russia reincorporate its former province back into its federation? No. Having taught the Georgians a lesson, the Kremlin withdrew. Remember, Ukraine attacked the Russian population in the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine, and the Donetsk and Luhansk peoples requested Putin to reincorporate their territory into Russia where the lands historically resided. There was zero possibility of Ukraine, US, and NATO blocking the reincorporation of Russian territory into Russia, but the Kremlin passed on the land grant. If the Kremlin does not want its own former provinces back, why would Russia burden itself with Eastern and Western Europe? Goure doesn’t say.
Pyne wonders why Washington creates military difficulties for itself by provocative actions that drive Russia and China together. Unable to deal with them individually, why double the unmanageable load? He suggests that Washington give up its unattainable goal of world hegemony and make a spheres of influence deal with Russia and China. This is a rational and intelligent recommendation, but it is unrealistic. The military/security complex will not give up the two enemies necessary for the continuation of the massive budget that is its source of profit and power.
Although Goure identifies a problem and Pyne comes up with a solution, neither understands that the worst threat the US faces is the demoralization of the US Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force by the Biden regime. A demoralized military with broken morale is not a constraint on the disciplined, high morale forces of Russia and China. Yet in Biden’s woke America, the real problem cannot be acknowledged. The US military is being destroyed, and not even a peep from the Republican opposition.
The US military is in a state of rapid decline. The huge budget goes largely into “cost overruns” or profits for the armaments industry and results in costly but second class weapon systems. The main problem, however, is the morale of US troops.
The white male troops, the backbone of the Army, Air Force, and Navy are forced to take “racial sensitivity training,” that is, they are indoctrinated that they are racists and misogynists and have to reconsider their alleged attitudes toward “preferred minorities” and females. This makes it difficult for white officers to discipline black and female troops. Blacks can claim “racism,” and women can allege “sexual harassment.”
Simultaneously, promotions for white men are on hold for the purpose of achieving “balance” by promoting blacks and women. In other words, promotions are not on the basis of merit but on the basis of race and gender. White male troops are unlikely to respect officers promoted for these reasons.
On this demoralized military force the Biden regime is now imposing mandatory vaccination with a mRNA vaccine that does not provide protection from the virus but does release the spike pathogen into the body, causing serious injury and death in many instances and making the vaccinated more susceptible to Covid. The evidence is in and is conclusive—the “vaccine” is more dangerous to the young than is the Covid virus. The troops who are aware of the facts are very resentful of the policy. Officers have the option of resigning and leaving the service, but the men in the ranks face court martial if they refuse the dangerous vaccine. The impact on morale is devastating.
The black US Secretary of Defense, a quota-hire and a quota-promotion, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told his Chinese counterpart that he would give him advance warning of an American attack, are despised by the troops, who believe the Biden regime has betrayed the US military.
The obvious conclusion is that, the quality of weapon systems aside, such a demoralized military has no capability of fighting disciplined forces of good morale. Washington has no possibility of fighting both Russia and China together and would be quickly defeated by either separately.
My own opinion is that neither Russia nor China intend to attack the US. Much less does Russia want responsibility for Eastern Europe. Russia and China can be provoked into becoming military threats by Washington’s aggressive policies. When Washington identifies Russia and China as threats, Washington means that the rise of the two countries has ended Washington’s short-term unipolar rule. The “threat” that Washington is concerned about is the loss of US hegemony.
With Washington in the process of violating its “one China” agreement by encouraging Taiwan’s independence, Yalta 2.0 is nothing but academic rhetoric.
Americans have been brainwashed for decades about the “Communist threat,” which is associated with Russia and China. The danger is an indoctrinated population combined with Washington’s recklessness, such as putting military advisers in Taiwan, can result in a provocation that is too big for the provoked country to ignore. So far both Russia and China have ignored provocations and insults that in past times might have resulted in war. I have expressed my concerns that whereas Russia and China’s responsible behavior of refusing to respond to provocations with provocations has maintained peace, it runs the risk of causing more provocations. Sooner or later one will be too large to ignore.
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Wonder why the two that came up with all these conclusions, failed to see that the demoralization of the military is being done on purpose.
They didn’t think their reading audience was so dumb as to need it spelled out.
Why did this author fail to see that that demoralization began decades ago, not in Jan 2021. (Do I really need to add that I’m not defending Biden? Yeah, I guess I do; but it won’t do any good anyhow.)
Affirmative Discrimination was Balls to the Wall when I was a Butter Bar during the Vietnam War; it has gotten so bad now that the US Military is a Paper Tiger Force full of Shit led by Keystone Cops and could be beaten by a couple Third World countries, not to mention China-Russia et all. The Shot will so weaken our GIs within 2 years that we won’t even have a half-assed shitty Military!
ADVERSE REACTIONS: “Latest UK PHE Vaccine Surveillance Report figures on Covid cases show that doubly vaccinated 40-70 year olds have lost 40% of their immune system capability compared to unvaccinated people. Their immune systems are deteriorating at around 5% per week (between 2.7% and 8.7%). If this continues then 30-50 year olds will have 100% immune system degradation, zero viral defence by Christmas and all doubly vaccinated people over 30 will have lost their immune systems by March next year.” Read more: https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/10/comparison-reports-proves-vaccinated-developing-ade/
I believe this is because Tony “The Shot” Fauci had the NIH pay the Wuhan Lab to enhance the CV-19 Virus and paid the drug companies to enhance the mRNA CV-19 molecules with the AIDS genes that degrade the White Blood Cells immune function(s), just as they do in AIDS Patients which destroys their Immune Systems.
We don’t have a half assed shitty military NOW. We’ve already been beaten by 3rd worlders, just recently, check Afghanistan.
It’ll just be even worse in 2 years.
The Chinese know this, and are laughing themselves to death over it.
Wanna bet?
Watch and see how many body bags come home if we get into a tiff over Taiwan.
And ever single one of the poor bastards in them VOLUNTEERED for this treachery, out of their ignorance and the lies from their recruiters.
After three plus decades, I just couldn’t live the lie anymore.
You mean like those Afghanistani tollybon goat-fucking pedos?
They saw it, but didn’t want to endanger their consultant status with anti-PC observations….
Because morons and snakes want you to believe there is potential for reform somehow.
I hope the soldiers have the fortitude to walk away from the services. A Dishonorable Discharge under such circumstances would be a badge of merit and a statement of courage to many of the civilians in this country. I don’t believe it would hold the stigma that the Left hopes for.
In any case, the life cycle of a democracy won’t be denied. This is the end-game for the USA as it has been warped. Whatever is next, whether good or ill, it won’t be a continuation of the same country that we grew up in.
Being called dishonorable by dishonorable people is the equivalent of honor.
Woops, sorry – that downvote was me. That’s the second time I’ve done that.
I just wanted to agree and add that two negatives make a positive.
You can always change your vote later:
after an erroneous down vote, click on up vote once will cancel your vote, clicking on up vote again will make it an up vote. (Or vice versa.)
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“Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American.” ―Edward Snowden
Our weapons systems and equipment is to complicated to maintain and operate.
Sherman toy tanks were no match for German Panzers, but the Panzers broke down more and were outnumbered 4 to 1. The Russians and Chinese are going simpler and cheaper.
We are going full on video game and would get our asses kicked in a protracted engagement.
I cried when I saw how extensive the boneyard in Kuwait was after our second 15 month tour.
Death from above. There are plenty of bombs and missiles. Other countries have their own military/industrial complex. Biden is compromised by the Chinese and they really need the U.S to buy their crap and keep people working. It’s all a racket. I’m more concerned with the economy and keeping everything up and running.
China has been buying up U.S. land for years, abetted by our betters in D.C.. They don’t need a military at all if they want to conquer us; just patience.
The only people who want China to attack the U.S. aren’t Chinese.
1.“We have no idea how they did this,” a source told the Financial Times.
2. CHINA has reportedly placed its military on “high alert” as state controlled media warned Taiwan of a looming “doomsday” amid fears of invasion.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3871368/china-military-high-alert-doomsday-taiwan-ww3/
The picture reminds me of Barad-Dur. (LOTR reference)
Wow!
Nuclear Warheads in orbit that can one day fire a retro rocket engine and re-enter the atmosphere to strike multiple targets are not new; they are called Fractional Orbiting Nuclear Bombs. They are hard to detect and allow only a few minutes of warning. Other dire threats are cruise missiles launched just off coast, Nuclear tipped stingers launched at Nuclear Reactors etc.
Summary:. There are too many niggers — and that includes White Niggahs — in This Man’s Army. He is correct.
Europeans are delusional in their Russiaphobia. The EU and NATO are sliding into irrelevance. Who the fuck would want to rule over a continent full of Woke Pussies? Oy, the headaches!! Russia’s future and fortunes are in the East, not the West. They don’t need to fire even one bullet … rather, just sit back and watch the self destruction of their supposed “enemies”.
Regarding war …. China just this week tested a hypersonic glide ICBM nuclear capable missile that circled the Earth, and then hit the target. Do you really question who would win a war between the USA vs Russia-China???
Launched and flown on a southern trajectory to which we as a nation are blind to until the last seconds of flight. P.S. This it just happened flight was 2 months ago
Two months ago?
The story only just appeared on RT yesterday … so, I made an ASSumption. Fucken RT … they still haven’t reported on the Japs attacking Pearl Harbor. They must be short-staffed.
Thanks for the correction.
When FDR allowed the Japanese to attack Hawaii unmolested (after forcing their hand with various formal and informal backstabbing), it wasn’t even the first US war crime of the war, nor the biggest one.
The biggest crime of WWII was not listening to Patton to keep going east into Russia.
Operation AmeriKan Barbarossa.
Was this the UFO sighting reported in Sydney and along Australia’s eastern seaboard? It had the V signature of a missile as its shape in the sky, and it was conspicuously under-reported.
Standing armies are the greatest barrier to peace. Time to pull all of our troops back to the USA and defend our borders from the invasion that is going on here.
No pullback! If only fags, trannies, and wokesters join the military, then we want to send as many as we can overseas.
In a war, definitely in front lines.
It should be, “The Dismantling of the American Military by Design” to take superpower supremacy away from America so that the new world order can be accomplished and put into place. And with it, the heretic Jesuit works his occult magik to bring in the satanic one world religion. I never thought, and was actually hoping that the end times would not occur in my life time, but I guess some of us has to be put through the fire and suffer awhile, before the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Please, for the love of God, explain to us what he is waiting for.
He/she/it, hasn’t seen enough of this shit already??
The US military collapse long ago. It was never legitimate to begin with (standing armies and all that). The only thing that is changed is how many are getting the memo. A lot of heritage Americans propped it up the last number of decades not understanding there was nothing left to fight for besides our own destruction.
remember it was bill clinton who sent technicians to china to help them improve their missile efficiency. if a civilian had given or sold china such technology, wouldn’t that have been treason?
My father retired in 64. Vietnam disgusted him to the point that he told me to not even consider joining in the late 70s. He did his 20 in diesel subs and said no way in hell would he get on a nuke. The bullshit of staying submerged all the time wasn’t his idea of the work he wanted to do.
Piss off half the world and then alienate half of your country…Bwahahah, let’s go Brandon!
I think The Shot has pissed off the other half…
The USA has the best dressed,best equipped, most diverse military in the world. They can do pretty much anything except deal with adversity. Wars are full of adversity and theleadership is not up to their task.
Best dressed?
The German SS had the most bad ass looking uniforms in all of military history.
Not a fan of Nazis, but how cool are these?
The SS stole their uniform designs from the New Jersey State Police.
No word of a lie. Look it up.
And the SS took its hierarchy architecture from the Jesuits.
Wow, I’ve commented (at home ;0) before about the NJ State popo uniforms. Especially their brimmed hats.
Affirmative action
Ah, you delete my comments, anyway so I can’t take what you say seriously.
Can the Air Force replace more than about 5 planes without Chinese or Taiwanese chips ? Either in the planes or in the machinery needed to build them, or in the machinery needed to fuel & arm them. Ditto for every piece of wire and every plastic widget in every truck, plane, boat, missile. Ditto, boots, shirts, even the cash registers to ring up purchases at the PX. Plane counts on paper doesn’t matter for long if the replacement rate is zero. How many A-10s or F/A-18s can we make within 6 months after China lands 1000 tanks on Taiwan ? It’d better be a whole lot –
Yup, me thinks who ever controls Taiwan, controls the world.
The jews have systematically excluded the only people actually capable of running the military, from the military. The same is true of the professions – medicine, law, etc..
We’re living through the consequences, and the solution should be as obvious to us as it was to 110 other nations throughout history.
This has never been about any of the advertised diversions. It’s always been about the elimination of the white race sometimes disguised as multi racial genocide. Either by the sin of fornication(Race Mixing) or vaccines, or soon to come internal strife due to any of the disaster scenarios like grid going down or food and fuel shortages. It’s still about eleminating whites.
See
“…It’s still about el[i]minating whites…”
Yes. And do you know why?
No matter how often I ask, no one takes a shot at answering.
Did you check the link. The question and answer might be there. That said, there was once a man who Stucky and admin still hate more than anyone who ever blessed or cursed this site with his detailed knowledge and ability to articulate the origin of our problems today. He’s no longer able even if he wanted to but he could add 100 comments to any thread by just showing up. Another guy named Panzerlied was a distant second but both were serious students who were adept at taking the converstion off the rez. Much to the chagrin of the establishment hacks who reside here.
In order that a higher level of critical thinking and analysis is lost to all but the so-called “elite” power brokers and those who would be king, since they largely believe, for a litany of reasons, that the dark races are incapable of such. Thus, it leaves nothing but a massively large ignorant population that is more easily deluded, convinced, indoctrinated and led by the nose to any destination and agenda put forth.
How many times must you be told that it’s the Jews who are intent on destroying Whites?
Its been the same since before they crucified Jesus…and that was awhile back.
Not just the Whites!!! PS: The Muslims, The Scientologist, the Communist/ANTIFA, The BLM, the Atzlan (or whatever) etc all hate everybody else and also want to kill off people not like themselves. I think it is Satan’s Spirit doing his thing in Evil minded people. But all the SOBs behind The Shot have taken the Cake because within 2 years, 50% plus of Americans will be as dead as the fools at Jonestown who drank the kool-aid.
Upvoted 6,000,000 times….and if you have to ask why, it was such a Holy cost, y’know??
The author is partly correct about demoralization & Vax threats in the US Military but is wrong about the Chicom Demons who will Sell Anything or Anyone at Anytime for Any Price & are already using the Beast Social Credit System to Oppress, Harass, Starve, Evict, Fire, Arrest, Isolate & Prevent people from Buying Food, Renting a Home & eventually Enslaving Them, Harvesting Their Organs while Wide Awake with No Anesthesia & then leaving them to Die while Billing their families for the Expenses.
It must be the command’s insouciance causing this.
The Command’s Complicity!!!