The New York Times, the paper that has for these last two and half years been the major cheerleader for hundreds of billions of our tax dollars going to Ukraine, is now admitting that it’s all coming crashing down! Putin is poised for victory, and there is nothing that anyone can do about it!
– The New York Times, despite supporting Ukraine, admitted through a Russian journalist that Russia is likely to win the war.
– Russia has Ukraine in a “cauldron,” where Ukrainian forces are slowly being worn down.
– The world is moving towards a multipolar order with the rise of regional powers like Russia, China, and India, challenging U.S. and NATO dominance.
The latest in the Russia-Ukraine conflict wad the much bellowed Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk region of Russia. The narrative here is that Ukraine is flipping the script and now they are actively invading Russian territory in the hopes of using that as a bargaining chip in any future negotiations with Russian officials. President Putin made it clear that if that is what the Ukrainian’s aim was in all of this, it would ultimately all be for naught:
🚨No more peace talks with Ukraine
Putin: "What is there to even talk about with those who attack civilians and nuclear facilities?"
— Valuetainment Media (@ValuetainmentTV) August 12, 2024
Putin sees the recent incursion as justification for ending any and all peace negotiations, making it clear that any future negotiations will be done completely and totally on Russia’s terms, regardless of who is in the White House. That inevitable reality is being admitted ironically by the New York Times, which has been such a cheerleader for Ukraine and particularly for this incursion. A Russian expat journalist by the name of Anastasia Edel, who is a fierce critic of Putin and the Ukrainian war, published an editorial in the New York Times admitting that Putin has almost won this war outright.
According to her, the end of this war is inevitable and Russia will win! Her argument is actually very simple: Putin is fighting a war of attrition, and a war of attrition is a patient but inevitable wearing down of your enemy. Putin knows he has more troops, more weapons, more tanks, more military equipment, more money, and more public resolve than anything Ukraine or NATO could hope to muster.
He is slowly and surely inevitably annihilating the Ukrainian capacity to fight, regardless of what NATO or globalist institutions do in the process. Russia has proven that it can weather any military assault as well as any economic assault and remain stronger than ever.
Russia has Ukraine in what’s technically known as a cauldron. No matter what Ukraine or NATO forces do, Russian forces refuse to release the grip, and so it’s inevitable that Ukrainian forces will eventually fade away. Sadly, it is the West and particularly NATO that only has itself to blame for all of this.
No one has been more critical of NATO’s policies towards Russia than University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer and his near decade-old video predicting war in Ukraine. This is because precisely because of those policies has been seen now by tens of millions of viewers, the vast majority of which turned in the weeks following the February 2022 Russian invasion! Mearsheimer’s analysis was eerie in terms of how accurately he predicted the fallout from NATO’s relentless eastward expansion towards Russia.
In 1990, when it was proposed that Eastern Germany reunify with Western Germany, Mikhail Gorbachov was very nervous about that because that meant the de facto eastward expansion of NATO into the former Soviet satellite nation. If East and west Germany united and if West Germany was a member of NATO, then inevitably NATO troops and military would be stationed in what was once East Germany, which for the Russians was seen as an existential threat.
Gorbachev was assured by then President George Herbert Walker Bush that the US would not expand NATO eastward beyond Germany, and so Gorbachev acquiesced. Unfortunately, a few years later, the next president, Bill Clinton broke that agreement when his administration invited Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary to become members of NATO in 1998.
Then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin was frankly too weak to stop it. That was the first of what would be a half-dozen eastward expansions, every one of which Russia vehemently opposed. In a speech to the 2007 Munich Security Conference, Putin explicitly accused Western powers of violating Bush Sr’s oath to Russia never to expand NATO, which went from 17 countries in 1990 to now 30 countries today.
Putin made it very clear back then, back in 2007, that as far as Russia is concerned, NATO would never be allowed at its borders, which meant that NATO could never have Ukraine or Georgia. But that is precisely what NATO did the next year, in 2008, at the Bucharest summit, where they explicitly offered both Ukraine and Georgia NATO membership.
Why did Mearsheimer predict the inevitability of war over that offer? Mearsheimer is an expert in what’s called regional hegemons. A regional hegemon involves a great military and economic power rising up and dominating its area of the world. This great military and economic power rises up in their own sphere of the globe while at the same time making sure that no other power, medium or great, is able to challenge its ascendancy.
Now, we’re in a very strange situation because for the last 30 years, the United States and NATO were the only hegemon in the world. With the fall of the Soviet Union, there was only one single major military and economic world power, and that was us. For a few decades, we ran the world without giving any heed to what other nations thought about what we did. But what Mearsheimer and other scholars observed was the world of the United States as the sole global hegemon was increasingly being challenged by the militaristic and economic rise particularly of Russia and China.
Russia and China, Mearsheimer observed, were coming to their own in terms of their own political, economic, and most particularly militaristic power. According to regional hegemon theory, regional hegemons dominate a particular area of the world like we do in the West, and make sure that no other power, medium or great, is able to challenge them. Regional hegemons, uncontested military and economic powers, will always end up dominating their region while at the same time making sure that no other power competes with that dominance.
Mearsheimer simply predicted the inevitable: if the new Russia that has risen under Putin is indeed a regional hegemon and if NATO’s incessant eastward expansion was intruding into Russia’s hegemonic space, then inevitably Russia would act. Russia would inevitably assert and defend its hegemonic status. That’s exactly what we saw happen on February 24, 2022.
Unfortunately for the globalists in DC, Russia isn’t the only regional hegemon rising! We are seeing the rise of China and India as well. We are increasingly seeing what scholars call the rise of a multipolar world, where numerous hegemons act as core states within their own regions of the world. The United States has a choice here: IF multipolarity is truly already here then it’s not a matter of stopping multipolarity. Whether we like it or not, NATO is no longer the sole superpower in the world today.
They need to learn to navigate skillfully and shrewdly and successfully in a multipolar world and contribute to its peaceful and prosperous stability, or ignite the world on fire by militarily challenging more hegemons, provoke more worldwide violence by interfering in other regional hegemonic spheres. Those are the only two choices we have. The good news is that Trump largely recognizes the rise of this new multipolar world. The only question is: do voters recognize it as well?
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