NATO continues to revel in collective delusion and pretend that it has the force and clout to change the outcome in Ukraine. That was demonstrated today by the fanfare surrounding the news that Turkey will no longer block Sweden and Finland from joining the crew of the Titanic. On Monday (June 27), NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced NATO would boost its troops on the western border near Russia:
We will increase the number of high readiness forces to well over 300,000,” he said at a news conference in Brussels.
This includes “more pre-positioned equipment and stockpiles of military supplies; more forward-deployed capabilities, like air defense; strengthened command and control, and upgraded defense plans with forces pre-assigned to defend specific allies . . .
Dementia Joe Biden chimed in today:
The United States will be making specific announcements tomorrow on land, sea and air on additional force posture commitments over the long term beyond the duration of this crisis, for however long it goes on,” Sullivan said aboard Air Force One as Biden was flying to Madrid. “Those will help increases the United States’ and NATO’s maritime presence.”
“By the end of the summit what you will see is a more robust, more effective, more combat credible, more capable and more determined force posture to take account of a more acute and aggravated Russian threat,” he added.
If you are not familiar with military terms let me help you out. What is a brigade? The United States Army, which has not fought a peer level ground war since Korea, is now using “Brigade Combat Teams”:
brigade combat team (BCT) in which each brigade contains combat elements and their support units. After the 2013 reform, BCT personnel strength typically ranges from 4,400 personnel for infantry BCTs, to 4,500 personnel for Stryker BCTs, to 4,700 personnel for armored BCTs.
The 300,000 man NATO force is not going to be deployed in a single formation in one location. The force will be dispersed along Ukraine’s border, which stretches from Romania to Poland. In addition, NATO will probably put some troops in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. But that dispersion of forces means all you have are trip wires or speed bumps in the event Russia decided to launch a ground invasion of one or more of the NATO countries nearest to Russia. Russia is not going to do that, even if those NATO forces initiate military operations that threaten Russian troops in Ukraine or Moldova.
Russia has demonstrated forcefully during the last four months that it can and will use hyper sonic missiles to hit targets where troops and munitions are located. NATO is simply trying to poking a caged Bear with a stick and hoping it does not strike back. This is beyond foolish. It is dangerous.
NATO has no effective anti-missile defense system. Russia made that point emphatically when it hit Yavoriv, the defacto NATO base in western Ukraine, on March 13 and has continued to pummel the base at will. During the past two weeks, Russia has stepped up its attacks on Ukrainian military targets where NATO supplied weapons are being assembled and deployed.
NATO’s military posturing is taking place against the backdrop of major economic disruptions in Europe. Rising inflation, more unemployment and domestic political unrest are creating significant headwinds that will limit, if not halt, Europe’s NATO members from continuing to try to up the ante in Ukraine.
It is one thing to have troops on the ground, but it they are not supplied with weapons they are nothing more than defenseless targets. NATO and the United States have stripped their armories in their frantic attempt to supply Ukraine. Most NATO countries do not have warehouses brimming with new missiles, artillery and tanks to replace those they have sent east. Making matters worse, the Russians are destroying and capturing NATO’s largess.
Ultimately, a country’s ability to wage war is base on its industrial and manufacturing prowess. News flash–the United States no longer is the industrial powerhouse that produced air craft carriers, fighter planes, tanks and trucks that defeated Japan and helped Russia whip the Nazis. Ironically, Russia is the only country in this conflict that has that capability. That is a fact that the west refuse to accept or acknowledge.
The United States and NATO are treating Russia like Forrest Gump trying to find a seat on the bus on his first day of school. “You can’t sit here.” What the west fails to understand is that Putin is now in a position to build his own bus, hire his own driver and get to school without the help of the United States or NATO. To take this analogy one step further, the US/NATO bus is a broken down wreck and may run out of gas before reaching school.
NATO leadership will continue to be a fascinating clown show to watch as they approach peak stupidity. The energy crisis alone (created by the assinine sanctions) will destroy them.
The following article explains the magnitude of the problem and it is huge.
https://thesaker.is/herr-habeck-firehoses-oil-gas/
If they knew what was good for them they’d all quit their day jobs and go work for Uber
So these geniuses have ignited a perfect storm of events: inflation, recession, de-dollarization, inability to re-shore industries ( no real strategy, just Twitter beefs on the Hill), de-industrialization further exacerbated by failure to invest in R & D, only share buy-backs to goose up the prices of stocks. Also abandonment of the successful trade school model hatched in our community colleges that are now nothing more than General Ed. credit mills.
Populations across the EU/West are not going to be placated by scare tactics anymore than Democratic-leaning voters are going to be scared to vote Democrat in November.
People are beginning to see these debacles for what they are, a bunch of greedy delusional globalists racing to the top despite through their repeated failures because the own or control: the media, the big tech messaging and the politicians. But mother nature has programmed us such that cold and hunger has a way of cutting through a lot of bullshit. People will come to grips that NATO is a paper tiger a wealth transfer industrial complex like Julian Assange said about Afghanistan.
And the coup de grace is that it will only get worse as Russia takes it’s sweet time and conquers more Ukraine Territory, dictates more economic terms, destroys more Western military men and assets, while, on the other-hand, Russia’s coffer’s bulge and it’s political and military leadership stands out as the most popular of any nation on the planet.
Russia’s deliberate tactics on the military and economic front will be a mixture of chess and judo and will explode the heads of US/NATO/EU leadership. No one freezing to death or dying of heat stroke this summer will give 2 wooden nickels about Ukraine as each week and month goes by. Especially when when the propaganda no longer works for even the most die-hard, “cultists.”
Curtain will be pulled back in probably 60 days or so when Russia has the Donbass and more territories under it’s complete control and Russia is catching steam, getting it’s second wind as we use to say in athletics while Ukraine has ran out of everything including will power and international support. Russia goes stronger, Ukraine and the West weaker with each passing day.
“Oooohn the agony of it all!”
STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES.
This is just… poetic. Sincerely, I read it and cry. Complete clusterf…k.
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare
https://thesaker.is/gonzalo-lira-the-sitzkrieg-were-in/
If you liked 60s/70s R & B you might recall the 1 and only James Brown, 2 of his many hits tell the story:
NATO/West is singing, “Talking Loud and Saying Nothing” while the Russians are singing, “Papa Don’t Take No Mess.”
NATO is the blind man in a room full of rakes.
Too positive. The US can produce considered amount of ammunition. The difference is western weapons are more sophisticated. Russia all basic, cheaper and more production. The last few days we see a lot more strikes on Russia military bases in Ukraine. Might this has something to do with HIMARS? They also have new and better air defenses. I think HIMARS will cause major trouble and considered logistic problems. Russia MLRS which Ukraine had is really ineffective. As they launch truck wobble making rockets land everywhere. In a field with 1 M777 if they launch 40 rockets it’s luck to hit it. They fire it at trenches and all we see are burn marks in fields. They fire it people hidign under trees with hardware but again, I don’t see a hit. HIMARS on the other hand is accurate, you only need to launch 1 rocket at that M777 and it’s gone. Russian air defense might be good but why so many strikes on their bases? Taking out a salvo of HIMARS is impossible, so they get hit. A few days ago they lost Pantsir defense system on Snake Island. Seems they do use better MLRS and Artillery, firing all night. A Baykar drone keeps observing the island staying out of reach from air defense. WHen so superior why not counter attacking Ukraine? In a full confrontation between NATO and Russia a conventional war might be stalemate.
I’m glad I read your post, I often wondered what someone who is brainwashed and succeptible to MSM propaganda was capable of thinking and how they would handle a complete western rout by a modicum of Russian troops….now I know, thanks….I’ll let you return to your state of delirium.
Ramon, the West can’t produce sufficient amounts of ammunition, they’re facing this problem real time and the lack the industrial base.
I would suggest you go to Intel Slav Z telegram channel to see if your assumptions line up with reality. The Russian’s are pinpricking their targets, of course not all of them reach their coordinates and some are intercepted using anti-ballistic missiles, but majority are striking. Just ask the Ukrainians.
The West is a paper tiger, they couldn’t defeat Russia in Syria nor Ukraine, what more evidence do we need? US fight’s air wars not land wars.
I’m worried about what unholy gift was given to Turkey in exchange for Turkey not blocking NATO membership for Sweden and Finland. I know the Turks and am certain they didn’t give in without getting something juicy; probably having to do with Syria, but who knows what else.
What many people do not realize is the limit of the US/NATO arms inventory. For example Ukraine wants 200 HIMAR systems.
A total of roughly 500 HIMARs have been made since 1998, out of which ~ 120 have been exported to other countries. So, unless NATO is willing to fight WW III, delivery of many more HIMARs to Ukraine is not happening.
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/382526/army-celebrates-production-500th-himars