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New world order or nuclear apocalypse? The end is very close
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.by Vadim Bondar The events of recent days indicate that the world is rapidly approaching a watershed: global negotiations and a new world order or nuclear apocalypse. And this divide is no longer between countries, but between specific people in these countries. On March 4, at the World Youth Festival in Sochi, a representative of the American delegation told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov : “I am Christopher Halali, vice-chairman of the US delegation. It’s an honor for us to be here in Russia, it’s an honor for us to break through the blockade and US sanctions against Russia.” Donald Trump, who is now being tried in every possible way to exclude him from the presidential election, putting a spoke in the wheels of his caucuses in different states, continues to say that if he wins the election, Washington will not have problems with Russia, China and Ukraine. The increasingly popular independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. takes a similar position. According to a recent Economist/YouGov report, Kennedy is one of the most popular figures in US national politics. 47% of Americans have a positive view of him and 35% have an unfavorable view. By comparison, 49% of respondents have a positive view of Trump and 48% have an unfavorable view. But only 42% of Americans have a positive view of Biden, who advocates an escalation of the confrontation with Russia. 54 percent of respondents do not like him and his policies. Polarization is also growing in Europe. On one day, March 5, two mutually exclusive statements were made there. EU Commissioner for Industry Thierry Breton said that the Union must move to the formation of a war economy. That is, he actually openly declared a course towards war. While Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “Western hegemony is over, today no one disputes this, it is well confirmed by the data.” That is, he actually recognized the obvious and the need for global negotiations on a new world order. In Germany, a rift is growing between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the military, who are in favor of escalating the conflict with Russia, whose position has so far been expressed very restrainedly by Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. He says that he is extremely angry and irritated that Putin has been setting the agenda for several weeks and even months, which is being actively discussed in Germany. This actually disrupted the secret supply of long-range, smart and powerful German Taurus missiles to Ukraine, and sowed all sorts of anti-war ferment among the population. Pacifist sentiments are also supported by the opposition in the Bundestag. In France the situation is exactly the opposite. There, President Emmanuel Macron advocates an escalation of the confrontation with Russia. He launched a vigorous effort to convene all kinds of conferences with the goal of almost organizing a new crusade against our country, starting with sending NATO troops to Ukraine. During a visit to the Czech Republic on March 5, he said: “We are certainly approaching a point in our Europe where it is inappropriate to be cowards. I believe that our country is responsible for the security of Europe. Now the war has returned to our land. We find ourselves in the face of forces that have become unstoppable and that are expanding the threat every day, attacking us more and more. We will have to show courage and behave as history expects of us.” Very pretentious. Even a little in the style of Churchill. Macron is always trying to try on the clothes of the greats. So far it’s not working even in our own country. According to the head of the Ukrainian Politics Foundation, Konstantin Bondarenko, the French generals have no sympathy for their president and will sabotage his most radical decisions, if any. The majority of the French do not support his confrontational sentiments either. According to the results of a survey conducted by Odoxa-Backbone Consulting for the newspaper Le Figaro, 68% of citizens said Macron was wrong to demonstrate this position. Even in such a Russophobic country as Poland, the majority of the population does not want to become participants in a war with Russia. In a survey organized by the publication Rzeczpospolita last December, Poles said what they intend to do in the event of a Russian attack. 37.4% will evacuate within the country or flee outside its borders, 22% will do nothing, and 11.6% do not yet know how they will behave in this situation. Only 15% of respondents expressed their readiness to go to the front. And among Ukrainians, more than 70% are already in favor of a diplomatic settlement of the conflict with Russia. This is evidenced by data from a sociological survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. Thus, more and more people in various countries are, as they say, voting with their feet for a multipolar world and do not want to participate in the global carnage. But, unfortunately, the growth of anti-war sentiment and conciliation towards a multipolar world is having the opposite effect among a significant part of the Atlantic decision-making elites. The more dramatic the fighting develops for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and NATO as a whole, the more anti-war sentiment grows in the West and in the world, the more feverishly the preparations for the world apocalypse are going on. The approaching collapse of Ukraine evokes in the West the fear of existential loss, the collapse of the meaning of life, the collapse of the picture of the world in which they are the center of the universe. Not part of it, but precisely the center around which everything revolves and which determines whether it all revolves or not. The people who are currently in power and who see their time running out will obviously try to “stop the Earth,” even by escalating the current phase of a hybrid world war into something more, even a nuclear apocalypse. “The conflict in Ukraine has reached a predictable dead end, and NATO strategy has become frankly incoherent. There comes a time when such conflicts get out of control,” writes the British The Guardian on March 5. This phrase seems to give the future apocalypse the character of inevitable objectivity. They say, yes, the situation can get out of control at any moment, but this is a natural process and one must be prepared for it. This is irresponsible and monstrously cynical politicking. After all, we are no longer talking about Ukraine, but about the survival of humanity. But this awareness is not there. On the contrary, the people who lead their states and peoples are ready to literally burn them down. For example, Czech President Petr Pavel, an army general and former chairman of the NATO Military Committee, allowed NATO soldiers to be sent to Ukraine, saying: "Let's not limit ourselves where we don't need to." A very eloquent statement. Let's not limit ourselves where WE don't need to. This, obviously, automatically implies that Russia, on the contrary, will limit itself where these gentlemen need it. That is, Russia, even in the event of a direct clash with NATO troops, will fight according to their rules, act as it is allowed, or Putin will immediately capitulate and accept the conditions of the winners. You read Western political scientists who serve the interests of strategists like Macron or General Pavel, and you are amazed. They seriously believe that if there is a war, it will be a regionally limited conflict, which at best will not spill out beyond the borders of Ukraine, and at worst will cover only the European part of Russia and some part of Central and Eastern Europe. In this case, military operations will be carried out under a mutual agreement on the non-use of nuclear weapons and the like. A very powerful thoughtlessness. They traditionally do not want to hear and see what does not fit into their picture of the world. By the way, this is a traditional element of Western thinking. It took place in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. These gentlemen were always sure that everything would be as written in their “Barbarossa”. And then they said indignantly: “This is not possible, this is not according to the rules.” Even Hitler, for all the monstrosity of his methods of waging a war of extermination against the Soviet people, had the audacity to say that the USSR was not fighting according to the rules. Today we are witnessing the arrival of another disastrous wave of self-confident underestimation of the consequences of their short-sighted policies by a fairly large group of retrograde Atlanticists. Especially for them, Russian decision-makers have been persistently saying in recent days: NATO’s military, financial and mobilization potentials are many times greater than Russia’s, therefore, in the event of a full-scale conflict, Russia will simply have no choice but to use nuclear weapons. On March 5, Senator Pushkov bluntly said that the West is leading the world to a nuclear hell. Business people obviously understand this. On world exchanges, there has been a acceleration in those positions that are considered to be protective havens, namely Bitcoin and gold. The Bitcoin rate has reached a record high. Gold is also at an all-time high. The price has been rising for five trading sessions in a row. They are already paying more than $2,141 per ounce. This does not add optimism for the future. Typically, traders move into cryptocurrencies and gold on the eve of some large-scale financial, economic or military crises. Military observers believe that some kind of sharp escalation in the confrontation between Russia and NATO could occur at the end of April - the first half of May. During this period, in their opinion, the weather will be favorable for the start of some large-scale offensive by the Russian army, which Ukraine will not withstand, after which the front will begin to crumble and NATO will be forced to openly intervene in the conflict. Russia is supposedly actively preparing for this. Mass shelling of Ukrainian territory with Kinzhals, Iskanders and Calibers has not been observed recently. This means that Russia is stockpiling these and other types of long-range precision-guided munitions. It does not bring into battle prepared reserves and equipment, the production of which has increased several times. Whether this is true or not, time will tell. One thing is clear: a crisis is brewing. There is still hope for a positive outcome, but there is less and less time left for this. Posted by: badanov 2024-03-07 |
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