Petraeus, Keane, Milley, think tanks, et al. show that The USA do not have anymore in top ranks strategic intelligence or strategic forecasting. The problem of professionalism. It’s not present in the top ranks. People are there who do not understand what they are dealing with. Do not debunk amateurs such as Petraeus, Keane, Milley, thank tankers. Debunk professionals if you have to debunk at all, and see how far that gets you!
If you do not know the cause and effect, if you cannot trace your lines of causality, then what do you expect?1 You can’t make decisions that are professionally competent. US senior officers and civilians do not understand what is happening because they do not understand what Russia is.2 USA NATO lags Russia not by years but by generations and not only in engineering-fabrication but also in operations. For example, ISR-Strike complexes; also, S-500 systems, which are already proven against hypersonics that no one else has except Russia.
We’re witnessing something which comes every 500 to 1000 years, something that exposes the fraud and corruption of a dead regime, in this case of The USA NATO regime, on such a scale that it drives historical creativity towards fresh cultures and civilizations at unprecedented scale, new system-level orders of authority that actually are such.3 Humans bury their dead. This is what we see now happening. Not soon, not later, but now, right now underway we watch it happening.4
Putin’s attitude to Western sanctions shocked Scholz: It’s “not getting any better,” Scholz reportedly told Macron during that conversation. “Something bothers me more than the talks: [Putin] doesn’t complain about the sanctions at all. I don’t know if he did that in conversation with you, but he didn’t even mention the sanctions,” he remarked.
The French leader replied that Putin hadn’t addressed the issue of Western restrictions during phone calls with him either.
Viktor Orban: The administration of US President Joe Biden “misunderstands” Russians if it expects economic sanctions and frontline losses to erode support for President Vladimir Putin, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has claimed. The focus of Western politics is on “how to provide more freedom to the people,” while for Russians the top priority is national unity, Orban told US journalist Tucker Carlson in an interview published on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday. “This creates a kind of military approach [by Russia]… always on security, safety, buffer zone, geopolitical approaches,” the Hungarian prime minister explained, arguing that this attitude was “legitimate” considering Russia’s history. “They misunderstand the Russians,” Orban said of the US leadership. “It is a difficult thing, especially when you have an ocean between you and Russia.”
Andrei Martyanov: And that is why the feeling of a calm confidence is palpable in Russia. Something clicked in such a way in Russia that US decision makers simply cannot understand. This is what Tolstoy called a "latent warmth of patriotism" among Russian Army personnel on the eve of Borodino Battle. So, one or two "successful" attacks by Kiev criminals change absolutely nothing and they know it. I warned long time ago that Russians are wrong people to fuck with but they never listen.
There are two kinds of officials. Those who care about themselves and those who care about the people they lead. Many believe that politics is about principles. It never is. It's about caring for people. Not as one wants them to be, as they are. Politics is about love. Love makes the world go 'round, not principles. Love your neighbors and they will take care of you in extremis and in ordinarus, as you do them. Love them not, and you will collapse straight down into your own footprint, and your neighbors will wear a red dress to your funeral, to dance on your grave. Have not the Prophets, Saints, and Great Ones always said this? Were they lying, exaggerating, dissembling, deranged? Life is not legal. Life is love. Law's only purpose is to expand the domain of love.
Sergey Lavrov, Friday 01 September 2023, MGIMO Graduation: The US and its allies will cause more trouble in the future as they cling to a unipolar world that allows them to exploit other nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has predicted.