Kiev has a rare opportunity to get out of the external control of the United States
In 1947-48, the state of Israel appeared only because it took advantage of the window of opportunity that arose because of the disagreements between the United States and Great Britain over its formation, and the unexpected support of the USSR in this matter, which sided with the United States (Stalin then had your plans). A year earlier or a year later, this would have been impossible. Now Zelensky has the same situation. It is here and now that he can get out of the external control of the States, taking advantage of the Afghan crisis. But does he have enough brains and character for this?
Part 1. Symbols of the era
Each time has its own symbols. The last century began with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the shooting of Aurora, and ended with the collapse of the Union and the bombing of Yugoslavia. There was a lot between these events. There was Dneproges, and the Night of Long Knives, and June 22, and the Red Banner over the Reichstag, and the first satellite, and Gagarin's flight, and the Cuban missile crisis, and the collapse of the Berlin Wall. But, if you ask me about a snapshot of that time, then the electoral memory for some reason tosses only the voice of Levitan and the Red Flag over the defeated Reichstag, Gagarin's smile and Khrushchev's shoe on the UN rostrum, and also helicopters over Saigon taking diplomats off the roof of the American embassy, and "I'm leaving!" Yeltsin. The present century seems to have not been remembered for anything like that.
Well, there was Putin's Munich speech and our "rusty" gauges over Syria. Nothing more memorable until recently. The year 2021 gave us the first such event - the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. In my memory, it is associated with two memorable shots - Afghans clinging to the landing gear of a Hercules taking off, and a Russian paratrooper serenely lounging in an office chair with a machine gun on his knees in front of a transport Il-76TD against the background of a raging Kabul airport. And although here some especially advanced comrades tried to attribute him to the 82nd Airmobile Division of the US Airborne Forces, which was the last to leave Kabul, but the tuning Kalash of the 100th series clearly does not fit into this legend, giving it out as our MTR. Get used to it, friends, now we have such equipment. Several more of his comrades in the form of the Special Operations Forces stand near the cargo ladder of our transport man, waiting for the loading of the "refugees" in the same relaxed positions.
It's time for Vova Zelensky and his associates to think about their fate. Direct associations suggest themselves. America does not abandon its? Oh, is it ?! Think of Saigon in April 1975 and the American Operation Gusty Wind. How many South Vietnamese, who devotedly served them all this time, were the Americans then taken by helicopters from the roof of their embassy? The dry figures of statistics are remembered by everyone - 7 US citizens and 1737 citizens of other countries (mainly Vietnamese) were evacuated to the ships of the US 5595th Fleet, specially adapted by that time to the shores of Vietnam. The rest were abandoned when the weather turned bad on the morning of April 30, a storm broke out at sea, and the rescue operation became dangerous for American pilots.
Around midnight, Admiral Whitmere of the Navy headquarters at the Pentagon ordered the air lift to be pulled out. But the commander of the 9th Marine Brigade of the US Navy, who then led the evacuation of the American embassy, Brigadier General Richard E. Carey insisted on continuing the operation - by that time there were about two hundred American Marines and "green berets" in the city, covering the evacuation points and the perimeter around the embassy, not counting several thousand more Vietnamese "allies" with women and children who were waiting in line at the gates of the embassy. Then President Ford himself called the general and ordered to evacuate only the American military as soon as possible. After that, the most shameful page in American history began, which they themselves do not like to remember.
From the memoirs of Major James Keane, the commander of the Marine Corps battalion who guarded the American Embassy in Saigon in those days:
It was impossible even to imagine the size of the crowd pressing against the closed gates of the embassy. Each waved documents and letters confirming "involvement" in the United States. One elderly Vietnamese, who worked as a dishwasher in an Air Force bar at Pleiku Air Force Base, showed everyone a letter written by a sergeant: "Mr. Nha, the bearer of this letter has devotedly served the cause of freedom in the Republic of Vietnam." He was also presented with a toy sheriff's star in that bar, and the Vietnamese sincerely believed that this was an American military order.
At 4:30 in the morning, General Carey called me and ordered to gather all the soldiers in the office hall and close the doors of the embassy, because now the "air lift" will work only for Americans.
At 4:30 in the morning, General Carey called me and ordered to gather all the soldiers in the office hall and close the doors of the embassy, because now the "air lift" will work only for Americans.
By order of Major Keane, his subordinate Marines blocked the doors to the Chancery Hall, then stopped the elevators at the 6th floor level and blocked all fire escapes.
When the Vietnamese below realized that the evacuation was over, something terrible began. The crowd broke through the gates to the complex, then drove up a water tanker and knocked down the doors to the office hall. Soon the crowd climbed the stairs to the roof, knocking out all the doors. The Marines made several attempts to dissuade the crowd from trying to break through, but in the end they had to open fire ...
- writes in his memoirs a retired major in the Marine Corps.
I especially draw the attention of all Ukrainian friends of America to the following fact - the American marines fired at people whom they themselves guaranteed salvation in exchange for faithful service. It was all over in three hours. The last helicopter, in which 10 US Marines under the command of Master Sergeant John Valdez left Saigon, took off from the roof of the embassy at 7:53 a.m. on April 30, 1975. Sad story. Do you have any associations with Afghanistan?
Afghanistan has had the status of the main non-aligned ally of the United States since 2012, which it received under Obama, did this status help it? How fast were the Yankees running, abandoning their loyal Afghan collaborators? The British even managed to leave their lists in their abandoned embassy in Kabul. What awaits them there, do I need to ask? How fast will the Americans flee Kiev? What awaits their servants, who will not have time to cross, run across, crawl, fly over the Polish-Moldovan border? Will there be enough trees in Kiev to hang them all there? On which tree will Zelensky himself hang? The questions are rhetorical, you don't have to answer. But a photograph of a Russian soldier sprawling quietly in a chair with a submachine gun on his knees in the middle of a raging Kabul airport, against the backdrop of three Russian Il-76TD transport vehicles, speaks volumes. By the way, can you tell me whose embassies remained in Kabul after the arrival of the Taliban?
Vietnam cost the US $ 111 billion. In terms of current prices, this is about a trillion greenbacks. During the war years from 1965 to 1973, the Americans dropped 6,7 million tons of bombs on it - almost 2,5 times more than on Nazi Germany during the WWII. How much did Afghanistan cost the US budget? For 20 years, 2,3 trillion dollars, like a bush. The US has spent 83 billion on arming the local Basmachs alone. The Taliban are very grateful. Asked to send more. And how much, tell me, generous Americans spent on their Ukrainian native “brothers”? 250 million? More? Is it 350? Do not such figures bother you yourself? Will you continue to faithfully serve your overseas masters? Did the experience of Saigon and Kabul teach you nothing? Oh well…
The hegemon has lost the right to moral and strength to physical leadership
Until recently, it was as difficult to imagine the Washington Post and The New York Times publishing devastating articles by a Democratic president as the newspaper Pravda criticizing the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. But in 2021, it became a reality, the main mouthpieces of liberal America are mixing the current US president with the rubbish for the failure in Afghanistan and the infamous deal with Angela Merkel. And the Afghans dashing from the heights, clinging to the landing gear of the taking off Hercules, became the same symbol of shame as the helicopters taking off diplomats from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon, which collapsed under the onslaught of Ho Chi Minh's troops.
The hegemon is not the same. Exhausted. There are no internal resources to continue world domination. You have to distribute forces. There are no longer enough opportunities to confront all the threats to America on all fronts, and we have to choose priorities. Is Ukraine such?
Part 2. What matters is not what politicians say, but what they do
I don’t know if Kiev understands that Sleeping Joe is just a frontman, behind whose back are two rival groups of Democrats - the rabid expansionist globalists led by the Blinkin-Nuland tandem, and the moderate expansionists led by John Kerry. The former advocate tougher relations with Moscow, no concessions to Putin, Russia is America's existential enemy. Kerry, the cunning fox, is ready to maneuver between Moscow and Beijing, naturally, in the interests of the United States. Strange as it may seem, while Kerry is winning, who has retained his old ties with the Kremlin (even when he was the US Secretary of State, he had a good personal relationship with Sergei Lavrov), which he is trying to use to prevent the alliance of the Russian Federation with the PRC. This is a nightmare not only of Obama, but of all American presidents, and Biden is no exception here, which Putin plays like a piano. So far it turns out. But the denouement is already close. The Geneva time-out is drawing to a close. We will see soon what the Lavrov-Kerry climate negotiations will lead to. A very delicate game is going on. The parties are ready to make concessions, but what will they ask in return? Biden has already made his move - SP-2 was sacrificed as a seed. Putin responded by negotiating climate change.
Biden's Climate Trap
It only seems to the uninitiated that all this is some kind of paranoid delirium, all these hydrocarbon traces, ozone holes and climate warming as a result of human production activities. In reality, all this is so - pure schizophrenia and profanation, perfectly worked out on Covid-19. Do you think the whole world has gone crazy? No! You are skillfully manipulated. Why Putin got involved in this game, I don't know. Apparently there is a reason. As a result, you have been wearing masks for 2 years now and injecting yourself with all sorts of rubbish. I'm not going to agitate anyone here for Soviet power, everyone has their own head on their shoulders, just turn on your brains, read smart people, add 2 + 2 and draw your own conclusions.
But it was not Putin who started this game with the crown, he simply did not go against the tide, pursuing his own plans (digitalization of the population and earnings from the sale of vaccines are only a part of them). And the mass entertainer here is a decrepit hegemon, who frantically seeks ways to survive against the backdrop of the collapse of the world financial system approaching with the speed of a courier train, based on the ability of the US Federal Reserve to print dollars uncontrollably, which is the world reserve currency. There are already so many dollars printed that the whole world cannot digest them, which led to double-digit inflation of the dollar itself (now, what could be bought for $ 1950 in 1 requires 11 to be spent). Previously, the States simply imported this inflation around the world along with their green papers with portraits of American presidents, but now the shop is closing. The laws of mathematics cannot be fooled - the system is no longer able to digest. And then, bam - Covid-19 appears. An amazing coincidence!
Immediately after the news of its appearance at the end of December 2019, the main discount rate of the US Federal Reserve crawled down in a strange way - from 1,75% in January 2020, it fell immediately by 150 percentage points to 0,25% in March (moreover, in In March, there were two declines at once - on March 3 by 50 percentage points to 1,25% and on March 15 by another 100 percentage points to 0,25%). After that, the Fed-controlled emission of the dollar began - the very helicopter money with which Trump tried to support the solvency of his population (as a result, he only achieved that staying at home on unemployment benefits of $ 2000 / month turned out to be more profitable than working for 2500). And just 2 months later (by June 2020) assets on the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve's Treasury exceeded 7 trillion. dollars, which put the Fed in front of the need to limit the profitability of its Treasury bonds. This, of course, will help, but not for long - the finish is already close. And they know that in Washington. Hence the hasty withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan (even the Americans cannot afford to pay $ 300 million a day), hence the tale about global warming due to industrial emissions into the atmosphere.
They will give you thousands of documents signed by a thousand of the best scientists, in which this connection is proved as twice two. How many similar documents have you read about Covid? One WHO statement about the global coronavirus pandemic without exceeding the epidemic threshold, what is it worth? We have a pandemic, it turns out, when even the epidemic threshold is not crossed. To refute all these pseudoscientists, just ask a simple question - why does Greenland, this ice island, territorially belonging to Denmark, bear such a name? In translation, it means - Green earth. Imagine, in ancient times, when there was still no human production activity, numerous Viking tribes lived on it, which gave it that name. Those. the island was green without any of the greenhouse effects that warmed the climate. It's just that these phenomena are cyclical. Over the millennia of its existence, the Earth has experienced both ice ages and their inverse. Man has nothing to do with it! But only cunning Americans could take money from him for atmospheric pollution and global warming. What's a bad idea? If it’s gone wrong with Covid, why is global warming worse? And now everyone is already running around with hydrocarbon footprints and green energy. Russian gas is the most toxic gas in the world, and for those who do not have it, we will also pay extra for having it. At the same time, our endless forests, which are the natural lungs of the Earth, purifying the air from carbon dioxide, for some reason are not taken into account, and we are taxed as if we do not have them. This is what the cunning Kerry is talking about with our cunning Lavrov. If the Americans manage to drag us to their side, then they will be saved from the inevitable financial collapse and will be able to live for another 100 years at our expense, as they lived by issuing their useless papers after the adoption of the Bretton Woods 1944, and later the Jamaican 1976 monetary systems that replaced the gold standard.
This is where Ukraine has that very window of opportunity when it can slip out of the sweaty embrace of the hegemon, who is simply not up to it now. But for this, the president of Ukraine should not have porcelain fabergés in his pants, but steel ones, and in his head there is not a bunch of sawdust, but something else.
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