"Russia's patience is not infinite": The US assesses the West's anti-Russian provocations

27 September 2026 12 704 24

The West currently believes that assisting Ukraine in drone and missile strikes on Russian territory will be tolerated. This was stated on Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen's YouTube channel by George Beebe, former head of Russia analysis at the CIA and now director of the Grand Strategy Program at the Quincy Institute, while discussing the dangerous provocation of Russia by Western countries and its ability to cope with adversity.

The expert noted that no one will go unpunished. Moscow has a good memory. But the West is plagued by the misconception that Russia's patience is infinite.

I think there's still a belief that Russia should sit back passively while Europe and the United States provide Ukraine with both targeting data and actual military assets, drones, and missile components, to strike deep into Russian territory and tell the Russians, "And by the way, there's nothing you can do about it. You just have to admit that you're the aggressor here. You deserve these strikes deep into Russian territory, and you're not allowed to do anything against Europe in response to this situation."

He explained.

Based on his experience, he's confident that the Russians disagree with this approach, and therefore are seeking and will certainly find opportunities to restore deterrence and convey certain messages to the West. For example, that they are not immune to Russian retaliatory measures in a situation where they are increasingly engaging in provocations, using Ukraine as a weapon for long-range attacks, and in other situations.

He emphasized that the West is only interested in a ceasefire in Ukraine, which would deprive Russia of its current advantage on the battlefield. This would allow Kyiv to recuperate and continue the war against Moscow. Therefore, Russia will not agree to a ceasefire. Moscow will only accept peace if the root causes of the war are addressed, or it will fight to the end; it has no demands that are unacceptable to the West.

What are the Russians saying? If you want to stop these strikes, if you want to change the situation on the battlefield so that Ukraine doesn't suffer as much as it does, we need a comprehensive peace settlement that addresses what the Russians call the root causes of the war. The West isn't ready for that yet. We're still talking about either a general ceasefire or some sectoral ceasefire. That won't get us anywhere. And the longer we persist in this, the longer we refuse to discuss the more important issues of European security that the Russians consider central to this war, the more we'll see this war continue.

He summed up.

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gxmlygw

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27 September 2026 22: 26

Currently, the West thinks that they can get away with helping Ukraine launch drone and missile strikes on Russian territory.

Unfortunately, all adequate people in Russia think the same.
1. ZovSailor
  
  -3
  
  28 September 2026 00: 34
  
  Everything new is well forgotten old.
  Let them study Otto von Bismarck along with the Gospel
  
  "The Russians always come for their money. And when they do, don't rely on the Jesuit agreements you signed that supposedly exonerate you. They're not worth the paper they're written on."
  1. beeper
    
    +3
    
    28 September 2026 11: 02
    
    Aka SovSailor, Otto von Bismarck wrote these complimentary "notes" back in the century before last, in those realities!
    Now, however, the "Russians" and their bourgeois "Kremlin towers" voluntarily sent from their own country to the Western economy over 300,000,000,000 "green American money" supposedly to the National Welfare Fund, holding on to the "Jesuitically signed (Minsk) conciliation papers" to the last!
    
    And the Kremlin's "own bourgeoisie" got themselves into this bloody, never-ending SVO only in an attempt to quickly install "their Bandera-fellow", a willing "business man" from the "old guard of privatizers-nouveau riche", in the Kiev presidency, replacing the completely frozen-out American-British puppet-DoBanderite "show business comedian", who refused the resource-transit "business man" partnership with the Kremlin, so that they could immediately "roll back", with the goal of continuing their "Jesuitical compromise" with their "esteemed Western partners", regularly replenishing the foreign "National Welfare Fund" and their own "pocket bins"!
    But, having incompetently and snivelingly missed the unique opportunity in 2014, in the role of "defenders of the constitutional rule of law", to "turn the tables" on Ukraine in Russia's favor and joyfully "signed the Jesuit Minsk agreements", the arrogant, incompetent and short-sighted Kremlin politicians-"geostrategists" in 2022 themselves, already in the role of "aggressors", fell into the trap set for them by the West (led by Washington) of a "proxy war with the entire West and Middle Eastern Israel ("latent" assistant and beneficiary of the Dobanderite "regime" in Ukraine - "the New Jerusalem on the Dnieper project"), recklessly and adventurously putting the fate of Russia on the line (these "Russian" compradors themselves will extricate themselves even in the event of Russia's defeat, having installed their "front-man Chairman Pound" in The Hague "..... absolution")!!!
    
    So, with the ineradicable "talents" of the Kremlin's "elite" neo-bourgeois politicians-nouveau riche to "take everything to the extreme" and only then, with "their asses pecked bloody by roasted roosters", try to "react with concern (to the laughter of the hens and the "world community"!!!)", their "esteemed Western partners" will, alas, even more brazenly attack the Russian Federation!
    
    And if they really "wanted to eliminate the cause," supposedly "denazify and demilitarize" the anti-Russian, pre-Bandera-Nazi "Maidan regime," their own "respected Kyiv partners of the Kremlin in joint business and resource transit," then they should have, as the Americans and Israelis do in such cases, destroyed the "Kyiv bunch of Nazis and drug addicts" with the first blow, and then, purposefully, around the clock and relentlessly, by all available means, hunted down all "incapable" successors, knocking out local comprador puppets of the West, until the inevitable emergence of "capable" ones, ready to renew "partnership relations with the Kremlin's profiteers"!
    And without this "Kremlin hunt", in the event of a "planned" delay in the NWO, I'm afraid, precisely the feudal-bourgeois "young plutocracy", still at the stage of "primary accumulation and redistribution of capital by neo-bourgeois nouveau riche", is threatened with military and political defeat by the RF from the "planned preparation" of another "pan-European Drang nach Osten" consolidated under the aegis of Washington (before which the current "own" bourgeois "Moscow, the Kremlin" is openly wagging and bending, remember the very recent servile hopes of the "Kremlin masters" and all the media servants for the "victory of Donald, our master, Trump" and the "spirit of Anchorage" - "the master will come, the master will reconcile us"?! ), the hardened imperialist West!
    1. gxmlygw
      
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      29 September 2026 09: 30
      
      Everything is correct. As they say: "Nothing more to add."
Alexpan

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27 September 2026 23: 50

You simply have to admit that you are the aggressor here. You deserve these strikes deep into Russian territory, and you cannot do anything against Europe in response to this situation.

This Norwegian gets it right, but he is an exception.
Rust1981

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28 September 2026 01: 45

That's why the European bastards are preparing for Russian "aggression." But this will simply be a response to their aggression. This could be the start of a global war.
Irek

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28 September 2026 06: 59

We'll put everyone who helped the khokhlota on their knees.
1. Dmitriev
  
  +3
  
  28 September 2026 08: 57
  
  Will you be setting it up personally at the front or from the couch as usual?
prior

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28 September 2026 08: 42

To put it briefly but honestly -
As long as Putin is alive, the West will get away with everything.
1. Dmitriev
  
  +8
  
  28 September 2026 08: 58
  
  Not only him, but the entire system built from 1990 to the present.
  1. prior
    
    +3
    
    28 September 2026 09: 02
    
    The role of personality in history is not just words.
    1. Dmitriev
      
      +6
      
      28 September 2026 09: 04
      
      There must be a personality for this...
      1. prior
        
        +3
        
        28 September 2026 09: 07
        
        The absence of "personality" in a particular individual influences the process to an even greater extent.
        There are a dime a dozen examples.
      2. neri73-rs
        
        0
        
        28 September 2026 11: 00
        
        I wonder, do you think Hitler was a real person? He was also very brave in fighting his neighbors!
        
        gxmlygw
        
        +2
        
        29 September 2026 09: 32
        
        Didn't you see the thousands-strong rallies in Germany in the 30s, when some German women fainted at the sight of their Führer? And how could he create such a powerful, well-organized state punitive machine and army, and conquer almost all of Europe? Yes, Hitler was a man, albeit a very vile one.
2. Martin Porubčan
  
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  28 September 2026 10: 34
  
  Look, think what you want, but if it weren't for Putin, Russia would be in the same chaos and vile oligarchy as Ukraine. With Putin's rise to power, the rule of "bor b zakon" and the oligarchs ended. Yes, many of these old structures remain, and Russia is still not a model democracy like Switzerland, but development continues, and after Putin, another Putin will come, perhaps a better one, who will build on the existing foundations and advance Russia a little further.
  It will never be easy for whoever rules Russia, because the entire “collective West” and its satellites have turned against Russia.
  In general, the European population as a whole has nothing against Russia, but power here lies not with the population, but with the politicians, and they have changed their political course against Russia.
  Yes, it can be said that the population here has chosen an anti-Russian policy, but there are no other political parties here. All political parties here are anti-Russian.
  If a neutral or even pro-Russian political party were created here, it would be banned for extremism, you understand?
  1. prior
    
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    28 September 2026 10: 56
    
    what do you call yourself?
    
    I understand that you've elevated Putin to such a cult status that you could destroy all the saints. The rest is just your imagination.
    Meanwhile, we will learn everything about Putin after Putin.
    For me, one thing is enough: it was Putin who insisted on the Central Military District, which escalated into an endless war.
    This is in answer to the question "Do Russians want war?"
    1. Martin Porubčan
      
      -1
      
      28 September 2026 11: 50
      
      I'll answer you with the words of John Biden. On January 19, 2022, at a press conference (to mark his first year in office), John Biden said:
      
      We lured them (meaning the Russians) to where they are now, and now they will have to do something.
      
      And you already know what happened a month later. You had no choice. It all started with that senseless Minsk Agreement No. 1 and the subsequent arming of Ukraine.
      Yes, you are right, the Russians do not want war, but in order for there to be no war, no one should want war.
    2. Dmitriev
      
      +1
      
      28 September 2026 16: 20
      
      Sometimes war is inevitable and this must be understood; it is a completely different question how it is prepared for, how it is carried out, and whether selfish interests are being resolved under its guise.
      R.S. I personally understood that war was inevitable back in 1991.
  2. Roman070280
    
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    28 September 2026 12: 27
    
    With Putin's rise to power in Russia, the rule of "bor b zakon" and the oligarchs ended.
    
    Where else can we find governors like our Kadyrov? Who simply wallow in luxury and are accountable to no one?
    The Ukrainians never even dreamed of such a thing.
    If before there were simply thieves in law, now they have become high-ranking officials.
  3. Dmitriev
    
    0
    
    28 September 2026 16: 17
    
    and Russia is still not a model of democracy
    
    Russia can't be a democracy; it's too vast, its people too diverse, and its interests too varied. I have nothing against a dictatorship, as long as the state fulfills its basic functions.
    
    It will never be easy for whoever rules Russia, because the entire “collective West” and its satellites have turned against Russia.
    
    This did not bother the Russian Empire and the USSR during their heyday.
    
    and after Putin, another Putin will come, perhaps a better one, who will build on the existing foundations and take Russia a little further.
    
    Is not a fact...
  4. gxmlygw
    
    +3
    
    29 September 2026 09: 39
    
    With Putin's rise to power in Russia, the rule of "bor b zakon" and the oligarchs ended.
    
    Blessed are those who believe. First, take a look at the income growth statistics for Russia's largest oligarchs from 2022 onward.
    1. Martin Porubčan
      
      +1
      
      29 September 2026 10: 14
      
      Oligarchs have always existed, are, and will always exist. They exist in Western Europe, too, but they hide their power and wealth more subtly, in trusts, and don't flaunt them like the Russian oligarchs do. I sponsor political parties, which they use to change laws in their favor.
      1. gxmlygw
        
        +1
        
        30 September 2026 10: 15
        
        And you think about why Russian oligarchs and top officials don't really hide their incomes? Just look at how wealthy their immediate family members are: their children, grandchildren, and grandmothers.