U.S. Plans for Long-Term Isolation of Russia April 16, 2022 at 10:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Nearly two months into Vladimir Putin’s brutal assault on Ukraine, the Biden administration and its European allies have begun planning for a far different world, in which they no longer try to coexist and cooperate with Russia, but actively seek to isolate and weaken it as a matter of long-term strategy,” the Washington Post reports.
“At NATO and the European Union, and at the State Department, the Pentagon and allied ministries, blueprints are being drawn up to enshrine new policies across virtually every aspect of the West’s posture toward Moscow, from defense and finance to trade and international diplomacy.”
That's going to be a heavy lift, but it sure sounds reasonable to me. There will be considerable collateral damage at home, but so be it.
Once currency is redefined as a tool, rather than a scarce thing of value, all sorts of things are possible. Industrial production in the interest of reducing end costs has resulted in a lot of waste. 30% of global food production, for example, goes to waste. Russian and Ukrainian grain will not be missed, if the distribution is adjusted. Too big fails bcause the vagaries of man and nature require a nimble response. Nimble can also be defined as multi-tasking.
From Twitter: “Not confirmed officially but ex-Russian MP says only 58 survivors out of her crew of around 500 indicating catastrophic explosion/fire.” That sounds more likely, but still a very high casualty rate.
Russia has never come to terms with its primitive steppe populations. The empire has been and continues to be a figment of the imagination. At least the U.S. absorbed native cultural attributes in its formal organization, albeit without realizing it. The Russian culture is imitative of Europe culture even as it actively rejects and resents it. Now Putin has discovered that their allies to the south and east are not loyal either. Perhaps he did not notice that the Central Asians had set up a nuclear weapons free zone and effectively rejected their association with Russia. Hubris seems to be the instinct augmented by cognitive accumulation that's missing some processing function and fails to anticipate the future in a realistic sense.
U.S. Plans for Long-Term Isolation of Russia
ReplyDeleteApril 16, 2022 at 10:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Nearly two months into Vladimir Putin’s brutal assault on Ukraine, the Biden administration and its European allies have begun planning for a far different world, in which they no longer try to coexist and cooperate with Russia, but actively seek to isolate and weaken it as a matter of long-term strategy,” the Washington Post reports.
“At NATO and the European Union, and at the State Department, the Pentagon and allied ministries, blueprints are being drawn up to enshrine new policies across virtually every aspect of the West’s posture toward Moscow, from defense and finance to trade and international diplomacy.”
That's going to be a heavy lift, but it sure sounds reasonable to me. There will be considerable collateral damage at home, but so be it.
Once currency is redefined as a tool, rather than a scarce thing of value, all sorts of things are possible.
ReplyDeleteIndustrial production in the interest of reducing end costs has resulted in a lot of waste. 30% of global food production, for example, goes to waste. Russian and Ukrainian grain will not be missed, if the distribution is adjusted.
Too big fails bcause the vagaries of man and nature require a nimble response. Nimble can also be defined as multi-tasking.
The candle is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteRussian top admival has been arrested after “Moskva” is sunk by Ukraine. [Click] Evidently unconfirmed report that entire crew was lost, but that seems unlikely to me.
ReplyDeleteFrom Twitter: “Not confirmed officially but ex-Russian MP says only 58 survivors out of her crew of around 500 indicating catastrophic explosion/fire.” That sounds more likely, but still a very high casualty rate.
admival = admiral
DeleteOh, joy— Fresno in the news. [Click]
ReplyDeleteTHIS explains why Russia starts insane wars [Click] Nicolai Gogol: Dead Souls
ReplyDeleteJeez—this is about all the cultural enrichment I can handle in one day. If you can handle more, here is the Wikpedia article [Click] and here is the text: Gutenberg: Dead Souls [Click]
Russia has never come to terms with its primitive steppe populations. The empire has been and continues to be a figment of the imagination. At least the U.S. absorbed native cultural attributes in its formal organization, albeit without realizing it. The Russian culture is imitative of Europe culture even as it actively rejects and resents it. Now Putin has discovered that their allies to the south and east are not loyal either. Perhaps he did not notice that the Central Asians had set up a nuclear weapons free zone and effectively rejected their association with Russia.
DeleteHubris seems to be the instinct augmented by cognitive accumulation that's missing some processing function and fails to anticipate the future in a realistic sense.
I have remained tired all day today, presumably from the second Covid booster. Well, tomorrow is another day.
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