Monthly Archives: March 2014

The Wrong Side of History

Of the Presidents most iconic and overused statement none hold a senior status to that of his “wrong side of history” comment. Anyone who knows and understands philosophic Russia and its history knows that Putin’s actions are, in fact, right in line with history. The neo-progressive revisionists here in the U.S. may very well successfully persuade Americans to buy it, the European theater will not.

Economic sanctions, really? Russia has no worry over a declining Ruble and for one very good reason: Putin’s Russia doesn’t accept payment for energy supplies, to the E.U. or from China, in Rubles. The whorish actions of Western Managed Commodities Markets are preying on crude and this is driving up the price per barrel which is to Russia’s advantage. Sanctions indeed! Weakness is not a position of strength.

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Anchors of Delusion

Anyone reading my material would have long ago discovered my position regarding Power-Projections of State; the simple truth is that Power-Projections are either an act of weakness or that of a predator and strength, by its very nature, is its own stand-off offense.

In short, a truly strong (internally) nation has no need to operate from a position of weakness or does it mature into and adopt the predators theology.  Where the U.S. presently stands in this philosophical matrix I will leave for you to decide. One has only to look at the last 5 years of U.S. Foreign Policy antics to observe that the U.S. standing, globally, is without question, dire and the perceptions of our stand-off posture are virtually non-existent.

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Ukraine, Crimea, Russia & the Inept

The USSR and Czarist Russia may be history but their legacy lives. Although the strong-arm of the Soviets gave the appearance of a unified front the fact remains that Mother-Russia has always been an amalgamation of autonomous and semi-autonomous regions loosely bound by inference, population infusion and extraction, treaty or threat.

Presently on one side you have Putin, determined to preserve the continental Russian Federation (including the western boundary States of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) which, on all fronts, is at risk for fracturing and on the other side is the West (lead primarily by the U.S. & U.K.) who would love nothing more than to see Putin’s Russia fall victim to separatist fragmentation.

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