By Mike WHITNEY “Here’s something you must understand. We were not given any opportunity to act differently.” Vladimir Putin The plan to engage Russia militarily…
I suspect it’s not just the west, but the Russian high command who are somewhat surprised at how much of a paper tiger NATO has shown itself to be in this conflict. A lot of people around the world still remember the time when the US was a (seemingly) unstoppable economic-industrial juggernaut; and there was or seemed to be throughout the Cold War a sense among even Soviet leaders that they were continually playing catch-up to the west. The inability of NATO countries to come up with the ghost of coherent plan, or to produce modern weapons a scale to match Russia, may very well have driven home to a lot of countries that western hegemony really is crumbling.
I suspect it’s not just the west, but the Russian high command who are somewhat surprised at how much of a paper tiger NATO has shown itself to be in this conflict. A lot of people around the world still remember the time when the US was a (seemingly) unstoppable economic-industrial juggernaut; and there was or seemed to be throughout the Cold War a sense among even Soviet leaders that they were continually playing catch-up to the west. The inability of NATO countries to come up with the ghost of coherent plan, or to produce modern weapons a scale to match Russia, may very well have driven home to a lot of countries that western hegemony really is crumbling.