US/NATO War on Russia

[Peter Presland]

Russians are regarded as the best chess playing nation, and Putin to my mind, has looked several moves ahead.

I wonder if there will be a new Sino Soviet security treaty in the offing soon? To me it would make perfect sense.

My only hope is that unlinking the dollar can become widespread enough that the US can't take action. Whistling in the wind, I suppose.

This whole US pivot to the east and the continuing hemming in of Russia could have arisen now precisely because the US really fears the end of dollar hegemony is fast approaching?

The Russia/chess US/Poker analogies are fun - and I guess there is a grain of truth to them. But, when it comes to the stakes involved here, I seriously doubt the US-UK in particular have not both looked and gamed many moves ahead too; likewise did not envisage and include Putin's responses to date. The whole thing was started as part of a deeply ingrained existing policy - one that has been at the root of the entire Anglo-US relationship since the end of WWII - and even way back to the first one in its essentials.

What worries me is that there seems to be no sign of the US-UK-NATO moderating its behaviour - quite the contrary in fact. And I don't mean the inane mouthings of the Ashtons, Hagues, Camerons and Obamas either, they really are just improvising from a rigid underlying script with their ability (or lack of it) to do so in a manner that - at the very least - keeps most of the population from open rebellion, determining their personal political fortunes.

If I am right, and I really do HOPE I am not, then the US-UK-NATO is determined to do two things:
1. Prevent Europe integrating its economy with Russia through dependence on its energy
2. Preventing a viable alternative to Dollar hegemony emerging.

It's all very well for others to argue that there's nothing they can do about it but past experience is to my mind proof positive that that is NOT the way Guido Preparata's 'Anglo-American Fraternities' (a novel way of describing the principle and interwoven deep state players in both countries) see things. They certainly see the carnage of both world wars and assorted wars since as success of sorts and I don't see the evil inherent in that mindset changing anytime soon. The only thing likely to derail the policy is a series of events leading to a recognisable fait accompli. Those embrionic events will be (in fact are) up against the most formidable combined intel-military capabilities in history which will be FULLY employed to frustrate them.

This is how Preparata closes his preface to Conjuring Hitler:

So the West has to think again to think, in fact, that there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims.

And here's a new article by Finian Cunningham: US war plan for Europe and Russia

The first I agree with completely; the second I give considerable credence to