GeoCombat2050

  Myths kill.  Nowhere is this truth more evident than in Ukraine, where tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians have been maimed or killed on the battlefield in a war now in its third year and still ongoing.  The Ukraine war could have been averted had politicians in the West not clung to four myths with devastating consequences. Myth 1: Ukraine will defeat Russia. One year into Russia's war in Ukraine, US President Biden proclaimed in Warsaw, Poland that "Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia. Never." Exuding even more confidence, Europe Commission President von der Leyen declared that "I'm deeply convinced that Ukraine will win this war."  Of all the lies about the war in its third year, this one is the hoax of the 21st century. To put it bluntly, Ukraine has no plausible pathway to victory against Russia. Slightly smaller than Texas, utterly dependent on Western aid, it is simply no match for its Russian neighbor with 1,226 miles of shared bord...

  Let’s call it what it is: The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a war between two imperialist powers, the US and Russia. The longer the war lasts, the better for the world, as the protracted war undermines their respective power. Is the conflict a clash between democracy and autocracy, as the US claims? Or is it self-defense against Western encroachment, as Russia contends? There is nothing righteous about the geopolitical tussle over which side will control Ukraine. Under the veneer of democratic freedom or pan-slavic nationalism lies the primacy of might by any means necessary. Any rational person with some knowledge of history and geopolitics should be able to cut through the smoke screens that each belligerent uses to justify its aggresion. When America brandishes its Democracy stick, it means that its empire itches for new boundaries. When the Russian Bear plays the victim, it merely pursues its centuries-old insatiable hunger for more land. Ten years on, the clash of titans has re...

  Welcome to the age of the Liberal dictatorship. Liberalism stands for freedom and tolerance, whereas dictatorship cannot stand dissent. They do not and cannot go hand in hand, so we are led to believe. As the words "Liberal" and "dictatorship" are antonyms, putting them together amounts to an oxymoron. And yet, since February 2022, we have been witnessing the rise of the Liberal dictatorship, consisting of the US and its allies banding together to violently squash any attempts to challenge their vision of the world and upend the liberal world order.  When Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the US and 36 other industrial democracies unleashed an unprecedented package of economic sanctions against Russia.  In a span of ten days, among other things, they froze Russian's central bank reserves, expelled its banks from the global financial system, shut it off from the debt market, and cut off high-tech exports. In one stroke, the Libera...