Before we can start a meaning discussion, let me make certain of your stance on Ukraine and Nato - is what you figured your prediction or your wish?
My prediction, Nato will split asunder per ordained cyclical imperative that says all organizations come to an end, disunity follows unity, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, so on and so forth.
Do you suppose the wine drinkers will want to face down Islamic infusion at home and at the same time standing up to the Russians who have choking hand on their gas pipe, and deal with drawdown of manufacturing to the East, and excuse self from obligations of socialism?
The old model is finished. Further commitment to that model will simply assure a complete breakdown.
For the neo-cons such as yourself to count ruling the world by leveraging on the armies of Poland and workers of Romania is like figuring on the power of S.Vietnam and steadfastness of Philippines.
The old model never really worked.
Nato is both past its use-by date, and about to morph into something more useful to the locals per new imperatives, and carrying on the invasion of Afghanistan cannot be a genuine imperative as the situation continues to turn dire and against the empire, as all invaders of that land eventually learns the very hard way. Whatever the new agenda of Nato or neo-Nato or no-Nato, it will dramatically diverge from your narrow and selfish interest or wish.
What has been accomplished so far in tragic Afghanistan by the Empire is that poppy production is up, death of women and children is up, rule of any sort of law is down, although, I must say, the Middle Kingdom is trying best to ameliorate the situation by investing in iron mines, building infrastructure, setting up schools, staffing hospitals, as it is getting on with building out the oil fields in Mesopotamia and carving out a niche in Persia. Alas, all constructive efforts will take time to fruition, whereas destruction can be rained down when human lives are not valued, and torture championed by the elected officialdom. |
