| | | Cherchez la Brzezinski. He wants war with Russia to avenge his family against Stalin. Stalin died many decades ago. So did nearly all those who acted for him. Zbig is still fighting the USSR quarter of a century after it ceased to exist and 30 years since Gorby ended the MADness. Zbig's a one-trick pony.
World War III, this time starting with atomic bombs instead of finishing with them, will not be a lot of fun.
Have the F-bombers and yokels of Washington heard of Armageddon? It's not far from Aleppo and places where they are currently causing carnage. Crimea has been Russian forever [since Genghis Khan's depredations were pushed back and faded after the medieval warming ended and the little ice age put the kibosh on them]. Backing the evil witch Yulia in Ukraine might seem clever, but carnage is not clever. The Zbig plan to take over Crimea and evict the Russian military was not going to be acceptable to Russia The Charge of the Light Brigade had more chance of success. Russia has seen Napoleon try it, ending with the 1812 Overture and Operation Barbarossa. The Russians probably prefer to NOT see USA tanks rolling up from Crimea to Moscow and USA aircraft carriers taking over their berths in Sevastopol.
It might not have occurred to Zbig and the dim bulbs of Obama's rule that China might think it sensible to help Russia keep NATO at bay. China won't want the USA and NATO peering over the Great Wall of China wondering whether it wouldn't be fun to do some test firings over the wall having conquered Russia. It's better to help Russia on the front lines aka Crimea, Latvia, Estonia, and down the line to Syria. China might buy Siberia as far as the Urals from Russia as part of a mutual self-defence pact to keep the Zbignian maniacs and F-bombers at bay.
Already the gas that was planned for Europe has been stymied due to the stupid economic blockade against Russia, so Russia has signed up for hundreds of $billions to send the gas east instead of west. China can provide a LOT of money and a LOT of workers and a LOT of military support to protect that investment against the F-bomber and co.
In June, I wondered whether the voluntary death of the "Little Friend of All the World" [our son Tarken - a Turkish name] was like a canary in a coal mine. Now, with the forces gathering at Armageddon, and economic blockades becoming popular, and Jihad shooting up Paris and anywhere else they like, the miasma of murder is looming larger. Maybe people like a bit of carnage every generation or two. It has happened for hundreds of thousands of years in the development from being chimps as alpha male territorial genocidal dominance hierarchies extended their reach and mating rights. It's built into the DNA. Hence the popularity of sublimation via football and other aggressive team sports.
Unfortunately, "a bit of carnage" might turn out to be like the "jolly good show" of WWI which in 1915, 100 years ago this year, was not expected to be so horrific as it turned out to be. That war was fought with bayonets, bullets and short-range shells. The Bloody Red Baron type biplanes were all there was coming from the sky. Now, thermonuclear bombs proliferate on MIRVed ICBMs and can obliterate whole cities at a time. They are ready to go with good quality GPS targeting [not that such precision is needed for them]. With interdependent trade keeping economic activity alive, the consequence of carnage will be economic collapse. In 1915, most people lived on farms and countries were self-sufficient [near enough for government work]. Now, things would grind to a halt very quickly.
The Ukrainians thought it clever to blow up Crimea's electricity. Let's see how the Ukrainians like a shortage of gas as the temperature drops.
Meanwhile, in Paris, another hot air CO2 jamboree is underway with immense CO2 from airliners arriving by the hundred, hotels full of partying, drinking, eating, mating, acolytes spouting hot air everywhere, spending up large on opm. The only sea level rises to worry about are the sudden ones from earthquakes and tsunamis like the Japanese one and incoming bolides. Those take place in a second, and are tens of metres high, whereas the CO2 version [which likely won't happen] takes place over 100 years and is only half a metre.
With the human population reduced by 2, 4 or 6 billion after Armageddon, and maybe with an H5N1 type flu helping, there might not be much worry about CO2, which so far, has been shown to improve crop yields and reduce desert cover and not cause warming. 400 ppm of CO2 is good. So is 500 ppm. That can be reviewed over the next 100 years.
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