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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
GLD 375.96-1.8%Nov 14 4:00 PM EST
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To: marcher who wrote (186883)4/23/2022 8:11:49 PM
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It did look like a baited trap to induce Russia to invade Ukraine so that they would be caught in the trap, ready to be gradually destroyed as USA's modern weaponry was supplied and deployed. I suppose Russia was aware of that hazard, being expert in chess which often involves placing tempting pieces and pawns to be gobbled up, only for the attacker to find a lethal conjunction of opposition lying in wait.

That's what happened to Saddam in Kuwait = he fell for April Glaspie telling him that the USA was not interested in getting involved in Iraq's border dispute with Kuwait. Saddam thought he might as well own Kuwait's oil as well as his own. Once in Kuwait, he was reluctant to abandon ship which gave USA and the Willing Coalition a green light to go gung ho on the attack.

This looks like a replay, but Russia, unlike Iraq, actually does have WMDs and a lot of them, so the gradual destruction of Russia needs to be more circumspect and cannot involve an outright Desert Storm roaring blitzkrieg attack on all fronts. USA knew Iraq had no 40 minute WMDs because I could figure it out and so could Scott Ritter, and so could others. So USA was unworried about a 40 minute mushroom cloud over Noo Yawk.

Russia can produce mushroom clouds anywhere and everywhere so the degradation has to be non-existential.

I do not believe Zelensky and USA were hoping Russia would do the dirty, wet work on Azovs in order to remove that element from Ukraine. The Azovs are very useful to USA/Zelensky/Klaus and co to attack Russians. USA similarly found ISIS/AlQaeda/Jihad useful in Syria to attack Assad. Similarly, USA/Zbigniew/Carter found Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda/mujahideen jihadists very useful in Afghanistan to "Give them [USSR] their own Vietnam" as Zbig put it at the time. That worked out badly and came back to bite them in the Twin Towers and cost thousands more lives in Afghanistan/Iraq as well as a $trillion or 2.

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