Actually, I am breaking the rule twice. When I read information/news that evokes a strong emotional response, I refrain from writing about it until I cool off. The quote from Tillis evoked such a response but I wrote an article before cooling off.
I still have not cooled off but the more I think about his arrogance and self-importance, the longer it is taking to cool off. I remember reading an article years ago how the CIA and KGB manufactured information to prolong the Cold War. Of course that information has been cleansed from the Internet.
I want to concentrate on what is at stake in Ukraine and what happens if Putin “wins”.
- What will Putin win if he conquers Ukraine? The Russian Federation will get fertile land to grow food but by whom? Their working population has fled the country or has been killed. Have you ever wondered why the number of dead Ukrainian soldiers is not accurately known? Their dead range from 450,000 to over 1 million. So what will Putin do with excess farmland and no one to work it? Maybe he will be able to give even more free wheat to African nations from his existing surpluses?
- If Putin wants to win, why did he tell Tucker Carlson that he wants to negotiate for peace. The US is the nation which wants this war to continue.
- The longer the war goes on, the more money Russia makes. While the West is being bankrupted by this war, Russia is building BRICS, opening new markets and crippling Western energy sources.
- The US is losing its dominance with the dollar as the world’s reserve currency as this war continues. But this is only a distraction since the dollar is already doomed. Our military supplies have been depleted and our debt increases $4 trillion a year. We are already bankrupted multiple times. Which is why our “leaders” continue endless wars to line their pockets.
- Russia has more nuclear warheads than any other nation. They also have better hypersonic missiles, nuclear torpedoes and hypersonic aircraft. A win in Ukraine will not change the fact that the West will lose a world war with Russia. If you don’t believe me, think about how the lines will be drawn: Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, China, North Korea and Africa at a minimum will be against the West.
Tillis may be correct: if Putin wins in Ukraine, the West will be shown to be impotent. Its moral decay, tyranny, economic collapse will have only expedited our descent into a warning for future nations on the consequences of evil.
As for Tillis and his “Russia, Russia, Russia” mantra, he is not even against Russia: he is against the truth coming out and he is afraid of the consequences that his actions may entail from a well briefed populace.
David DeGerolamo
