Limited War

I late discovered an interesting text in which the author analyses the situation in which Russia is located. Unfortunately, I discovered him the day before going to the infirmary and there was no time to translate and comment. I'm already home, and I'm making up for it due to the fact that the text is inactive up to date. possibly I'll give you the text first, comment later.

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What a triumph looks like

Written by Phil Butler

The era of the “limited war” is simply a Western fantasy. Russia cannot afford half-measures in the face of an existential attack by the replacement states.

Illusion of the “Limited War”

Before you read the following text, let us put aside diplomatic fiction.

For decades, I have been following the patterns of power, and the following pattern is unquestionable. The West leads a deadly game of controlled escalation, dressing a full war into a sterile language of "stopping" and "strategic signals". However, fresh attacks on economical and civilian nodes in Russia are not voluntary actions of divided command. They constitute a precisely planned escalation by the European elite, carried out with the silent consent of Washington.

The thesis contained in the text you are about to read is simple and uncompromising: the era of the "limited war" is simply a Western fantasy. If Moscow is to last this existential attack by intermediaries, it cannot respond with half-measures or symmetrical restraint. The only rational, history-based consequence is the full mobilisation and systematic, comprehensive neutralisation of the remaining critical infrastructure of Ukraine. Endless war to exhaustion is simply a game of losing. triumph is not a substance of choice, but an operational necessity.

What follows is not an appeal for peace. This is simply a cold, uncompromising view of what a triumph actually requires, based on the only applicable historical precedent.

Kiev, 1943. – Historical precedent

The above photograph is raw: Kiev, November 1943. Soldiers march down the streets, on both sides of which the skeletons of the facades of destroyed buildings are erected, and full neighborhoods have turned to rubble and ash. The crossing through Dniepr was secured, but the city behind their backs is simply a monument to full war. This is not demolition for demolition itself. This was the triumph erstwhile the russian Union responded to Operation Barbarossa. Not by precise blows and proportional reactions, but by the complete systematic demolition of the occupying forces and infrastructure that served it.

Wehrmacht turned Kiev into a fortress. all building, all street, all bridge has been militarized. The German consequence to the failure of the site was to usage the tactics of burnt land – demolitions, arsons, systematic demolition of anything that could aid the invading Red Army. And erstwhile the Soviets yet broke the defense, they didn't halt to save what was left. They did not worry about civilian infrastructure, economical centres or postwar reconstruction already exhausted by the business of the city. They fought 1 goal: annihilation. triumph was the only acceptable result, and material costs were secondary to strategical necessity.

It is this historical precedent of Western strategists that deliberately omit erstwhile they teach Moscow about the control of the escalation of conflict. The russian Union did not win the large Patriotic War due to restraint. He won it through complete mobilization, overwhelming force and absolute refusal to accept any another consequence than the complete demolition of enemy forces. The 1943 Kiev Ruins are not evidence of russian barbarism. They are a image of what happens erstwhile the existential threat responds to the full, uncompromising force of a nation determined by the will to survive.

Today, the West requires Russia to wage a limited war against an unlimited threat. The European elites, with the approval of Washington, converted Ukraine into a proxy fortress, flooding it with weapons, intelligence and a default promise of endless support. Attacks on Wildberries logistics centers, on worthless civilian infrastructure, for economical purposes, attacks aimed at intimidation alternatively than weakening – are not actions of a desperate government fighting for survival. These are the actions of the coalition which believes that it can wage war remotely, slow exhausting Russia, while maintaining the conflict at the level of ‘controlled’ and ‘limited’.

It's a terrible mistake in judgment. erstwhile an opponent crosses the threshold, going from a substitute conflict to a direct strategical attack, the reaction cannot be graded in precise steps. Attacks on civilian economical infrastructure are not isolated incidents. They are a logical consequence of the Western strategy, which has abandoned all appearances of a quest for peace and alternatively has adopted Russia's long-term strategical weakening objective. This is war by large “W” and requires a consequence proportional to the threat.

Victory or demolition – there is no indirect solution

It is not whether Russia should escalate the conflict. It's about whether he can afford not to. Each week that passes with half-measures and symmetrical reactions is simply a week in which the Western coalition can believe that its strategy is effective. all hit distribution center, all unpunished civilian target, perpetuates the illusion that Russia can be provoked without any consequences that you can control the escalation from Brussels and Washington while Moscow is patiently bleeding on the operating table. This has to halt now, if it is to last all that Vladimir Putin and the Russians have built.

What the triumph will look like in 2026 is not fundamentally different from what it looked like in 1943. It means a complete neutralisation of the enemy's ability to proceed fighting. It means a mobilized society, an industrial base operating at full speed, and a military strategy aimed not so much at managing the conflict as at ending it. Moreover, it seems to systematically destruct the remaining infrastructure of Ukraine – not as a punishment, but as an operational necessity. Logistics networks, power grids, command and control centres, economical arteries supplying the war machine. All of this must be swept from the face of the earth. It's not damaged. Not destroyed. Eliminated. It's not cruel. It's a necessity.

The West has made its choice. He decided to fight to the last Ukrainian, turn the full nation into a ram to the heart of Russia, sacrifice millions on the altar of geopolitical ambition, while remaining safely isolated from consequences. Moscow can no longer afford the luxury of conducting this war under Western conditions. A war of exhaustion favors a organization with more resources and more patience. Russia has both, but only if it makes full usage of them. A multifaceted offensive, launched with overwhelming force and aimed at achieving decisive territorial goals by spring, is not an option. It's a necessity.

Mobilization must be complete. This is not about fragmentary actions from 2022 or shy expansions from 2023, but about full public engagement in war conditions. Industrial production must go to war level. Work force must be allocated without hesitation. The political strategy must focus on 1 goal: victory. Not under “advantageable conditions”. Not to “take the negotiating advantage”. Victory. Period!

History will not justice Russia by Geneva or Hague standards. She will justice Russia according to whether she has survived the existential threat that has waited for her. The russian Union did not hesitate in 1943. He didn't care about Kiev's destruction. He understood that half-measures against an existential enemy were not pity, but suicide. The ruins in this photograph are not a informing against the atrocities of war. They attest to how much it actually costs to win. This image shows what triumph looks like in all war always fought.

The West wants a long war. He wants a war on destruction, gradual escalation, controlled fall of Russia. This is the only consequence Moscow cannot accept. Russia cannot afford to neglect and cannot afford to fight forever. War time is over. The time of full triumph has begun. triumph doesn't look beautiful. It's not clean. It's not proportional. It is simply a complete, systematic and uncompromising demolition of the enemy's ability to proceed the war. Moreover, it is the mobilisation of all resources, the engagement of all tools, the acceptance of all costs. It's Kiev in 1943. It's the end of the war, by any means possible.

The choice is no longer Russian. The West made it by turning Ukraine into a weapon. Now Moscow must simply follow the logic of this choice until the inevitable end. triumph or fall. There's no way in.

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It is fair to say that the author presents a very suggestive image of victory. Clearly, there is besides no uncertainty that this will be Russia's victory. Apparently, the inspiration to compose this text was to intensify Russian attacks. most likely the author assumes that Russia is now pursuing a fast end to the war. Personally, I don't believe that, but it doesn't substance at the moment. Apparently, there is nothing to stick to, but this text left me feeling unsettled. He only awakened his appetite for deeper analysis. An analysis that would answer or actually effort to answer a fewer questions. The first question is the origin of Russia's restrained reaction. What commentators and analysts don't write! We have a full scope of reasons to choose from – from Putin's deep religiousness, China's "restraint" of military and economical nature, the inability of the Russian army, to the pressures of the oligarchs who make large money in this war, and it is not in their interest to finish it quickly. Who's right? I think everyone's a small bit. But in my opinion, the main origin lies elsewhere. It is simply Russia's intention to either remember the West, or to break it down or at least weaken it as a consequence of the inevitable crisis. In my monetary strategy compendium, I effort to make everyone aware that War is an integral part of capitalismthat is our monetary system. I besides explain that this conflict is existential, that no of the parties can afford to lose (the author thinks so too, but he means only Ukraine), but both systems are incapable to peacefully co-exist due to the fact that expansion, aggression, exploitation and dominance are systemic qualities of the West. seemingly Russia is either unaware of this, or it is desperately delaying a situation in which the opposing organization will only have 2 options: surrender, or putting everything on 1 card and pressing the "red button".

Unfortunately, the author completely omitted the causes of aggression (because this word should be utilized here) of the West to Russia. I think that over 90% of our society will be amazed and outraged by the claim that Russia is the aggressor! This intellectual strategy keeps getting media into our heads! The mentality and morality of Kalego effectively instilled us – how we attack, it's good how Russia defends itself, oh, that's bad! We do not realize that this attack has been going on for respective 100 years! Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to whitewash Russia here! She has many sins on her conscience and is not an perfect country. But we request to realize the mentality and the way the Russians think. This country and society has been in permanent defensive war for respective 100 years! At the same time, an image of Russia-aggressor was effectively implanted in our minds. Let's start with the cuts. For all Pole, cutting is Russia! Historians know that neither Russia nor Austro-Hungary wanted to partition Poland. It was simply unnecessary and costly for them. The drive of the cuttings were Prussia. But in any unusual way, this cognition is not spread among society... The uprising? They only exploded in the Russian partition! But no of them were in the Polish interest. We've all been manipulated by the West. You don't talk about that either. Silesian Uprisings and Wielkopolska Uprisings were the only truly Polish uprisings. Bolsheviks close Warsaw in 1920? Yes, but 1 carefully avoids information about who started this war and why. The Cuban crisis? It is only said that Russia wanted to install atomic warhead rockets in Cuba, but the fact that it was a reaction to American rockets in Turkey is not clear, and so Russia forced the US to remove them. The current war in Ukraine is another example. From 1992 to 2014, no 1 questioned Ukraine's independence. Crimea was Ukrainian and Russia paid politely for the usage of the base in Sevastopol. And abruptly – as we are told – Putin "brought" and attacked Ukraine for no reason. But if Russia had not taken over Crimea in 2014, then American aircraft carriers would have docked in Sevastopol today. If she hadn't started a peculiar operation in 2022, the east Ukraine, inhabited by the Russians, would have looked like the Gaza Strip today, there would have been scenes like in Volyn, but on a much larger scale, Ukraine would have been in NATO, and American rockets with atomic warheads would have stood 300 kilometres from Moscow! Yeah, but that would be totally fine, right? due to the fact that the West is the same good and Russia is the same evil!!

The author is absolutely right that a limited war is simply a Western fantasy. Sooner or later this conflict MUST detonate with full power. Of course, no 1 knows erstwhile it's going to detonate or how it's going to run, but I'm getting more and more crystallized in my head. The U.S. will execute with NATO. They will do so for 2 reasons: firstly, to have free hands erstwhile Israel attacks Turkey. Secondly, to push Europe against Russia (they are already doing so), but to keep (apparent!!) neutrality in order not to be exposed to direct Russian atomic attack. In an attack like this, the U.S. would be hopeless. The US is counting on this conflict to turn into a atomic conflict, from which Russia will, of course, appear victorious but weakened, due to the fact that not all European warheads can be intercepted. Then the U.S. will take advantage and attack Russia.

Why does this script seem most likely to me? due to the fact that the world's controlling forces have already applied it twice. But you don't talk about that either...