Russia, Lord of “Der Ring des Nibelungen” in New ‘Twilight of the Gods’
Kremlin, recall my words: WHY you do WHAT you do…Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen?
“Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse about an infinite number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, “Is it not worthy of tears,” he said, “that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?” – Plutarch, Moralia
Innocent lives lost at Crocus City Hall pawns in this new Götterdämmerung?
President Vladimir Putin, I remind you the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) is located in Dubna, Moscow Oblast, about 110 km north of Moscow. It is also the location of your defense aerospace company MKB Raduga, key center for design and production of missile systems and of Russia’s largest satellite communications.
Or, what I call Russia’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” Vlad, if perpetrators were able and willing to travel thousands of miles, what’s a few hundred more? Seems odd to combine a shootout AND explosion. Unless it was a ‘dry run’ for the ultimate explosive strike.
RAF, as Commander of Space Defense Command (SDC), I point out:
“The deer looks straight ahead as its known enemy dwells in its physical space. It is the rabbit who needs to look up and guard from the unknown enemy in flight. “
What of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERNs proposed intent to not renew the JINR at the “expiration of the current ICA in January 2025.”? CERN is said to be the ‘birthplace of the World Wide Web.’
Russia’s participation with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, appears to conflict with NATO. In fact, CERN, “intends to terminate” cooperation agreements with Belarus and Russia when they expire, respectively in June and December 2024.”
CERN, however, may not make this decision hastily. Why? ”Nearly 7% of its 18,000-odd researchers from around the world were linked to Russian institutions.”
The R&D is at the “Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, is in the process of launching its third run this summer…Russian scientists have been involved in planning multiple experiments.”
President Putin, America’s envoy to Hostage Affairs Rodger Carstens appears confident a decision on US Hostages with Hamas will be made within 90 days. Hmm, just in time for Belarus. But you still got time. November election comes before your December deadline.
Rodger, I’d rethink what your predecessor Roberts pointed out about the numbers. Hostages, like Spies abound. Time and again, U.S. likes to take out its favorite Cold War playbook, crying, ‘You sank my battleship!’
US and NATO, Crumbling ‘Retreat of the State’, Military and Navy
Americans, appears Bridges, Planes, and Subs not your only problems. Got ‘bottlenecks at American shipyards.’ US Navy notes under Commanding Officer – Cmdr. Steve Halle:
“VA-class or 774-class, is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines…designed for a broad spectrum of open-ocean and littoral missions. They were conceived as a less expensive alternative to the Seawolf-class attack submarines, designed during the Cold War era.”
Cmdr. Halle, Sir, not only are these “US Attack Submarines to Counter China” as reported by Bloomberg late in the game, but if they get built, will it be quick, cheap and dirty?
Aussies, looks like US got submarine production problems. Right, like Boe planes “they can’t produce submarines at a pace fast enough to be able to meet their own needs, let alone anybody else’s”. Better get started on Plan B.
Biden, your idea of ‘building back better’? As you can see it all ‘can turn on a dime.’ But overlook not how tunnels play an important role both for science and scoundrels.
My satellites have spotted US Fermilab’s ring-shaped tunnels of the Tevatron. Sure, tunnels have been critical to the operations of border traffickers and operatives like Hamas.
However, the LHC, which lies in a tunnel, is not only 27 kilometres in circumference but has a depth of 175 metres (For you Yanks, it’s about the length of two football fields.) Indeed, TUNNELS, have proven to be quite useful.
President Putin, rats are said to desert a sinking ship. Eye on those aiming to board. As you can see, enemy is closer thank you think.
Read my June 2021 paper “GOING UNDERGROUND: Particle Accelerators to Power Systems.”
TUNNELS to Accelerators to TOWERS – Breaking down this engineering feat we not only discover its complexity but how undergrounding infrastructure is built on the interdependence of multilateral systems.
European countries managed to design, build and maintain the underground 100 metres 27 km circumference circular Large Hadron Collider tunnel. CERN continues to operate this infrastructure after more than half a century as a particle accelerator.
Lab popularity too has caught the eye of the Middle East recently as Israel, Turkey, and Pakistan have joined. No surprise, some countries are approved by CERN (Russia) and others NATO.
NATO, Falling into Putin’s Bear traps
NATO, speaking of REDS, approve Sweden the Other ‘Red House’ but pass up Ukraine, again? And to add insult to injury, the US President proclaims in his ‘State of the Union’ “They know how to fight.”
Biden, Sweden initially proclaimed neutrality. In the end, sided with German Regime in WWII to fight against you, UK and Russia.
NATO new members ignore the ‘avoidable errors of statecraft.’ Cold War: Defense v Economy. Hear you can barely handle 2%. Imagine 3%. Care to walk in US footsteps?
Speaking of Russia, UK and RAF comes to mind. Hmm, Russian Air Force or the Royal Air Force? The Guardian reports UKs Grant Shapps reference to Putin: “All that needs to happen to resolve this is he needs to drive back east and get out of a democratic country that he decided to invade two years ago. And that is the way to bring this whole thing to a conclusion.”
Shapps, First, as defence secretary you have full knowledge of air space restrictive fly zones. Best you get out of a country’s ‘no fly zone.’ Your own PM Sunak reports “not unusual” for aircrafts to experience GPS jamming over the city.” Second, NATOs decision two years back to expand deters conclusion. How about you drive back west since you clearly forgot to fly.
Of course, if a provocation is your goal for elongation of the war, I imagine a NATO member could be baited resulting in an ‘accident.’ Or, say a surprise attack!
CIA, you’re good at getting into the heart of things. Problem is, once in so deep, you can’t seem to see the foreign policy from the foreign enemies:
Pearl Harbor – arrogance and underestimating enemy.
September 11th – 2 kinds of turf wars: 1.Competing Intel agencies. 2. Gender bias. Here again your arrogance underestimated Female Analysts and Case Officers. Israel, sound familiar?
In Business and War, CEOs and Generals say, “I’d rather be lucky than right.” US and Israel, your record demonstrates you’re neither.
NATO, if ‘special arrangements’ are made for members, could ‘special engagements’ purvey for Alliances? Strategic competition, pointed out by former CIA director Leon Panetta, appears to have been put into action by endorsing Finland and Sweden.
Military, Diplomacy, Economic and Energy are the four sectors US prides its strength on says Panetta. And you know when and which country to apply each. Recall, Norway stipulated no nuclear warheads on its domain. Baltic Sea can now be tagged as NATO Nuclear Warhead Zone since France will not share its nuclear subs.
No surprise another former CIA director Mike Pompeo noted US opening Embassy in Greenland during Trump administration. Or what Panetta calls ‘diplomacy.’ Wait, weren’t there some old nuclear warheads that emerged near Greenland since WWII? And why not? Like Hawaii, Greenland agreed to U.S. Space Force bases.
NATOs Achilles Heel!
NATO, what Nation will be the “vulnerable heel” bowing to Purveyor of WORLD WARS? Certainly not Ireland, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge cried of the “British Achilles!”
Irish Brothers and Sisters, let us make our mark in these ‘Patriot Games.’ Irelanders stand by their convictions, “To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee.”
US Generals see Afghanistan as ‘strategic failure.’ No surprise, US and European Generals resign or are sacked. Denmark, heard today, day of NATOs Anniversary, a ‘warning of a possible accidental missile launch’?
“Danish government fired its chief of defense, the highest-ranking uniformed military officer, Gen. Flemming Lentfer, after a report of weapons systems failing on a ship that was taking part in the U.S.-led effort to guard shipping near the coast of Yemen.”
In the Middle East, US and Allies make sure Generals are swiftly ‘retired.’
But do not confuse ‘military mistakes’ with those of politicians’ holding on to the idea of a ‘diplomatic platform.’ Naïve Senators, cannot compare Afghanistan to Vietnam and Japan.
Fools! Retreated spaces, or what you call failures in the Middle East have been strategically filled by China. As the Russians and Arabs, China knows what makes you TICK! Ha, you quarrel over banning the Tik and the Tok. All the while China shakes hands with a stronger Taliban.
Rules of Engagement (ROE) are futile if not executed. Defense, you failed to alert soldiers that ‘it’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt.’
Do expect your soldiers to feel confident in ‘pulling the trigger’ if their Commander in Chief made a deal with an enemy he could not trust. In shaking hands he failed to identify the foreseeable hostile actions and intent of his enemy.
Global Threats? No amount of Military might was able to halt orchestrated strikes:
US Pearl Harbor – SEAL (Sea, Air and Land) penetration
US 9/11 – Air to Land penetration
Israel October 7th – SEAL (Sea, Air and Land) penetration
Russia, March 22nd – LAND penetration
Dictatorship nor Democracy can keep you safe. Western leaders, countries of old men and their ghosts, link by link, clearly your worst days are not behind you.
End of the Nation States?
NATO, appears your goals no longer reflect your motto, ‘Animus in consulendo liber.’
It fails in comparison to my resolve, ‘Ego sum ille qui pulsat.’ Recall my words in “Enemy Missiles Sensors v US Blueprints?” Tis I who is knocking!
So who will win in this new ‘Twilight of the Gods’?
U.S., come now, have you forgotten the “Father of the Atom Bomb”? Better still, seen my screenplay, “And the Oskar Goes to German ‘Death Ray.” Or does your love for fiction blind you of the roots to DEFCON 1 through 5?
Shame your alert state, defense readiness condition, is not made public. Yet, you are obligated to communicate to foreign nations imminent attacks in your ‘duty to warn’ policy?
Liken to Sweden, appears you’ve been too long inside your greenhouse and think “your shit doesn’t stink.” Time to get back to YOUR Red House.
Or, risk falling in Putin’s Bear traps. Keep Poking the Bear and you will find yourself in Napoleon’s company. We remind you, ‘revenge is best served cold.’
Indeed, “The Ides of March are come” but not entirely gone. Recall aftermath of WWII?
Russia, I see you as the British and Americans understand this all too well:
“When it came to the electricity supply…beware of overlooking one of the four sectors in the city – had to be taken off the grid for at least three hours in every twelve. The grid…was under the command of American captain.” – The Fourth Estate, by Jeffrey Archer