No, I am not just talking about Russia’s Kerch Bridge to Crimea, or the destruction of the NordStream gas pipelines, I am thinking more generally about The Blob’s tendency to do whatever it can to limit other countries options going forward. The Blob is constantly looking for ways to prevent other countries from developing their economies, choosing their own leaders or even being able to maintain social order. The Blob loves burning other people’s bridges.
The US/NATO instigated war in Ukraine is a perfect starting point for the discussion. In addition to the profit motive for our Merchants of Death (MoD), there are at least four additional objectives that The Blob has in the Ukraine war; 1) divorce the EU from Russia and make the EU weaker and dependent on the US, 2) weaken Russia’s military and economy, 3) test US/NATO weapon systems, tactics, logistics and surveillance against Russian counterparts (https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/15/politics/ukraine-russia-war-weapons-lab/index.html), and 4) to limit Russia’s options for influencing the world economy and world events. Turning Ukraine into a weaponized NATO proxy was always a given from the moment the US and NATO helped pull off the Maidan coup in 2014.
Now, after 15 months of these ongoing tests, we can conclude that while the MoD profit motive has been an unquestionable success, the other 4 missions have failed substantially or backfired, and hence we hear whimpering whispers from the West about peace talks from a “position of strength”. There is also the obligatory war-hawk shrieking about engaging in more direct war with Russia; also a clear indication that things are going horribly wrong for The Blob, again.
There was also always the capitalist reasoning of great profits to be made in fossil fuels due to both war and sanctions. This was another profit-driven goal that did fully materialize, but it benefitted one part of The Blob (the US) at the expense of other parts (the EU). Victoria Nuland, displaying her wily diplomatic skills famously said “Fuck the EU!”, and just look what’s happened to the EU since. You should thank your lucky stars every day that The Blob suffers from auto-immunity disorders that turn one part of it against another, as this slows The Blob’s relentless assimilation and expansion activities. The resultant deterioration of relations between The Blob and some NATO members may metastasize as things deteriorate in the EU and Ukraine. Many NATO member states are growing increasingly angry at the US, as well as with other EU members, over the economic calamity caused by the sanctions against Russia and China and the loss of cheap Russian gas. There is also the worry that if things spiral out of control, EU member states will be on the frontlines while the US relaxes on the other side of the ocean (again).
Recent news stories are brimming with examples of limiting actions imposed by The Blob on friend and foe alike. There are many examples of arm twisting and threats to allies ranging from Turkey to India to force them to harm their own economies in order to help the US and NATO harm Russia through sanctions. Another example was the complete lack of honest intent during the Minsk peace accords, to stall for time so that western Ukraine could build up defenses along the line where they were attacking the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine. This set the stage for the current prolonged war between Ukraine (plus NATO) and Russia, ensuring that Ukraine would never be able to reconcile with their neighbor in the future. Another bridge burnt by The Blob. Then there is the case where The Blob sent Boris (Badenoff) Johnson to kill the peace deal brokered between Ukraine and Russia early in the course of the war. There goes another bridge.
However, there is no greater example of The Blob blowing up other people’s bridges than the destruction of 3 of the 4 NordStream gas pipelines from Russia to Germany. The world is still abuzz, 9 months after the fact, with finger pointing over the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines that connected Russian natural gas supplies to northern Europe.
The Usual Suspects
The US initially said that Russia blew up their own pipeline, but Russia countered that the entity which stands most to gain is responsible, meaning the US. Let’s start by looking at the claim that Russia destroyed their own pipeline to smite NATO and the EU. This is obviously absurd, and it says something about the childishness of the current “information war” that such nonsense even gets mentioned, let alone discussed as possible. Russia had full control over the flow of gas through the pipeline, and would never have any need of destroying the pipelines, especially right near Germany, and very far away from Russia. As it turns out, Seymore Hersh reported that it was Joe Biden, one of The Blob’s most subservient minions, who ordered the US Navy to send deep diving teams to set the charges to be detonated at a later time. Subsequent stories from The Blob that some Ukrainians rented a sailboat to do deep sea pipeline mining operations are even sillier than the claim that Russia did it. The Blob’s purpose of destroying the pipelines was to burn the rather large bridge that had been built between Russia and Europe to link their economies for the benefit of both. This was something that The Blob could not tolerate.
Some analysts continue to claim that the US Corporate Owned News (CON) is not doing its job when they lie and obfuscate current events. This is an incorrect analysis. The CON is doing its job exactly as described in The Blob’s user manual where the CON are depicted as “Information Warriors” on the front lines of the new “Information War”. They are the vanguard that protects The Blob from requisite scrutiny. They are the smoke screen and the excuse makers. They are, indeed, the disinformation warriors, claiming to be counter-disinformation warriors, which The Blob so desperately needs to keep their malfeasance on track and the public quiescent.
So, what could possibly get a country like Ukraine to sacrifice itself going to war against a much larger and more powerful neighboring country? Clearly, after the US-planned 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine, and the subsequent massive military buildup and defense fortification in eastern Ukraine, the war was a major objective of The Blob involving years of planning and preparation. What convinced Ukraine was the siren song of The Blob, consoling them with the promises of never-ending money and weapons, and all the intel, logistical support and positive western media coverage you could ever want. No strings attached! Reminds me of every TV show and movie where The Devil promises everything, but only delivers death and destruction, once you have signed in blood. What convinced the European Union to go along with their own self-imposed slow strangulation and destruction is similar, they actually believed what The Blob had been telling them, even though they knew it all sounded too good to be true.
The tendency of The Blob to interfere via military, financial and terrorist violence in the affairs of other countries is so obvious to the rest of the world now that it is a wonder that any other country is willing to play the fool anymore. The Blob knows that Russia and China have concluded that they can’t ever depend on The Blob to be honest or trustworthy, and that means they won’t be strung along anymore with fake peace talks. This has put The Blob into full-on attack mode, lashing out at supposed friend and foe alike. But viable human relations are based more on trust and mutual respect than on might and fear, and The Blob has nothing to offer in the former department and relies entirely on the latter. This is one real reason why The Blob is failing, and why it will continue to do so until minds are changed within its narrative management sphere.
Aside from things like the recent intel leak damage, one of the worst things that can happen to The Blob is when its victims rebuild the bridges that The Blob has burnt. This is what happened recently when Iran and Saudi Arabia decided to re-establish diplomatic relations. It is also happening between Russia and China, as well as other countries around the world that are joining the BRICS initiative to de-dollarize swaths of the world trade system. If the non-assimilated countries have learned any lessons from the past, they would reject the siren songs from The Blob and strive to re-build their bridges with one another on less flammable, Blob-proof foundations. Many of our allies now have doubts about their alliances with the US as The Blob has proved to be a fickle and unreliable patron. Much of the rest of the world is building new bridges while The Blob continues to burn its own and others.
If The Blob had not sent Boris Johnson to Kiev to nix the Ukraine-Russia peace deal in the spring of 2022, the world would have a much happier, less damaged and nearly whole Ukraine and we all would be in a much better place. Now that Russia fully understands the monstrous duplicity and deceitfulness of The Blob, they will not go back to any negotiations as they know they would just be further stalling distractions. That leaves Russia’s only viable option to be completion of their original Special Military Operation’s stated goals of demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine, the full retaking of the 4 Oblasts in the Donbass, as well as ensuring that what remains of Ukraine never joins NATO. Many expect Russia to reclaim Odessa and a land bridge to Transnistria as well. This outcome will be far worse for Ukraine and The Blob than the original deal that was scuttled by Boris Johnson in 2022.
The current counter-offensive by the Ukrainian army is not going well, and we will find out by mid-June what other options The Blob has in store for the world. One option that The Blob is probably considering is that of volunteer military groups from countries like Poland and the UK to sign up to go to western Ukraine to create a “peacekeeping NATO-Shield” that supposedly will deter Russia from advancing too far west. If this happens, you can expect all hell to break loose as Russia will see that The Blob is willing to escalate further and cross more critical “red-lines” that Russia has set. It will force Russia to significantly up their efforts to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine and make sure that whatever is left of Ukraine after this war never joins NATO. Since NATO expansion was the cause of the war, pushing NATO further toward Russia is obviously the most dangerous option that The Blob could employ. But the Biden administration, the most incompetent of my lifetime, has set in motion a disaster that they are losing control over rapidly as Ukraine’s NATO-armed forces are ground down by Russia. If Poland decides to send their army into the battle, the chances of preventing a wider war that threatens Europe are greatly reduced.
One of The Blob’s main objectives in the current proxy war in Ukraine was to weaken the Russian army, but what has happened is that the Russian army has been greatly strengthened and now has extensive experience in successfully dealing with NATO weapons and tactics. NATO forces have gotten no such battle experience. Ukraine’s battle experience has been one of continuous attrition. Their remaining army has much less experience than the armies they have lost over the last year. As it stands now, the main outcome that The Blob has wrought upon itself is that it has burned most of its own bridges to much of the rest of the world. The end result is going to be a world that does not follow The Blob in its headlong rush to destroy the world while trying to control it. One idea that has never crossed The Blob’s mind is the idea that it would be faring much better if it had cooperated with the rest of the world, rather than trying to control it by force.
As Henry Kissinger famously said: "To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” Insightfully, he claimed that being an enemy “can be” dangerous, but that being a friend “is” fatal. Apparently, the current leaders in Europe and Ukraine haven’t gotten Henry’s message. The take home message for everyone is that you shouldn’t make deals with The Devil, especially in ways that screw over your close, powerful neighbors. While it does seem to be dawning slowly on some of The Blob-absorbed European leaders that they may have miscalculated when they signed their sovereignty away in blood, they have not shown any backbone in resisting siren calls from The Blob. Ukraine, on the other hand, has signed its sole over to The Blob, and will now be dismantled piece by piece. It is too late to save Ukraine, they lost their last best chance at remaining intact when they listened to Boris Johnson and walked away from the peace deal that could have saved them.