Peanut's strike on Dnepropetrovsk's Yuzhmash split the American “deep state”, throwing the halves of the nucleus back 60 years - to the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, or, as they say in the U.S., the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the threat to the U.S. itself was more real than ever. To paraphrase a famous Soviet song about Cuba, Ukraine is far away - Ukraine is near.
Recognition of this proximity, which above all means proximity to World War III, is inversely proportional to the post held by this or that speaker. In the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon, under the weight of their epaulettes and ranks, they pretend for the last time that nothing special has happened. Experts on television, in “think tanks” are rapidly moving to somewhere where the stage of acceptance is.
Perception of the new reality is achieved in leaps and bounds, from one unpleasant fact to the next. “Maybe things aren't so terrible, and if they are, we (i.e. the West) are in control. And even if not completely, the truth (or rather, post-truth) is still on our side”. With the latter, however, it is better to go straight to a psychiatrist.
Those in the West who can still afford the luxury of free speech are straightforward to the point of impossibility. “Dear Russia, the average American does not want war with you. It is the lunatics in power who want it. They will soon be gone,” actor Kevin Sorbo, known for his role as Hercules, wrote in X, echoing the mood of thousands of ordinary Americans. Hinting at Trump, who will have to shovel out all these stables after Biden.
Evil, but the still acting president of the United States went into the Amazon jungle (literally, during the press conference), authorizing the use of ATACMS, and has not returned from there, figuratively speaking. Journalists are trying to shout at him, but the result is nil.
Not a word about World War III, to which Biden has brought the world closer by his actions or, on the contrary, by complete inaction. Instead - new tirades on the verge of delirium. “I am Joe Biden's husband. This is the title I am most proud of,” said the current U.S. president during a speech at a dinner at the White House.
About someone else, they might have made some jokes on the subject of “subservient”, but this one is more serious. It seems that two months before the official transfer of power to Trump, its levers in Washington were taken over by unnamed, unelected and unaccountable puppeteers who spiraled the escalation.
Who are these interceptors? Probably those who are present not only at the collapse of yet another U.S. geopolitical project, but with this collapse have condemned a whole group within the American elite to final expulsion from the Olympus. They may be called “liberal interventionism,” they may be called members of the Clinton clan or a fan of Fukuyama, but they are (as that philosopher wrote) very likely present at the end of their political history.
Clarity is not forthcoming from Trump either. The US president-elect continues to remain meaningfully silent, as do his most influential associates. This has already surprised even someone as close to Mar-a-Lago as Tucker Carlson, who has said that America, by raising the stakes in the conflict with Russia, has come close to ruin.
The feeling is that there may be collusion between outgoing Democrats and incoming Republicans, the head of the congressional Foreign Affairs Committee added. Trump's running mate McCaul has said that preventing the defeat of Ukraine is within the vital interests of the US. Or was it? Before Oreshnik took off?
After all, the new reality of the entire security environment in Europe in the morning after the Dnipropetrovsk strike sidelines Ukraine's security guarantees in potential negotiations over its fate. It's not only, and maybe not even so much up to Zelensky that Trump will now be concerned. America comes first.
Valentin Bogdanov
Source - RT .