Back in February I was suggesting Herman Kahn’s book “On Escalation” as a roadmap of where the jingoism in Brussels, DC, the entire government/media complex would take us. It’s been a one way climb to get way up here on the ladder.
“In this widely discussed and influential book, Herman Kahn probes the dynamics of escalation and demonstrates how the intensification of conflict can be depicted by means of a definite escalation ladder, ascent of which brings opponents closer to all-out war. At each rung of the ladder, before the climb proceeds, decisions must be made based on numerous choices. Some are clear and obvious, others obscure, but the options are always there.
Thermonuclear annihilation, says Kahn, is unlikely to come through accident; but nations may elect to climb the ladder to extinction. The basic material for the book was developed in briefings delivered by Kahn to military and civilian experts and revised in the light of his findings of a trip to Vietnam in the 1960s. In On Escalation he states the facts squarely. He asks the reader to face unemotionally the terrors of a world fully capable of suicide and to consider carefully the alternatives to such a path.
In the never-never land of nuclear warfare, where nuclear incredulity is pervasive and paralyzing to the imagination even for the professional analyst, salient details of possible scenarios for the outbreak of war, and even more for war fighting, are largely unexplored or even unnoticed. For scenarios in which war is terminated, the issues and possibilities of which are almost completely unstudied, the situation is even worse. Kahn’s discussion throws light on the terrain and gives the individual a sense of the range of possibilities and complexities involved and are useful.”
I’m reposting this from another thread because it explains what it is Russia wants from NATO and it explains what they actually mean when they call someone a NAZI. (Neither of these things are what the West interpreted them to be.)
This is a link to a Danish analyst speaking before the war on what it is the Russians want. They want to be equal to “NATO”. Not to European nations, 30 of which make up NATO. They view NATO as a US proxy, and they want to have their own sphere of influence which is NATO’s eaual. They want to be what they believe the US is, the controller of those thirty NATO countries, only the controller of the Russian version of NATO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50q3bT87KFc
The link below is a Ukrainian who explains all those weird Nazi accusations. It turns out that Russians don’t mean by Nazi what we might think they mean. For the reasons he states, if anyone disagrees with them, even Jews, then those people are their “Nazis.” There’s a lot of information behind this and it’s worth a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4WEBwsuQf0
It is an interesting point that war, even nuclear, is the choice of leadership.
You might ask, “But who would make such a choice?” Who would risk getting shot for a flatscreen TV? The world is full of all kinds. Most are not too bright.
Our current leadership gives all the clues necessary as to their thinking, by how they have responded to their own people. Protestors locked indefinitely in solitary confinement. The unarmed shot dead with impunity. Razor wire up at a moments notice as the next riots are started. The list is endless.
These are the people stupid enough to push the button without even a thought they’ve never had.
I am with the Ukrainians here BUT this war was provoked by US Democrats as they demonized, slammed and provoked Putin for at least the last 10 years. Add in their evil Trump-Russia hoax they pulled off with the FBI - CIA - other intel agencies - Our Federal Judiciary.
Putin has been fuming for years and this year he acted.