By David Glenn Cox
Just imagine you’re sitting at a poker table with Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump negotiating a peace plan. You ask for a fifty-year security deal and Trump offers you fifteen years. This is Donald Trump we’re talking about. Just what is his security promise actually worth? What are Vladimir Putin’s promises worth? It’s like negotiating between an alligator and a tiger. Or is Zelensky the liar? Playing the dummy hand and just playing for time?
The Russian economy is dying right before our eyes. Workers go unpaid, companies are closing their doors and there are runs on the banks. Russia is fast losing the ability to produce or manufacture anything. Sanctions and fuel shortages have crippled their ability to build any technology, such as vital radar sets. Russia has turned to North Korea, Iran, and China for military goods. The Russians are running out of able-bodied men to fight their war and have turned to foreign mercenaries.
Because of this labor shortage, there is nobody left to be a policeman. No one is around to be plumbers or fix the streets or repair the electricity. They import foreign workers to work in their factories, angering the general public. Crime has spiked 900% in Moscow due to the tough times and fewer policemen. Russia had ringed Moscow with radar sets and anti-aircraft batteries and Ukraine has proven time and again, that they can strike Moscow with impunity. The other night, Ukraine attacked all three Moscow airports and brought all air traffic to a standstill. Blowing out the terminal windows and igniting the fuel supplies. That’s inside Moscow. Outside of Moscow, in the provinces, conditions are growing even worse.
Workers are on strike and some workers have occupied the factories and threatened suicide, if they aren’t paid. Some haven’t been paid in three months and are now destitute. Russia’s positions on the battlefield are eroding. Last week, outside of Kupyansk, surrounded Russian soldiers out of food and water and low on ammunition surrendered en mass. The generals had promised Vladimir Putin that Kupyansk was in already in Russian hands. President Zelensky appeared in front of the Kupyansk sign to prove it was not as the generals had promised.
For Ukraine, Russia has all the tells of an enemy on their last legs. Why would they want to negotiate? The Russian navy is kaput. Bottled up in a harbor far, far away and far, from the days when she proudly sailed off the coastline of Ukraine, demanding surrender. At the beginning of the war, it was feared Russia might attempt a seaborne invasion. That’s a comedy today. The world has changed right before our eyes. And goofy Trump wants to build battleships despite what Ukraine has proven with their sea drones and undersea drones. Big ships aren’t safe anymore!
The Russian air force is evaporating before our eyes. Russia began the war with three AWACS aircraft and now, she has none. The majority of Russia’s fighter jets are from the Soviet era and just flying these dinosaur crates is a danger to the pilots. Russia produced five count em five, new fighter planes this year. Ukraine has steadily chipped away at the Russian bomber force until it is nil. Russia fired a short-range ballistic missile at Kyiv. The second time Russia attempted that stunt, the missile blew up on the launcher. It’s better to threaten a weapon than it is to show its vulnerabilities.
The only reason Zelensky came to Floriduh in the first place was to appease the big orange goofball. To tell Daddy Dementia how great and wonderful he is. Oh, you bet cha, that Nobel Peace prize is as good as hanging around your neck, sir! Oh, you’re so wonderful, Mr. Trump. Garsh, we all sure do admire you so much!
Trump needs this peace deal because he needs something, anything to save himself from the impending Epstein disaster. His entire misadministration is mired in scandal and he hasn’t had a single success since the great big disastrous bill. The clock is ticking on that bill and millions of Americans are about to lose their healthcare because of it. And when that happens in a few days, who will they blame? Trump renaming the Kennedy center after himself has been about as popular as Trump renaming the Kennedy center after himself. Trump once bragged he won all seven swing states, but today, he wouldn’t win a single one. He’s lost 70% of the independent voters and half the Republicans over all. Trump badly needs a success, if his own misadministration is to survive.
But the surest tell of all, are the Russian generals disappearing, falling out of windows or dying in car bombings. It means there is great instability at the top of the pyramid. Vladimir Putin had made promises to the oligarchs and the promises haven’t been kept. Traditionally in Russia, governments change overnight. Not with long drawn-out hearings or court rulings.
In World War One in Germany, the store shelves were empty, and the money was worthless. Soldiers went hungry, and the police went unpaid. These are universal tells that a government is failing, and a war is lost. General Hindenburg went to the Kaiser and told him the army might last a week to ten days at the most. This came as a shock to the Kaiser. Today in Russia, the store shelves are empty and the gas pumps have run dry. The money is worthless. The soldiers are going hungry and the police go unpaid. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
The promise of a quick war and an easy victory. Rulers counting all of their advantages and none of their shortcomings.
“The expenditure at home and at the front, including entertainment of guests, small items such as glue and paint, and sums spent on chariots and armor, will reach the total of a thousand ounces of silver per day. Such is the cost of raising an army of 100,000 men. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.
Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue. Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on. [That is, with rapidity.] Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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