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Russia Has a First Rate Military But Is Incompetent On Every Other Front

Paul Craig Roberts

I have warned many times that Russia’s go-slow war can result in wider war.  The longer the war, the more opportunity for the Western idiots to blunder into it. Scott Ridder agrees with me:

“So what’s going on right now is an effort by NATO to flex its muscles to convince itself that it has the ability to stand up to Russia. So, they are mobilizing these forces in what I call a “feel good” operation. The forces are insufficient to meaningfully confront Russia, but they are sufficient to look good on paper and make NATO feel good about itself. The danger in this is if NATO is flexing in the mirror and gets too impressed with what they are seeing to believe that they have actual genuine military capacity, then they seek to use this.”

“There are ongoing discussions in Brussels right now in the emergency summit that NATO has convened about the possibility of putting NATO’s peacekeeping forces into western Ukraine. You know, this is insanity. Under any circumstances, NATO does not have the ability to do this and prevail. But again, they’ve assembled these forces, they’re looking in the mirror, they think they like what they see and they think that there’s real muscle there. And, who knows, they may be compelled to believe that they have more capability than they really do and try to project these forces in the west of Ukraine, in which case there will be, unfortunately, a military clash between NATO and Russia.”

“If someone had asked me at the beginning of the Russian incursion into Ukraine what are the odds of NATO getting involved? I would say zero because NATO had made it clear that it was not going to get involved in any fight between Ukraine and Russia on Ukrainian territory. But as this conflict goes on, as millions and millions of Ukrainians seek refuge in NATO countries, we’re now looking at an economic and humanitarian catastrophe for NATO. And there are now people talking about not just imposing a no-fly zone, but actually putting NATO peacekeepers on the ground in western Ukraine.”........read more......