It has not been long since we read in most media statements by analysts that the Russian economy was going to collapse in a few weeks. And with it, Russia’s ability to wage war. But it is turning out rather differently. In three months of war in Ukraine, NATO has used up two years’ worth of its armaments production, and soon there will be nothing left to shoot with. By contrast, the Russian-Chinese industrial complex seems to be able to supply its troops without any problems.
This is extremely bad news for both sides, because when one side starts to get very bad, the risk grows that it will resort to harsher measures and the war will escalate. Indeed, there is already a debate in America about bombing Russian cities (or supplying the technology to enable the Ukrainian army to do so), and the perfectly logical next step would then be to bomb European cities.
We have started a war in which our (Western) side has the better publicity and the Russian side occupies more and more territory and kills more and more of our soldiers.
Behind the mistake is something that was abundantly clear from the start. After all, the real power lies with those who control the fields, the mines, the factories and the railways. Not whoever has the stock exchanges, advertising agencies and modern banking institutions where some little numbers are transferred. In recent decades in the West, it was (and still is) those who have the banks and the media who made the decisions, not those who produce or grow something. This has gone on for so long that we have come to think that the real power lies in the banks and media manipulation.
Now we are awakened from our reverie. We have started a war in which our (Western) side has the better publicity and the Russian side occupies more and more territory and kills more and more of our soldiers. We don’t worry too much about it because only Ukrainian subhumans are being killed and nobody in the west feels sorry for them. But it does not change the essence of the problem.
