atimes | It’s crystal clear that President Trump is applying Kissingerian
divide-and-rule tactics, trying to reduce Russian political/economic
connectivity with the two other Eurasian integration poles, China and
Iran.
Still, the swamp cannot possibly contemplate The Big Picture – as this must-watch conversation
between two of the very few Americans who actually know Russia in-depth
attests. Professor Stephen Cohen and Professor John Mearsheimer go to
the jugular: Nothing can be done when Russophobia is the law of the
land.
Over and over again, we must go back to Putin’s March 1 speech, which
presented the US with what can only be described, writes Martyanov, as
“a military-technological Pearl Harbor-meets-Stalingrad.”
Martyanov goes all the way to explain how the latest Russian weapons systems
present immense strategic – and historical – ramifications. The missile
gap between the US and Russia is now “a technological abyss,” with
ballistic missiles “capable of trajectories which render any kind of
anti-ballistic defense useless.” Star Wars and its derivatives are now – to use a Trumpism – “obsolete.”
The Kinzhal, as described by Martyanov, is “a complete game-changer
geopolitically, strategically, operationally, tactically and
psychologically.” In a nutshell, “no modern or prospective air-defense
system deployed today by NATO can intercept even a single missile with
such characteristics.”
This means, among other things – and stressing it is never enough –
that the whole Eastern Mediterranean can be closed off, not to mention
the whole Persian Gulf. And all this goes way beyond asymmetry; it’s
about “the final arrival of a completely new paradigm” in warfare and
military technology.
Martyanov’s must-read book is the ultimate Weapon of Myth Destruction
(WMD). And unlike the Saddam Hussein version, this one actually exists.
As Putin warned (at 7:10 in the video), “They did not listen to us then.” Are they listening now?
