Just when it seemed like the tensions between the U.S. and Russia couldn't get any worse, they did. As if it wasn't bad enough that the Biden Administration leaked to the New York Times a couple of weeks ago that they were preparing a series of cyberattacks on Russia over three weeks targeting energy, infrastructure, transportation, military and government (never mind that leaking this to one of the biggest media outlets in the world would make it public knowledge all over the world), Joe "Weekend at Bernie's" Biden then had to go and publicly call Putin a killer on national television. Now I'm someone who initially bought into all of the propaganda about Russia, that they were an existential threat trying to take over the world and that Putin was a killer who eliminated all of his enemies and critics. After four years and thousands of hours of study, a lot of it devoted to trying to find just that evidence, I've found none and the recent Russian indifference to Navalny just clarifies to me that all of this rhetoric is just that...rhetoric. Even worse a British publication claims to have received "Putin's hit list", including six British nationals he intends to kill. Unfortunately for them, reporters in Russia - not all of whom are sympathetic to Putin - quickly pointed out that the language of the hit list was not Russian but Ukrainian and very amateur Ukrainian at that, to the point where it was almost certainly faked.
In response to Biden's undiplomatic bullshit, Russia recalled their ambassador to the United States. A lot of speculation is flying about where this could go. Will they simply brief the ambassador on a new course of relations or will they cut off relations with the U.S. completely? What does this mean for Americans (like me) who are against the psychotic actions of the U.S. government and who would love to get a visa and abandon this sinking ship as soon as possible? Are we doomed to go down with the Titanic or does a harsher fate await us?
A few days ago Russia launched a submarine dubbed "the quietest in the world", a vessel capable of carrying 200 cruise missiles. Two days ago a U.S. spy plane was tracking it just off the coast of Israel. As they were watching, the sub disappeared off their radar yet NATO forces were still picking up transmissions between the sub and the Russian military. For hours the spy plane circled and circled and circled but was unable to relocate the sub. This caused quite a panic among U.S. and NATO forces who consider themselves technologically superior. A Russian sub that can not only carry 200 cruise missiles but that can disappear off radar? If I could ask one question to the U.S. military and to NATO it would be this: "Are you scared yet?"
Deep down I hope this would be a much-needed smack in the face for those who really need it but I know that it likely won't be. To admit that we have bitten off more then we can chew (and are continuing to do so) would be to ruin the myth of America, the ideal of an exceptional nation chosen by God to conquer the world and subdue all the inferior peoples and would reveal that the Emperor truly has no clothes. For that reason I expect a lesson will not be learned and that the escalations will continue.
In the spring of 2017 U.S. submarine tracker planes were circling for days off the coasts of California and Florida, apparently searching for something. A few days later a video surfaced of a general of the Russian military issuing a statement that the east and west coasts of the United States had been lined with nuclear drones that bore down into the ocean floor and lie dormant until detonated. The Kremlin commented on this saying "it sounds strange" and that the video may have been mistranslated. It very well could have been and used as propaganda to push for more trillions dumped into the U.S.'s already idiotic military budget but it would be naive to think that Russia did not have a contingency plan in effect to take down the United States in the event they are attacked and crippled. An invisible submarine packing 200 cruise missiles is certainly a force to be reckoned with.
Let's also take into account the fact the Vladimir Putin is an Orthodox Christian who continually adopts the Biblical stance of "turn the other cheek" while himself being continually slapped and beaten. This has brought up a lot of criticism towards him from members of the Russian government and the military, many of whom want to see Putin gone because of his more diplomatic stance and a stronger warning sent to the west. Putin himself has commented that Russia's firepower is entirely defensive and will not be used unless they are attacked first. Not all who surround him agree with this stance. Some of those may be willing to go renegade.
The largest nuclear detonation in history was a 50 megaton bomb in the Soviet Union in 1961. The mushroom cloud was 40 miles high and the heat was intense enough to cause third degree burns 60 miles from the blast site. Currently Russia is in possession of the even bigger 100 megaton warhead, a weapon so powerful it would incinerate everything in a 2,000 square mile radius. That's what the unhinged lunatics in D.C. are playing with and they either don't understand the danger or they genuinely want to die.
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs (1 and 2) compared with the 50 megaton Tsar Bomba ("Ivan") of the USSR.
It's time for the American people to turn off the TV and take a stand, only this time for the right reason. Screw Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Qanon or whatever the new fad is this week. Russia, China and Iran are not the real threats. The real threat is right there in Washington, D.C. The real threat has barricaded itself off from the rest of us. The real threat locked down the country and barely paid out anything for people to live on while every other country has been doing it every month for a year. The real threat thinks your $1,400 stimulus check will last through July. The real threat is using your future, your children's future and your grandchildren's future like dice in a Las Vegas casino. Something has to be done because war in 2021 is looking more and more likely.