The insane recklessness of Collective Biden*

Friends, countrymen, lend me your ears…

I cannot say how close we are to midnight on the nuclear war watch. But a Third World War fought at least initially with conventional weapons is now just days, at most weeks away.

I look at what my peers are saying on the most watched youtube channels, and they seem conforted that the Ukraine war is unsustainable for Zelensky’s army given the ongoing massacre of the forces they deployed in their Kursk gambit, today said to be over 10,000 men dead or grievously wounded. Meanwhile the Russian offensive in Donbass is reported both by Russians and by Western media to be accelerating, with more towns being captured each day and the number of square kilometers of Ukrainian territory ‘liberated’ there in the past month already roughly matching the 1,000 that Ukrainian elite forces captured in Russia’s Kursk oblast over the same period. Of course, these two conquests are incomparable: the Ukrainians have a tenuous hold on land they cannot fortify so as to keep given that their supply lines from the border are under constant deadly attack from the air and from Russian artillery, whereas the Russian advance along the Donbass battle lines is pulverizing long standing Ukrainian fortified positions and is about to totally disrupt the logistics that permit the Ukrainian forces to stay in the Donbass.

These same peers have highlighted the destruction of Ukraine’s best present and future cadres in electronic warfare by Russia’s missile strike this past week on the military communications institute in Poltava which is today said to have killed 700 Ukrainian and NATO personnel.

However, this seeming turning point in Russia’s favor is, as we speak, setting the stage for one further absolutely desperate and reckless act by the Biden administration to deprive Russia of its well earned victory by escalating the conflict to a world war.

What I have in mind is the near certainty that the United States and Britain have just agreed to give the Zelensky regime permission to use the long-range missiles which have been delivered to Ukraine, certainly including Storm Shadow and likely also the 1500 km range stealth missile known as JASSM to strike deep into the Russian heartland, and so ‘to bring the war to Russia’ as the Zelensky gang put it.

That is the sense of the trip this week by Secretary of State Blinken to Kiev and of the visit to the White House on Friday by British Prime Minister Starmer.

Collective Biden is doing this in the full knowledge that the Russians have issued direct threats of attack on the United States and other countries involved in strikes on its heartland using such Western supplied and directed weapons. However patient and averse to a hot war with NATO President Putin may be, he will have no choice but to rise to the challenge.

Meanwhile, peers who know a great deal about current affairs in the Middle East, in particular former British diplomat Alastair Crooke , have in their latest interviews on youtube said flatly that the United States has given Israel the go-ahead to launch a full-blown war on Lebanon. The nod from Washington was expressed by the reminder to Netanyahu that the aircraft carriers and other U.S. vessels now stationed in the Eastern Mediterranean cannot remain there indefinitely, so if he has something to do, he should proceed without delay.

Hence the Israeli prime minister’s public directive to the IDF a day ago to move on Lebanon. Should this happen, the tinderbox that is the Middle East today may well catch fire. The interested parties in countering the atrocities that Israel has been committing in Gaza and most recently also in the West Bank now take in even very moderate and restrained Jordan, as well as Turkey and Egypt. Of course; it will be very difficult for Iran to stay out of the conflict, which in one way or another will also bring in Iran’s newly declared strategic partner or ally, Russia.

In this way a presently localized conflict in the Middle East can in a flash become a regional war that in a further flash becomes a second front to the war between the United States and Russia which I foretold above when speaking about Ukraine.

These considerations of what may well happen in the immediate days ahead cannot bring joy to anyone. There will be no победа (victory) or слава (glory) for any of the parties to the coming conflagration. Only massive destruction and loss of life.

*Collective Biden is the term which Russian talk show hosts have applied to the US leadership given that the presidency assumed a collective form when the physical Joe Biden slipped into deep senility this past couple of years.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2024

Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)

Die wahnsinnige Rücksichtslosigkeit des kollektiven Biden*

Freunde, Landsleute, leiht mir eure Ohren…

Ich kann nicht sagen, wie nah wir an Mitternacht auf der Atomkriegsuhr sind. Aber ein Dritter Weltkrieg, der zumindest anfangs mit konventionellen Waffen geführt wird, ist nur noch Tage, höchstens Wochen entfernt.

Ich schaue mir an, was meine Kollegen auf den meistgesehenen Youtube-Kanälen sagen, und sie scheinen sich einig zu sein, dass der Krieg in der Ukraine für Zelenskis Armee unhaltbar ist, wenn man das anhaltende Massaker an den Truppen betrachtet, die sie bei ihrem Kursk-Gambit eingesetzt haben – heute sollen über 10.000 Männer tot oder schwer verwundet sein. In der Zwischenzeit wird die russische Offensive im Donbass sowohl von russischen als auch von westlichen Medien als beschleunigt bezeichnet, wobei jeden Tag weitere Städte erobert werden und die Zahl der Quadratkilometer ukrainischen Territoriums, die dort im vergangenen Monat „befreit“ wurden, bereits in etwa der Zahl von 1.000 entspricht, die ukrainische Elitetruppen im gleichen Zeitraum im russischen Kursk erobert haben. Natürlich sind diese beiden Eroberungen nicht miteinander vergleichbar: Die Ukrainer haben nur einen schwachen Halt in einem Gebiet, das sie nicht befestigen können, da ihre Nachschublinien von der Grenze aus unter ständigem tödlichem Beschuss aus der Luft und durch russische Artillerie stehen, während der russische Vormarsch entlang der Kampflinien im Donbass seit langem bestehende befestigte ukrainische Stellungen pulverisiert und im Begriff ist, die Logistik, die es den ukrainischen Streitkräften ermöglicht, im Donbass zu bleiben, völlig zu zerstören.

Dieselben Kollegen haben auf die Zerstörung der besten derzeitigen und künftigen ukrainischen Kader in der elektronischen Kriegsführung durch den russischen Raketenangriff auf das militärische Kommunikationsinstitut in Poltawa in der vergangenen Woche hingewiesen, bei dem nach heutigem Stand 700 ukrainische und NATO-Mitarbeiter getötet worden sein sollen.

Dieser scheinbare Wendepunkt zu Gunsten Russlands bereitet jedoch in diesem Moment die Bühne für einen weiteren absolut verzweifelten und rücksichtslosen Akt der Biden-Administration, der Russland um seinen wohlverdienten Sieg bringen soll, indem er den Konflikt zu einem Weltkrieg eskalieren lässt.

Ich denke dabei an die fast sichere Tatsache, dass die Vereinigten Staaten und Großbritannien gerade zugestimmt haben, dem Zelenski-Regime die Erlaubnis zu erteilen, die an die Ukraine gelieferten Langstreckenraketen, darunter sicherlich Storm Shadow und wahrscheinlich auch die als JASSM bekannte Tarnkappenrakete mit einer Reichweite von 1.500 km, zu nutzen, um tief in das russische Kernland einzudringen und so „den Krieg nach Russland zu bringen“, wie es die Zelenski-Bande ausgedrückt hat.

Das ist der Sinn der Reise von Außenminister Blinken nach Kiew in dieser Woche und des Besuchs des britischen Premierministers Starmer im Weißen Haus am Freitag.

Das kollektive Biden* tut dies in dem vollen Bewusstsein, dass die Russen den Vereinigten Staaten und anderen Ländern, die an Angriffen auf ihr Kernland beteiligt sind, mit solchen vom Westen gelieferten und gelenkten Waffen direkt mit Angriffen gedroht haben. So geduldig und abgeneigt Präsident Putin gegenüber einem heißen Krieg mit der NATO auch sein mag, er wird keine andere Wahl haben, als sich der Herausforderung zu stellen.

In der Zwischenzeit haben Kollegen, die sich mit den aktuellen Geschehnissen im Nahen Osten gut auskennen, insbesondere der ehemalige britische Diplomat Alastair Crooke , in ihren jüngsten Interviews auf youtube unumwunden erklärt, dass die Vereinigten Staaten Israel grünes Licht für einen umfassenden Krieg gegen den Libanon gegeben haben. Der Wink aus Washington kam dadurch zum Ausdruck, dass Netanjahu daran erinnert wurde, dass die Flugzeugträger und andere US-Schiffe, die derzeit im östlichen Mittelmeer stationiert sind, nicht unbegrenzt dort bleiben können, so dass er, wenn er etwas zu tun hat, unverzüglich handeln sollte.

Aus diesem Grund hat der israelische Premierminister vor einem Tag die IDF öffentlich angewiesen, den Libanon anzugreifen. Sollte dies geschehen, könnte das Pulverfass, das der Nahe Osten heute ist, durchaus Feuer fangen. Zu den interessierten Parteien, die den Gräueltaten Israels im Gazastreifen und neuerdings auch im Westjordanland entgegentreten wollen, gehören nun auch das sehr gemäßigte und zurückhaltende Jordanien sowie die Türkei und Ägypten. Natürlich wird es für den Iran sehr schwierig sein, sich aus dem Konflikt herauszuhalten, der auf die eine oder andere Weise auch den neu erklärten strategischen Partner oder Verbündeten des Irans, Russland, einbeziehen wird.

Auf diese Weise kann ein gegenwärtig lokal begrenzter Konflikt im Nahen Osten blitzschnell zu einem regionalen Krieg werden, der wiederum blitzschnell zu einer zweiten Front des Krieges zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und Russland wird, den ich oben, als ich über die Ukraine sprach, vorausgesagt habe.

Diese Überlegungen zu dem, was in den nächsten Tagen geschehen könnte, können niemanden erfreuen. Es wird keinen победа (Sieg) oder слава (Ruhm) für irgendeine der Parteien in der kommenden Feuersbrunst geben. Nur massive Zerstörung und Verlust von Leben.

*Kollektiver Biden ist der Begriff, den russische Talkshow-Moderatoren auf die US-Führung angewandt haben, da die Präsidentschaft eine kollektive Form angenommen hat, als der physische Joe Biden in den letzten Jahren in tiefe Senilität abgeglitten ist.

16 thoughts on “The insane recklessness of Collective Biden*

  1. Setting the Middle East situation aside for a moment — Dr. Doctorow, what do you hear about the likely Russian response to future NATO/Ukrainian missile attacks deep into Russia? Further patience? Arming anti-Western proxies elsewhere in the world? Conventional missile strikes on NATO military bases in Poland, Germany, France? Nuking London?

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    1. If Russia encouraged Hezbollah to attack the refinery (the thermite drone previewed in Ukraine would be awesome) and Syria declared that they would attack shipping to or from Israel it would steal all of America’s attention and resources away from Ukraine. And focus everything on Israel.

      A little help from their friends would have the Houthi’s sinking bathtubs in the Med as well as the Red Sea. And what are we going to do, invade or better yet, nuke them?

      It also would exploit American overextension by starting trouble all over Africa and lock down those resources. Leave Chinese and North Korean fingerprints all over, just for fun. Again, drawing attention from the real (from a Russian point of view) fight as well as providing support to your Mideast allies.

      Once American naval forces are fully engaged (ie, the missile stocks are low) in the Med and Red Sea is a great time for China to resolve the Taiwan issue, either through blockade or invasion.

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  2. All along the Ukrainian conflict I have been thinking, “Oh surely the U.S. will stop now. They can’t win.” But they keep on sending weapons and money. And then I watch what is happening in Gaza and I think, “Surely the U.S. will not keep supporting this genocide” But we do. The dictates of logic and the preservation of human life no longer seems to play a part in the events. You warning is well taken. We’ve never been this close to the end IMO.

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  3. All very thrilling, but I have small contrary question.

    How? On a *practical* level how?

    The USA & NATO as a whole, are in no fit state, nor deployed to fight Russia or even Iran.

    They’ve had TWO YEARS! To get ready for war and they’ve done NOTHING. Even as their most potent army the AFU has been bled to death.

    If Zelensky gets a paltry handful of overpriced & underperforming toys from NATO and they happen to hit something worthwhile. Then more NATO personnel in Ukraine die, and hunting season of Ukraine leader who’ve lived too long is open.

    The IDF will get it’s ass spanked in Lebanon, as they have before. So there’s nothing more to say on that subject.

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  4. I forget who said it, but the U.S. is “agreement incapable”. They’re arrogant but ignorant, a bad combination when your opponent is neither.

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  5. Zelensky never had a chance to win a war against Russia alone.

    From the outset, Zelensky has tried to drag the U.S. or any other NATO country into fighting his battles for him. But even feeble Joe Biden understood that the U.S. entering the war would equal the start of WW3. The Pentagon has no doubt performed the calculation and concluded that self-preservation requires the U.S. to avoid declaring war on Russia.

    As this grueling war of attrition finally grinds to the inevitable conclusion, Zelensky will grow increasingly desperate for his own self-preservation. The danger of continuous escalation of NATO involvement will not ebb until Ukraine is defeated or else sues for peace.

    Olaf Scholz finally appears to have awakened from his fantasy dream of a Russian defeat. Macron is no longer sabre-rattling and that colossal incompetent Blinken, has arrived in Kiev today with the new and aptly named U.K. Foreign Minister, Lammy.

    The lifelong con-man Joe Biden appears to be seeking a way to lose the war now while claiming victory. Biden’s problem, aside from losing a war he should never have provoked, is to find a way to mollify the increasingly paranoid Zelensky.

    Last night, Trump once again stated that he could end this war quickly by getting the two sides to talk. Biden is running out of time to conclude the war before the November election. After Trump’s ambush last night by DNC operatives posing as debate moderators, Biden is now hoping that his idiot V.P. might actually be able to keep the con going even after the election. Nevertheless, Biden faces a choice between 1. taking the ‘L’ while bragging that he stood up to Putin, 2. letting the war of attrition drag on or 3. escalating the war to risk nuclear Armageddon.

    Putin has shown remarkable patience with the U.S. and NATO over the entire war. He is unlikely to fold his cards at this stage, given how many Russians have died already. He can wait to see who wins the U.S. election while pressing the war onto a mostly spent force that could collapse at any moment.

    What can Blinken offer Zelensky but capitulation and the exposure as fraud of the former comedian’s Winston Churchill impersonation. That leaves only the nuclear option which would conflict with Joe Biden’s tight schedule for pardoning his coke-head son for tax evasion and firearms convictions. Count on Biden to put his own personal interests first as he has always done.

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  6. Meanwhile, Canada’s CTV News reports ‘Ukraine counting on Canada’s support to push allies to allow long range missiles.’ Canada has done so.

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  7. Unfortunately I can see only one set of targets that NATO/Ukraine will aim for in Russia. Nuclear Power Stations. The airfields will be too well defended and the planes can take off anyway. Russia is an enormous country, so a relatively few missiles are not going to make much of a dent.

    They could just go for civilians in Moscow etc in the hope it creates panic with the vain hope it topples Putin. But that is so much of a long shot.

    A combo of the above would represent exactly the terrorism that the CIA/MI6 inferred.

    This is what the West has become, a new ISIS with nukes.

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  8. Curiously Russia said they’d supply weapons to US enemies if long range weapons are given to Ukraine. Perhaps this is how the two conflicts are united.

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