The Wolf and the Kremlin

Chapter 14: The Ghost of the Kremlin

Putin realizing that the snakes were closing in behind Russia started aggressively trying to move Russia away from her treacherous “allies”. He appeared to be unduly encouraged by Trump's victory in the US and the “new” Republican party. Probably more in hope than by reason took it as a sign that his old allies from the Regan era were coming back into power in the US/CIA. He was however correct that right in the middle of the Eurasian shark pit with no more than 140 million men is a pretty shitty strategic position. Whatever faults the US may have, it is essentially impossible for the US to invade Russia, probably at all, and definitely without taking catastrophic damage. While the US remains a democracy war with Russia will never by instigated by the American people. This not a matter of morals (not worth claiming we have any); it is a matter of survival. Furthermore any attempt to start a major war would lead to a major draft and drafts in the US are a riot, literally. It is most unlikely the political elites could whip the generally undisciplined American populace into any kind of coordinated action beyond burning the draft offices. The problem with the US is that for the same reason the US is a relatively harmless adversary the US is also a relatively useless ally. In any case Putin didn't even get the alliance, Trump proved to be a broken reed.

Putin more than got the attention of the snakes though. The KGB begin by trying to frame him in yet another poisoning. Putin mostly thwarted this by getting the man out of Russia, in a extraordinarily rapid evac into Germany where he should have stayed. Shortly afterwards Putin, privately reconstructed a few RT docs, and publicly tried to block the sale of arms to China. The KGB who had by that time breached Presidential security retaliated. Putin was photographed not long afterwards starved and extremely anemic. He seriously looked like he was fixing to haunt something he was so blood-less. Either they beat him until he was bleeding internally or they deprived him of almost all normal nutrition. Anemia is pretty much only caused by hemorrhaging or a sever nutritional deficiency. This attempt by Putin to break Russia out of the trap combined with obvious signs of spiraling instability in the United States served to convince the Chinese pupet master that his plans for Russia must be accelerated. Putin was beaten for the moment into apparent submission. Whether having been abandoned by his allies he was at his wits end or whether it was only a pretense to throw his enemies off guard, Putin for the moment played along, read his per-written speeches and tamely dropped his open defiance of the CCP. Not that he liked it much, he was randomly glaring off into space or at people in the Dumas for the duration of his obedient rendition of a CCP programed talking head. This obedience was not to last.

Chapter 15: End Game

The problem the “allies” of Russia face and for that matter the EU is how best to butcher her. All stand to gain by her destruction but there is a nasty little matter of her nuclear barbs. The trick is how to get at the flesh and avoid the quills. The solution is really quite simple and here is where we come in, and yes we have “allies” too mostly in the EU. If only Russia could either be tricked into inviting her “allies” in, in force; or failing the Trojan horse scenario at least tricked into discharging her quills into a suitable target thereby striping herself of her most potent defense; the EU could take Eastern Europe for her slave colony; China could help herself to Siberia, and the muslims masses led by iran could consume the Russian west. This happy pack would last until China, by far the strongest, decided once again she really could do with a few less allies. All major powers stand to gain by a war between the US and Russia except the people of the US and Russia; politicians and arms dealers, generally known as traitors and butchers, are another matter, of course.

The key to orchestrating this war was Ukraine. Ukraine is not a nation it is an 800 year old boarder dispute between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia. The one truth about Ukraine is the boarder between the Polish Commonwealth countries and Russia is (almost) always in Ukraine and it is never where Poland or Russia agree it belongs. (this is of-course excluding the happy occasions where either Poland manages to conquer all of Russia or Russia manages to swallow Poland leading to a brief remission in the Ukrainian part of the dispute until one of the two belligerents makes it back out from under the other)

Starting this thing up was a trivial matter. The trick was to establish Russia at least in the US as the blatant aggressor, and the Russian cause as without the slightest justification. This could never have been done without the iran loving anti-Putin and active collusion from the head of the FSB. To begin with atrocities committed by the neo-nazis were simply not reported, something expected of the BBC, but never of Russian Television. The Putin trio (or even quartet) in particular never mentioned anything close to a genocide in the years leading up to the war. In fact, “Putin” is recorded less than a year before the “discovery of the genocide” as stating to effect that zelensky is essentially an alright guy just a little to influenced by the nationalists. In the “Putin” interview at the beginning of Biden's term “Putin” doesn't even mention Ukraine well into the interview; rather strange if there was really a genocide going on in Ukraine wouldn't THAT be of more importance that a random discussion of Russian hacking laws (or even the lack thereof). The details of what were going on in Ukraine were doubtless even kept by the FSB from the real President to avoid another round of rebellion. Oddly enough even AFTER the war started the worst thing Lavrov came up with in his interview with the BBC was the firing of an ethnic Russian school teacher for the wrong loyalties. No doubt persecuting school teachers for standing up for their heritage is a very bad thing but not even the teachers union from hell would remove the school board with T-80's.

So instead of arguing the point that the US could not affirm Ukraine's boarders on the basis of historical precedent, self-determination of the local ethnic Russian population, or criminal human rights abuses of an ethnic minority, what does the the Russian leadership come up with to argue against US support for Ukraine? What they pretty much came up with is Ukraine should never be allowed to join a mutual defensive treaty which deters invasion because Russia intends to invade Ukraine if she even thinks of trying to deter a Russian invasion. And the Russian habit of objecting to everyone who joins NATO from Finland to Sweden only makes her objections the more bizarre. Sovereign nations have a right to form defensive alliances to maintain their boarders as they see fit. Unless Russia has a boarder dispute with a country, Russia has no legitimate objection to that countries sovereignty or her treaties. And if Russia does not have a boarder dispute it is most unwise for Russia to insist she is planning on having one. If Russia had only objected to Ukraine in NATO and that on the basis of the historical question of the real Russian-Ukrainian boarder, Russia's position would had been feasible. However like the boy who cried wolf, by the time Russia finally had a legitimate objection to a NATO expansion she had so carpeted Europe in illegitimate complaints that she hardly got a hearing.

Even then though it only takes one country of the 30 something NATO block to reject Ukraine. Surely Russia could have presented her case to the obvious parties like Italy, or even Germany. In fact it only takes one third of the American senate to protest a treaty to keep the US from ratifying the expansion. Given that on the average day half the Senate is practically throwing things across the isle at the other half and they can't even agree on the time of day it is pretty easy to get the American senate into a disagreement with the American Senate. All the Russians had to do was present a good case to the American congress, for issues with the boarder and the treatment of the ethnic minority, and the US would almost certainly had blocked NATO. Why would it be easier to defeat an alliance of 30 something nations in war than to sow discord in the American Senate where discord is pretty much the usual order of business?