‼️ Things As They Really Are, As They Really Have Been, and As They Really Will Be Fiorella Isabel's judgment of the matters she addresses in the quoted post has remained consistently impaired ever since she became disillusioned with the Russians for not fighting the kind of war she believes they should. For her, Putin et al. are incorrigible traitors to the causes she imagines they should have and the courses of action she believes they should take. Pretty much everything she writes in the post below is nonsense born of shallow understanding and myopic perspectives. Isabel simply cannot wrap her mind around the complexities and perplexities of the current revolution we are seeing in terms of the global military and economic balance of power, and the so-called "soft power" of international diplomatic relations. Perhaps most of all, Fiorella (among a great many) has never been able to comprehend the concepts contained in something I have been writing about for years, and which I have recently encapsulated in a single statement: When you are locked in a mortal struggle with an empire in existential crisis, you must administer death by a thousand cuts in order to not evoke a trapped animal reflex in a beast who, at the very least, could destroy a city in a fit of fury. These things must be done delicately. This concept has been at the root of all Russian actions since they realized, in the summer of 2022, that they would henceforth be fighting a war against not only the Ukrainians, but also the combined military and logistical power of the United States and its various allies around the world. It remains my judgment that, all things considered in their proper light and scope, Russia has managed its affairs with remarkable acumen. Since February of 2022, the Russians have systematically attrited — to a shockingly comprehensive degree — the military capability of the collective western powers. Even more shocking, they have exposed the inefficacy and vulnerability of most of the western legacy implements of war, and the woefully deficient magazine depth of its armaments. They have similarly administered a comprehensive demilitarization of Ukraine, which now stands on the precipice of total collapse. The Russians have inflicted upwards of two million Ukrainian casualties. And, notwithstanding the laughable analyses of the credentialed western "experts", it will eventually be recognized and universally acknowledged that the Ukraine War has produced the most disproportionate casualty ratio of any major war in modern times. The Russian prosecution of this war will be admiringly studied for generations to come in war colleges and military histories. Most meaningfully, in course of time, we will see all of Russia's originally enunciated objectives realized: - Russia will extend its strategic depth to encompass the Black Sea coast to the Danube, Transnistria, and at least all the lands east of the Dnepr — and quite possibly large swathes of the territory west of the Dnepr as well. - Ukraine, if it survives this war at all, will be comprehensively de-Nazified and de-militarized. - Assuming NATO continues to exist as a credible military / political alliance, its military presence will be forced back to its 1997 borders. I also believe Russia, China, and Iran will continue to solidify their "partnership". They will anchor the "Eurasian Century". The American empire will rapidly recede from Eurasia in coming years. The United States will enter a period of unprecedented political conflict and significant economic tribulation, and quite possibly increasingly strident voices for regional secessions, and organized movements tending towards the eventual balkanization of North America. I submit that the degree to which Fiorella holds to a radically different view of these questions is the measure of her error, and this will become increasingly apparent between now and the end of this decade.