I read the one below in the NYT — and I am writing what I recall.
Mr. Biden's war has been a strategic failure — greatly diminishing America's power, its interests and its influence for years to come. When you look at President Biden's long-term strategic aims and objectives, there is no question, America is significantly worse off today than it was before the full-scale invasion — militarily, economically, geopolitically. Where Biden aimed to project strength, he has revealed weakness. Where he sought to divide, he has united. What he tried to prevent, he has precipitated.ASD Blues
Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State
"What"", you say? He didn't say "Biden" — he said "Putin"? He didn't say "America" he said "Russia? Oh my, oh my....
Sorry, sorry, sorry.... Got it wrong. Guess it's my ASD acting up again. But you can't blame me — that wouldn't be woke.
I guess I just assumed Blinken and President Biden, were living in the same world I — and you are — which they are obviously not.
In the official version of Blinken's recent speech in Finland, which was the subject of the NYT's article, Blinken talks about "Putin's War diminishing Russia's power".
Blinken Winkin'?
Was Blinken winking at the world when he did this speech?
For one thing, Russia is growing more powerful by the day, taking on the West militarily, economically, diplomatically and most important of all, morally — and winning on all counts.
To date, the Russians have destroyed three NATO armies in the Ukraine and are now destroying a fourth in the "Spring Counteroffensive", which doesn't really exist because
a.) it aint Spring any more
b.) The Ukrainians haven't called it a 'counteroffensive" — smart — since when when somebody says, "Hey your counteroffensive failed", they just reply, "What counteroffensive? We just wanted to go to the beach to swim".
My ASD is working overtime. I blame it on Blinken.
Military
In any case, the Russian army has grown — aiming at a 30% increase to 1.5 million. It is now modernized, battle tested, with improved intelligence, communications and a streamlined command structure. Before the UkroNazis began their counteroffensive-that-wasn't, General Gerasimov was in place in the Donbass to coordinate and manage the Russian response.
In addition, the Russians have a lot of new weaponry that nobody else has.
They have the edge in hypersonics, air defense, and EW systems. For example. "stealth fighters" like the much touted, ever-buggy F-35s are now no problem for them thanks to the Khibiny electronic warfare system.
Economics
Economically, the mostly debt-free Russian economy is doing just fine.
Russian industry is on a roll. For a while, the Russians could barely supply the DPR and LPR militias with enough ammo to kill Ukrainians since they were killing so many more than expected. Now, they are on top of that.
The US, by contrast, has enough ammo for just about two weeks of real war. And, while it says it plans to ramp up production, it lacks the means. No tools. Simply put — the US doesn't make anything anymore.
Russian industries of all kinds are springing up to replace the Western companies that fled Russia.
In addition, Russian exports are booming now to China and India, with the G7 suffering the consequences, with Germany, for example, already in "technical" recession and the UK facing a real one. A majority of economists predict a recession for the US in 2023.
The US's attempts to isolate Russia economically protect the Russian economy.
Brain Power
Russia's lead in many areas - is simply a result of brain power.
Russian polytechnical institutes are turning twice as many engineers annually as the US, despite half the population. The US turns out MBAs who have no brains to drain.
Descartes said, "I think therefore I am". The US doesn't think, therefore is not.
Diplomacy
Diplomatically, the US is more and more seen as a bully.
Russia, however, is steadily forming new alliances worldwide thanks to its concept of multipolarity, its honesty and keeping its promises. Security Agreements are the measure.
Cultural Integrity
While the US faces division — the equivalent of a cultural Civil War — the existential threat posed by the West has brought the diverse cultures of Russia together, with a moral and social consensus that respects local values systems. Russia has social integrity; the West does not.
Morality
A nation must be judged by its principles.
Blinken says Putin has sought to "project strength". No — that's what the US does — the biggest bully on the block, flexing his muscles and beating up little kids, and stealing their oil — er — lunch money.
Putin didn't even call the SMO a "war". That's because it was just self-defense. He was defending Russian people in the former "Ukraine" from ethnocide which would have been the result of the NATO/ Ukrainian "final solution" for Donbass and Lugansk planned for the Spring of 2023.
Putin never sought to divide. It was he who brokered the Minsk accords which were designed to bring Ukraine together, but which were torpedoed by the US and NATO who never planned to let that happen, according to Angela Merkel.
The 2022 "war' therefore was never Putin's — it was always Biden's, the follow-up to the hybrid war begun earlier by Obama, precipitated by American decline, neoliberal greed, and neocolonial opportunism.
By their deeds you will know them. (Matthew 7:16)
Ultimately, Russia is winning morally, too.
The Land of Nod
So, the US Secretary of Defense lives in a fantasy world. Then again aren't most people in the US.
What do ya' expect with a guy named Blinken, who makes millions by telling GranPa and the kindergarten kiddies that comprise the mainstream media stories to comfort them as the storm clouds billow outside.
Kindergarten?
Sorry, my ASD is cutting in again...
Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes, and Nod is a little head,
How cute.
Is Biden "Nod" in this poem? Maybe not — his head is rather big — although his brain has undeniably shriveled to walnut size.
The Land of Nod
Let us remember that children's rhymes and fables — not to mention the stories that adults tell themselves so they can remain children and not think about the hard realities of real life often hide deeper and darker meanings.
Nod was the land where God exiled Cain after he murdered Abel, as explained in Genesis 4:16.
Wikipedia explains...
Nod is said to be outside of the presence or face of God. Origen defined Nod as the land of trembling and wrote that it symbolized the condition of all who forsake God. Early commentators treated it as the opposite of Eden (worse still than the land of exile for the rest of humanity). In the English tradition Nod was sometimes described as a desert inhabited only by ferocious beasts or monsters. Others interpreted Nod as dark or even underground — away from the face of God.
Oh my!
I will never sing my kids that song about Wynken, Blynken and Nod again for now I must consider that, in some sense, the biblical Nod is America. And Cain is Biden.
Blinken?
Fortunately, I don't have kids — just cats — and they need kibble not fairy tales. They understand reality better than most people.
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I, on the other hand, like to do synthesis. Shorten everything as much as possible to get the "essence" or "nectar" of each utterance.
The author asked the question in his article.Why did the sanctions and cutting off Russia make Russia stronger?
It is worth taking a moment to understand this because it is an important issue.
This is because the authors of this plan from the west... BELIEVED WHAT THEY ARE SAYING!!!
They believed that they really are a force to bring peace and security to the whole world. That the US is a country that is supposed to prevent inequality and overthrow the evil "Mandarins" wherever they appear.
They believed that only America has Iron Man, Superman and only America has extensive contacts and assistance with autobot and transformers civilizations!
Once they believed in it, they said that if all this prosperity, support and help were cut off, then Russia .... MUST FALL!!!
Because what country can manage on its own without such support??
And in this belief of theirs, THEY FORGOT THAT THEY ARE WORLD'S PESTS AND LOCUTS!!
.... and what will happen if a country is cut off from pests???
THIS COUNTRY WILL ALIVE, IT WILL GET POWER!
This little mistake made by the powers in the west caused this whole situation.
The universe forgives everything, but if a cockroach forgets that it is a cockroach and thinks that it is a useful bee ... there is no help!
I'm starting to think that, too. Just wondering what it will look like personally, for us and those around us.
Ancient Rome, or rather what's left of it. Picture by N. Poussin painted around the 17th century.
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Note that all buildings are covered with sand up to half of their height,
Następnie przez wieki był to gruz, co przedstawia artystów na wielu obrazach i grafikach na przestrzeni wielu wieków.
Po prostu przestali o tym uczyć, ale nie posprzątali :)))
Tutaj na przykład kolejny wspaniały artysta z końca XVIII wieku! Giovanni Batista Piranesi.
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Narysował dokładnie, co zobaczył, co pokazał inne szkice, inni artyści, te same miejsca! :-)))
But no one has explained so far how the plague can ruin a city built of solid stone so much, and in addition cover it with a many-meter layer of sand. It is estimated that Rome was buried 15 to 7 meters.
There are quite credible theses that say that some kind of cataclysm must have happened in 1348, and it was a worldwide one because there are many ruins in the world from this period.
Most speculate that it was a comet bombardment. It was only after this event that various diseases began due to the lack of clean water and food, which led to mass extinction.
Current estimates say that the Black Death claimed 80-90% of the population at the time.
However, if someone seriously thinks about discovering the secrets of reality, I must say here that it is ALWAYS an individual path of cognition.
On this road, you can't believe in anything. You have to check everything yourself, experience it yourself.
There are many such books and programs, but it is always second-hand information. You cannot afford such luxury during your own exploration.
I don't know if you know, but every car has a planetary gear so that the wheels can work separately. It's a Chinese design, it's about 2000 years old, such a curiosity :-)
We also have the civilization of Egypt, the Chaldeans and the Greeks... and we could go on like this for a long time.
What connects them?
All that was left was rubble
By the way, your filmmakers are often inspired by history when making films. If you want to see what it's like, watch "I am a legend"
C14 dating is unfortunately a comparative method. It works, therefore, only if we KNOW what the concentration of this element was in the atmosphere at the time the object was created. Unfortunately, we do not know, and everything is based on estimates, and these can be changed even by the eruption of a larger volcano, changing the dating by hundreds of thousands of years!
So it's better to study what is, not some imaginary dates, which are currently determined similarly to the value of money :-))))
And we certainly did everything more than once. What we are experiencing today is basically identical to the description of what happened in the times of Atlantis and Lemuria.
Currently, the Atlanteans are the USA and Lemuria is Russia. Legend has it that the Atlanteans have long been developing a new energy technology based on crystals. They had warlike tendencies, they wanted to conquer the world.The only power large enough to oppose it was the Lemurians.
At that time, the Atlanteans released so much energy that they caused a gigantic tsunami that circulated the entire globe several times, destroying not only Atlantida and Atlantis, but the entire civilization of that time.
That's why we know so little about it, at least officially.
They didn't clean. Anyone who wants to can find out about it.
Then it is known that Rome as we know it was rebuilt only around the 19th century. Previously, for centuries, it was a rubble, as depicted by artists in many paintings and graphics over many centuries.
They just stopped teaching about it, but did not clean it :)))
Here, for example, another great artist from the 18th century! Giovanni Batista Piranesi.
HE drew exactly what he saw, which is confirmed by other sketches, other artists, the same places! :-)))