Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know.
T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton
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Spare a thought to the Polish farmer snapping pics of a missile wreckage - later indicated to belong to a Ukrainian S-300. So a Polish farmer, his footfalls echoing in our collective memory, may have saved the world from WWIII - unleashed via a tawdry plot concocted by Anglo-American "intelligence".
Such tawdriness was compounded by a ridiculous cover-up:
the Ukrainians were firing on Russian missiles from a direction that they could not possibly be coming from. That is: Poland. And then the U.S. Secretary of Defense, weapons peddler Lloyd "Raytheon" Austin, sentenced Russia was to blame anyway, because his Kiev vassals were shooting at Russian missiles that should not have been in the air (and they were not).
Call it the Pentagon elevating bald lying into a rather shabby art.
The Anglo-American purpose of this racket was to generate a "world crisis" against Russia.
It's been exposed - this time. That does not mean the usual suspects won't try it again. Soon.The main reason is panic. Collective West intel sees how Moscow is finally mobilizing their army - ready to hit the ground next month - while knocking out Ukraine's electricity infrastructure as a form of Chinese torture.
Those February days of sending only 100,000 troops - and having the DPR and LPR militias plus Wagner commandos and Kadyrov's Chechens do most of the heavy lifting - are long gone. Overall, Russians and Russophones were facing hordes of Ukrainian military - perhaps as many as 1 million. The "miracle" of it all is that Russians did quite well.
Every military analyst knows the basic rule: an invasion force should number three times the defending force. The Russian Army at the start of the SMO was at a small fraction of that rule. The Russian Armed Forces arguably have a standing army of 1.3 million troops. Surely they could have spared a few tens of thousands more than the initial 100,000. But they did not. It was a political decision.
But now SMO is over: this is CTO (Counter-Terrorist Operation) territory. A sequence of terrorist attacks - targeting the Nord Streams, the Crimea Bridge, the Black Sea Fleet - finally demonstrated the inevitability of going beyond a mere "military operation".And that brings us to Electric War.
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