Writing about Ukraine at the Asia Times, David Goldman — the analyst formerly known as “Spengler” — commented last week on the desperate strategic fantasy that continues to hold the GAE and NATO (but I repeat myself) under its spell.
Goldman is a very smart guy, one of the few global-strategic-assessment pundits actually worth paying attention to. The article opens with this:
Somewhere last weekend a few dozen former Cabinet members, senior military officers, academics and think tank analysts met to evaluate the world military situation.
I can say that I haven’t been so scared since the fall of 1983, when I was a junior contract researcher doing odd jobs for then Special Assistant to the President Norman A Bailey at the National Security Council. That was the peak of the Cold War and the too-realistic Able Archer 83 exercise nearly set off a nuclear war.
The piece goes on to describe a group of people whose opinions and analysis command extraordinary influence in the halls of Western power, and who are completely and willfully in denial of reality. Goldman illustrates this in disturbing detail.
He closes with this:
Facts weren’t the issue: The assembled dignitaries, a representative sampling of the foreign policy establishment’s intellectual and executive leadership, simply couldn’t imagine a world in which America no longer gave the orders.
They are accustomed to running things and they will gamble the world away to keep their position.
The article isn’t long, and it’s well worth your time. Read it here.
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There be dissension in the ranks Sarn’t, whuddya reckon we ought do?
(From a book read circa late 1960s or so I think)
Anyway there’s the lead into a post recently appearing on one of the leading online (lots of Beltway types &c read here) cheerleading of *our current crop of policymakers fever dreaming:
https://turcopolier.com/the-russians-have-won-and-we-will-all-be-better-for-it-opinion-by-walrus/