@ovals49

The battle lines are clear and you nailed the posture of each side precisely:

The US presents itself as the righteous authority and acts as the rigid disciplinarian. It never yields, constantly escalates, and hands out harsh punishments for non-compliance to its views. For many years the US has been non-responsive or deaf to the concerns of any nation it opposes, giving them neither a platform nor acknowledgement. This is US foreign policy in the 21st century.

Russia puts on a stoic front. It describes why the aggressive forces pushing against it geographically pose a threat to its sovereignty and national security. Russia, however, has no expectation of accommodation, or even a response. It simply knows that a national government cannot stand if it is reduced to hiding inside its own borders, which are already lined with US bio-weapons laboratories. Russia is well ahead of the situation simply because they have been dealing with it since 2014. Its response to the unresponsive silence from the US and NATO was crafted well in advance. Russia is following a plan with a clear objective. The plan will gain nothing for Russia but to allow it to stand as a secure and sovereign nation, and retaining the 250 year-old warm-water seaport it build for its Navy. At the moment Russia is in control of everyone's immediate future as it deals with the strategic chaos of the US. The US can only react as a spectator, while pretending it is not the counterparty to the war it is funding.

...and this is where the plans of both sides seem sketchy.

....where the plans of these two so called “super powers” seem to diverge sharply is what they each may be planning to bring forward from these ashes of economic ruination.

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To me, this is where the tactics turn a bit Asian; where military strategy starts to look like a martial art. Westerners are often not with how this works, although you seem to be on top of it. As Confucius would say: "The Superior Man can deflect the thrust of a thousand pounds with a single feather." Or Sun Tzu might say: "The Enlightened Genera always picks the location of the battlefield. If the enemy expects him to come from the west, he comes from the north."

This places the US in the role of a spectator, guessing wildly and spinning hyperbolic narratives, and pushing overkill weapons for the wrong kind of war. Moreover, the US levees revenge sanctions, severe restrictions on free trade that are designed to cause deadly harm to a population, and cripple the economy of a non-compliant enemy nation. Somehow it doesn't occur to the US that, just like what happens with the pandemic bio-weapons they produces, the wind may blow the virus back to infect its own population. Or, perhaps they just don't care.

Russia, on the other hand, seems determined to both secure its national security buffer zone while it also is doing its best to assist the United States collective west in their efforts by honoring the sanctions imposed on them, thereby helping to further conditions bound to destroy the collective west economies complete with the chaos and violent social unrest...

You have that exactly right in my opinion. Again, Sun Tzu: "The Master appraises the direction and force of the opponents attack, and steps aside to topple him.with his own momentum."

is the collective west creating conditions bound to trash their collective economies along with creating the chaos and violent social unrest that would very likely ensue. Self destruction, writ large. I know, it sounds insane. But wait, it gets worse….

Russia, on the other hand, seems determined to both secure its national security buffer zone while it also is doing its best to assist the United States collective west in their efforts by honoring the sanctions imposed on them, thereby helping to further conditions bound to destroy the collective west economies complete with the chaos and violent social unrest that would very likely ensue.

Where the plans of these two so called “super powers” seem to diverge sharply is what they each may be planning to bring forward from these ashes of economic ruination. The collective west seems very eager to consummate their relationship with the futurists of the WEF, in a “more perfect union” of a totalitarian state rule enforced by a fiat digital currency whereby “you will own nothing and be happy” and your genome gets “hacked”, whatever that might mean.

The Russian vision includes a world of multiple sovereign nations, each with their own cultures and priorities that are no longer bullied by constrained by US$ Hegemony and the cartel of bankers behind the Almighty Dollar. Eighty percent of the worlds population seems to prefer this idea, if their UN votes in regard to the Russian Special Military Operation signify anything.

I've completely lost my mind imagination at this point. That’s the best Unified Conspiracy Theory I can muster at this late hour.

“Good Night and Good Luck” E.R Murrow