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Reminder 4 years in.
I said at the start yookay/NATO/EU UKR 'policy' wd be a disaster & China wd be the big winner.
99.9% of the SW1 ecosystem swallowed & generated bullshit propaganda.
Every big aspect of official claims has been bullshit. The old media has churned out millions of words that, if you look back at them, show a totally delusional picture of the war.
The 'expert' analytical community has been at least as embarrassing as the public health 'experts' in covid who were much worse than supermodel Caprice.
'Russia's about to run out of everything'. NATO ran out.
'Russia's about to collapse'. Russia advances.
'The UKR counteroffensive is a genius success.' Every UKR counteroffensive has failed (except as Twitter campaign case studies: 'strategic eyewash for fools').
'More sanctions will collapse the Russian economy.' More sanctions & energy policy have collapsed EUROPE'S industrial production, pushed econ abroad, and - tragi-comedy - empowered the precise fringe parties the old regime is most frightened of. The farce of our sanctions means we buy Russian stuff at inflated prices via third party countries while claiming 'whatever it takes'. Outside NATO they laugh at us and take our money.
'Putin blew up the pipeline.' Me at the time: this makes no sense. 'Putin stooge!' Now? The CIA has briefed the NYT and Der Spiegel it was UKR which blew up the pipeline. Poland says 'good!' SW1 NPCs do narrative whiplash and switch instantly to the new line.
'NATO is strengthening!' NATO credibility is shattered, they're reduced to farcical scenes of sending a handful of troops as tripwires to *Greenland* then bringing them home in panic.
'We will reform procurement!' Procurement and MoD are an even bigger and more corrupt shitshow than before 2022.
'The world will support democracy.' The world outside the NATO media zone think we are dangerous morons who've shot ourselves in both feet. We've totally lost the argument on UKR outside regime media.
'China will support us!' Remember this from the charlatans like Phillips Obrien?! It did not need Sun Tzu to figure out China could get paid inflated prices by Russia to blow our stuff up for free while sending special forces embeds to watch all our systems and take the lessons home.
Meanwhile UK SF who have observed the UKR battle explain in Whitehall what's happening with drones and if the British Army shows up as they are now and as they train now they will be vapourised, and are told by bosses - shut up, don't talk about the drones, we can't disrupt the budgets and procurement, MORE BIGGER TANKS, MORE TO BaE! (where they'll be going for their next job having negotiated duff contracts).
'As long as it takes, whatever it takes, we're serious!'. Reality: parts of the MoD and Cabinet Office are waging lawfare against British Special Forces, sending cops to arrest SAS as they get off choppers post-mission in Syria etc, opening up inquests to keep J Powell's friends in the IRA happy, demonstrating to the entire world the profound lack of seriousness and moral rot of our old regime.
Yookay has become a global meme. Our regime has made us a global laughing stock. Our friends pity us. They watch Tories and Labour cover up the grooming gangs and Starmer claim it's a 'far right conspiracy theory' and 'the real story is Elon's tweets'. Then run to Kiev and shove billions more at Zelensky's mafia.
On and on and on.
Total and utter failure from the entire SW1 ecosystem.
Not ONE official figure has been able to set out an ends-ways-means document which makes sense. NATO has no strategy. The war has failed like most disastrous wars because the politicians could not define *political ends* that make sense. Even more retarded, demonstrating again our slide to uselessness, our regime repeatedly said it's 'up to Ukraine to define the ends' -- one of the most corrupt countries on earth run by a Twitter-savvy TV star -- to define the political ends of the war! So the mafia-KGB regime in Kiev has been given the role of defining the political goals of the war we are paying for!! Then our MPs are 'shocked' our cash turns up in gold toilets and Bugattis in the south of France.
The MoD 'strategy' is another farce which has already imploded in fraudulent budgets and HMT/MoD infighting. They can't publish an equipment plan without exposing more lies and failure and dodgy accounting. MoD can't even keep the vast nuclear shitshow secret any more, their best ally here is our MPs have no interest in defence and won't insist on the truth from the MoD -- and the TENS of billions in hidden costs on yellow paper which is cannibalising the conventional budgets.
SW1 memed themselves into a war with Twitter hysterics then expected Russia to collapse out of shame because the talented TV guy was way better on Twitter than the boomers running Russian social media.
West politicians trained themselves to think social media bullshit was reality because of the farce OUR politics has become. They're learning the hard way - the rest of the world hasn't followed our cultural trajectory.
They've wrecked another country, we'll be paying for decades in 100 ways, and they can't face their abject failure so now Europe just sabotages peace discussions and encourages the TV guy to keep playing at Churchill while the senior people wait to leave their jobs then blame successors for not trying hard enough, 'we could have won if only we'd been prepared to pretend nuclear war is impossible!' - after which they'll scam millions in 'reconstruction' funds from Europe's taxpayers who will get screwed again.
Monumental folly, monumental failure - reflecting a rotten poisonous political class sitting in pathological institutions across the west which has tried to pretend a political culture which has deliberately broken their own borders can and should fix the borders of one of the most corrupt places on earth.
IDIOCRACY.
LIES.
DELUSIONS.
SYSTEMIC FAILURE.
MORE DELUSIONS...
Meanwhile Wang Huning is smiling at his predictions and flicking through more Leo Strauss...
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