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One of Andrei’s best appearances. He’s on fire. I was glad he covered the ISIS-McCain Mob bombing of the Russian embassy. As sad as that was my cheeks hurt from laughing so much at everything else. He has those microcephalic byproducts of incestuous cretinism aka western leaders down pat. This talk is a must see. Thank you Saker.
Andrei deserves recognition from Russia, medal of honour or similar. Still it may impact his status in LaLa Land.
This said though, Andrei unwittingly may be a liability as the CIA and US Government/NATO receive most of their information from his blog regarding military tactical operations
If you’re an American, why are you waiting for your complete collapse before you get up off your fat arses to defend your Constitution against the NeoConNazis who’ve usurped it?
Andrei Martyanov raises the question, why do they do this? Are they really so stupid, or do they do it on purpose? On the one hand it is said, never underestimate the stupidity of people. On the other hand sometimes there is, in the words of Shakespeare, “a method to this madness”. There is a third possibility: the contrariness of human nature. If you tell a schoolboy, you can play ball but don’t break the window of the school teacher or pastor, often that is exactly what will happen. Hypnotists are aware of a related phenomenon: what they would not tell a person in a trance is, “there is a spider, you are not at all afraid”. This will not heal arachnophobia. The subconscious does not recognize the negation. The hypnotist will say, “there is a spider, it is an interesting creature”. So what should one say to the crazies, whether they are in the State Department or in think tanks, or (as 20 years ago) in the Defence Department? Ignore them perhaps and wait until they become irrelevant. I do think the Western war-mongers who have led the Ukrainian leadership into utter ruin are perverse.
“If you tell a schoolboy, you can play ball but don’t break the window of the school teacher or pastor, often that is exactly what will happen.”
I quite agree. By the same token, the Ten Commandments and the Penal Code may be considered in the same light, which in turn would entail a drastic revision of history, “political science” and a number of other disciplines, if only their basic tenets.
Makes perfect common sense to me.
This seems to be a tactic right across the front line.
Step back
Suck the opposition army in
Then when they arrive the artillery and air force unleash hell.
Seen it happen at last half a,dozen times already.
Same tactic seems to be being used at the Izium bridge head today.
It is also a tactic formerly used by the Zulu. You have the centre, the ‘boss’ and you have the horns. The boss gives the appearance of withdrawing, the enemy advances and the Zulu horns then sweep out and flank and eventually encircle. The boss then moves back in.
Also successfully used by the American Continental Army at the Battle of the Cowpens during the American War for Independence.
The most famous and murderous example of this tactic was by Hannibal during the battle of Cannae where the horns did fully encircle the Roman legions and the Carthaginian victory resulted in the mass slaughter of some 70,000 Roman legionaries (out of an army of 80K).
The future (and great Roman) general Scipio “Africanus” was amongst a handful of survivors and became the Roman military leader who achieved Rome’s eventual and final revenge by defeating Hannibal himself at the battle of Zama.
One reason for the incredible Roman butcher’s bill was said to be that they were pressed together so tightly that they could not raise their weapons from their sides. They were literally slaughtered like cattle.
Not something that any competent commander should ever allow.
I am reminded of the story about a general defending his country against a more powerful enemy. He was told that the enemy had appointed a certain commander and that he would have 40,000 troops. The general smiled, and replied that he was happy and confident. When asked why, he said that he knew the enemy commander, and that he could handle a division successfully – but that 40,000 men were far too many for him to control properly. It is entirely possible to have too many troops and resources.
Ancient military history (your example being actually from Livy) is fascinating, though the actual facts and figures may have been a bit different. As the Italian saying goes: “se non è vero, è ben trovato!”
Regarding Ukie advances into RF tactical withdrawls:
They say that the definition of crazy is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. That’s not crazy, it’s stupid.
500k casualties and the military still takes orders? That’s crazy.
Cropsey’s analysis of Russia is accurate and profound… once you understand that as a Neocon (Phoenician and Phoenician-friendly) he operates on the basis of projection. To spell it out, his “analysis” of Russia is a disguised admission of the West’s demise.
Gonzalo Lira II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsYRX4enaws
Roundtable #19: Pepe Escobar, Andrei Martyanov
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