One of the reasons the West is not on the winning side, is that it repeats the age-old mistake of underestimating Russia. It started long before Napoleon’s invasion in 1812 [The author of the article makes no mention of the attempt by a united Europe in 1941 to break and tear Russia apart—my comment.]. During the Polish-Russian war in the early 17th century, the troops of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth got all the way to Moscow but were eventually repelled. The Swedes tried, and failed, in the Great Northern War in the early 18th century, that ended with a catastrophic loss for Sweden.It is happening again. In March 2022, a US undersecretary for defence claimed that Russia was running out of precision-guided munition. The rating agency Fitch said in the same month that a Russian default was imminent. A retired US general predicted that the war would be over by Christmas....It is even possible that the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, which were destroyed by a Ukrainian military commando [This is a blatant lie that has been repeated for several years now. All thinking people know that NATO, and in particular the US, is behind these explosions. My comment.] during the first year of the war, would be repaired and used again to push Russian gas to Europe....Perhaps the biggest European delusion of all is the Eurocentric world view, the idea, cartographically edged into our heads, that Europe sits at the centre of the world. It finds its expression in meetings where Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron come together to discuss the Ukraine peace process – with each other – when the real diplomatic action happens in another continent.
