The Incredible Shrinking NATO

I've been reading you on and off since your "peak oil "and "oil drum" days! This piece is one of your best. Keep writing..

"It may be slowly dawning on some of the more lucid European leaders that a way of backing out of the Russophobic cul-de-sac, of their own creation, in which they now find themselves, must somehow be found..."
Apart from Hungary's Orban, I see no European leaders with even a modicum of lucidity in their outlook. Decades of totalitarian liberalism have seeped so deeply into the marrow of the European body-politic that I can't even imagine popular uprisings throwing up any lucid political leaders. I think the Western peninsula of the Eurasian continent will just sink into impotence and irrelevance, while Russia continues to rise with of the rise of the Global South and East (unhindered by its own liberals, who have now thankfully fled West or fallen silent).

It's always the way.  The rich sacrifice the rest for their own selfish well being.  Bring on the tumbrils!

Suicide by reality denial.  I picked up that phrase from a Club Orlov article some time back and every time I see NATO or any part of the collective West digging their hole a little deeper I think to myself: “Hmm, more suicide by reality denial.”  To me those four words sum up the Biden “presidency”, Ukraine’s “offensive”, the NATO “summit” (more like it never left Base Camp), and practically everything else that is obsessing the West.

Unfortunately for them, if anyone among them ever really examines the reality they are so desperate to deny they will come face to face with the delusional assumptions on which they’ve built their house of cards, and the whole edifice will come tumbling down.  It’s going to happen anyway; reality always wins in the end.  Just ask the ghosts of La Grande Armée and the Wehrmacht.

Great job of analysis

The US penchant for exotic hardware is an old story--anything to run up the tab, with little concern for its performance in field conditions.  Russian arms were built according to the adage "make it simple, make it cheap, make it work."  Compare the M-16 to the AK-47.  They finally fixed the jamming problem on the 16, but it took time & money & not a few lives.  The AK's  reliability is legendary.  My M-16 didn't come with a cleaning kit, either.

They will just stop talking about it completely and move on to the next thing. It would appear that that is precisely what they have been trying to do for the past year or so. Bait China, bait North Korea, bait Iran, peddle climate change, peddle Covid, pebble chimp pox, and on and on.

Perhaps the exercise is in demoralizing a population base so much there is no consequence for losing face anymore.

Just to add to the list of wander weapons use, during the aggression on Serbia in 1999, the Serbian air defences managed to shoot down F117 and B2 ‘Spirit of Missouri’ using 2nd generation Soviets NEVA air defence system putting the stake through the heart of ‘invisibility’ of the vampire.

I am so disappointed with Orlov  !!! According to Le Monde ... NATO is winning , Russia is in deep economic recession , inflation is sky high there  , Russian cities are overwhelmed by Algerian   kids , Russian political  elite is group of degenerate   idiots , Zelenski is in Vladivostok and Russia lost 35% of its population ! If it weren't these bloody mines , Ukies would be already in Moscow !

The root of all evil is the love of money...and as it turns out the root of all useless weaponry.

FYI to those who wish to join - and I recommend it - I use Chase Visa (though I wish there were a competitor) and all I must do is answer one extra text to confirm the transaction as valid. As I recall, the charge comes from a name of something other than Boosty or Dmitry Orlov. It might be helpful if the name of the charge transaction was posted here, so people know it is valid.

Tamy Mikh, I use Visa from New Zealand. It works.

Your article made me laugh out loud in places, I like your sense of humour

Excellent write up!

The truth always hurts...

Hi Mr Orlov, how are you?

I've read about the glitch in Bootsy. It's so unfortunate!

I had a whole year subscription here once. Since then I've tried to renew it at least 5 times already by credit card, all unsuccessful attempts...
I'm from Brazil.
Nevertheless, continue the good fight! We here love to read your writings and to reflect upon them!
Best regards,
Myla

Likewise me.  I had a monthly and a yearly subscription, but Boosty has deleted both.  The yearly one was paid in September (Boosty may have changed it to 6 monthly).  The automatic monthly one ran out recently - rather than cancel I let it run out as a tip.  Now I have nothing.

I would be very grateful if somebody could post a link/links to Mr. Orlov's books, the .PDF version. Thanks in advance. To fix the subscription payments, you would need some European credit card, I couldn't use my Australian one, luckily I have a Polish Visa card.