A professional’s warning
Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island commands the world. Halford John Mackinder.
The United States is preparing to contest Russia’ and China’s joint command the Heartland, making Andrei Martynov’s America’s Final War timely. Andrei is a military man and mathematician and I am not. Rather than paraphrase his words and risk distorting his arguments, I urge you to read these edited excerpts and, of course, to buy the book.
Big Bluff
The matter is simple: the much-propagandized U.S. conventional military supremacy is nothing but a bluff. This is not to say that US Armed Forces cannot create devastation and turn some geographic localities into rubble; they certainly can. But they cannot fight a peer or better-than peer opponent and win. Apart from many economic, cultural, and social reasons for that, there is this increasingly obvious fact that the United States and NATO are losing the arms race with Russia. And it seems that, despite their demonstrable ignorance of Russia’s military capacities, they recognize this fact, which explains their unwillingness to enter into open confrontation with Russia.
Technopoly
The defeat of America’s weapons and tactical concepts at the SMO battlefields has thus become a defeat of the American vision of technopoly, which is a euphemism for culture. As Jeremy Rifkin warned, “In the modern age, the idea of a future technological utopia has served as a guiding vision of industrial society.. Nowhere has the techno-utopian vision been more passionately embraced than in the United States. Technology became the new secular God, and American society soon came to refashion its own sense of self in the image of its powerful new tools”.
Hot War Strategy
Any combination of NATO forces fighting conventional war in Russia’s immediate geographic vicinity is bound to lose it, with catastrophic losses in their personnel and war materiel—and even more, should such a war expand to impact their homelands.. The United States simply went dramatically over its military credit limit, because it couldn’t recognize the limitations of its power—a first sign of immaturity of American military-political elites.. It takes integrity, honor and courage to face the facts—a test which most American military “experts” have miserably failed. How likely is this in the near future, or within any time period which could make a difference to the relative standing of American military power in the world?
Conclusion
It is impossible to finish writing on the impact of Russia’s conflict with NATO’s proxy, Ukraine, because the SMO operation has evolved into what Russia is now terming a war. But the outcome leaves no doubt and some preliminary conclusions and even forecasts can be made. The most important is the historic defeat of the combined West and its leader, the United States. How it was defeated militarily is obvious—NATO countries found themselves totally impotent in the face of an opponent with a massive and sophisticated economy and, as it stands now, the most advanced armed forces in the world. This doesn’t bode well for the United States, let alone the collection of mediocre-at-best European military powers, which are incapable of sustaining any serious campaign on their own. U.S. military expertise, bar a few notable exceptions, turned out to be good primarily for PR and propaganda, a euphemism for non-stop confabulation of both American military history and the SMO.. In the absence of a serious military history study field, with the exception of a few notable scholars, and against the background of a precipitous intellectual decline of the American ruling class, what is left is largely a hatred for any power which asserts its own right to behave as it deems necessary for the preservation of its own people and culture. Russia here checks all the boxes as the candidate for hatred, par excellence”.
