Dougie93

There's also a flexible response option where the 1st Guards Tank Army falls in on its Zapad prepared launching position in Belarus, escalating Cold War Two to the trace at Suwalki, before Ivan even crosses it, and then the pressure just builds as the INF paranoia builds, which is what happened on the Inner German Border and Fulda Gap in the so called 1983 War Scare.

To wit, the posture in the West is the end game here is going to be Gorbachev 2.0 takes over. But this is not Gorbachev, this is Czar Nicolas II With 20/20 hindsight of what happens to Czar Putin if he is naive enough to come peacefully upon regime change pressure applied.

And this is not like the Soviets at all, the Soviets went peacefully because no one man was responsible for it, nobody was going to be executed for the crimes of the Soviet Union, so there was no personage of the state which would have to protect its life from the fall of the Soviet Union. Whereas now, Putin is a de facto Czar. And he has no successor. Which means he ain't planning to retire, ever.

And therein lies the problem at the strategic level, in that despotic regimes do not prosper, and despots cannot rule forever, so while Putin is emulating his idol Stalin, Stalin didn't last, so this is why Putin is so paranoid. There is no peaceful transfer of power. So Putin is cornered by default. And nobody knows what he would do when the noose starts to tighten.

This would likely only come to pass in what is called the Leningrad Rat Bites His Tamer scenario, where Putin is cornered and then comes swinging to incite a crisis to prop himself up.

Anyways, back to the Suwalki Gap, or Sulwalki Corridor, the Russian's don't have the horses yet, but it's quite clear that they are preparing and building a force which serves no other purpose in the Western District, but to drive on Suwalki, a classic Soviet operation which was already done in the Second World War. The formations in question are the 1st Guards Tank Army at Odintsvo, 6th Combined Arms Army at St. Petersburg, and the 20th Combined Arms Army at Voronezh Again, arms race in progress, wait out.

But this is what Government by the Elites looks like. This is what it has always looked like, see; House of Bourbon

And Climate Barbie so nails that vacuous Dingbat McKenna as well, she is Bimbo Queen to Trudeau's Himbo King.

That's why Zoolander is such a perfect meme. It literally is the Justin Trudeau Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good ( And Who Wanna Learnt To Do Other Stuff Good Too )

It's funny how you're being told off about nuclear weapons by a dork in his mom's basement. Nelson; ha-ha.

Resulting in the Nanny Socialist Welfare Gulag Cultural Marxist Police State in progress.

Eskimo Communism is not communism practiced by Eskimos per se, Eskimo Communism is communism in the name of saving the Eskimos from themselves.

Eskimo Communism.

No, he's just a political adviser, his job is to get people elected, he has no ideology to govern, other than he steals the NDP platform. The NDP platform being the quasi Marxist sermon of virtue signaled purity spiraling nonsense in play right now. But behind the scenes it's still the Liberals, so the real purpose is simply divide and rule influence peddling kleptocracy, as it always is with Government by Elites.

But that's how Canada works, that's what Confederation is, that is what Confederation means, all Ottawa does is collect the tax, other than the military, which is a shambles, and the foreign affairs, which is shambles, all other services are supposed to be delivered to you by the provinces, and pretty much most of them are, and things like cannabis are provincial jurisdiction so actually none of the Feds business, other than by criminal laws enforced in relation to it.

And, in case you haven't noticed, the Americans have had enough of ingrate Canada biting the hand that feeds it, and so they have commenced the process of freezing Canada out, and any province which does not abandon the sinking ship, will not have special access to the twenty trillion dollar economy anymore, and those provinces will start to sink. At which point, a province is going to bolt, I would expect at Quebec. Then it's going to be a race between provinces to make a better deal with the Americans, so Ontario will move next, and then that's that, Confederation will collapse.

Your tethered tax jurisdiction provinces have north south special access to a twenty trillion dollar economy, but they have that without Canada, and since there is no national interest, the east doesn't have the same interests as the west, the prosperity is not self generating by Canada, rather Canada is simply propped up by its provinces, not the other way round, Canada is actually a Vampire Squid sucking the life out of you and your real country provinces, and spreading its rot and corruption all through them, making a mockery of you and your actual interests.

In the end, this is simply what postmodern looks like, the first modern states being from the Peace of Westphalia 1648, otherwise known as Westphalian Nation States which is countries. Canada is simply one of the weakest states on earth, in that it is merely a Domestic Self Governing Federation which never met the threshold of a Westphalian Nation State to start off with, so Canada is simply the first to fall at the onset of postmodernity, at now one fifth of the way into the 21st century. So, welcome to the future. Adapt, or perish by Darwinian forces.

And this might not even be something NATO can control, because it might be either of the Neutrals at Helsinki and Stockholm who end in a fight with Ivan, and he simply takes the Baltic as both a buffer and a hostage, and because he has to, because his Baltic Fleet HQ is not in Russia, it's in Kaliningrad. Which is why the Pentagon is coseying up to said Neutrals right now to try to reassure them, so they don't feel the need to shoot Ivan in self defence.

At the operational level, which is the theater level below strategic, these weapons are called Long Ranged Tactical (LRTNF) or more commonly in the publice vernacular, Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) These nuclear weapons are not, say again not for deterrence. These weapons are fully operationalized to conduct theater thermonuclear war, in support of a maneuver operation underpinned by a strategic objective. These weapons (INF) are for fightin', which is why they are dangerous, destabilizing the strategic mutual vulnerability regime above. This is why they were banned by mutually agreed treaty in 1987, which was the main reason things cooled right down between Reagan and Gorbachev and they startin' huggin n' sheeit. But now that Cold War Two is heating up to 1983 levels of strategic tension. INF are coming back.

Not that there is any OSINT that Mr. Ivan is actually poised to do so at this moment, in extremis, if he felt that his position in the Baltic was imperiled as he did with his position in the Black, he could by these means cross the NATO Article V line at the Suwalki Gap, and take the Baltics to shore his position up, and then employ Nuclear Deescalation to force NATO to back down and ultimately accept it and except it as a casus belli.

The Queen is paying for it, the taxes are collected only by the authority of Elizabeth Windsor, the legal title owner of British North America, see; BNA Act

I don't think Butts is dangerous because he is an ideologue, I think the danger is that he is not. He has no ideology other than telling the rubes anything they want to hear to get an kleptocratic political class into a position to do kleptocracy,

And as UKUSSA secures my interests, it's even easier for me to legalize dope and launch a populist Trudeaupe bomb at Canada's inside the beltway cucks, with practically no fallout for me at all, so burn baby burn. <puffs>

Post National State.