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More Ideas On How To Counter The Mafia’s Increasing Activities
I have asked for suggestions on how Russia, Venezuela and others can respond to U.S. lawless behavior.
Commentator Tom Paine answers thus:
A number of points which are probably more an effort to summarise than to add novelty.
- US has no legal, moral or geopolitical constraints. It wants war with Russia and China. It will provoke until that happens.
- The current strategy is to make Putin look weak. Russian prudence may be a rational answer but it is no longer the right one.
- Much of US behaviour is conditioned by its feeling that it is too remote to suffer. Europe can be made to suffer because it is a satrapy. Logically, the US must be forced to recognise its own vulnerability.
- Since the US is now attacking and plundering Russian-flagged shipping, the situation is familiar and uncomplicated. Tactics for blockade-busting are well known. Arm your merchantmen, protect them using convoys, seize hostile assets, destroy attackers. The advent of real-time communications and precise missile targeting should decimate exposed USN forces. When in doubt, be a Houthi.
- Russia and China must stop attempting to wage war with words. Actions speak for themselves.
- If you do not effectively support your allies, you send a message that you cannot be relied on. Russia must be seen to be active in Iran, VZ, Cuba and elsewhere.
- Yes, bullies are stopped by fighting back. Bullies are psychologically unable to think except in terms of superior/inferior relationships. Efforts to negotiate rationally just demonstrate that you are not on their ‘ladder’ of relationships, and therefore are weak and must be attacked. Fight first. Establishing that connection will result in much less long-term damage than efforts at rational compromise. It could have avoided Gaza or Syria.
- US strength is its infinite cash supply, which supports a nearly-infinite collection of CIA cutouts and regime change NGOs. Cut it off.
- US weakness is its reliance on a financialised PR military with lots of highly-visible targets. The Houthis are right. It must be shown to be overpriced, ineffective and feeble. The US itself has never been weaker militarily.
- The answer to dirty war and guerilla ops is the same. Russia will always be blamed for black ops so there is no visible gain in avoiding them.
- Unity, unity, unity. The real fight is about unity. Russia and China can see that they fight for survival. The West fights only for plunder. One is a great force for unity, the other is not.
I mostly agree with the above. To the last point I would add any other country, Iran etc., that wants to retain some sovereignty. It must be a big, global coalition, not just three superpowers fighting it out.
(Meta note: I am in blocking mode. Derailing the comments from the content and context of the post will get you banned.)
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 8 2026 19:46 utc | 288
Hi Sebgo,
I believe you have misread what I wrote.
You said:
Several of the countries you mention have signed bilateral strategic agreements.But apart from Russia and North Korea, none of them contain provisions for a bloc-type military alliance like the Warsaw Pact, NATO, or the pre-war alliances. This is certainly not a coincidence. Military alliances played a major role in the globalization of the two previous world wars.Those who want to avoid a third world war have therefore carefully avoided forming such alliances.
But from what you’ve written, you seem to believe that such an alliance already exists, and you’re inviting them to war as if they were guests at a gala dinner.
I am not sure where you got military alliances from anything I wrote. I simply named the countries and organizations (“axis of resistance”) and noted that they need to be ready for war because the USA will not back down. This readiness could be all that is necessary and maybe the USA collapses next week due to the internal contradictions of its policies and the zero-sum model of capitalism it follows. I believe this is the course of action being taken by Russia and China but it will not necessarily immediately help the Palestinians, Syrians, Venezuelans, Cubans…
You said:
I can assure you that these countries will not go to nuclear war, with the millions of predictable deaths and the destruction of entire countries, just because you want to see a country “humiliated” like in a school yard.
Again, nowhere did I encourage anyone to go to nuclear war. I specifically changed the scenario to Oreshniks to eliminate any nuclear fallout. I also do not want to see all US Americans humiliated, only the 1% who promote/gain from war and rentier economics.
You said:
And it’s certainly not for the working class that these capitalist countries will gleefully embark on the mutual destruction you so fervently desire.
Please re-read what I said about the working class. As long as the working class of the USA can get cannabis (or any other product) delivered to their current location in a timely manner, there will be no revolution. When these convenience no longer exist, then the working class of the USA will have a reason to revolt.
Again, I do not want any mutual destruction.
You said:
War is not a game, and nuclear war even less so. Get real.
War is a game but not everyone involved wants to play it.
I think that I have gone over all of our comments in this thread and they all put down what other people said while failing to answer the question. My response was what I think will happen based on various pieces of fiction that I have read. It is not what I want to happen, which is a bloodless, democratic revolution towards socialism, but what I believe will happen. What responses would you suggest?
Posted by: HCNorth | Jan 9 2026 19:56 utc | 385
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