Andrei Raevsky Posted...

... about "dirty bomb".  

While zombies like Brandon and his “genius” VP are clueless about any of that, there must be at least a few folks in the Pentagon or the letter soup agencies who understand the simple fact that the way things look now, the Hegemony has three options:

• Be defeated
• Declare victory and leave (same deal, just with a tiny fig leaf for modesty)
• Commit suicide by attacking Russia directly

Not very good perspectives.  So here is one more: how about creating total chaos and hope that something advantageous comes out of it?  In other words, while setting off a dirty bomb will do nothing in purely military terms (it sure won’t stop the Russian military), it will create such a huge political reaction that the current situation will turn into total chaos, panic, rumors, lies, etc.

Read Andrei's excellent dissection of the whole "optics" strategy of neocons. It always was about optics. And the issue of hate fits very well with Larch's summary:

Correct analysis. But a simpleton suggestion about Ukraine staying neutral could have avoided the war. Ukraine by construct, development, inducement and process could only be what it is, a proxy suicide bomb of 40 million lost souls thrown against the Russian military. They embrace the task. They seek the rich rewards for their leaders who press forward with the suicide. They use every Slavic cell in their body to seek death as they try to kill Russians. Ukraine had zero interest to its core and against its survival instinct in being neutral. The very last thing on a list of a million things would be for them to choose neutrality. This is European wishful thinking. It is the illogic that pervades Europe.

This is also how hatred becomes a strategic factor.