Everyone Now Suddenly Gets Excited ...

 ... over "WW III". Like this: 

All because Trump, whose psychological portrait of an insecure narcissist and hot air balloon was provided since his Admin 1.0, said yet another thing which was ... the plan from the inception--to sell non-existent (and shitty) American weapons to 404 through Europe. The US IS NOT going to "start" WW III because it will be obliterated. So, all kinds of schemes are employed to pretend that the US is not fighting Russia--US is good at lawyering, it terms of real war--not that much. So it will continue to hide behind the backs of 404 kids. 

Russia is ready for any development and that is why Trump's latest verbal diarrhea about 404 "liberating" whatever is nothing more than him parading himself as a poser and man who completely lost the plot. Simple as that. Now, per ERAM--I repeat, ERAM doesn't exist as a weapon. It is designed by the same people who do not understand how to design REAL long range weapon and not marry some rocket engine to a JDAM and who also have no clue about real air defense because the US doesn't have one. I will only add that in terms of quality and production of the AD missiles the US is lagging not just by an order of magnitude, more like between 30-50 times. Obviously, it is just one of the weapons' types. Everybody knows about production of loitering munitions of a large type (Geraniums et al)--up to 1,000 a day. That is why Russians laughed Homerically at yet another Trump's purge of hot air.

Meanwhile,  Russian Navy continues to run its SSGNs of Yasen-class through strike training. 

Here is Archangelsk SSGN launching one of her P-800 Oniks. For those who are still puzzled with why same sub launched recently one of her 3M14 Kalibrs, I remind you--Yasens can carry Kalibrs not only in their VLS but launch them from torpedo tubes. That is what was performed recently. In this case scenario--Oniks was used in purely anti-shipping role. Putin warned NATO a few days back. As I repeat non-stop--don't listen to West's rhetoric as an expression of the real intent, the US doesn't have resources to fight anything other than Iraq under ideal conditions, Europe altogether is military midget. Just yesterday from Russian Defense Ministry:

Last night, in response to a terrorist strike on civilian facilities in the settlement of Foros in the Republic of Crimea, which resulted in deaths and injuries among civilians, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a group strike on temporary deployment points of the special operations forces unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries of the "Ghosts" unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Tatarbunary and Rasseyka in the Odessa region, who were preparing and conducting this terrorist act. In addition, storage sites for unmanned aerial vehicles at the "Shkolny" airfield in the Odessa region were hit, from which strike drones were launched at civilian infrastructure facilities in the Republic of Crimea. A strike was also carried out on the workshops of the "Motor Sich" enterprise of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, where strike unmanned aerial vehicles were assembled, used by the criminal Kyiv regime to strike Russian territory.

If NATO wants to try, they are welcome--they all will be destroyed. 

Jeffrey Sachs...

 ... for all my respect for his position, is wrong here. 

1. We ARE NOT on the path to WW III, we are already in WW III and the West already lost it. NATO has neither troops nor resources to introduce anything in 404. Russia's tactical nuclear drills was a message to European chihuahuas, primarily UK, after showing UK ambassador in Moscow the list of British targets Russia will strike OUTSIDE 404 if London continues with terrorism. Russia is not afraid of Article 5. 

2. US is NOT a republic anymore--it is a corrupt uniparty oligarchy sliding towards totalitarianism. Its foreign policy and media are controlled by the state of Israel and Zionist lobby inside the US, which is based on a broad foundation of Christian Zionist population in the US. 

3. US higher education as related to humanities is over. It has been over for some time. Eventually, all remnants of a free thought and facts-based academic study will be purged. 

As I write for many years--the ONLY real test of nation, of the state is REAL war. It took SMO to completely tear down the fake edifice of the American "democracy" to expose a rotten scaffolding collapsing as I type this. Or, maybe, a proverbial brick wall by late Frank Zappa. 

France Has Been Warned...

First Petr Tolstoy, now no less than Mr. Nebenzya:

UN, March 22 — RIA Novosti. Paris should keep in mind that Moscow will consider the French military in Ukraine as a priority target, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, said at a meeting of the Security Council. "Planning to send regular troops (to Ukraine. — Ed. An important thing Paris should remember is that they will be seen as a legitimate and even priority target for our army," he stressed.

It is especially funny (for Russians) when receiving these contradicting messages, first from a collection of petulant children in Paris and then from the Big Boss: 

US officials have repeatedly warned Ukrainian military commanders that their attacks on Russian oil infrastructure could trigger global energy price hikes, the Financial Times revealed on Friday. Washington is reportedly worried that this could threaten Joe Biden’s re-election bid. The White House has “grown increasingly frustrated by brazen Ukrainian drone attacks” on Russian refineries, terminals and other oil infrastructure, the British newspaper quoted one of its sources as saying. Washington’s objections come months before a presidential election in the US, where “Biden faces a tough re-election battle this year with petrol prices on the rise, increasing almost 15% this year,” the newspaper noted.

Good Lord! Does Washington establishment know anything beyond elections? Of course, not. They do not have even basic skills in governing, have zero understanding of war, but they sure as hell know how run election campaigns, which is a euphemism to BSing the public into a complete cognitive dissonance and then into stupor, that it loses any resistance to manipulation. And this is not the end of it for the West. A lot of opinions are flying today about Europeans willing to send troops to 404, the main problem which is excluded from the discussion, however, is WHAT troops can, say, France, Poland and Netherlands send to 404? And the issue is not just sending troops there--let's imagine, for the sake of argument, that Paris somehow is able to put together up to 100,000 troops--how are they going to sustain them? Remember Libya? France and UK ran out of precision-guided munitions in three days. And, of course, one needs to feed and replenish ammo stocks for these troops--good luck with that. 

Now, for those who are getting over-excited about prospects of a nuclear war once NATO "official" forces get their asses kicked, which is a probability approaching one (100%), the US will not get involved--in fact, the United States desires  nothing more than seeing a lovely war in Europe, while staying behind Atlantic "ocean wall". Of course, US troops in Europe will be annihilated if it escalates, but by now it is just the matter of speculation. At this stage I am getting sick and tired of European excuses about "we didn't elect" Macron, Scholtz, Meloni et al. Enough, you did elect them, unlike 2020 elections in the US, Macron's victory over Le Pen was a landslide--you cannot fake such a massive gap in elections. Germans tolerated insidious economic and cultural suicide by Merkel regime, which is also responsible for wrecking much of the European economy, as long as Germany lived relatively well--this time is over. There is always a hell to pay for our sins on a global, as opposed to personal, scale. This revelation:

”Nothing terrifies a sitting American president more than a surge in pump prices during an election year,” former White House energy adviser Bob McNally told the FT.

should tell Europeans, granted they even comprehend ramifications, that: 

And don't tell me that I didn't warn you all...

In related news, Victor Orban congratulated Vladimir Putin with reelection and stressed Hungary's desire to increase cooperation with Russia (In Russian). You see how it works between normal people?