Trump will spend $5 billion on anti-Russian psychotherapy.
My dear fellow citizens, congratulations!
The President of the United States Donald Trump has signed into law the 2018 defense policy bill authorizing a large Pentagon budget.
A significant portion of this important document is dedicated to the containment of us, i.e. Russia.
It seems that there is no cause to rejoice. They consider us the enemy;
they will be trying to hurt us as much as possible and to thwart us anywhere they can. Furthermore, it has been announced to the whole world
that we – i.e. Russia – is the source of evil, meldonium, hackers and military threat for the freedom-loving European countries.
The Americans and we happen to inhabit the same planet.
They are not planning on flying off anywhere. We also are not in a hurry to move some place else.
We will have to live together on this globe.
In order for us to live well, we will have to understand how our transatlantic partners perceive the surrounding reality.
They perceive the reality pretty much in this way: anyone they set their eyes upon
is either a source of profit or a threat, which needs to be bludgeoned on the head until his dead corpse turns into a source of profit.
Some countries such as Great Britain were fortunate enough to get appointed to the position of a small jackal,
whose function is to bite those Washington considers a threat hoping later to get a piece of the corpse.
Unfortunately, or, as I look at it, fortunately, we do not have an option to turn into an American jackal.
They dislike us too much: we are too distinct,
and Washington establishment considers us too dangerous even when we are at our most peaceful and domesticated behavior.
This means that under any circumstances they would prefer to see us not just in the coffin but, rather, on the chopping block.
They have already chopped us with the butcher knife in 1990s – the whole country is still covered with scars.
That is why when I am reading the American documents I do not want to find that Russia is considered a source of profit;
I want to see everything related to Russia marked in red and minus signs.
And the bigger the expenses associated with those minus signs, the more confident we should feel.
The desire of the Washington administration to spend a lot of money to contain Russia
is equivalent to an independent audit of the effectiveness of our foreign and defense policy.
If Washington has such a desire, this means we passed the test.
It is impossible to calculate how many billions of dollars out of the US military budget will be spend directly on Russia.
The budget does not specify that a particular aircraft carrier would be built to counter a specific country.
However, appropriation categories could be evaluated to understand how much money is earmarked for specific programs.
And here there is a lot about the Russian threat.
The Pentagon 2018 budget allocates $4.6 billion to contain threats in Europe.
I believe everyone understand that in Europe we are the ones that are meant to be contained.
Fighting the Middle Eastern terrorism that threatens Europe is, of course, not a task for the American military.
Particularly keeping in mind that financing the aforementioned terrorists is likely listed in the budget of their colleagues from the CIA.
Therefore, the American military in Europe will be containing specifically the Russian threat.
Special attention will be paid to the Baltic countries.
Every time I see the Americans allocating money to the Baltic countries I feel a gnawing suspicion:
Could the Americans know something about Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia we do not know?
I do not understand why would we be annexing the Baltic countries?
I do not know anybody who thinks that we absolutely need to conquer the Baltic states.
I do not see any political or economic sense in such an action.
We don't have enough of sardines or what? Or we have no ports?
However, the American politicians and generals want to spend money specifically on the defense of these countries.
Hard to understand but big empires might have their own big idiosyncrasies.
But on the other hand, considering how inefficiently the American Army spends the money,
those $100 million allocated to the Baltics would be enough, to support, perhaps, two or three battalions.
A trifle, but still might give pleasure to the leaders of the Baltic countries, and they will have something to brag about before their voters.
If we look at all anti-Russian expenses as a unit and at their justification, we come to an astonishing discovery:
the American experts and military openly state that the aim of this program is to build confidence of the NATO allies that the Americans would defend them when necessary.
I have a bad news for the American NATO allies in Europe:
the Americans will double-cross them at the first opportunity,
the same way they double-crossed their Syrian allies exposing them to the bombs of the Russian Air Force;
the same way they betrayed their Kurd allies to Erdogan and the Iraqi Army.
The Europeans having watched the events in Syria
are beginning to suspect that the military roof they are paying the US for is in reality leaking.
So, now the Trump administration has to conduct psychotherapy sessions, wipe their noses,
change pumpers, dispense sedatives and beg to stop the hysterics.
That won't help. The Europeans are already signing agreements among themselves about mutual defense without the US;
Juncker and Merkel are making statements that the safety of Europe is the responsibility of Europe itself.
Translating this from the diplomatic to the human language, it means that the Americans are no longer trusted or believed.
The moral authority is completely and irrevocably lost; it cannot be recovered for the price of $5 billion but Trump will try.
NATO is slowly breaking up, and so in the future the US will have more than one reason to fear us.
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