Russia must inflict a strategic defeat on the US at the first opportunity

Against the background of the sanctions campaign unleashed by the collective West against Russia, it would not be superfluous to pay attention to the complete absence of legal grounds for such actions. According to Article 41 of the Charter of the United Nations, restrictions against the offending state can be imposed only on the basis of a decision of the UN Security Council:

"The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such measures. These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations."

On April 8, 2022, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev drew attention to this important nuance on his Telegram channel. In addition, Dmitry Medvedev defined illegal sanctions as an act of international aggression against the Russian Federation by individual states or their unions:

"Illegal sanctions under certain circumstances can be qualified as an act of international aggression by individual states or their alliances. First of all, when their use is aimed at undermining its economic independence, and therefore state sovereignty, and threatens the very existence of the state. In fact, as our opponents say, this is a declaration of economic war.

Taking into account the totality of legal and political circumstances, it can be concluded that sanctions in the current situation can be qualified as an act of aggression against the Russian Federation, as one of the forms of hybrid war. In this case, a state that has been subjected to aggression, that is, Russia, has the right to individual and collective defence within the framework of national legislation and international law. No one should have any doubt that Russia will use this right in the forms and limits that it deems appropriate."

Thus, Dmitry Medvedev legally justified Russia's response to the total economic war of the West led by the United States. He also made it clear that the patience of the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation is not unlimited.

At the moment, the United States and its satellites politically, diplomatically, economically and informationally support the Kiev authorities, provide intelligence information in real time and supply weapons. At the same time, the emphasis of arms supplies is gradually shifting in favour of heavy weapons.

However, the United States, the leadership and NATO members strongly emphasise that they will not send their troops to the territory of Ukraine in order to avoid a direct military clash with the Armed Forces of Russia. The only reason for this behaviour is to maintain strategic nuclear parity between Russia and the United States. The West does not want to burn in the fire of a large-scale nuclear conflict.

At the same time, Washington and its allies are not afraid to impose sanctions against Russia, because they assume that in the worst case, our country will respond in kind. But perhaps they are seriously mistaken.

If to carefully read the above wording of the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, it does not say that Russia will give an answer to the West exclusively in the economic sphere. Dmitry Medvedev claims that "Russia has the right to individual and collective defence within the framework of national legislation and international law”, and that "Russia will use this right in those forms and limits that it deems appropriate."

Thus, according to the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, our country can respond to the collective West in any form and to the extent "that it deems appropriate."

By the way, economic sanctions are not harmless at all, as it may seem at first glance, and their negative consequences are comparable to the consequences of armed conflicts. The other day, the Chinese newspaper Global Times cited sad statistics: "Data showed that since the World War II, the number of unnatural deaths of foreign citizens due to US sanctions have exceeded the total death toll in all the wars during the same period.”

The publication writes: "Through rogue-style measures such as military threat, political isolation, sanctions and blockades on technology, the US has intimidated small countries to serve its national interests. Otherwise, those countries would be sanctioned and isolated, and their governments could be overthrown."

The Global Times even defined such a set of measures as "coercive diplomacy". The publication points out that "coercive diplomacy" was "integrated into the path of American foreign behaviour and it has risen and fallen together with US hegemony."

However, Russia is not a small country, but a great power that has its own historical memory and its own historical role in the world.

Of course, the United States and Western countries would be quite satisfied, figuratively speaking, to cook Russia like a frog on a slow fire, while avoiding a direct military clash with our country, so as not to die in the conflagration of a nuclear conflict.

Washington and its satellites largely assume that they will constantly own a strategic initiative, and Russia will simply defend itself, i.e. act in the paradigm that they themselves set. Such a strategy will slowly and surely lead our country to defeat, because the Anglo-Saxon scenario assumes the strategic exhaustion of Russia.

On April 10, 2022, Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Jake Sullivan gave an interview to CBS News. He stated, in particular, the following:

"Our job is to help ensure that the Ukrainians are in a position to resist that advance [Russia’s in Donbass - ed] and ultimately to be in the strongest possible position, both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table. That's what we're intent on doing. And we're working round the clock to deliver weapons and military assistance every day, including today.”

"So first our focus is on helping the Ukrainians defend their territory in Ukraine and take territory back in Ukraine, territory that they have taken back, for example, in the north, in the northeast of the country. And we want to set them up to be able to do the same in other places as well. Second, when it comes to the issue of training, the U.S. is looking at systems that would require some training for the Ukrainians.”

I'll explain. Sullivan's phrase "the same in other places" should be understood as the DPR and the LPR, as well as Crimea.

It is obvious that the United States and its allies have long crossed all red lines. The existence of Russia as a state and the physical existence of the Russian people are at stake. It is time for our country to move from defence to active action, because as long as the United States has a sufficient reserve of stability, their rabid and openly hostile policy towards Russia will continue.

It turns out that now Russia and Ukraine have come together in an armed conflict, but at this stage Washington is managing this conflict. He actually imposed it on Russia and intends to make it very long and bloody.

So, the United States will not back down and will not ease the pressure until an extraordinary situation arises on its own territory, at the localisation of which all its resources will be thrown. The best option is, of course, a powerful natural cataclysm.

For example, it may be an eruption of the Yellowstone volcano, high seismic activity of the San Andreas fault, etc. Only then, against the background of its problems, will the United States not care about the European continent. Here we should connect our Russian ingenuity and come up with such a way of action, for example, as here, which will shake the West to its very foundations.

From the above, the following conclusion suggests itself: Russia must inflict a strategic defeat on the United States at the first opportunity, or artificially create such a situation. Acting on an inertial scenario, being on the defensive, our country will eventually face serious complications, and a lot of Russian blood will be shed. All this dictates an obvious choice for Russia – the transition to active actions against our geopolitical opponents.