Whig history. In armies run by warrior-caste aristocrats, like Imperial Germany, they were greatly concerned about conserving the blood of their forces. In armies (countries) run by bureaucrats, like France and England, they were highly enthusiastic about sending such warrior-caste men to needless deaths, who they saw as rivals, and whom they alternated between both hating and fearing. Bureaucrats love starting wars because they expect their enemies (their neighbors) to be the ones to die in them.

Problem arose in that they were a little too cavalier about actually playing to win, and a little too enthusiastic about human sacrifice, that, against all odds, it started looking like Germany would actually prevail.

Luckily for the priesthood occupying Europe at the time, their sister priesthood occupying America at the time was more than enthusiastic to pull their bacon out of the fire and Make The World Safe For Democracy (regardless of any restiveness on the part of the recalcitrant cattle uninterested in being dragged into such foreign misadventures).

You can see the same essential dynamic playing out in Ruthenia today. The ‘advising experts’ managing the war for Ukraine are remarkably cavalier about prodding them into paying for blotches of colour on a map with Ukrainian blood, and above all about the prospect of all Ukraine dying to the last Ukrainian to bruise the nose of Russia. “We’re behind you 100% in this war”.

Of course, such is always the end result for any body that makes the mistake of trying to be friends with The Great Satan.

It isn’t really very frightening. The fact that the Washington establishment can send a masked man around to the world’s heads of state and make them smile and shake hands and take pictures is one of the greatest mogs of all time.

Bwahahaha!

The result of the vaunted Ukrainian summer offensive was that the Russians have gained ground while killing tens of thousands of Ukrainians.

Apparently, the English WW1 plan of sending massed infantry against dug-in German machine gunners was that eventually the machine guns would jam, or overheat, or run out of ammunition. Then the peons at the back of the infantry charge could survive long enough to shoot the machine gunners. That plan may have made sense to English general officers who had learned their craft on the cricket pitches of Eton — and who had little concern for the lives of their lower-class countrymen.

It seems that the current US/NATO instructions to the unfortunate Ukrainian conscripts charging Russian positions have been cut from the same cloth.

They think they are fighting Spain.

It has also become painfully evident that 30 years of fighting essentially unarmed Muslim peasants, and losing to them, has produced a couple of generations of American military officers who have no tactical skills or knowledge whatsoever. They are telling the Ukrainians to attack across open, flat country with no air support and only limited artillery support. Even the British infantry at the Somme in 1916 had better artillery support than the Ukrainians, and they also failed.

PS. Watch the really frightening video of a dazed, confused Biden being manhandled through a ceremony on the Windsor parade ground by King Charles. Just who is making decisions in Washington? Certain not the senile, rapidly declining Joe Biden.

That none of this is secret, and in war what you do is more important than what you say, and we are damn sure DOING alliance with Ukraine isn’t important; just follow the narrative.

“President Joe Biden has determined that the United States (and Kyiv) will not undertake any actions that might threaten Russia itself or the survival of the Russian state.”

This is directly contrary to oft-stated policy, but far more significant the policy of the USA since the 1990s advances steadily EAST towards Moscow.

Well, the CIA did such a great job supporting US/NATO wars of aggression in Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, it gives us a reasonable guess as to how this US/NATO proxy war will end … assuming that Biden does not bumble his way into all out global thermonuclear war.