US moves from conventional to full spectrum warfare
Sat 4:42 am +00:00, 23 Aug 2025 5The new Cold War unfolds. The US believes they can launch nuclear missiles against China, Russia and Iran and not be reached by missiles from these other countries.
The US can infiltrate, target and politically capture nations like Belarus. The EU is already a politically captured entity, serving not European but US interests.
The US is waging full specrum war against all these countries.
Putin is placing the Oreshnik into Belarus.
Russia is holding off from a major war as much as it can, while the US is pushing the envelope all the time.
The Oreshnik missile uses kinetic energy not nuclear energy, but which is equally destructive.
Israeli missile defences showed that US air defences are not effective.
This discussion updates the situation, as the world moves closer to escalation of the conflict zones as they all come under US pressure.
The US knows only how to escalate. This is a very dangerous moment. A greater level of propagada and indoctrination is to be expected.
Pursuit of power and profit drives the United States – they have huge economic power – trade coercion – media dominance – and can infiltrate nations and take them under control.
The US and the British use political capture as their primary weapon. The EU. Japan. South Korea. Cambodia. Thailand.
Ukraine is tying up Russia militarily while the US attacks Iran, China and South East Asia. Syria was finally broken up as Russia was taken up in Ukraine.
That enabled the US to open up war on Iran.
The US dominates information space – marketing, propaganda, religious doctrine – monopoly control.
They control the hardware as well.
Anyone who tries to maintain their sovereignty is called ‘authoritarian’. The US has a hegemonic basis of thought where any other sovereign nation has to be ground away.
One by one they fold under threats of tariffs, and so on.
Different examples given. Taiwan. Korea. Japan.
On the ground peoples world wide are waking up. TAP – England flags?
The aim is to isolate China as they are doing to Russia. Block China’s shipping and destroy their economy.
And finally achieve political capture.
Oreshnik is a game changer by the sounds of it, if it’s real. No need for nukes with that weapon
Very interesting summary of the global state of play, thanks Tap
I’d be very surprised if China’s economy is destroyed. The Money Power doesn’t usually destroy it’s own valuable assets. They usually destroy old infrastructure/assets, and plenty humans too of course, 1.7 million Ukrainians and counting
And the US is sitting on a massive financial debt bubble. If that goes pop then all bets are off
Will be fascinating to see how all this plays out in the coming years
The Oreshnik was used to flatten all the industrial buildings in Dniepro with only kinetic energy and no warhead exploding. Reports are that it was 100% effective. Nuclear war was always MAD – mutually assured destruction. Oreshnik war would not be impossible. Pronounced – Areshnik.
I saw the Dniepro images. But they are just images on a screen, could be real, might not be, no way to know. Both sides, or their owners, maybe have a vested interest in this Oreshnik being seen as real
The only folk who can confirm the flattened building are in Ukraine after all. And nothing out of that place can be taken as read. And, even if the buildings were flattened, how do we know what actually caused that. It’s the usual State secret situation, nothing verifiable. Ditto nukes
Alexander Mercouris says aerial surveillance confirmed the destruction was total. I am sure Russia could knock out UK transportation infrastructure in under a week, sending our economy back to the dark ages. Europe would be knocked out in a month. Would the US be bothered as long as Russia leaves US untouched? The nuclear deterrent (so-called) located in the Yookay, is entirely under the command of the US President. Starmer’s yapping is incredibly dangerous.
I don’t believe that ‘Russia is tied up’ in Ukraine. They have massive manpower and weapon resources, but they concentrate on what they’re doing, or being invited by other countries to do.
My understanding of why they left Syria was that their mandate had ended and, unlike the West, when something is over, it’s over, not an invitation to hang around and cause mayhem ever after.