US to Destroy Russia now & China next! The Second Great Patriotic War and Russia’s Reformatting – Intelligent, scholarly, historical perspective from noted Sri Lankan diplomat and scholar, 美國現在摧毀俄羅斯，接下來摧毀中國！ 第二次偉大的衛國戰爭和俄羅斯的重新格式化——來自著名的斯里蘭卡外交官和學者的智慧、學術、歷史視角 by Dayan Jayatilleka
To summarize: Russia was facing an existential threat. Now it has a complex problem of outmaneuvering a new form of protracted, hybrid warfare.
It must now draw from its own history and the lessons of revolutionary strategic thinkers to come up with a counterforce strategy.
What Russia faces now is the second edition, the 21st-century edition of the Great Patriotic War.
The U.S. is experimenting with a new model of warfare, an upgrade of both the Vietnamization model and the hybrid war model. Economic extermination; over-the-horizon presence; no boots on the ground; supply of force multipliers and real-time battlefield intelligence to local forces; and a spectrum of conventional, mobile and guerrilla modes of combat.
The West is waging a political-military war of total or absolute character against Russia. This total or absolute character must not be obscured by the fact that the political and military roles involve a division of labor and that the military component itself is hybridized, where actual combat operations are conducted by the Ukrainian forces while weaponry and intelligence are provided by the West.
The goal of the political-military war is total and absolute: destroying Russia’s material base and attacking the economy, livelihoods and social fabric of the Russians, thereby bringing the country to its knees and forcing it to install a puppet leadership which will turn Russia into a vassal state of the West.
The West will not even be satisfied with a return to the compliant and wretched 1990s because it knows from experience that the Russian spirit could cyclically produce another strong leader. Instead, it will want permanent satellization of Russia, its turning into what the West calls a “normal” country, i.e., a larger version of one of its Eastern European allies.
If this new model of warfare succeeds, then, as its inherently self-expansionist logic dictates, it will be repeated on Russia’s rim, on Russia’s soil. Therefore, Russia has to solve a complex equation: prevail so decisively in Ukraine that the model of warfare fails, a lesson is administered, and the effort is not repeated. But Russia must do so without getting into an Afghanistan-type quagmire, a trap of the sort Brzezinski set for Moscow in 1979. The approaches of such military thinkers as Tukhachevsky and BH Liddell Hart, as well as Cuban tactics in Angola and the Ogaden now assume great relevance.
While no one is privy to the thinking of the Russian General Staff, logic indicates that the Western trap of turning Ukraine into a quagmire for Russia could perhaps be avoided by evading the focus on seizing territory and cities, and privileging the doctrine of the greatest military mind of the post-WWII era, Vietnam’s General Vo Nguyen Giap who urged a counterforce strategy, or in his words, “the annihilation of the living forces of the enemy,” that is, the liquidation of the adversary as a fighting force.
Johnson Choi Biz 