Washington, true to its fanatical mania for acting as the worlds policeman, has announced that it is sending more troops to the Persian Gulf in response to Irans lawful seizure of tankers that were passing through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. As the White House Press secretary John Kirby put it in a peremptory briefing: The Department of Defense will be making a series of moves to bolster our defensive posture in the Persian Gulf. To read this one cannot help but wonder at the geographical awareness of the current generation of US politicians, if they really think, given the distance between the Persian Gulf and the US, that the latter feels threatened by some other country in that region. In all the various places where the Pentagon has defensive positions in Europe, in the Persian Gulf, in the Pacific Basin, in Ukraine those restless Yankees are sowing death and destruction in order to protect someone. The question is, who? The world has seen how the US protects itself and other countries when the heroic US Army rushed to get out of Afghanistan without a twinge of remorse.

As a representative of the United States Fifth Fleet based in Bahrein announced, the Fleet is working with regional allies and partners to increase the rotation of ships and aircraft patrolling in the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement to Reuters, Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of the Fifth Fleet, insisted, dogmatically, and with little attention to political reality, that Irans unwarranted, irresponsible and unlawful seizure and harassment of merchant vessels must stop. And a representative of the United States Central Command, which controls US forces in the Middle East from its headquarters in Florida, confirmed that the US is discussing various options for pacifying the situation in the Strait with regional partners. In practice, all these discussions end up having the same result sending more American GIs to US bases, which are spreading like cockroaches in a number of different Gulf nations.

As this author has reported earlier, Iran briefly seized two tankers in this region, and also claimed that it had forced a...

The Western media's cynical ballooning of Ukraine's hopes, saying it can win a war against Russia, is completely diabolical. 

Militarily and economically Ukraine stands no chance. China backing Canada to march on Washington a second time would have better odds.

When was the last war Ukraine fought? What is their army made of? When in their short history have they defeated a foe that would give them the confidence to take on an entire civilization on its doorstep? It's ridiculous.

This war is tragic and absurd.

The neocons in the United States bear the ultimate responsibility for this moral and geopolitical disaster, having been the ideological fathers of Russophobia in the post Cold War era, but European leaders and governments also share the blame. 

The West in their hands has sunk politically, morally, culturally, and economically. Engaging in proxy warfare, using entire nations as a means to an end, is what a culturally sick, militarily weak, and morally depraved empire does as it teeters towards the dustbin of history. Look to the 7th century for a couple of examples. 

The Western obsession with Russia has led to countless examples of tragedies and needless human suffering. If it was not for the British slicing India into two to thwart Russian access to the Indian Ocean at the end of WWII the horrors of partition would not have come about. 

The political Islamization of Afghanistan and Iran would also not have happened if the United States did not determine in the 1970s that the Soviet Union was a greater enemy than sects of fanatical Muslims.

Point to anywhere on the map, in any period of modern history, and you'll find case after case of how the irrational Western hatred for Russia has led to political destabilization, humanitarian disaster, and long-term conflict.

Ukraine is just their latest victim.