Steve_Beckow-himself_renewed5Here's Steve's article. I found it very balanced in that unveils several points about this, from alternative perspectives.

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Some Background on the Chaos in the Ukraine

Not only is it the case that military powers can lose their supremacy in the normal course of events (think Rome), but in this era, it's also the case that military powers are being constrained by forces that most people don't even know exist.

While I cannot speak about the Russian side of the conflict now underway in the Ukraine, which Stephen Cook is addressing, the challenges that beset the American side, though few in the Third-Dimensional power structure would acknowledge or have acknowledged them, are now starting to make themselves known.

While we tend to think of the American military machine as being supreme in the world, it's been challenged in ways that make it far less the power that it once was. And now it's being challenged on the economic front as well.

On the military side, the Russians, continuing their quest for soft spots in American armour that originated with Stalin, (1) developed unstoppable, carrier-killing missiles (Sunburn and Sizzler) that made the U.S. carrier fleet obsolete some years ago. (2)

They sold these to China and Iran as well. While the U.S. has been unwilling to admit the shift in the strategic balance of power, its most versatile weapon – the carrier fleet – has been made a paper tiger by the simplest of strategies.

Moreover, the Chinese, in the Bush years, proved to the United States that they had the ability to bring down American aircraft when they forced Vice-President Cheney's plane to land in Singapore on its way back from Australia. (3)

Some commentators believe that the Chinese also forced the B-57 carrying missiles to the Middle East to land at Barksdale some years ago. (4)

Furthermore, there is evidence that the Chinese embedded Trojans in all American military motherboards manufactured by the Chinese, causing them to fail under war conditions. This development was discovered when three separate weapons systems failed under test conditions. (5)
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