Washington’s eight years of preparing Ukraine and its armed forces for war with Russia was a mistake of historic proportions, due to its misperception of American military power based on its 1991 Gulf War victory against a minor military player. Washington believed its own propaganda about crippling sanctions on Russia, about the viability of its Ukrainian proxy army, and the economic and military weakness of Russia, spelling doom for the American empire and its “rules-based order”.

By 2023 the Kiev regime could no longer exist without the West’s support, both financial and in war materiel. By 2024 Russia will have not just exhausted Ukraine, but also demilitarized NATO as a whole, exposing the industrial and military impotence of the US and its European vassals.

The United States military as a whole, and the USAF in particular, have no resources or means to close the ever widening gap in capability between American and Russian Air Defenses, insofar as such systems as the S-500 are already being produced serially in Russia with their immense range of more than 500 kilometers against aerial targets, not to mention their full integration with Russia’s Air Force and Air Defense. The air space of Russia is becoming increasingly prohibitive to penetration by any combination of USAF and NATO forces.

The US has fallen behind, and it won’t be able to catch up.

“Andrei Martyanov’s latest work reinforces his status as one of the most important analysts of the rot that pervades the U.S. military and its failure to craft a workable national security strategy. He effectively uses the War in Ukraine to illustrate the arguments he presented in his first book, Losing Miiltary Supremacy. Any political or military leader keen on making America’s military great again should read this.”
—LARRY JOHNSON, former CIA analyst and State Department counter-terrorism advisor

“… This is a Khinzal narrative that instantly blows up a painstakingly built Western-controlled edifice of power, corruption and lies. Of course, a must read.” —PEPE ESCOBAR, journalist, AsiaTimes

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ANDREI MARTYANOV is an expert on Russian military and naval issues. He was born in Baku, USSR in 1963. He graduated from the Kirov Naval Red Banner Academy and served as an officer on the ships and staff position of Soviet Coast Guard through 1990. In mid-1990s he moved to the United States where he worked as Laboratory Director in a commercial aerospace group. He blogs at Reminiscence of the Future and is author of Losing Military Supremacy, The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs and Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse.