The following is purportedly from a Russian blogger intended to address his domestic audience. Russia continuing to deepen the unity of the West in many ways, including militarily, is no small thing:
“The joy of some domestic propagandists that the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation will help completely deplete Western arsenals and lead to a serious reduction in supplies to Ukraine is quite naive.
Of course, because it's their work they need to look for good news or try to interpret everything that happens in the “correct” and inspiring way. But...
Most likely, Israeli events will only accelerate the already brewing decision to expand the production of everything that shoots and explodes.
Until this moment, the remilitarization of the Western economy was going shaky and slow, with the constantly maintained hope that everything that was happening was an isolated, random event that would pass, ending with peace negotiations, and it would be possible to live as before.
Israeli events clearly demonstrate that it will not be possible to live as before and crises arise unexpectedly, spontaneously, in different places, requiring more and more shells, guns and tanks. Which are already desperately lacking.
They need to be prepared for new problems, replenish empty arsenals, and have more supplies in them than were stored there in quiet and calm times.
A return not even to militarization, but to some previously abandoned norm is almost inevitable and it’s getting more and more lobbyists every day.
This means that the system will, driven by current events, sway and accelerate. Moreover, taking into account the fact that Western economies, especially together with allies like Japan and South Korea, account for much more than half of the world’s GDP, even their slight militarization will have a huge effect.
Which cannot be interrupted by any “cunning decisions” and a total transfer of the shaky Russian economy onto a war footing. 1.5% compared to 60% of the world economy - the Western card cannot be covered with any trump cards, except perhaps an atomic bomb - but then this will be the last game.
Moreover, recent events are quite clearly pushing the same Israel, which will undoubtedly win now, towards the Western pro-Ukrainian bloc; in Seoul they look with hostility at the cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang; Tokyo is gradually abolishing the remnants of self-restrictions on the development of its army and military complex.
We woke up our opponents, they noticed us - what’s next? Has it gotten any better? More fun?”
