By Andrei Martyanov Crossposted with the Saker Blog The US empire, an outgrowth of centuries, perhaps millennia, of Western Europe's nonstop imperialist plundering and war-addiction, can't help itself, it has to go on sanctioning, slandering, attacking and otherwise making life difficult for Russia, and any other nation that would have the audacity to stand as a sovereign entity in the hegemonic path that Washington's elites have chosen for the world. So now, with Biden's new round of sanctions on Moscow, predicated as usual on a ghastly Orwellian lie—that Russia is the aggressor in the Ukraine and not the Western zombie created by NATO—come but the latest spasm of insults and treacheries, all of them conducive to an expansion of the hybrid war the Americans and their accomplices in London and other Western capitals have long been waging on Russia, China, Iran and the rising bloc of nations representing the sanity of international multilateralism and full self-determination under a United Nations code. But, do not despair, folks. However the corrupt imbeciles in Washington and London may decide to play their cards, and despite their superiority in propaganda, they will not prevail for the simple reason they can't win an all-out war in Eastern Europe—or anywhere else for that matter—without destroying the whole planet, something that even these sociopathic phonies may understand. In any case, here's Andrei Martyanov's calm explanation why, while the criminal West may huff and puff, it fortunately lacks the military power to impose its will on the rest of humanity. That ship has sailed. —PG