Russo-Ukraine War — an illustrating example of the West's effete ridiculousness

05 March 2022

Would trading my humanity for a baboon suit . . .

. . . be an evolutionary step (in consciousness) upwards?

I ask because University authorities in Italy cancelled a professor's free course on Dostoevsky as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War. So as to avoid "controversy".

Long-dead Fyodor Dostoevsky, explicator of humanity's tortured soul, is (apparently) too polarizing a figure to exist in our Snowflake Times.

His 'horrible' Russian-ness apparently drips noxious fluids.

Meanwhile

Everything else Russian on the planet is also being cancelled out of existence.

That's because — as we are repeatedly assured by the West's enormous and incessantly prattling Propaganda Machine — Russians are evil.

And equally also because we in the West are too transparently cowardly to go and fight the Rooskies' allegedly murdering incivility.

Nothing like assuaging neo-liberalism's yellow streak with hostile blather and idiotic silliness.

For example:

Some American politicians (and their Military Industrial Complex owners) are calling for an imposition of a no-fly zone over Ukraine

and

Senator Lindsey Graham — that perennial Twit in a Suit — demanded the assassination of Russia's president. Now, there's some typically American-style diplomacy.

These calls for vengeance arrive . . .

. . . so that we can go full nuclear without any steps in between.

This shortening of the customary chain of war events must represent an improved efficiency in achieving nihilistic outcomes.

On the supposedly 'positive' side, by indulging the Gamma Ray Way — we can avoid having ourselves go to Ukraine with rifles.

And, certainly — 'everyone' seems to agree — being nuke-smoked on our own Home Ground is preferable to more intimately communing with bloody soil and physical discomfort in faraway Slav Land.

Taken together — all this curiously twists cause-and-effect logic

The objectively minded among us are forced to admit that the bulk of Americans, as well as of 21st century NATO Europeans, were never noted for their ability to reason.

In the West, we have left Reason to long-dead French people. And perhaps, to a few stiff Prussians.

Who remembers any of those folks, anyway?

In response to these Western forms of suicidal idiot-ness

Russia's president Putin felt it necessary to warn us that nukes do lie in the offing — if reckless provocativeness continues to be the West's shared path:

By downplaying the threat Russia perceives . . . the U.S. and NATO run the risk of failing to comprehend the deadly seriousness of Putin’s instructions to his military leaders regarding the elevation of the level of readiness on the part of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces.

Far from reflecting the irrational whim of a desperate man, Putin’s orders reflected the logical extension of a concerted Russian national security posture years in the making, where the geopolitical opposition to NATO expansion into Ukraine was married with strategic nuclear posture.

Every statement Putin has made over the course of this crisis has been tied to this policy.

Scott Ritter's conclusion is inescapable . . .

. . .for anyone who has been reading English translations of Putin's speeches and interviews.

Everything that has happened so far in Ukraine, was easily predictable based on the Russian president's public statements. As well as upon the West's refusal to contemplate the Federation's clearly explained (and arguably historically legitimate) Great Powers reasoning.

In short

The Russo-Ukrainian War is exactly what happens, when the West's ignorant and effetely situated leaders combine:

not knowing history

with

refusing to listen to the people who do.

For an accurate account of how we got to the Russo-Ukrainian War . . .

. . . see:

Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter, After Setting ‘The Science,’ Corporate Press Seeks to Set ‘The History’ on Ukraine, The Libertarian Institute (02 March 2022)

That essay's authors conclude with the following thought . . .

Notice (in it) the adjacency of the West's COVID policy debacle with our equally reckless fomenting of the Russo-Ukrainian one:

Like with Covid, many believe they can ‘trust the Science’ relayed to them by respectable media figures.

Yet the same pundits who confidently endorsed economy-ruining lockdowns and poorly performing vaccines are now treating viewers to equally dubious history lessons on ‘Russian Aggression’ and Putin’s malign actions over the last decade.

It appears to be working, as Russian vodka faces bans and boycotts around the world while social media feeds are teeming with yellow and blue flags and vocal condemnations of Putin the Terrible.

Those dissenting to the Official History are regularly dismissed as Kremlin agents, useful idiots or even outright traitors.

Meanwhile, Americans sit by as typically censor-happy Big Tech firms allow open praise for Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias, but suppress content from Russian state media.

Once again, only the official narrative will be tolerated.

But while ‘The Science’ was used by elites to seize power over virtually every aspect of American life throughout the pandemic, ‘The History’ in Russia’s case may be far more dangerous, helping to pave the way to global conflict and, in the worst-case scenario, civilization-ending nuclear war.

That about sums it up

An intelligent species, indeed.

Caitlin Johnstone sourly observed in this regard that:

You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand.

And right now with Ukraine the entire western political/media class is pouring a tremendous amount of energy into keeping people from understanding the problem.

If they were telling us the truth about Russia they wouldn’t be censoring Russian media.

Kinda odd how defending freedom and democracy requires such copious amounts of censorship.

Everything [that] we’re told is on the line in this showdown — freedom, democracy, truth, justice — are things the empire has been actively stomping out.

The moral? — Trading our Homo sapiens skins for baboon suits . . .

. . . would be a step upward in the survivability chain.

Propaganda (on both sides of the Russo-Ukraine struggle) make me ill because they are so deliberately blind and dumb.

We make up 'shit' because we can. Until the time comes that we are struck dead because of it.

Will we be happy with our empty-skulled emotions then?

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Russo-Ukraine War — an illustrating example of the West's effete ridiculousness