Have neocons and corporatist oligarchs fooled enough people to achieve national self-destruction?

© 2022 Peter Free

 

17 March 2022

 

 

Happily running toward the Cliff of Doom?

 

Evidently, no propagandized principle is too silly not to embrace imminent self-destruction as a desirable thing.

 

From Pew Research:

 

 

[V]irtually identical shares in both parties – 51% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents and 50% of Democrats and Democratic leaners – regard the Russian invasion as a “major threat” to U.S. interests.

 

An overwhelming majority of the public (85%) – including similar shares of Republicans (85%) and Democrats (88%) – favors maintaining strict economic sanctions.

 

About six-in-ten Americans (63%) strongly favor strict sanctions.

 

About a third (35%) of Americans say they would favor [“taking military action even if it risks a nuclear conflict with Russia.”]

 

© 2022 Pew Research Center, Public Expresses Mixed Views of U.S. Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, pewresearch.org (15 March 2022)

 

 

Perspective

 

First

 

Russia is not a threat to the United States by any rational geopolitical and economic measure. That is, unless the US literally forces the Federation to nuke us. Which now appears to be the US-proffered plan.

 

Second

 

Economic sanctions always hurt the foreign publics involved and not their miscreant leaders.

 

In the Ukraine situation, the United States' anti-Russian economic sanctions will — due to some really creatively applied stupidity by the Biden administration — hurt the American public more than the Federation. These banking system sanctions will (eventually) dethrone the American dollar as the world's reserve currency. With painful domestic US results to follow.

 

Third

 

Nuclear war is not a trivial occurrence. Nuke war's carnage would dwarf World War 2's by several orders of magnitude. Not to mention arguably raising probability questions about Homo sapiens' survival.

 

 

In spite of these realities

 

Major voices in Congress have now seconded — see video here, beginning at 09:50 — the polled public's invitation to a nuclear confrontation with Russia.

 

Influential voices are calling for sending Ukrainians everything that they need to establish an anti-Russian no-fly zone of their own.

 

How the mostly Russian-suppressed Ukrainian military will get to use all this stuff has not been explained. Presumably, the donated aircraft, missiles, air defenses — and so on — will miraculously fly and shoot themselves, without any Ukrainian piloting at all.

 

I suppose Jesus will take that metaphorical wheel.

 

However, even this form of Divine Intervention still poses the question of how exactly we're going to get all this stuff into an active war zone, without having it destroyed in the process. I doubt that Russia will stand by, while the West freights significant armaments into their (now rather obviously manifested) zone of influence.

 

 

If we thoughtfully contemplate these questions

 

We immediately see that the above-mentioned chickenhawk Congress people — and the violence-inclined American public — do not have a clue as to how war actually works.

 

'Provocative stupidity' is too kind a phrase to fit.

 

Deadly malevolence is more like it.

 

See (in support of that last thought) Alex Christoforou's depressing video evaluation of the current situation — the most pertinent part of his analysis beginning at 11:50 minutes:

 

 

Alex Christoforou, The puppet speaks to the puppet masters, YouTube (17 March 2022)

 

 

The moral? — Humans, as a matter statistical fact, are not bright

 

History is built upon a foundation of (figurative) wolves cleverly mind-controlling mobs of vacuous (human) grazers.

 

These mind-controlled folk then donate their mutton-destined lives to foddering (a verb) wolf-inspired conflicts.

 

When evaluated in that uninspiring light, a species-threatening nuclear confrontation might not be a bad thing.

 

Is this nihilism speaking, or just common sense?