2022-06-27

Hope You Like WWIII

Gory to Ukraine
The ending is that Washington, not liking to lose, doubles down by picking a direct fight with Russia—for example, by doing exactly what it is doing now with Lithuania. And Putin, foolishly, takes the bait. Folks, I hate to exaggerate, but this is actually kind of a realistic pathway to World War III.
I don't know how people cannot see that Western governments are leading their nations into a genocidal war. I don't get it. Many of the same people who were screaming about masks and lockdowns are cheering on nuclear annihilation. Being clown world, the same people who think Putin is Hitler seem to not think a nuclear strike on New York or DC is possible, despite Russia's military doctrine allowing for first strike and asymmetrical use of nuclear weapons. People who were hiding under their beds from covid, crying themselves to sleep because of Trump, mostly live in what are prime targets for a limited Russian nuclear strike. Many of the same people who irrationally fear CO2 emissions will heat the planet a few degrees over a century aer risking heating many of its cities to the temperature of the Sun instantaneously.

Jingoism, xenophobia and irrational nationalism don't surprise me. That the people who scream loudest about tolerance, fighting hate, anti-racism and so on are the most demonic haters in society no longer shocks me. But the fact that so many people saw the true face of this regime over the past two years and fought mask mandates, closed schools, lockdowns and mandatory vaccines, and then flipped on a dime to supporting a foreign policy that is destroying the economy (almost all of the "inflation" is the leftover price premium caused by Russia sanctions) and risks nuclear war shocks me. During the Cold War, Americans and Soviets worked on avoiding nuclear conflict despite their vast ideological differences. Today, there's borderline bloodlust from the American ruling class (and Putin too if you think he's Hitler 2.0). They will destroy the American economy, the currency, and risk getting nuked in their pursuit of Russia. They've also baited the hook for Putin. I can only hope Russia can do what Allies did in 1948 and break the blockade:

With their blockade, the Soviets cut some 2.5 million civilians in the three western sectors of Berlin off from access to electricity, as well as food, coal and other crucial supplies. Though the Red Army far outnumbered Allied military forces in and around Berlin, the United States and Britain retained control of three 20-mile-wide air corridors from West Germany into West Berlin, according to written agreements with the Soviet Union from 1945.

Beginning June 26, 1948, two days after the blockade was announced, U.S. and British planes carried out the largest air relief operation in history, transporting some 2.3 million tons of supplies into West Berlin on more than 270,000 flights over 11 months.

3 comments:

  1. “They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.”
    ― Tacitus,

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  2. His shorter, more memorable phrasing: “To ravage, to slaughter, to steal, this they give the false name of empire; and where they create a desert, they call it peace.”

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  3. During the prior 500 years, European-USA imperialists effectively conquered the world, including India and China, with the apparent exception of their frenemy Russia. Their heirs are trying to put the mass of humanity “back in its place”. But, it seems like either the cards went against them or they’re playing them poorly. Frankly, I’m happy to see them fail, because i consider them the greatest evil and unfit to rule. Just have to give them time and space to implode into their own footprint, like building 7.

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