Zelenskyy, the "hero," is a mistake we'll come to regret!
Those in the West, who never stopped seeking conflict with Russia, are taking us down the proverbial slippery slope at warp speed....
Peace is a lot harder to win and maintain than systematically wrecking everything around us with aplomb.
Shooting, burning, looting, destroying, unhinging can be done with minimal interference from those who believe we need to be more “nuanced” in our approach to peace—simply because their rules are inherently far less restrictive than anything that applies to those who try to ensure the maintenance of peace.
Once the fuse is lit, stopping the conflagration, big or small, is, almost always, practically beyond control. Taking a look at post-WWII history alone we’ll give you truckloads of evidence of how going to war is so much faster, and “efficient,” than mother Nature’s most apocalyptic forest fires. And, in the case of the US alone, American forces found themselves fighting and bleeding “on the ground” in seventeen (17) undeclared wars.
Ukraine didn’t come out of nowhere.
Ever since the collapse of the USSR, the “Free World” busily, and deliberately, engaged in further reducing the capabilities of the successor regime whether real or imagined. And the “new” Russia, for all her weaknesses and inherent contradictions, resisted as best as she could, something that surprised many in the West—despite the fact that it would have been beyond logic to expect Moscow to lie down and take it without going to the ramparts.
This reaction, I think, highlights the (irrational) established mindset of “warmongers” and “peace lovers” alike that leads them both to allow precious little space for an alternative future of even a basic moderated negotiation to resolve differences and demands without bringing the world down over “non-negotiable values.”
[Essay topic: “What good ‘values’ are for if we have destroyed the only home we have in the universe”].
During Commencement 2022 at the West Point Military Academy, US Army General Mark Miley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2019, described what he thinks awaits the world, and the freshly commissioned US Army officers, in the immediate future:
“The world you are being commissioned into has the potential for significant international conflict between great powers. And that potential is increasing, not decreasing…. [emphasis added]. Whatever overmatch we, the United States, enjoyed militarily for the last 70 years is closing quickly, and the United States will be, in fact, we already are challenged in every domain of warfare: space, cyber, maritime, air, and of course land.”
The Joint Chiefs chairman referenced Russian aggression in Europe, China’s dramatic economic and military growth, North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats in Asia, and instability caused by terrorists in the Middle East and Africa in his commencement address. He went on to suggest peace solutions [emphasis added] will come via long-range precision weapons and new advanced technologies. These graduates will likely use artificial intelligence, robotic vehicles, and 3D printing technologies in their service to the nation.
Miley’s words on “… peace solutions via long-range weapons…”
(!!!!!) come at a time many in the US political establishment are beginning to accept (!) the idea
of a “limited nuclear exchange” if Russia continues to pound Ukraine and openly growl at Sweden and Finland over their joining NATO.
This evolutionary step in accepting
doomsday armaments as “mainstream solutions” is far more dangerous and destabilizing than the ongoing Ukraine conflict itself.
You don’t need to be a trained atomic scientist to appreciate the Armageddon that’ll strike via even the most “limited” use of nuclear weapons in a world already pulsating with unprecedented politico-economic crises, instabilities, and divisions.
The irreverent Caitlin Johnstone, the antiwar observer, who writes daily on “the end of illusions,” delivers a pointed, and unsettling, take on the current Western mass movement to turn Zelenskyy into a global hero overshadowing, I suspect, even those who, in the recent past, did save the world from the grasp of totalitarianism at an incalculable price.
Tsar Putin, for all his Soviet roots and obsessions, is a poor candidate for claiming Adolf Hitler’s perch as the true Archangel of the Apocalypse.
It would be the utter (and final) irony of history if we end up with a standup comedian pushing, even indirectly, the failed, obsessed, and hate-filled Vienna painter off the pedestal of He Would Have Wrecked The World For Good.
MSM Is Empire Fanfic For Children: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
April 2022: Zelensky speaks at the Grammy Awards
May 2022: Zelensky speaks at Cannes Film Festival
June 2022: Zelensky hosts SNL
July 2022: Zelensky stars as himself in action biopic co-starring The Rock
August 2022: Zelensky releases his own breakfast cereal and clothing line
September 2022: Celebrities are flocking to the new Hollywood pop religion known as Zelenskyyology
It’s often a long, awkward process learning that literally everyone in both mainstream political factions serves the oligarchic empire. For most people you have to get your hopes dashed over and over again by your heroes before learning this lesson, and even then many don’t.
It runs counter to everything you’re taught in life that nobody in either camp is there to help you. There’s a fundamental assumption that someone among them must be decent. But if you watch carefully with enough intellectual honesty you’ll see it again and again: there’s a line that, for one justification or another, none of them ever end up crossing, and it’s the line where they would have to begin providing meaningful opposition to the oligarchic empire.
At first it makes no sense. How can there be no good guys? Not one? Then you realize: it’s because you’re living in an oligarchic empire which only elevates people who serve its interests, whether it’s in politics, government, or media. The “opposition” between mainstream factions is an illusion cooked up by the empire and continually reinforced by its narrative managers.