Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ We're risking a very fast, very radioactive third world war defending the "democracy" of a regime who just banned eleven opposition parties. ❖ Liberals explaining why it's fine to eliminate opposition parties when they become inconvenient is just liberals telling you who they really are.
"This death of this particular officer should be seen rather as an indication of how intense the fighting is, it doesn't in any speak to the outcome of the fighting.
What speaks more to the outcome is that last night, sunday night, the Russian Defense ministry issued a demand that the Ukrainian Troops in Mariupol lay down their arms, and they were told that if they did so they would be allowed to retreat from Mariupol. They were given a two hour window this morning, Monday, in order to retreat from Mariupol, allowing the Russians to take over what's left of the city. Now, shortly after, the Ukrainians REJECTED this offer.
And Now i'm going to make an general observation: I am at something of a loss to undersand that Ukrainian decision. Because it's clear that these Ukrainian soldiers who are now trapped in Mariupol, hgave nowhere to retreat to, and they are now facing overwhelming fire power from the Russian Military, and including, it seems now from the black sea fleet. So Rejecting an offer to have them withdrwaw from Mariupol it seems to me all that its going to do is cause more people in Mariupol to die, and more damage nad destruction to be done. And since the outcome in Mariupol is not in doubt, I'm at something of a loss to understand the logic of this, either in Humanatrian or miltary terms.
It seems to me, if one is looking at this in military tyerms, the primary responsibility of any comander is to look after his soldiers, and given that there's no military logic in engaging in a hopeless stand, withdrawing those forces back to Ukrainian lines where thy can be presumably refreshed and saved, and perhaps straightforwardly thrown back into the battle somewhere else; that seems to me makes more logical sense. And from a huamanitarian point of view prolonging a hopeless fight is only going to cause more poopel to die, and i don't see the logic of that at all.
being the ultimate civilian that i am, it disturbs and upsets me. I don't as i said understand these decisions, pehraps there's some military logic to them, perhpas Ukrainains need to keep mariupol fighting so that they can either extract their forces from the rest of Donbas, or tyring to resupply them there, by turning down russian troops in mariupol..perhapst hat's the logic of this, but i do worry that the true reason is more political: the need to create a leegend of a heroic dfense in Maruopol. Perhaps to spread more stories of Russian war crimes in Mariupol, perhaps to impress western leaders, who are going to hodl a series of meetings over the course of this week (the G-7, EU, NAto, Biden is coming to Europe, visit poland), so maybe these are the reasons why these people are being kept fighting, and fighting in mariupol is being kept going.<END QUOTE>
U.S. global primacy manufacturing weapons, consent, and Overton windows remains unchallenged. Thanks for ceasing and desisting the curtain-changing and pane washing, and getting to smashing the frame.
Bringing clarity to the heart of things once again! Thank you.
The narrative that the USA is a benign international security system dominates the imperial media and US collective psyche, and as you say, liberals find themselves in a hypocritical pincher.
Your point about it being about systems and not individuals is well made and something I've been trying to explain to people in the "spiritual community" for the last two years with little success. They want to make everything about morals and they don't understand how the systems and propaganda actually warp people's brains so that they think they are doing the right thing even when they are bombing little children.
Our democracy is under attack. The powers that be aka Deep State are dragging us into another conflict that few Americans want to fight. That's not democracy that is statism.
Am I the only feline who noticed that the same people who insist that "Ukrainians have agency" at the same time vociferously deny that the residents of Donbass or Crimea also have agency?
Early this year, US and Canada bullied Z into dropping prosecution of (their pal, former president) Porky. So much for respect for sovereignty and democratic rule of law.
Pro west, rah, rah, cheer-leading by the barking dogs of corporate(MSM) media has now made it impossible or for me to even watch network news. On a more positive note I got a Roku my my birthday last month and keep myself thoroughly distracted with endless movies from Peacock, Tubi, Mubi, and my already in place Netflix, Amazon, and Showtime. What a good time to stay home and watch movies 'till the inevitable end comes. soon too, I believe. I can't do anything about Ukraine anyway, neither can anybody else for that matter.
I'm more concerned by the totalitarian takeover by Big Pharma and their intentional murder of Americans by withholding treatments and threatening doctors with loss of license if they prescribe ivermectin(horse paste in MSM propaganda circles, and hydroxychloroquine(Trump's medicine/folly!), both of which are actually highly effective for fighting COVID-19--early on before hospitalization, and its mutations. Peace
The duty of a Commanding officer is to "fight" his troops. It is the duty of the Non-Commissioned officers to take care of the troops. In time of conflict no one can redress a grievance.
We are oriented around knowing and understanding because it is a survival mechanism and has an adaptive advantage. Liars lead empty lives on the individual level because putting something over on someone is more satisfying to their stunted self-image and cancerous ego, than reality and genuine relationships with people and the world. It is the old hubris that stalks the unsuspecting in Greek drama, and turns on them every time. It works the same way with governments and states, and becomes dangerous when they start to believe their own lying narrative. Feeling superior is a chimera and has no real advantage in real life, and the misuse of the idea of inferior/superior when it comes to countries and ethnicity is a garden path leading to confusion, disappointment and injustice, if not complete chaos.
But this hubris is the distinguishing mark in Western history. We developed the idea of "Manifest Destiny" the Monroe doctrine, as though superiority was written all over us, and acted accordingly ever after. But the idea was fermenting in the Western mind long before it was encoded in that document, and enabled all the atrocities we don't like to think about, and vehemently deny when they are introduced into the discourse.
It is true that you can't live in the past - it isn't productive for individuals or countries. But denying the past, refusing to see destructive patterns, or justifying them instead of correcting them, is what is called insanity in individuals, and is no less insane for countries and states. When applied to the Russia /Ukraine situation, the denial of Russia's credible grievances in a situation that could have been settled seven years ago by the Minsk Accords, is just a repetition of past errors. But Russia is not a "developing" country and has the means, if it must, to settle the matter by default position to the diplomatic route it preferred, but the West ignored.
Just wanted to paste in a transcript of Alexander Mercouris (youtube):
https://youtu.be/-5ZRhw75qmM?t=467
<QUOTE>:
"This death of this particular officer should be seen rather as an indication of how intense the fighting is, it doesn't in any speak to the outcome of the fighting.
What speaks more to the outcome is that last night, sunday night, the Russian Defense ministry issued a demand that the Ukrainian Troops in Mariupol lay down their arms, and they were told that if they did so they would be allowed to retreat from Mariupol. They were given a two hour window this morning, Monday, in order to retreat from Mariupol, allowing the Russians to take over what's left of the city. Now, shortly after, the Ukrainians REJECTED this offer.
And Now i'm going to make an general observation: I am at something of a loss to undersand that Ukrainian decision. Because it's clear that these Ukrainian soldiers who are now trapped in Mariupol, hgave nowhere to retreat to, and they are now facing overwhelming fire power from the Russian Military, and including, it seems now from the black sea fleet. So Rejecting an offer to have them withdrwaw from Mariupol it seems to me all that its going to do is cause more people in Mariupol to die, and more damage nad destruction to be done. And since the outcome in Mariupol is not in doubt, I'm at something of a loss to understand the logic of this, either in Humanatrian or miltary terms.
It seems to me, if one is looking at this in military tyerms, the primary responsibility of any comander is to look after his soldiers, and given that there's no military logic in engaging in a hopeless stand, withdrawing those forces back to Ukrainian lines where thy can be presumably refreshed and saved, and perhaps straightforwardly thrown back into the battle somewhere else; that seems to me makes more logical sense. And from a huamanitarian point of view prolonging a hopeless fight is only going to cause more poopel to die, and i don't see the logic of that at all.
being the ultimate civilian that i am, it disturbs and upsets me. I don't as i said understand these decisions, pehraps there's some military logic to them, perhpas Ukrainains need to keep mariupol fighting so that they can either extract their forces from the rest of Donbas, or tyring to resupply them there, by turning down russian troops in mariupol..perhapst hat's the logic of this, but i do worry that the true reason is more political: the need to create a leegend of a heroic dfense in Maruopol. Perhaps to spread more stories of Russian war crimes in Mariupol, perhaps to impress western leaders, who are going to hodl a series of meetings over the course of this week (the G-7, EU, NAto, Biden is coming to Europe, visit poland), so maybe these are the reasons why these people are being kept fighting, and fighting in mariupol is being kept going.<END QUOTE>
U.S. global primacy manufacturing weapons, consent, and Overton windows remains unchallenged. Thanks for ceasing and desisting the curtain-changing and pane washing, and getting to smashing the frame.
Bringing clarity to the heart of things once again! Thank you.
The narrative that the USA is a benign international security system dominates the imperial media and US collective psyche, and as you say, liberals find themselves in a hypocritical pincher.
Democracy is yet another word turned into a bludgeon to form consensus and abuse power
Your point about it being about systems and not individuals is well made and something I've been trying to explain to people in the "spiritual community" for the last two years with little success. They want to make everything about morals and they don't understand how the systems and propaganda actually warp people's brains so that they think they are doing the right thing even when they are bombing little children.
Our democracy is under attack. The powers that be aka Deep State are dragging us into another conflict that few Americans want to fight. That's not democracy that is statism.
Am I the only feline who noticed that the same people who insist that "Ukrainians have agency" at the same time vociferously deny that the residents of Donbass or Crimea also have agency?
New article on Ukraine that traces how the Empire started and expanded and ended up wrecking Russia back in the 1990's https://shadowlightblog.substack.com/p/ukraine-reloaded?s=w
Very well written!
There's a special place in HELL. We felt it was worth it. I wonder if Toria & Neera are fight over skinning the carcass for a pantsuit?
https://readingjunkie.com/2022/03/21/it-is-time-for-the-empire-to-die/
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-05-28/build-better-blob
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-03-23/peri-urban-agriculture-feeding-us-where-the-urban-and-rural-meet/
https://neuburger.substack.com/p/how-fossil-fuel-governments-control
Early this year, US and Canada bullied Z into dropping prosecution of (their pal, former president) Porky. So much for respect for sovereignty and democratic rule of law.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-credited-for-preventing-arrest-of-former-ukrainian-president/
Pro west, rah, rah, cheer-leading by the barking dogs of corporate(MSM) media has now made it impossible or for me to even watch network news. On a more positive note I got a Roku my my birthday last month and keep myself thoroughly distracted with endless movies from Peacock, Tubi, Mubi, and my already in place Netflix, Amazon, and Showtime. What a good time to stay home and watch movies 'till the inevitable end comes. soon too, I believe. I can't do anything about Ukraine anyway, neither can anybody else for that matter.
I'm more concerned by the totalitarian takeover by Big Pharma and their intentional murder of Americans by withholding treatments and threatening doctors with loss of license if they prescribe ivermectin(horse paste in MSM propaganda circles, and hydroxychloroquine(Trump's medicine/folly!), both of which are actually highly effective for fighting COVID-19--early on before hospitalization, and its mutations. Peace
The duty of a Commanding officer is to "fight" his troops. It is the duty of the Non-Commissioned officers to take care of the troops. In time of conflict no one can redress a grievance.
Another great article that makes me question my view of our world.
We are oriented around knowing and understanding because it is a survival mechanism and has an adaptive advantage. Liars lead empty lives on the individual level because putting something over on someone is more satisfying to their stunted self-image and cancerous ego, than reality and genuine relationships with people and the world. It is the old hubris that stalks the unsuspecting in Greek drama, and turns on them every time. It works the same way with governments and states, and becomes dangerous when they start to believe their own lying narrative. Feeling superior is a chimera and has no real advantage in real life, and the misuse of the idea of inferior/superior when it comes to countries and ethnicity is a garden path leading to confusion, disappointment and injustice, if not complete chaos.
But this hubris is the distinguishing mark in Western history. We developed the idea of "Manifest Destiny" the Monroe doctrine, as though superiority was written all over us, and acted accordingly ever after. But the idea was fermenting in the Western mind long before it was encoded in that document, and enabled all the atrocities we don't like to think about, and vehemently deny when they are introduced into the discourse.
It is true that you can't live in the past - it isn't productive for individuals or countries. But denying the past, refusing to see destructive patterns, or justifying them instead of correcting them, is what is called insanity in individuals, and is no less insane for countries and states. When applied to the Russia /Ukraine situation, the denial of Russia's credible grievances in a situation that could have been settled seven years ago by the Minsk Accords, is just a repetition of past errors. But Russia is not a "developing" country and has the means, if it must, to settle the matter by default position to the diplomatic route it preferred, but the West ignored.
MAURIPOL !!
https://youtu.be/3rZK7o-pyw8