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.
I can understand your being perplexed, and maybe I can help. I made the mistake of joining the military. And I ran into the authoritarian fascist mind set who believe that power comes by force of will or violence and power by force and manipulation through lies and deception, and their greatest act dominance is measured in self-sacrifice, and with leadership that self-sacrifice comes by way of a proxy, or a hero. And that is their mindset. My PTSD does not come from the war or the threats of foreign actors that are deemed enemies in my almost ten years of service that are deemed enemies, but from those who were around me who thought like the fascist authoritarian. They were the ones who hazed me and traumatized me worse then an enemy, quit literally trying to kill me after doing other things they would later try to cover. They only see their own egos, so to them everyone is already dead, thus it is just a question of how they will convince themselves that they will die as a hero.
people including the Americans who want to punish Putin for his (re)action to NATO's actions, should have acted (held them to account), but haven't and wouldn't, and now should be held to account for their own inaction. the Ukrainians are also responsible for their own actions and inactions in the process leading to Putin' action. no one is an innocent victim as no historical event happens in a vaccum.
"no one is innocent" and "no one is guilty" are not the same thing. hell no. everyone should be held accountable for what one did or did not do. i should be held accountable unless i do everything in my power to stop a war perpetrated in my name, on my dime, and against my will and judgement. a soldier should be held accountable for volunteering to kill and die. a general should be held accountable, too, for the war for following the order from the commander in chief. the commander in chief most definitely should be held to account for wars even if s/he didn't pull the trigger or push the button. by whom and how ---- those are the questions to debate.
"everyone should be held accountable for what one did or did not do."
Same question I ask Jeff.
What was Michael Corleone suppose to do about Sollozzo?
It's the trolley question. All the philosophizing about guilt and innocence and retribution and accountability doesn't provide an answer.
Just in case you haven't seen it yet: Joe Lauria clearly accuses Biden of being Sollozzo. But this time the threat isn't to Michael's Dad, but to Michael himself and his entire family.
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
Excellent article, thank you.
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
It's mana from heaven; brilliant, thank you!
There's one other reason. They see it as worth dying if they can take 10 hated civilian russophones with themselves to hell. Truly demented.
Listen to attentively this . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEomE4XPyE4
I can understand your being perplexed, and maybe I can help. I made the mistake of joining the military. And I ran into the authoritarian fascist mind set who believe that power comes by force of will or violence and power by force and manipulation through lies and deception, and their greatest act dominance is measured in self-sacrifice, and with leadership that self-sacrifice comes by way of a proxy, or a hero. And that is their mindset. My PTSD does not come from the war or the threats of foreign actors that are deemed enemies in my almost ten years of service that are deemed enemies, but from those who were around me who thought like the fascist authoritarian. They were the ones who hazed me and traumatized me worse then an enemy, quit literally trying to kill me after doing other things they would later try to cover. They only see their own egos, so to them everyone is already dead, thus it is just a question of how they will convince themselves that they will die as a hero.
Have you heard about this ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45MP0g__l34
everyone shall be held to account for the consequences of their own decision.
Who held Bush, Obama, Trump or Biden accountable? There is no God who will pass judgment. Americans have failed.
people including the Americans who want to punish Putin for his (re)action to NATO's actions, should have acted (held them to account), but haven't and wouldn't, and now should be held to account for their own inaction. the Ukrainians are also responsible for their own actions and inactions in the process leading to Putin' action. no one is an innocent victim as no historical event happens in a vaccum.
When no one is innocent, then no one can be found guilty. Who would be the judge?
Of course, the "winners" who will justify the crimes they committed because otherwise they would have "lost".
So, there are only winners and losers in the "game" you propose. Who wins WWIII?
"no one is innocent" and "no one is guilty" are not the same thing. hell no. everyone should be held accountable for what one did or did not do. i should be held accountable unless i do everything in my power to stop a war perpetrated in my name, on my dime, and against my will and judgement. a soldier should be held accountable for volunteering to kill and die. a general should be held accountable, too, for the war for following the order from the commander in chief. the commander in chief most definitely should be held to account for wars even if s/he didn't pull the trigger or push the button. by whom and how ---- those are the questions to debate.
"everyone should be held accountable for what one did or did not do."
Same question I ask Jeff.
What was Michael Corleone suppose to do about Sollozzo?
It's the trolley question. All the philosophizing about guilt and innocence and retribution and accountability doesn't provide an answer.
Just in case you haven't seen it yet: Joe Lauria clearly accuses Biden of being Sollozzo. But this time the threat isn't to Michael's Dad, but to Michael himself and his entire family.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/27/can-russia-escape-the-us-trap/
Your stance reminds me that: "An eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind."
"The city of Mariupol, which has a population of 500,000, is primarily being defended by the Azov Battalion." https://www.dw.com/en/the-azov-battalion-extremists-defending-mariupol/a-61151151
And you believe that BS ? That DW ? Ha ha !
Here is another view. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE5A2X3Hfvk By now it is under Russ. army control .