A lot to unpack, but let's focus on one thing at a time.
Russia is currently on the trajectory to bomb Ukraine into rubble, but is in the process of exposing the fraud of their army. It is a terrible army, granted with horrific weapons used to kill babies, children, mothers, women, and old persons.
Putin has no moral authority given his quest to eliminate the neo-Nazis who are persecuting Russian speakers in Ukraine.
[Note to Vlad: Get a new PR agency. That is some very lame shit, amigo. Even you can't say it with a straight face at your Make Russia A Shithole Again rally. Sheesh!]
Russia is going to punch itself out militarily.
Bottom line -- they cannot make up their battlefield casualties in real time, cannot get their dead out of the fields (going to be a great year to be a Ukrainian flesh eating rat), cannot conduct a combined arms assault (infantry, artillery, armor, air), are in the Stone Ages logistically, generals are being shot and killed by snipers, and may literally run out of certain ammo.
Russia is a pariah nation and will never recover from that status. Russia may bomb Ukraine into dust, but they will never control it. The Ukrainian Resistance will fight forever.
The west needs to agree that the world can go on without ever reconnecting Russia to the global system. Let them become North Korea.
With all due respect to Albert Einstein, who famously quipped that the greatest force on earth was compound interest. I must insist that instead the greatest force on earth is actually PEER PRESSURE!
Most people are COWARDS!!! Most people CRAVE the approval of whatever group is important to them for holding status.
Sure, many can't speak out because their jobs would be in jeopardy. However, there is another group of folks who's jobs are not threatened or who are in a position to LEAD and SHOW COURAGE and they do not.
Need proof? Remember when EVERYONE was wearing their idiotic face diaper EVERYWHERE? Even when it wasn't required? Well, remember all the folks who wore cloth, mesh or otherwise worthless face coverings and most of them wore them like a chinstrap or at least didn't cover their noses? Yeah, those folks KNEW IT WAS ALL A JOKE but they continued the charade because they DIDN'T WANT TO STICK OUT!!!
Until and unless we return to the spirit of individualism and liberty and that cussed independent streak that founded this nation, we are DOOMED!!
And I am NOT kidding myself. We ain't going back to that.
Conformity and capitulation: the former describes the United States, and under the covid mandates I was stunned at how many people were not only willing to do exactly what they were told, but to be snitches and monitors and with no reward, no increase in status, just for the pleasure of tormenting their fellow citizens. The latter is what immigrants have told me about their experience as Russian citizens. They describe the society they grew up in as feeling as a single pawn on a chessboard facing waves of ever-more powerful pieces. When you cannot win, the sensible thing is to give up. There are few options when you give up; you can retreat like Thoreau, find your own Walden Pond and withdraw from society, or you become an apparatchik and be the best pawn you can be.
Your essay made me think of how we (the USA) are converging with the worst policies of failing systems (Russia, China). We have become all the things we hated just a few years ago. I think that soon there will be no real resistance to an authoritarian state, and all by design.
A lot to unpack, but let's focus on one thing at a time.
Russia is currently on the trajectory to bomb Ukraine into rubble, but is in the process of exposing the fraud of their army. It is a terrible army, granted with horrific weapons used to kill babies, children, mothers, women, and old persons.
Putin has no moral authority given his quest to eliminate the neo-Nazis who are persecuting Russian speakers in Ukraine.
[Note to Vlad: Get a new PR agency. That is some very lame shit, amigo. Even you can't say it with a straight face at your Make Russia A Shithole Again rally. Sheesh!]
Russia is going to punch itself out militarily.
Bottom line -- they cannot make up their battlefield casualties in real time, cannot get their dead out of the fields (going to be a great year to be a Ukrainian flesh eating rat), cannot conduct a combined arms assault (infantry, artillery, armor, air), are in the Stone Ages logistically, generals are being shot and killed by snipers, and may literally run out of certain ammo.
Russia is a pariah nation and will never recover from that status. Russia may bomb Ukraine into dust, but they will never control it. The Ukrainian Resistance will fight forever.
The west needs to agree that the world can go on without ever reconnecting Russia to the global system. Let them become North Korea.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
#FuckPutin #CrushRussia #UkrainianResistance
Very informative. Yes, we are becoming like Russia.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/rooftop-revelations-courage-is-contagious-parents-rights-activist-says watch my friend Beth in this video.
With all due respect to Albert Einstein, who famously quipped that the greatest force on earth was compound interest. I must insist that instead the greatest force on earth is actually PEER PRESSURE!
Most people are COWARDS!!! Most people CRAVE the approval of whatever group is important to them for holding status.
Sure, many can't speak out because their jobs would be in jeopardy. However, there is another group of folks who's jobs are not threatened or who are in a position to LEAD and SHOW COURAGE and they do not.
Need proof? Remember when EVERYONE was wearing their idiotic face diaper EVERYWHERE? Even when it wasn't required? Well, remember all the folks who wore cloth, mesh or otherwise worthless face coverings and most of them wore them like a chinstrap or at least didn't cover their noses? Yeah, those folks KNEW IT WAS ALL A JOKE but they continued the charade because they DIDN'T WANT TO STICK OUT!!!
Until and unless we return to the spirit of individualism and liberty and that cussed independent streak that founded this nation, we are DOOMED!!
And I am NOT kidding myself. We ain't going back to that.
Conformity and capitulation: the former describes the United States, and under the covid mandates I was stunned at how many people were not only willing to do exactly what they were told, but to be snitches and monitors and with no reward, no increase in status, just for the pleasure of tormenting their fellow citizens. The latter is what immigrants have told me about their experience as Russian citizens. They describe the society they grew up in as feeling as a single pawn on a chessboard facing waves of ever-more powerful pieces. When you cannot win, the sensible thing is to give up. There are few options when you give up; you can retreat like Thoreau, find your own Walden Pond and withdraw from society, or you become an apparatchik and be the best pawn you can be.
Your essay made me think of how we (the USA) are converging with the worst policies of failing systems (Russia, China). We have become all the things we hated just a few years ago. I think that soon there will be no real resistance to an authoritarian state, and all by design.