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What does this presentation demonstrate most of all, and in glaring terms? That we are all painted into a corner.
If "
we"† give in, the Rapacious Russian gets his way and paves a fine and very broad path for more action that looks a little too suspiciously like a reconstitution of the Soviet Onion. There will be grand parades with much masturbating as Soviet eyes stare dreamily into the distant horizons of the blue future of glory returning.
If Russia gives up, they are through as a "super power" for at least the foreseeable future, and they become a laughing stock. This is the lesser of the evils, if viewed objectively, but Russians will not be rational about it because... well, Russians - or more broadly stated,
humans. We are an eminently irrational species, not as matters of capacity, but of will - which is why have been teetering on the brink of self-extinction for the better part of 100 years. And let us face it, chances of dousing the light are better than fair at this point, given everything to which we are subjecting ourselves... like war in Ukraine, my son is really my daughter, and so on.
This circumstance has reduced the general situation to one of a zero-sum. Imagine the utter stupidity of these people, and I mean every last stinking one of them. Those around Putin should shoot him in the head and draw down from Ukraine because Russia as no valid business there, despite the idiot Putin's claims that he's on a mission of mercy. Bull. Shit.
The Brits should similarly put a well placed bullet into the head of their prime minister. Biden should be similarly neutralized, as should the Poles - recalling that Poland was the proximate cause of the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, due to their endless scheming to acquire East Prussia from Germany.
But any given liquidation can only be a necessary condition, but not sufficient. Sufficiency is achieved only when the "leaders" of the relevant nations are all eliminated from the threat pool. But that will never happen because of cowardice, world view, and the manifold other corruptions that are driving the human race toward aut0extinction [sic].
Horrible as the remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still" was (and it was truly horrible, especially that little bastard), there was a line where the James Hong's character stated to the effect that humans seems to sense they are on the path to annihilation, yet seem unable to do anything about it. That is
PRECISELY where we stand. We are so wholly fucked, there is no number large enough to cover it all.
It is almost guaranteed that Russia will never give up on this grand folly, because Russia. Politically, they are asses of the lowest order... Russians are currently acting as the plankton of the asses world. So that leaves the ball in our court. With so much money to be made in war supplies, we will not back off, most likely, leaving us in either a long-term proxy war, or perhaps a short and brutish nuclear exchange where the northern hemisphere is left in a condition nobody with a shred of sense wants to see realized. And there's the problem - few of us retain even that shred. In a world that tells children that boys can be girls, the rational man knows that sanity has left the building. OTOH, to back down would be to give Russia the green light. Mr. Rock, meet Mr. Hardplace. We do this to ourselves every stinking time.
Consider also the position of China. Notice the roar of silence issuing therefrom. They are sitting back, waiting (and hoping) for Russia and the West to exhaust themselves. If perchance those two decide to exchange gifts of the nuclear type, then the die will have been cast and China will have little or nothing to lose my loosing its own stocks at the right moment. If they have any sense about it, they will keep a sharp eye on how it all proceeds, and at closing time they will do one of a couple possible things. If there is a clear winner, which there will not likely be, they cozy up all nice, assuming said winner retains considerable nukes, which likely they will not. But in that case, China makes the best of a very bad situation and preserves itself as best it can, given the sausage-fest.
If there is no clear winner and/or the nuclear stockpiles of the players are gone, China launches a conclusive strike to tie up any loose ends remaining, holding in reserve whatever it is able of their own stocks, and thereafter becoming Global King by dint of the stupidity of their only two real rivals. The world as it would likely stand will not be worth much for a very long year, but the chinks will have survived with a relative aplomb of which the now ash-reduced west could only dream for generations to come. And I would very much bet that China would rapidly fan out across the globe to secure their world-wide hegemony and maintain it with a ferocity to make all former comers pale. The "west" would be kept in stone-age economic trim in perpetuity, if the people of those places were even allowed to continue. This wanders a mite afar, I know, but I could readily see the Chinese embarking on a global campaign to chinkify the entire globe, genociding in the most literal terms every non-Chinese nation on the planet. It would be the smart move - at least in the shorter term - to remove all ethnic diversity and reduce the human species to a monoculture. This is, after all, the globalist vision of the hell on earth for which their little collective winkie stands at attention. Only in this version of it, the European globalist stooges will have been erased from the earth.
This is not as far-fetched as some may think. If things go nuclear, almost anything is possible, and China would love to have the entire globe into which to expand itself. It would no longer be called "earth", but "China". "China" would become synonymous with "earth".
This is the brand of thought-cancer that now threatens all the world. We are a species of little self-propelled sphincters with nary the collective sense of a single boiled turnip.
Theye are
all scum. Zelensky, Putin, Biden, and so on down the miserable list of miserable players in the miserable game of miserable human politics who are relentless in their miserable yanking of the tail of a sleeping tiger that, if it ever awakes, is going to serve up a miserable fate that the miserable race of miserable humanity will rue in misery intense such that the dead will be miserably hated for the miserable dregs of our miserable envy of their having escaped the misery of the miserable survivors.
Each of the "super powers" (codespeak for insane political entities with large nuclear forces) seems incapable or unwilling to relent from their endless scheming and plotting and screwing around. As I have mentioned in the past, our rapid advances in technological grasp have not been equalled by similar advances on the emotional plane. In the film "Constantine", Reeves says "God's a kid with an ant farm." Perhaps, but without question it is true of men, only we are toddlers, and of ill-breed, no less. By whatever virtue, we gain and grow our technological levers with no visible growth of our perspectives and attitudes. Indeed, we are in a current fit of rapid regression on those fronts. Those aspects, going in opposing directions with ever advancing velocity, is a combination that perforce cannot be maintained, lest something break, thus all but guaranteeing an artificial reset event that could in theory consume us all. That much is clear as crystal, yet we ignore it in favor of stroking that part of our collective self, back and forth in obscene gesture, whose immediate satisfaction is demanded in fits of spasmodic mental shrieking, which we are apparently disinclined to ignore for the sake of our long-term viability as a species. We are making the bed in which we shall one day lay, perhaps as a race of corpses, all the achievements of the past several millennia having been for naught.
And so it goes. I am fortunate as I slowly grow old, having shed a great deal of my somewhat tense childhood apprehensions of death. But fool that I am, I cannot help feel a terrible pity for the children whose beauty always fills my heart with happy... how they are being gypped of all the wonders that life has to offer - gypped by men of such low character, of zero authority, and hence of zero inherent value as living beings. The injustice of it makes me at times feel as if I am being boiled alive in oil. I just cannot seem to get past my utter refusal to accept the destruction of innocence and beauty. What I would not give of myself to put it all to ends, yet my insufficiency is what reigns, leaving me worthless to the task. And so I write and make an idiot of myself in public; but that is OK because the one thing worse is where I stand idle and silent in the face of the raving and raging evil to which I daily bear witness as it gallops roughshod across the face of the earth, slowly consuming the minds and souls of men. That is something to which I will not accede, not matter how blithering an idiot I may appear to the world as I point it out and vent to no practical good.
So please pardon yet another of my vain and impotent diatribes. I wish I were better than I am, but alas...
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Note the unavoidably statistical nature of human existence when populations grow large - we seem unable to help clumping ourselves into sets/groups - what in discrete mathematics would be called "equivalence classes". The unwilling are sucked into the vortices of evil andm angled perception, along with the willing/eager. The nature of things is to drive all to the lowest common perceptual denominator. Things fall apart. Entropy rules the day because we are too lazy and corrupt to fight it to a critical mass. Onesy-twosy doesn't cut that muster.
