Finally the bull charged, the horse leaders ran for the barrera, the picador hit too far back, and the bull got under the horse, lifted him, threw him onto his back.
Those who seek to insert Russia into the analogy of the bull and bullfighting miss the point altogether. The arena is the construct of the West, populated by persons such as Anne Applebaum who lust for blood. The Matador and his ensemble are the Zelensky government and it’s NATO allies, who lead the Ukrainian bull to its violent demise. Without the arena, without the Matador, the Ukrainian bull would be alive. Russia plays no role in facilitating the circumstances of the Ukrainian bull’s demise; that is the sole purview of the collective west and its Ukrainian minions in the Zelensky government. Without them, there would be no war, no bullfight.
Russia is more of an observer of the arena of West and when the time is right, uses the power of the West against itself to be pinned down like a champion Judo master does.
That’s what is happening with Russia which is mostly defending herself carefully most of the times with occasional well timed offensive moves, otherwise mostly attritional until the opponent leaks all the power and resources and get defeated. She plays the long game.
Current Western is devoid of accurate knowledge of the Russian except for a handful of people like Scott left now.
Only Prayers can help us in preventing all out Nuclear war.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
From Consortium News, "The Nightmare of NATO Arms to Ukraine" by Scott Ritter:
Ukraine’s Defence Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, “We [Ukraine] are carrying out NATO’s mission today. They aren’t shedding their blood. We’re shedding ours. That’s why they’re required to supply us with weapons.”
Reznikov's comment would be laughable if it wasn’t so murderously savage. Ukrainians voted 73% for Zelenskiy on campaign promises to end corruption and negotiated peace with Russia. These 'peaceniks' overwhelmingly voted for peace and negotiations with Russia. Their sons refused to enlist in the AFU in 2014 by fleeing east & west, or deserting with all weapons to the native resistance. Four AFU 2014 reservist recalls failed to reenlist at 70%, 80%, 90%, and 95% rates. As late as 2018, 70% of recalled reservists failed to show, with many joining the separatist Russian Oblast armies.
For this reason, AFU press gangs are reduced to zip tying chubby, greying guys and teenagers. It’s untrained, poorly armed, leaderless peacenik 73% that are pushed up against Wagner, Chechens, and Russian Oblasts hardened warriors to die. Not Ukraine’s Defence Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, or psychopathic creeps like Applebaum, Clinton, Obama, Biden, McCain, Stephen (Adolf) Harper, Trudeau, or, Christian Lebensraum (Chrystia Freeland). Peace would be happily, proudly, advanced if these sociopaths had any shame or conscience. But they aren't, and will never be, any kind of democrat or human rights proponent. The link below reveals Clinton had long term plans, in the first months of his Administration (1993), for Ukraine's use against Russia. These plans required Ukraine's destruction in acts Posner calls "inherent irrationality". It took until 2005-2014 to remake Bandera Nazis as agents of cruel insanity and pitiless war crimes. So that these war crimes, crimes against humanity, and, crimes against the planet could be committed.
Russian's reservist recall easily brought in the planned 200,000 soldiers, and then blew past it with volunteers in tens of thousands. This fact alone signals the unavoidable victory of peace, human rights, and Russians in Biden's Ukraine War.
But I also want to say that I have much more compassion for the bull than for Ukraine. I know innocent people there are suffering just as they did/do in Vietnam, Iraq, Chile, Palestine—all of our CIA driven wars—but I think the Ukrainians had more to do with their fate than these other nations. The Ukrainians have always hated Russia and the Russian speakers in their midst, they’ve always harbored Nazi’s and fought they against Russia with the Germans in WW2. This is not an oppressed state that NATO taped for its cat’s paw. This was fertile ground for Nuland et.al. In other words, a bull who charged willingly into the ring.
I really agree but I’m enough of a classic liberal to be shy of wiping out a political philosophy just because it is horrific. I get twitchy when I think about how would I like my political philosophy, which is responsible for awful atrocities around the globe, to be attacked. I agree with demilitarization, of ALL political philosophies, but denazification gives me pause. Like I am really against this demonizing of Jan 6th events. I mean, I’m coulda been part of something like that during my anti war days. Just because they were supposedly Nazis doesn’t mean they should be prosecuted. I’m more apt to believe the prosecutors should be prosecuted! The antidote to wicked speech is not suppressing speech, but having MORE speech. I’m like that about T-rump. Even tho he’s a thug and a mafia puke, these charges against him are ridiculous. They’re just FBI traps, used when there’s no evidence of real crimes. It’s a bad precedent. I guess I went off on a tangent here, but I’d love to hear your POV!
De-Nazification is only meant for followers of Stephan Bandera and others in Ukraine as stated by the Russian leadership at the beginning of SMO, not else where the label is used more likely to achieve political goals.
I have always hated that murderous spectacle that , in my opinion , is unworthy of being referred to as a sport. It is a ceremony of murder , like what is happening in Ukraine as Scott so aptly states.
Just a little history. I read somewhere many years back that the bullfight is a ritual of ancient origin that shows the massive strength of the bull being “sacrificed” for the good of all. And why a bull? Because the bull is a symbol of matriarchy. So now we can guess at what kind of mind would torture a helpless animal—a patriarch.
This is nonsense. The bull and the matador are always male. The females are only spectators. But look who is behind the war. Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland, Ursula von der Leyen and Annalena Baerbock. Can add Applebaum too. Female fingerprints all over place.
But, but, but ... I have been told by my intellectual superiors that if only "women were in charge of the world", we would all live in peace.
(Of course, "traditional patriarchal structures" are not all peaches and cream for the men. Females playing "let's you and him fight" is an aspect going back long before there even were humans to which these structures applied. The villains listed by you and Humwawa are just among the current participants.)
There are corporate patriarchal masculist women, just like there are cooperative, non-patriarchal feminist men. It doesn’t cut along gender, it cuts along mind and spirit. From what I read on Substack, most of the people here lean more toward cooperative, non-patriarchal, equity and justice seeking than in the wider society. And I don’t advocate for matriarchy. 1st of all, the definition of that state is wildly inconsistent. 2ndly, nobody is ready for it, whatever it is. And 3rdly, I’m not going to let some broad play Joe the Asshole for me. I’d rather talk to my brothers and sisters here and come up with solutions than surrender to another leader.
Yeah, having fun with some archetypes here, if the choice is being led by some "bully boy" or some "mean girl", I'd prefer just to work on cooperative solutions with some decent people, thank you.
Hahahaha. Love it. Yes, Google has become a great power in the society and frankly should be nationalized just like Tesla should—I mean, we paid for it, we should own it. But I said it here only to say this isn’t my research or scholarship, I just remember it from years ago and had to look it up. Not that I think Google is any kind of final authority. God forbid 😱
It has been many decades since I sat in an areana in Madrid one afternoon. I was horrified for two reasons, the madador was gored and the bull died. Wow, I could not believe this was SUPPOSED SPORT!
Would you bring Kuweit/Iraq/USA war - you'd be spot on.
But is Russia really a matador?
Is Russia really conspiring with America to kill the Ukrainian bull and feast on its body?
> The indifferent bull being begged to react, being pushed to the edge of fury. The bull, tired and peaceful. The bull, being teased relentlessly. The bull being pushed to a game he isn't interested in. And the matador getting credits for an unfair game he set.
Who is Russia in this colorful quote, and who Ukraine is?
In my imagery, Russia is a bull. And yes, the bull charged, in February of last year. I'm rooting for the bull.
O my god, this is brilliant. It brought me to tears in fact. No one has portrayed this “war” more accurately than you Scott. Thank you for your courage and insight always, but especially for this beautiful and painful piece.
You know your history Scott bravo I am an 82 year old survivor out of Dresden,what we have now "it's not just the ignorance that's disturbing.It's the acceptance of ignorance.It's acceptable not knowing about the serious things.People turn away from me .
People like Anne Applebaum never have to answer for anything. When the SMO is complete, she will continue her hobby of poisoning Western opinion against Russia.
Ya, there’s no Big Daddy out there to punish the wrong doers. We have to sort that out for ourselves. Buddhists are atheists and have the most humane religion! At least as practiced by my Vietnamese neighbors. But I agree, it’s not fair that you missed out on all the S,D and R & R! maybe we should bring it back!!!!
But, as I suggest in another post on this article, until women are fully suited up and in the trenches in near 50% proportion, war and global politics to them is--and has been since the dawn of time--a game of "let's you and him fight". So there is an argument to be made that incentives might actually make women more favorable to war.
Agreed. Look at Israel. They put women in the trenches and now that nation will kill anyone, without conscience, without remorse, just steely-eyed cruelty. When women get co-opted by the patriarchy, they become just as savage as the other patriarchs.
I work in the oilfield and women are terrible at a man’s job. Too small, too short, always in the infirmary. This is common knowledge, news to the woke.
Who said we wanted to be as stupid as you are—work yourself into an early grave producing a climate killing product for the Man? I don’t think so Tim.
Also, I drove a forklift BETTER than the mans in a steel mill, did it quicker and with no whingin’. The dispatcher loved me. In fact I had to tell him to stop going to me all the time, just because the boys were so lazy they didn’t answer their radios.
Jeana would be a woman’s name. Jeano sounds like gender disphoria. All the same, you have much to unlearn: climate change, covid, women’s movement, War on Terror, Zionism... A tall order for a man, an insurmountable wall for a woman.
Your courage, quest for Truth and fighting for what is Right as demonstrated by your valiant efforts to prevent 2003 Iraq invasion makes you a Hero in my eyes, diametrically opposite of the greedy War mongers including the current leaders of the collective West. You did not allow this episode as U.N. Weapons Inspector to give up in despair.
Your inner agony, compassion and clarity brought on by your recent personal experiences in Russia gave sharpness to this piece, so far the best of your articles I’ve read. I hope and pray that most of the people in the West will read this article eventually to understand what kind of degenerate cowards are destroying their countries in order to serve their masters of the Military Industrial complex and other Trans-National Corporations, bent on destroying Russia and stealing their resources, being utterly blind to the fact that such efforts could ultimately lead to all out Nuclear War.
And now I hear the pro-war meatheads saying well, this war could have been avoided if Putin had been willing to NEGOTIATE!!! Like somehow Minsk and Merkel never happened!
As for Merkel. I can't rap my head around why Metkel nixed it. Germany was getting cheap gas from Russia to run its economy and keep its citizens warm at night. The way things are going a war of the world's is rapidly approaching. Makes no sense to me.
But when your Daddy NATO demands that you sabotage peace, you by god sabotage peace! Achtung! It was never agreed apon because Angela sat on it and didn’t LET it get agreed upon.
Minsk II WAS agreed upon by all concerned parties and became international law by UN Resolution 2202. The West doesn't care about international law.
Merkel didn't nix it. She just had to toe the Nato line. Post-WWII Germany is nothing but a US vassal without any sovereignty whatsoever. The empire will do everything including war, terrorism, assassination, nuclear war, etc., to keep it that way.
Thanks for the clarification. The Europeans or so sycophantic toward USA/And vessel NATO. But you would think they would draw the line over this unnecessary war, blowing up Nord Stream, and hegemonic USA. Also our new CHINA policy.
Following the crimes of the N@zi regime, the Germans were "reeducated". They were taught that Americans are their friends who liberated them from the evil (no word about the role of the Soviets). They were taught that nationalism is evil. Thus, the choice to Germans is: do you want to be a good German who loves the US and who doesn't care about national interest or do you want to be an evil N@zi? Not a hard choice to make, is it?
Terrible to read. Utterly and completely awful. You can feel the brutal callousness devoted entirely to ego aggrandizement, to the flashing red cape, the winning claps, despite the treachery of calculated duping and inciting the bull's original instincts for self-preservation in a grand excited blood lusty performance for claps all signifying absolutely nothing other than human's hubris completely unmoored from wisdom produces unmitigated stupidly stupendous awful tragedy.
Those who seek to insert Russia into the analogy of the bull and bullfighting miss the point altogether. The arena is the construct of the West, populated by persons such as Anne Applebaum who lust for blood. The Matador and his ensemble are the Zelensky government and it’s NATO allies, who lead the Ukrainian bull to its violent demise. Without the arena, without the Matador, the Ukrainian bull would be alive. Russia plays no role in facilitating the circumstances of the Ukrainian bull’s demise; that is the sole purview of the collective west and its Ukrainian minions in the Zelensky government. Without them, there would be no war, no bullfight.
Russia is more of an observer of the arena of West and when the time is right, uses the power of the West against itself to be pinned down like a champion Judo master does.
That’s what is happening with Russia which is mostly defending herself carefully most of the times with occasional well timed offensive moves, otherwise mostly attritional until the opponent leaks all the power and resources and get defeated. She plays the long game.
Current Western is devoid of accurate knowledge of the Russian except for a handful of people like Scott left now.
Only Prayers can help us in preventing all out Nuclear war.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
From Consortium News, "The Nightmare of NATO Arms to Ukraine" by Scott Ritter:
Ukraine’s Defence Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, “We [Ukraine] are carrying out NATO’s mission today. They aren’t shedding their blood. We’re shedding ours. That’s why they’re required to supply us with weapons.”
Reznikov's comment would be laughable if it wasn’t so murderously savage. Ukrainians voted 73% for Zelenskiy on campaign promises to end corruption and negotiated peace with Russia. These 'peaceniks' overwhelmingly voted for peace and negotiations with Russia. Their sons refused to enlist in the AFU in 2014 by fleeing east & west, or deserting with all weapons to the native resistance. Four AFU 2014 reservist recalls failed to reenlist at 70%, 80%, 90%, and 95% rates. As late as 2018, 70% of recalled reservists failed to show, with many joining the separatist Russian Oblast armies.
The Postil (April 11, 2022): “The Military Situation In The Ukraine” by Col Jacques Baud (Swiss Military Intelligence & Senior UN Bureaucrat) -- https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/
For this reason, AFU press gangs are reduced to zip tying chubby, greying guys and teenagers. It’s untrained, poorly armed, leaderless peacenik 73% that are pushed up against Wagner, Chechens, and Russian Oblasts hardened warriors to die. Not Ukraine’s Defence Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, or psychopathic creeps like Applebaum, Clinton, Obama, Biden, McCain, Stephen (Adolf) Harper, Trudeau, or, Christian Lebensraum (Chrystia Freeland). Peace would be happily, proudly, advanced if these sociopaths had any shame or conscience. But they aren't, and will never be, any kind of democrat or human rights proponent. The link below reveals Clinton had long term plans, in the first months of his Administration (1993), for Ukraine's use against Russia. These plans required Ukraine's destruction in acts Posner calls "inherent irrationality". It took until 2005-2014 to remake Bandera Nazis as agents of cruel insanity and pitiless war crimes. So that these war crimes, crimes against humanity, and, crimes against the planet could be committed.
1993: The Barry R. Posen Plan for War on Russia via Zombie State Ukraine — Mendelssohn Moses — The Postil Magazine -- https://www.thepostil.com/1993-the-barry-r-posen-plan-for-war-on-russia-via-zombie-state-ukraine/
Russian's reservist recall easily brought in the planned 200,000 soldiers, and then blew past it with volunteers in tens of thousands. This fact alone signals the unavoidable victory of peace, human rights, and Russians in Biden's Ukraine War.
"Kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFkmRp_G2uo
Solomon Burke - None of us are free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IX4gWkFqvU
Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a dangerous time
I’m glad you said this. It was clear from your column, but people see what they want to see when presented with analogies.
But I also want to say that I have much more compassion for the bull than for Ukraine. I know innocent people there are suffering just as they did/do in Vietnam, Iraq, Chile, Palestine—all of our CIA driven wars—but I think the Ukrainians had more to do with their fate than these other nations. The Ukrainians have always hated Russia and the Russian speakers in their midst, they’ve always harbored Nazi’s and fought they against Russia with the Germans in WW2. This is not an oppressed state that NATO taped for its cat’s paw. This was fertile ground for Nuland et.al. In other words, a bull who charged willingly into the ring.
In other words, remnants of the WW2 (Nazism) have to be neutralized.
There is no option left other than Demilitarization and DeNazification of Ukraine.
This was so clearly stated many times, yet the West chose not to listen.
I really agree but I’m enough of a classic liberal to be shy of wiping out a political philosophy just because it is horrific. I get twitchy when I think about how would I like my political philosophy, which is responsible for awful atrocities around the globe, to be attacked. I agree with demilitarization, of ALL political philosophies, but denazification gives me pause. Like I am really against this demonizing of Jan 6th events. I mean, I’m coulda been part of something like that during my anti war days. Just because they were supposedly Nazis doesn’t mean they should be prosecuted. I’m more apt to believe the prosecutors should be prosecuted! The antidote to wicked speech is not suppressing speech, but having MORE speech. I’m like that about T-rump. Even tho he’s a thug and a mafia puke, these charges against him are ridiculous. They’re just FBI traps, used when there’s no evidence of real crimes. It’s a bad precedent. I guess I went off on a tangent here, but I’d love to hear your POV!
De-Nazification is only meant for followers of Stephan Bandera and others in Ukraine as stated by the Russian leadership at the beginning of SMO, not else where the label is used more likely to achieve political goals.
Good point. And I agree, that faction was a demand by the Donbas Russians for good reason.
What a perfect analogy ..... the bullfight !
I have always hated that murderous spectacle that , in my opinion , is unworthy of being referred to as a sport. It is a ceremony of murder , like what is happening in Ukraine as Scott so aptly states.
Ceremony of murder indeed. What kind of sick mind gains pleasure at seeking an animal tortured and terrorised.
Exactly !
Just a little history. I read somewhere many years back that the bullfight is a ritual of ancient origin that shows the massive strength of the bull being “sacrificed” for the good of all. And why a bull? Because the bull is a symbol of matriarchy. So now we can guess at what kind of mind would torture a helpless animal—a patriarch.
This is nonsense. The bull and the matador are always male. The females are only spectators. But look who is behind the war. Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland, Ursula von der Leyen and Annalena Baerbock. Can add Applebaum too. Female fingerprints all over place.
Chrystia Freeland, Christine Lagarde, Angela Merkel, ...
So, the bull is sacrificed for the matrimony?
FYI, I mentioned you in a post on this subthread.
But, but, but ... I have been told by my intellectual superiors that if only "women were in charge of the world", we would all live in peace.
(Of course, "traditional patriarchal structures" are not all peaches and cream for the men. Females playing "let's you and him fight" is an aspect going back long before there even were humans to which these structures applied. The villains listed by you and Humwawa are just among the current participants.)
There are corporate patriarchal masculist women, just like there are cooperative, non-patriarchal feminist men. It doesn’t cut along gender, it cuts along mind and spirit. From what I read on Substack, most of the people here lean more toward cooperative, non-patriarchal, equity and justice seeking than in the wider society. And I don’t advocate for matriarchy. 1st of all, the definition of that state is wildly inconsistent. 2ndly, nobody is ready for it, whatever it is. And 3rdly, I’m not going to let some broad play Joe the Asshole for me. I’d rather talk to my brothers and sisters here and come up with solutions than surrender to another leader.
Yeah, having fun with some archetypes here, if the choice is being led by some "bully boy" or some "mean girl", I'd prefer just to work on cooperative solutions with some decent people, thank you.
A bull as a symbol of matriarchy??
Yes. Goggle it.
Ah, the digital equivalent of ". Period."
Hahahaha. Love it. Yes, Google has become a great power in the society and frankly should be nationalized just like Tesla should—I mean, we paid for it, we should own it. But I said it here only to say this isn’t my research or scholarship, I just remember it from years ago and had to look it up. Not that I think Google is any kind of final authority. God forbid 😱
It has been many decades since I sat in an areana in Madrid one afternoon. I was horrified for two reasons, the madador was gored and the bull died. Wow, I could not believe this was SUPPOSED SPORT!
Rub Dub just relaxin in the tub.... thinkin everything was alright...... and then the U.S. starts another war !
Bobby Darin—the teeny bopper’s Frank Sinatra. Loved him.
He did a great job of " Mack the Knife " !
Really did. And that one about “somewhere across the sea, a girl waiting for me…” I was in 7th grade and it was my favorite song.
Perfect? Not sure.
Would you bring Kuweit/Iraq/USA war - you'd be spot on.
But is Russia really a matador?
Is Russia really conspiring with America to kill the Ukrainian bull and feast on its body?
> The indifferent bull being begged to react, being pushed to the edge of fury. The bull, tired and peaceful. The bull, being teased relentlessly. The bull being pushed to a game he isn't interested in. And the matador getting credits for an unfair game he set.
Who is Russia in this colorful quote, and who Ukraine is?
In my imagery, Russia is a bull. And yes, the bull charged, in February of last year. I'm rooting for the bull.
Agreed, absolutely.
Slow Joe Biden and his neocon handlers are amongst the most evil, vile, and disgusting creatures alive today.
O my god, this is brilliant. It brought me to tears in fact. No one has portrayed this “war” more accurately than you Scott. Thank you for your courage and insight always, but especially for this beautiful and painful piece.
You know your history Scott bravo I am an 82 year old survivor out of Dresden,what we have now "it's not just the ignorance that's disturbing.It's the acceptance of ignorance.It's acceptable not knowing about the serious things.People turn away from me .
I so glad you survived. Thsnk you for your courage.
Wow! That was a moving read. Perceptive, erudite, eloquent and obviously heartfelt.
Thank you for all your hard work.
I’m editing this after reading several comments. Mr. Ritter has been focused on one primary goal. Waging Peace.
People like Anne Applebaum never have to answer for anything. When the SMO is complete, she will continue her hobby of poisoning Western opinion against Russia.
I fear you're right. One of the downsides of being an atheist.
(And I never even got all that sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll I was promised!)
Ya, there’s no Big Daddy out there to punish the wrong doers. We have to sort that out for ourselves. Buddhists are atheists and have the most humane religion! At least as practiced by my Vietnamese neighbors. But I agree, it’s not fair that you missed out on all the S,D and R & R! maybe we should bring it back!!!!
Applebaum, aka Mrs. Radek Sikorski, is a sociopath who regards anything other than aggression as contemptible weakness.
Women have no place in war and global politics. I said it.
Unlikely to be a popular post here.
But, as I suggest in another post on this article, until women are fully suited up and in the trenches in near 50% proportion, war and global politics to them is--and has been since the dawn of time--a game of "let's you and him fight". So there is an argument to be made that incentives might actually make women more favorable to war.
(There are other factors involved.)
Agreed. Look at Israel. They put women in the trenches and now that nation will kill anyone, without conscience, without remorse, just steely-eyed cruelty. When women get co-opted by the patriarchy, they become just as savage as the other patriarchs.
I work in the oilfield and women are terrible at a man’s job. Too small, too short, always in the infirmary. This is common knowledge, news to the woke.
Who said we wanted to be as stupid as you are—work yourself into an early grave producing a climate killing product for the Man? I don’t think so Tim.
Also, I drove a forklift BETTER than the mans in a steel mill, did it quicker and with no whingin’. The dispatcher loved me. In fact I had to tell him to stop going to me all the time, just because the boys were so lazy they didn’t answer their radios.
Jeana would be a woman’s name. Jeano sounds like gender disphoria. All the same, you have much to unlearn: climate change, covid, women’s movement, War on Terror, Zionism... A tall order for a man, an insurmountable wall for a woman.
In our beloved US we are now ruled by -- bandits.
Stand with Russia -- it fights for all of us !!
Eloquently stated Scott. Thank you for shining the daylight on a pampered princess and her selfish, shallow and shameful screed.
Scott, you're getting downright literary, and it's fun to read, knowing that it's also truthful.
No ? about Scott's articulations. He's got a way with words, thoughts mindfullness. IMHO every written word should be addressing the 2 "biggies":
-the extestential threat of global warming.
-the extestential threat of the 2 worlds in the war taking place in Ukraine (and beyond).
Cheers
This is poetry in the form of prose.
Only warrior poets can write like this.
Your courage, quest for Truth and fighting for what is Right as demonstrated by your valiant efforts to prevent 2003 Iraq invasion makes you a Hero in my eyes, diametrically opposite of the greedy War mongers including the current leaders of the collective West. You did not allow this episode as U.N. Weapons Inspector to give up in despair.
Your inner agony, compassion and clarity brought on by your recent personal experiences in Russia gave sharpness to this piece, so far the best of your articles I’ve read. I hope and pray that most of the people in the West will read this article eventually to understand what kind of degenerate cowards are destroying their countries in order to serve their masters of the Military Industrial complex and other Trans-National Corporations, bent on destroying Russia and stealing their resources, being utterly blind to the fact that such efforts could ultimately lead to all out Nuclear War.
Scott,
You never disappoint on your analysis of this stupid war that could have been resolved thru Minsk.
Thank you for your voice.
PS read your book.
Detente: where is it now.
And now I hear the pro-war meatheads saying well, this war could have been avoided if Putin had been willing to NEGOTIATE!!! Like somehow Minsk and Merkel never happened!
Minsk happened but never agreeded apon.
As for Merkel. I can't rap my head around why Metkel nixed it. Germany was getting cheap gas from Russia to run its economy and keep its citizens warm at night. The way things are going a war of the world's is rapidly approaching. Makes no sense to me.
Thank you, Scott, for this brilliant piece!
Message and writing are excellent and the metaphor (the sacrificial victimized bull) is stunning!
But when your Daddy NATO demands that you sabotage peace, you by god sabotage peace! Achtung! It was never agreed apon because Angela sat on it and didn’t LET it get agreed upon.
Really "Daddy US" once you pull back all the curtains. (And maybe a little UK Mini-Me by its side.)
Hahahahaha. Agreed.
Minsk II WAS agreed upon by all concerned parties and became international law by UN Resolution 2202. The West doesn't care about international law.
Merkel didn't nix it. She just had to toe the Nato line. Post-WWII Germany is nothing but a US vassal without any sovereignty whatsoever. The empire will do everything including war, terrorism, assassination, nuclear war, etc., to keep it that way.
Thanks for the clarification. The Europeans or so sycophantic toward USA/And vessel NATO. But you would think they would draw the line over this unnecessary war, blowing up Nord Stream, and hegemonic USA. Also our new CHINA policy.
Following the crimes of the N@zi regime, the Germans were "reeducated". They were taught that Americans are their friends who liberated them from the evil (no word about the role of the Soviets). They were taught that nationalism is evil. Thus, the choice to Germans is: do you want to be a good German who loves the US and who doesn't care about national interest or do you want to be an evil N@zi? Not a hard choice to make, is it?
Terrible to read. Utterly and completely awful. You can feel the brutal callousness devoted entirely to ego aggrandizement, to the flashing red cape, the winning claps, despite the treachery of calculated duping and inciting the bull's original instincts for self-preservation in a grand excited blood lusty performance for claps all signifying absolutely nothing other than human's hubris completely unmoored from wisdom produces unmitigated stupidly stupendous awful tragedy.
A little verbose there?
😝
And completely superfluous.
Excellent metaphor