You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but there is no need to worry.
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin has to rank as one of the most surreal moments in internet history. He was broadcast on X as an opposition journalist sat down with the leader of a country ostensibly at war, discussing his side of the story and explaining why the government was lying. . The internet remains undefeated.
Unfortunately for Ukrainians, campaigning has defeated sanctions and tweets.
Your eyes may have glazed over when Professor Putin gave a 20-minute lecture on Ukraine’s history dating back to 862. Even Carlson seemed bored. But its history is crucial to understanding current wars. I have traveled to the region and history is essential to Russians in a way that Westerners cannot understand. It is not a story written in a book or a statue. It is an essential connection to their ancestors and land.
Although Putin’s broad outlines are correct, he painted a rosy picture of the Soviet Union’s actions toward Poland on the eve of World War II. But you don’t need to be a Russian scholar to understand that the current conflict is much older and more complex than Americans realize.
Kiev and this region are associated with the central founding of the Rus’ people. Crimea has historically been a Russian territory since Catherine the Great defeated the Ottoman Empire in 1783. Millions of Russians live within the current borders.of CIA was overthrown Since the pro-Russian government in Kiev took power in 2014, Russia has viewed NATO expansion as an existential threat. These are historical facts.
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It doesn’t matter whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was justified or not. Geopolitics doesn’t work that way. A nuclear-weapon state, feeling threatened by a neighbor it considered to be within its sphere of influence, decided to take action. Historians 100 years from now will have to judge whether that was wise.
What is becoming more apparent is the digital psychology we have been living with for two years. Guess how, in the space of a week, Americans went from not being able to find Ukraine on a map to having every Twitter profile and yard in the country covered in yellow and blue? All you can do is
Everywhere I went, there was a lot of propaganda extolling support for the brave Ukrainians in their fight against the evil Russians.of Ghost of Kyiv In one sortie, he shot down 27 Russian fighter jets. You don’t need to be Alex Jones to wonder if the war-crazy intelligence agencies working with Big Tech have something to do with it.
In any case, the theory that President Putin is like this has become established. hitler 2.0unless it’s worse, and we didn’t give one of the best ones. corrupt countries on earth With $100 billion in cash and weapons, Russian tanks would be rolling through Germany in no time.
Many well-meaning but naive people fell for it. The mainstream media never bothered to ask whether it was a good idea to involve itself in a ground war in Eastern Europe by nuclear-armed states. How was Ukraine going to defeat Russia? Was it a wise use of treasure to spend hundreds of billions to liberate Donetsk when the war had just been lost and Americans were struggling to buy groceries? Anyone asking these questions was called a Russian agent.
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Instead, money and crowd wars were promised to destroy this paper Siberian tiger and restore sacred democracy. looks fun! Instead of Americans dying, we can all tweet, send our hard-earned tax dollars, and watch all the gory GoPro war footage online.
a network group attack It’s a modern tactic born out of the information age. When called to action, we mobilize individuals, networks, businesses, and governments in a digital hive mind to defeat our targets. This decentralized organizational structure, free of geographic and bureaucratic constraints, is a formidable weapon. It promised the ability to confront and defeat nuclear powers without getting our hands dirty.
Cultural, economic, military, journalistic, and academic elites all quickly came to the same conclusion. defeat russia.
Unfortunately for Ukrainians, campaigning has defeated sanctions and tweets. 1 year ago I reported How the sanctions against Russia were a lie, 92% of Western companies never stopped doing business in Russia, and Russia was able to continue selling its products. oil and wheat. From that work:
Lindsey Graham and the other armchair generals seem determined to fight to the last Ukrainian. But it might be wise to look to Russia’s history. Whether fighting the Wehrmacht, Charles XII, Lundendorff, or Napoleon, Russian wars follow a pattern. The first year was marked by a disastrous logistical disaster, resulting in devastating casualties, followed by an overwhelming military and artillery counterattack. Russia just announced a new conscription that will expand the number of soldiers to 1.5 million.
As Stalin once quipped, “Quantity has its own quality.”
peace with honor
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The time has come to recognize that the war is over and Russia has won. perhaps, Corruptcomedian It was a mistake to say that Winston Churchill was a reincarnation. Unless NATO invades, the battered remnants of the Ukrainian army will not dislodge the Russian armor and artillery entrenched in the open steppes of eastern Ukraine. The US will return Alaska before Russia abandons Crimea’s warm-water ports. The war will either end in a negotiated settlement, which is how almost all wars are settled, or it will end in nuclear weapons.
This entire misfortune was an embarrassment to American foreign policy. It has killed hundreds of thousands of people and accomplished nothing except for hundreds of billions of your hard-earned taxes to disappear into Swiss bank accounts and Raytheon coffers.
There were also some comical scenes. Jon Stewart presented an award to an Azov soldier with visible Nazi tattoos. disney worldand Sean Penn gave his words Oscar to Volodomir Zelensky. Who said Empire wasn’t fun?
on the other hand, Ghouls are running our government They are now trying to give Zelensky another $60 billion to continue the war. why? Is it to protect the sanctity of democracy and Ukraine’s borders? please.
If democracy resulted in a government run by people willing to give their sons the bullock and open their southern borders to millions of Third World invaders, one would hate that system. You must be wondering about the benefits of You don’t have to be a Putin snob to believe it’s time to stop funding this quagmire.
