Ukraine v Russia

 

(5 minute read)

Good versus Evil

            Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky set the example from the very beginning of the Russian invasion when he turned down a ride out of the country and asked for ammunition.  Putin sent assassination teams to eliminate President Zelensky to bring about a regime change and they failed. Repeatedly.  Ukrainians rose up and resisted, right along with their armed forces.  They resisted, resisted and then resisted some more.  Then they started attacking and taking back their country. 

They will prevail.

            It’s clear in the struggle between Ukraine and Russia that Ukraine is standing their ground for the best of humanity.  The stakes are incredibly high and not just for Ukraine but for the rest of us as fascism yet again rises up around the world including the United States.  There aren’t enough outstanding adjectives to describe what Ukrainians are doing so I’m just going to go with heroic.  It is David versus Goliath and once again David, Ukraine, is winning.

            Will the Trump Republican Putin wing make their move against Ukraine after the midterms?  I think that they will.  Even now they are supporting Putin by voting no to aid for Ukraine.  Keep in mind that their glorious leader, Trump (not Putin) did nothing when President to have his idol Putin leave Crimea or other territories that Russia had already invaded.  Before Trump it was Obama that left Putin unchallenged in Ukraine. 

President Biden did something.

Now Trump says on his Lie Social network:

“U.S. ‘Leadership’ should remain ‘cool, calm, and dry’ on the SABOTAGE of the Nord Stream Pipelines. This is a big event that should not entail a big solution, at least not yet. The Russia/Ukraine catastrophe should NEVER have happened, and would definitely not have happened if I were President. [Ed., LIE]

Do not make matters worse with the pipeline blowup. Be strategic, be smart (brilliant!), get a negotiated deal done NOW. Both sides need and want it. The entire World is at stake. I will head up group???.”[i]

Tough talk for a man that avoided his own military service. Based upon what Trump didn’t do when he was President he could be expected to “negotiate” for Ukraine to give more territory to his idol Putin and undermine NATO at the same time if possible. 

Trump did NOTHING to get Russia out of Crimea.

Rushists

            Ukrainians are fighting against evil personified.  President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people are a beacon of hope for freedom loving people everywhere.  The name Rushists comes from Ukrainians.  It combines the words Russian and fascism to describe the invaders of their land. Russians are the new Nazis. They also call them orcs. We have seen the evil that seems representative of the Russian army in all of the videos of war crimes that they have and are perpetrating on a daily basis.

            They are rapists, thieves, murders, torturers and of innocent men, women and children.  They slaughter innocents and do what they do best.  Destroy.  They destroy everything.  Homes. Entire cities.  People.  They are starving and torturing prisoners of war.  They abandon their own wounded or kill them.  They are depraved in their actions.  According to intercepted calls their families back home encourage their depravity.

Putin is an evil contagion.

War $

            War, what is it good for?[ii]  Unlike what the song says war is good for making big bucks.  One group that will be supportive of Ukraine in the United States is the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) that President Eisenhower talked about.[iii]  Given how ineffective and badly the Russians have done with their own equipment and how well Ukraine has done with the western equipment provided that they are transitioning to use to defeat the Russian invaders the MIC of western weapons can expect a lot of orders in the future.  Tens of billions will be spent just replenishing stocks.  Former Soviet bloc countries are unloading their Russian equipment to Ukraine.  In part because they’re trained how to use it already.  However, Ukrainians had demonstrated how resourceful they can be in learning how to use new equipment and use it effectively. 

They are an incredible people.

Terrible price

            Ukrainians have and are paying a terrible price in their struggle to keep their freedom and stay out from under the yoke of Russian oppression.  Millions displaced from their homes.  Families ripped apart.  Infrastructure destroyed.  Cities destroyed.  Citizens taken to Russia against their will.  The death toll won’t be fully known and understood until the war is over.  Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians wounded and that will have lasting disabilities.  Their economy is destroyed. 

Yet they fight on.

Fox Pravda supporting Russia.

            According to Russian propagandist Tucker Carlson, or Такер Карлсон his name in Russian, the war in Ukraine is the fault of the United States and NATO.[iv]  Carlson is popular on Russian television.  The sleazebag also claimed with absolutely no evidence whatsoever that the United States probably sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline.[v]  This is one of the reasons why Fox Pravda is so popular with conservative Trump Republicans.  It goes along with their constant drum beat that our government is bad.

            The right-wing white Christian Nationalist Trump Republicans couldn’t blame our country fast enough in this conflict.  Carlson is an excellent representative of their cause.  There’s a deep state running things.  Our institutions are to blame.  Our teachers are to blame.  Our government is to blame.  The FBI is evil.  The CIA is behind it all.  It’s the immigrants.  It’s the mongrels.  We have rejected their Jesus.  It’s this nation’s fault that Russia invaded Ukraine.  The Ukrainians are to blame.  It’s our fault that Russia is threatening nuclear war. 

Fuck these people.

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[i] https://news.yahoo.com/trump-volunteers-help-negotiate-deal-220136496.html

[ii] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk

[iii] https://www.c-span.org/video/?15026-1/president-dwight-eisenhower-farewell-address

[iv] https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-point-ukraine-war-regime-change-russia

[v] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/29/russia-nord-stream-tucker-carlson-fox-news/

Blue Fingernail Polish

 

            The picture was of a body lying on the ground dressed, wearing a brown winter coat, head obscured with their hands tied behind their back could have been male or female except for the blue painted fingernails that caught my eye. Dead bodies crumpled up on the ground somehow look smaller to me. All that their life was is gone. Their dreams, hopes and aspirations gone.

            The images being sent from Ukraine of the atrocities that Russians have committed are horrific. We’re only seeing a fraction of the horror that has been visited upon the Ukrainian people. Murdering. Torturing. Pillaging. Looting. Raping. Using civilians as shields. Killing people at point blank range.

            What kind of human shoots an innocent person riding down the street on a bicycle? From the visuals coming out of Ukraine that’s a popular sport. That and running over people with tanks. Maiming people is also popular. What kind of humans do such things?

Putin’s Russian soldiers.

Dark Path?

            A human that kills innocents without qualms or remorse. Some cultures more than others encourage this kind of brutality and thuggery throughout their society. Those that engage with it are rewarded and exalted. Their dark natures are emboldened. Their leader rules with fear.

            Remember when Trump stood up for Putin? It was after Bill O’Reilly said that Putin was a killer during his interview  with Trump. Here’s what Trump said, “There are a lot of killers. What Do You Think? Our Country's So Innocent?” Trump is saying that we are the kind of people that would do what Putin’s Rashists (Russian fascists) are doing in Ukraine. Trump’s followers agreed with him and praised him in their comments. Shooting people is funny to them.

            Remember when Trump praised Putin for invading Ukraine? Sure you do. It was at the same time that Trump said that we should do on our southern border what Putin did and is doing in Ukraine. In Texas the Trump Party wants immigrants on our southern border to be declared invaders and that an invasion is taking place.

            It’s about time that people stop entertaining the idea that Trump is joking about wanting to be President for life. He staged a coup. His followers violently stormed our nation’s Capitol in order to try and keep him in power. The majority of the Republican Trump Party went along with the failed attempt. It’s little wonder that they don’t want the coup attempt investigated. They were a part of it!

            The upcoming election is really about what dark path they will lead us down when there is no one to stand in their way and the society that they will impose on non-believers. They aren’t kidding when they talk about firing squads and shooting people.

It isn’t just talk.

Leave the swamp [Government]

        My original title “The now possible nuclear apocalypse” was just too much of a downer so I went with the swamp title instead. I get to the swamp part right after Armageddon.

        NOTE:  Ever since the election I have been receiving Russian internet traffic at my blog. Before the election and my writing any political pieces I had zero traffic originating from Russia or any of the Baltic States. Zero.

        Nuclear contamination can last for thousands of years. Life in some areas is simply not sustainable. Look at how much damage just one nuclear reactor messing up can cause. Chernobyl. 1,600 square miles contaminated from one accident. Millions of people affected by radioactivity that spread far beyond the area. A financial cost in the billions of dollars. The Fukushima reactor damage is another ongoing nuclear disaster that has also cost billions of dollars and is contaminating the ocean. In all instances involving nuclear materials clean up and decontamination will go on for generations. And we’re talking about nuclear accidents not weapons.

        People seem to have forgotten that the new Russian friend/s of our President Donald Trump as well as a significant portion of our population have thousands of nuclear weapons at their disposal. Most of them are pointed at us. They have a thousand or so ready to go immediately that are targeting our cities and military installations. To make matters worse their leader, Vladimir Putin, approved invading another country and was successful in pulling it off right in front of the world.

        People also seem to have forgotten about the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) doctrine of the cold war mechanics are still active. In other words if two sides get involved everybody dies. No winners. And I mean everybody! The entire world goes. If one nation like France, India or Pakistan just set off their nuclear weapons in place the same result would be accomplished. It would just take the rest of the world longer to succumb.

        The Russians now have a drone submarine that can carry a large multi-megaton nuclear warhead. The sub goes fast enough to outrun torpedoes. It would detonate offshore. The tens of millions not killed instantly in the blast would die of radioactivity within a short amount of time.

        The problem with the MAD doctrine is it only works if its conclusion is accepted. If the head of a nuclear power thinks that they can use nuclear weapons and not set off a large retaliatory response that becomes a problem as well. In other words they do a strategic preemptive strike.

        Let’s say the Russians use six of their drone subs against us simultaneously. Their subs get a free pass to our territorial waters. Two for the east coast. Two for the west coast. One for the Gulf coast around Texas City. One for Hawaii. If a multi-megaton nuclear device were set off in Puget Sound they would probably see the glow in San Diego if there was a San Diego left.

        If their timing was right, like during an inauguration, they would get most of our leadership. A decision would have to be made quickly to respond or not. Somebody in the line of succession is supposed to be in a secure location but I’m not sure that a 100 megaton blast would leave too much in the way of communications. Having the successor airborne would be a nice alternative.

         But if the attack came without warning and there was no indication of identity who would they hit? Tens of millions of people dead. Both coasts devastated. The Russians and Chinese claiming innocence or blaming terrorists. Who is in charge? Do they commit what is left in retaliation? It’s really hard to predict. Nothing else would really have to happen at that point. The world would be in a hold pattern.

        For a long time I have believed that concentrating our government in one place just serves to make the place an attractive target.

        There has been a lot of talk about draining the swamp when it comes to Washington. How about leaving the swamp? In this age of technology and electronic communication why is it necessary to concentrate people physically in the same area in this era of big screen TVs?

        We elect people and send them to Washington. They make trips back to keep in touch with their constituents but they become part of the environment that they are surrounded with on a daily basis. They often buy their million dollar plus homes there. They can keep token accommodations in their home states. They can rent a room in a friend’s house and satisfy residency requirements.

        Congress could be convened electronically. Regions could be created that would serve several states. Initially military installations could be converted to provide secure meeting facilities for various regions.

        Meetings would still be convened at the Capital for those that wanted to continue meeting there. That would be one of the regions. A Senator or House member doesn’t have to physically touch people in order to meet with them. This might complicate things for lobbyists and those from financial institutions who like to schmooze and party with elected officials. There could be an increase in the number of lobbyists that would be needed to cover the various regions.

        On a very positive note it would bring elected officials home or at least closer to home. Close enough to drive home on weekends and hob nob with local people. They could mingle more with the hoi polloi. They would be more accessible to those that they serve.

        Civilian meeting places could be built as well. They could be constructed with suites suitable for elected officials that couldn’t make it home overnight. They could build their million dollar homes in their home states. They would be creating jobs where it counts for them.

        Most importantly our leadership would be spread out with there being less chance of large numbers being wiped out during an attack.