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/

Change that tune! (3 minute 30 second read)

 

Praise band

            Across Europe, Asia, The Middle East, Africa, the Americas including the United States there are admirers  of former President Trump and Putin. In France the far right candidate Marine Le Pen a former FOP (Friend of Putin and Russia) is now distancing herself from him in her messaging. Let’s face it. It just doesn’t look good sucking up to the new Hitler when there’s an election coming up. Trump is slow on the uptake on doing the same because he’s been a FOP  for many years. He still is. At this link  you can hear Le Pen talk about agreeing with Trump, taking Russia’s side, blaming the US for Putin invading Ukraine and abolishing NATO and pulling out of the European Union.

            Prime Minister Orban of Hungary didn’t hesitate to criticize Zelenskyy just as soon as he was reelected. Now he can continue being a FOP. I believe that Le Pen of France will do the same if elected. She will rule according to her true nature and will undermine NATO as well. I believe the same will hold true everywhere that right wing nationalists achieve power, including the United States, if Trump or someone like him waiting in the Rashist (Russian Fascist) wing attains power. Like Trump, they will quickly return to undermining NATO—the main impediment to Putin’s onslaught.

Putin obviously fears NATO.

Messaging

            It all comes down to messaging. It isn’t that a man like Trump or woman like Le Pen have changed their views. They just changed their messaging to appeal to a wider group of people than just fascists. Their nature and ideology remain the same. The only epiphany that they and those like them have had is that is that their extreme nature doesn’t appeal to a wide enough voting base. If anything they have only become worse and more adept at selling their hateful divisive agendas. People that admire Putin or those like him don’t act like Gandhi when they attain power.

            Once in power they consolidate personal power like Trump did when in office and continues to do out of office. All across the nation in appropriately named “Red” states, the Republican Trump Party is consolidating their power by taking complete control of the election process. They are creating laws that made heretofore illegal acts of suppression “legal.”

The writing is on the wall.

This time around.

            When Hitler started his rise to power he had his admirers and detractors. The admirers won. Detractors like Dietrich Bonhoeffer lost. Hitler, like Putin, had the support of the Russian people just like Stalin did. Hitler also had his supporters in the West along with those that said the United States should stay out of war in Europe as he laid waste to the nations of Europe.

            Now Putin is laying waste to Ukraine. Tens of thousands dead. Millions of peaceful Ukrainians have had their lives destroyed for generations to come. Did Hitler stop with one country? Did appeasing Hitler work? Did the Vichy government of France installed by Hitler have the support of French citizens? Hitler had the Japanese. Putin has the Chinese. Alliances are being made.

            This time around Putin has been actively involved in building alliances in Western nations as well as working their populations with propaganda. Hitler tried that in the United States. He failed. Will Putin succeed where Hitler failed? Do the admirers of Putin ever talk about admiring those that aren’t like Putin or Hitler or that don’t excuse their actions?

The letter “Z” is the new swastika.

“If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.”

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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.