The Russian-Ukrainian War - a commentary

Two Slavic people engaged in mutually-destructive war as Ukranians forget that Geography is the Mother of History!

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[From my archives. This piece was written on March 28, 2022, and published on Facebook before I parted ways with the Dictator Wannabee Reptilian. No, I was not kicked out; I left on my own free will for the simple reason that I cannot abide by any form of censorship. No human being has the qualification to tell me what to think or write.]

It is kind of sad for the West that, as it faces the most EXISTENTIAL threat to its 500+ years of Hegemonic domination of the world, it is being led by absolutely imbecilic leaders who cannot think beyond TV ratings.

Again, no, I am not being facetious - point out to me one single leader in the Collective West who can address his own people in a 1-minute unscripted discussion. Russian President holds 3-hour unscripted interviews even though he is a bloody, undemocratic butchering autocrat per the Western media.

As a student of history, I read both Robert Kennedy’s 13 Days and Schlesinger’s 1000 Days and I continue to marvel at the depth of the intellectual, physical, and mental efforts JFK and his team brought to bear as they tackled The Cuban Crisis.

I contrast it with what the arrogant, haughty, racist, utterly corrupt insentient Mannequin called Joe Biden and his uncultured FM Blinken and shyster apology of an NSA, Sullivan, brings to the table to deal with the utter mess that they created in Ukraine. I don’t know why the senile prompter-reading ventriloquist in the White House finds it appropriate to talk to a fellow Sovereign in the language of a Chicago mobster.

To begin with, only uncultured, uneducated, ill-mannered buffoons suffering from acute inferiority complex set out to talk to their peers from “position of strength.” Only uncultured people talk to a fellow human being in languages that they will find offensive if used on them.

Self-confident and cultured people simply do not see the need to talk down to fellow human beings.

It is just not necessary. It is quite obvious that dwarfish Antony Blinken did not attend any advanced course where Diplomacy was featured on the menu. The garrulous, ill-tempered manner in which he talks to people clearly shows a badly brought up and insecure individual.

From what we see of them, both the Chinese and the Russian Foreign Ministers epitomize dignity and decorum, two attributes that are indispensable to winning minds and souls.

The less we say about the unmitigated disaster in Downing Street the better. From his juvenile demeanor and actions, Macron clearly looks like one who was promoted beyond his station. The corrupt Lilliputian in Germany, Scholz or what’s name again, always comes across like a clown.

But then, we in the Global South should shout our Hallelujahs and our Hurrahs as we watch the people who have kept our heads bowed for about five centuries being subjected to the same bitter pill they have forced us to swallow. It is time for us to put our thinking caps on and begin the arduous task of finally liberating ourselves from the imperial yoke.

No, I do not write to condemn the West; its sordid history of rape, plunder, and violence all over the world already condemned it to perpetuity.

The perceptive Jean-Paul Satre told us: "What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?"

PS: As the rest of us witnessed so-called right-wing rioters rampage through the UK and other European countries to attack asylum seekers, we must ask these Europeans some questions which include:

1. Why do Europeans/Westerners keep on electing psychopaths who wage perpetual warfare against the rest of the world?

2. Why do we not see these right-wing rioters and other Westerners protest when their armies march out into other people’s countries to kill, loot, rape, and destroy all the infrastructures that are necessary for meaning existence?

Or, are we to believe that Europeans who touted their rationality never made the connection between the two?

PSS: I shall be posting some of the pieces that I wrote on the Russian SMO here.

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