The ongoing massacre in the Ukraine by Russia demands an immediate ceasefire because we should never glorify war and we should always stand with the oppressed.
I’m no fan of the American Military Industrial Complex.
I’ve been raging against that machine for much of my life.
And while I’m a proud Marxist-Socialist, I’m no fan of Putin.
The guy is a former KGB thug who has used the most deplorable tactics to take over Russia and his brutal authoritarianism has seen him willingly butcher and maim 700 000 of his own men in this terrible Ukrainian war.
The bleating by Putin apologists that somehow Putin is justified because the West did blah blah blah doesn’t excuse launching an invasion of another country and it doesn’t justify the human suffering that has come about from that.
Sure the American Military Industrial Complex is evil and has made money from this and will fight Russia till the last dead Ukrainian, but none of that justifies what Putin did.
Putin’s only regret is that he didn’t start sooner.
Trump surrendering to Putin and allowing Ukraine to be carved hollow will be payback for all the lies and deceptions about not encroaching into Russia’s sphere after the Minsk agreements but a new cold front between NATO and Russia is here with an American President who couldn’t care less about Europe because he is moving all his military power against China.
Surrendering the Ukraine isn’t peace, it will be appeasement and Putin will immediately start pushing in other fronts.
Putin sees the Rules Based Order as an American Hegemony and understands that Russia can be King again but only in a world of chaos and disorder, that Russia and the True Orthodox God can bring order to a chaos he himself is spawning.
Russia will be emboldened by Trump selling the Ukraine out, it won’t sate Putin.
Trump is happy to allow Putin to play games against Europe while he moves his attention to a military confrontation with China.
Zelensky fought the good fight, but Western attention spans are notoriously fickle and in the end he couldn’t compete with the war crimes of the IDF who have over shadowed Russia’s crimes against the Ukrainians.
The reality to the West is that Trump’s a bigger threat to us than Xi and Putin combined.
If Trump was President in 1940 pic.twitter.com/4pS5JctgGv
— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) March 3, 2025
Never before have 500million begged 300million to protect them from a country with 144million who couldn’t defeat a nation of 38million
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Agree 100%. It’s Europe’s mess. Let the tribes of Europe sort it out. Not one Kiwi ‘peace-keeper’ should ever set foot in Europe again.
“Never before have 500million begged 300million to protect them from a country with 144million who couldn’t defeat a nation of 38million” – Sums it up perfectly and the European Nato partners need to draw upon their marital pasts / rapidly expand their militaries / and finally give Ukraine the backing it needs (starting by an immediate no-fly zone over all areas not currently occupied by Russia and the commitment of regular Nato units such as the French Foreign Legion / British para’s etc to to prevent any further Russian advances in Ukraine).
‘marital’ pasts – wonderful Freudian slip. Countries need to marry up, forming more than a duality but a poly… FGS let’s maintain our individual cultures but embrace much of the other, but limit our desires for growth and the money to be made at every step along the way; stop trying to grab stuff off each other – your (whatever) or your life and your land and everything you are as a human! Must be now though, not an idea for a future we can’t be sure we will even have.
Marry used by Shakespeare –
‘Marry, this is miching mallecho. That means mischief.’ (Hamlet).
The malocchio is a superstitious condition characterised by misfortune, unluckiness, negative energy and sometimes illness. https://bellaluckcharms.com/blogs/blog/what-is-the-malocchio
Another word is still in usage ‘ raze’ –
To destroy completely (‘I’ll find a day to massacre them all And raze their faction and
their family’ Titus Andronicus).
https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2021/01/11/50-shakespeare-words-and-their-meanings/
We need to wake up and marry our goodwills and help each other. Anything that can be imagined might be done or attempted, or has been. Shakespeare wrote light plays but also one should read Titus Andronicus, best in a play reading in a circle each with their own character; say it, feel its power, though it may freeze your entrails.
Afterwards few will feel : . Thrasonical (adj.) Bragging; boastful; vainglorious.
Quote from As You Like It – ‘There was never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams and Caesar’s thrasonical brag of ‘I came, saw, and overcame’.’
Doh – yup supposed to be ‘martial’ . .
Short man syndrome?
When ever I hear a someone mention the “rules based order ” I always have to swallow that bit of sick that comes up in the mouth .
Tell us what Russia should have done Martyn
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