If you turn your country into a weapon wielded against Russia
You’ll lose. Russia will crush you and your weapon
Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology – Cornell University, David B. Collum, writes, in his intro to his 2022 Year in Review: All Roads Lead to Ukraine https://peakprosperity.com/2022-year-in-review-all-roads-lead-to-ukraine/ :
“All Roads Lead to Ukraine. Trying to understand the war from a dead cold start was monumentally hard. Geopolitical events occur to teach Americans geography; I am no exception. As a combination of foreshadowing and trigger warning, I am going to steelman the debate by taking a decidedly Russian perspective but am not sure it is steelmanning if you come to believe it. If this is gonna drive you nuts, I beg you to stop reading because you will just get mad while I wallow in the slime of your frustrated soul.”
If you turn your country into a weapon wielded against Russia. You’ll lose. Russia will crush you and your weapon. History repeats itself repeatedly. And this one’s been done over and over again. And this time, the military technological industrial capacity of those wielding weapons against Russia is weaker relative to Russia than previous attempts in the last few centuries.
A lot of people in Europe seem to believe that the current problem is the yet lacking full commitment of the USA and NATO to apply an adequate amount of its full military resource against Russia. It seems not to occur to them that the US could apply 100% of its military force against Russia and the outcome would be the same. Compare the German experience. Ah well yes but we’re training Tom Cruises in Tomcats plus F-35 blah blah and “Russia is corrupt and incompetent, and Putin is puttin shit in his pants…”
The US, given its losing hand and refusal to admit, will go nuclear. This also will fail. I predict a 50% chance, increasing daily, that the US will cease to exist within 18 months. More here:
As an American and viewer of US doings around the world, observing through the lens of US official rhetoric and its mass media since about 1980 — by then I was 13 and habituated to devouring mass media, massively: every word of our home town newspaper 7 days a week, 4 national news magazines weekly, cable news (new since 1979) and network news, Nightline and its predecessor in ‘79, and later-at-night-than-Nightline news reviews. Absolutely a junk food diet for the mind but after a few years of gorging that like so many Big Macs, familiarized with its peculiar taste look and feel, I started reading it differently, under the micro and macro scope, thinking about it, seeing it for what it is.
And this is obvious. It tells and shows you exactly what it is. Like McDonalds it comes in pretty packages with slogans. It rots you. Mind and body. It’s designed to do that. It’s intentional. You just have to shift your angle a bit to see that.
You read the same words you always did but you shift your perception. What starts as recognition of the form of US official rhetoric, its particular style, expression, cadence, structure, and content — and also observing that certain actions inevitably follow certain statements, which when said in a particular way precede subsequent actions that are made very clear, that do follow — turns into something else that gives a 13 year old a sense of what?, satisfaction?, competence?:
I recognize the signs, the brand, the form, the flavor. I consume the junk served to me. I feel satiated and stimulated,,, ooh, somebody gonna get it, somebody gonna eat some depleted uranium, ‘cause they got it comin’, they deserve it, and the institutionalized Clint Eastwood, the USA in its “sophisticated” packaging, gonna give it to ‘em.
And the competence? Oh, right, a 13 year old can read the junk box and predict military action weeks in advance. Predict? Right. It’s just reading Big Mac boxes.
What do they say?
It’s all good.
Imagine doing that for a lifetime. You eat Big Macs and French Fries and drink Cokes, every day, for decades, into your 50s.
Wha’s gonna happen? You gonna be a fat fuckin’ slob, wasted. You’re educated though. You’re so smart. Hell you grew up in Kentucky but then you went East. Because you’re so brilliant. Left the slobs behind. You can’t be in same sentence as those deplorable white trash fucks. You know the best of the world, the best of everything. You read the fucking New York Times! Hell you even write for it. And produce shows on NPR. You’re a fucking genius!
But you’re serving shit, to pigs who think they know but actually know nothing. Minds and bodies destroyed by junk, a tsunami of factory junk designed to dominate, eliminate everything else, and fatten, sicken, and destroy souls, hearts, brains, muscle, and bone and blood.
What happens when a whole population eats like that?
What happens to populations that junk themselves to intellectual death?
You fill your mind with trash because trash is served to you relentlessly, and your mind is annihilated. Yeah it’s direct cause and effect. Fill your body with Big Macs every day and expect health? Fuck you.
What if you force feed that into populations? After a couple generations, who will notice?
Not everyone, yet, consumes this trash uncritically. Not everyone, yet, is brain dead. Not everyone is lobotomized. Not everyone forgets what was, what’s been taken away.
Thanks to my friend Johan who sent this 2 part article:
Part 1: https://peakprosperity.com/2022-year-in-review-all-roads-lead-to-ukraine/
Part 2: https://peakprosperity.com/2022-the-year-in-review-the-war-in-ukraine/
That’s true even against the entire collective West ALL IN.
Wait and see. Keep cheering it on.
"You read the same words you always did but you shift your perception. What starts as recognition of the form of US official rhetoric, its particular style, expression, cadence, structure, and content — and also observing that certain actions inevitably follow certain statements, which when said in a particular way precede subsequent actions that are made very clear, that do follow — turns into something else that gives a 13 year old a sense of what?, satisfaction?, competence?"
This is an excellent observation. You're touching on something I think is essential to modern propaganda which I have a hard time expressing. A certain connection with its flow, that lets us participate in its power. It's in advertising and the wearing of brand clothes, and consumption of branded goods, but especially, I think, in this vicarious participation in the system's external violence.