Good Caturday morning, Threaders, Threadheads, and all in between. Coffee and snow. Hot and cold. Story of my life.
Two years.
Slava Ukraini.
We still see war in Europe as a curiosity. Most of us, in the US, don’t understand what is at stake. The Russian invasion “started” two years ago, is something 99% of the 1% of those moderately informed think happened. I bet 99.9% of them have no clue what Crimea is, let alone point it on a map. Right…
The war started on February 20, 2014, when Russia invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula. That’s right. Ten years ago. What happened on February 24, 2022, was the latest episode. One that, unlike Crimea, built on the Ukrainian mainland invasion from the East, In April 2014, in the Donbas region, proclaiming the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic as “independent” states.
The idea was the annexation of all the Ukraine.
Everyone thought it was over.
The first thing the West did, was to offer Volodymyr Zelensky a safe route to exile. The whole thing would be over in a couple of weeks. He told us to keep the ride and send weapons. And the rest is History. Today, we watch as the Ukrainian forces try to replace heavy casualties and their ammunition gets depleted, and we still argue as to whether to send them what they need to save themselves, because we don’t really want the war to go on. We just want it to stop.
From time to time, so called Ukrainian allies call for the end of hostilities, and the establishment of the status quo in place after the annexation of Crimea, and the proclamation of the eastern “republics”. Back to when the Ukraine wasn’t such a nuisance. That’s pretty much the goal.
But the Ukrainian know that’s not going to happen, and if they get what they need to fight effectively, they will push the Russians back in the East, and eventually get Crimea back by force.
But we don’t want that. We want it to stop, for now, and resume “negotiations”. Like the eight years of negotiations before 2022 worked so well. All they did was empower Putin to start an all out war, aimed at capturing the whole of The Ukraine. That will not change.
Zelensky warns of the consequences of strangled military aid, but it doesn’t matter to Republicans in Congress, who buy time for Putin to advance, like the good useful idiots they are.
Things were not looking good for Russia, until September of last year, and then October 10 happened. And the world shifted its focus from Europe to the Middle East. And we get aid packages bundled together, help The Ukraine and help Israel. More likely, help none. Because our tax dollars shouldn’t go to fight wars that are really “not our business”.
It’s going to be fine.
When the Russians step into Estonia, when Islamic Jihadists blow up European or American cities, we’ll start worrying. Until then, let’s keep our tax dollars to buy bigger trucks, and more beer. Or pretend to help the homeless.
Yes, this is where left and right agree: keep the fucking tax dollars. They just don’t agree where to spend them, Cracker Barrel or Whole Foods. It doesn’t really matter.
Meanwhile, we watch the fast progression of Christian fundamentalism in our country, while some plot to protest “Genocide Joe”, to the absolute delight of the fascists who push that narrative, while rooting for Netanyahu. And the propal dumbfucks are glad to do their bidding, like the good nazi puppets they are. But don’t tell them. They get very angry when they realize how stupid they are, and as stupid is as stupid does, they just double down on the dumbfuckery.
In the middle of all this, which is completely ignored by the Mainstream Media, by the way, we are told that the moderate Nikki Haley is going to save the GOP and the country, that Biden is senile, and that embryos are really children.
It’s not hard to see through all this bulshit, thriends, but keep in mind that the mere fact you are reading this makes you part of a very exclusive elite, that is aware, informed, and mobilized.
Keep in mind we, in this little digital corner of the universe, are a few privileged motherfuckers, voicing our concerns to each other. So be sure to expand your awareness, spreading it outside, out in the world, where The Ukraine and Gaza are all but afterthoughts, and the fact we are already living in Gilead, in many States, is going by as if it’s not a big deal.
Glory to those fighting wars for us.
Glory to Ukraine, and glory to Israel.
Now you wake up. And fight too.
