Thanks to men like
Vladimir Makarov Putin
Xi Jinping
Kim Jong-un
Bashar al-Assad ✌
Lukashenko,
Orbán,
And many other diabolicals
Including Donald Trump.
Ours is a world of desperation
A world of tears
A world of fears.
With so much to fear
The future grows dim.
It's about time we're all aware that
It's a small dangerous world after all
A small world threatened by MANiacs
A small, small fragile world
A small precious world after all
Bordering on destruction.
There is just one moon
But many evil men
Just one golden sun
But so many stupid men
A smile means friendship
Our enemies do not smile
They wish to do us evil
Though the mountains divide
The oceans are wide
Nuclear weapons are only minutes away
It's a mad, mad world
A small, mad world
And a sad, sad world after all.
“This is all wrong!”
Poor little Greta Thunberg looked so desperate when at the age of 16 she addressed the United Nations. She believed the threat to her generation is global warming, when it’s not. The global stupidity of men and their wars are. What threatens are the warmongers such as Putin & Co. and monstrous defense budgets that waste this alone 2718 billion (2.7 trillion) dollars that could be used to help people rather than destroy them and their communities. Really, is global warming a more serious threat than the approximately 3,750 active nuclear warheads and 13,890 total nuclear warheads in the world? Greta, you worry about a climatic shift, and rightly so, but it would take some time. A nuclear war could be started tomorrow by political troglodytes such as the primordial brutes such as Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Xi Jinping.
“Fifty percent may be acceptable to you, but those numbers do
not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by
toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice.”
Measures must be taken to reduce carbon emissions. That is true, but measures are being taken to reduce CO emissions. However, there is a much greater threat to humanity. An immediate existential threat that could be triggered by evil men at any time—Global War. Global warming can be managed. It is being managed. But wars cannot be managed, only won or lost with death and destruction to both sides. And wars are started by MANiacs such as Putin (who is destroying a life-world call Ukraine). Because they are irrational and immoral, MANiacs cannot be managed. Possessed evil demons are what they are. And as such they are subhuman because they are motivated by wills to power fueled by bloated egos that leave no room for morality.
Satan offered Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and all their glory, but Jesus refused because he didn't want to become a servant of evil. Jesus knew that to accept Satan's offer would require first destroying the kingdoms of the world—along with their people, cities, and cultures—and by doing so become Satan's servant. Jesus was a spiritual philosopher who sought to overcome the religious hatred. He understood that the spiritual life is achieved through altruistic morality which he illustrated with the parable of the Good Samaritan and by devoting his life to helping others. But he was betrayed by a man who like Trump loved money more than goodness—Judas. Then Jesus was betrayed again by a man motivated by the will to power—Apostle Paul—who created the Christ cult which became Old Testament Christianity no less hateful and destructive than the Judaism that murdered Jesus. And Pope Francis the man who wanted to return to the teachings of Jesus has been mocked by Donald Trump whose moronic sycophants have joined in the laughter, including the fake Catholic J.D. Vance who said “I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another,” thus rejecting Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan and with it Jesus’ altruistic way of life. Men such as Putin, Trump, and J.D. Vance have shown that they not care about people being harmed if they benefit from not preventing harm or benefit from causing harm. They are, simply put, Judases.
Along with MANiacs is the threat of overpopulation. Today the global population is 8 billion, quadrupled that of 1900, 8 times that of 1800. To produce fewer CO2 emissions requires producing fewer children. And more people mean not only more carbon emissions but more poverty, more disease, more crime, and more deaths caused by them. You say, “I’m one of the lucky ones.” Yes you are, Greta. You live in a technologically advanced country of 10 million people. Would 30 more million people improve Sweden’s quality of life? Would 30 more million people improve Sweden’s environment? I doubt it.
The threat of global stupidity. I see in your desperation that which is even more threatening than Global Warming, and that is Global Stupidity. By stupidity, I mean moral stupidity, the stupidity of the thug, the bully, the goon, the assailant, the attacker, the aggressor, the despot, all the thuggish warmongers, all the men who rule nations with great armies and nuclear weapons and oppressed populations. Compared to them global warming is a minor threat. You are correct to feel desperate and threaten because you and your generation exist on the cusp of a global war that would be massively destructive and would poison the environment beyond repair for human life. And the men who would trigger such a war couldn't care less about the death and destruction it would cause. Such men are bizarre, demonic. And men who refuse to stand up to political thugs are self-serving cowards. And men who do stand up to them are heroes. That’s what I think when I listen to your desperate words.
“We are watching you.”
Greta, humanity has been watching the political world-wrecking masculine thugs for over a century. And their destruction has always been war. You worry about people suffering and dying because of global warming, but 70–85 million people died (about 3% of the 1940 world population) as a result of World War II, and it lasted only 6 years. And that war was unnecessary. It could have been avoided if stupid, immoral men had not chosen war over peace. The same can be said about World War I in which according to Encyclopedia Britannica, “8,500,000 soldiers died as a result of wounds or disease and as many as 13,000,000 civilians also died.” Global warming has the excuse of being the result of the shift in production that occurred with the Industrial Revolution and the rapid growth industrial economies. It was not the result of cruel, stupid politicians. It wasn’t until 1988 that global warming was recognized as a threat. Yet, even after two world wars and the invention of nuclear weapons, Putin has proved that war remains a popular pastime for powerful stupid political and religious leaders.
“Murder is wrong!”
Of course it is, child, clearly wrong, the warmongering and monstrous defense budgets that waste billions of dollars that could be used to preserve life rather than destroy life. Having approximately 3,750 active nuclear warheads and 13,890 total nuclear warheads in the world is wrong for people who know right from wrong—but many men such as that political troglodyte and primordial brute Putin do not know the difference between right and wrong. Psychopaths never do.
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood.”
The men who have stolen your dreams and childhood think with minds destroyed by sinister ideologies and/or massive egos. They control nightmarish mindless armies eager to destroy and kill, and their nuclear weapons wait to be unleashed to commit infinite horror upon every form of life. They are political monsters, doers of infinite evil. I am sorry, Greta. It should not be this way, but evil is too powerful and good too weak. That is why humanity invented God, but the invented masculine God has often been used to justify doing evil rather than doing good.
“We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.”
Evil men have been extinguishing cultures and nations for thousands of years. You worry about global warming, but just consider how many thousands of cultures have gone extinct by violence during human history. At this very moment Putin seeks to bring an end to Ukraine. Xi Jinping wants to bring an end to Taiwan. Trump would bring an end to Canada and Greenland. Such dull-minded men are indifferent to culture. They see the world through what the poet William Blake call "single vision," a vision that is usually materialistic, mechanical, unaesthetic, and spiritless. The Audubon Society tells us that "Since settlers arrived in the United States, tribal nations have lost nearly 99 percent of their lands through treaty cessions, forced migration, theft, and devastating government policies designed to erode Native American sovereignty and culture." And with the land went most tribal cultures.
It was Moses who came up with the diabolical notion that the only a single culture deserve to exist. Of course, that culture was Jewish. This was perhaps the He invented an ideology that had God declare that Moses’ people were the only people that deserved to exist in the world. If possible all the others should be destroyed. And as Nietzsche explained in The Antichrist the fuel that drove them was ressentiment and a hatred of all who think differently and the will conquer and persecute. The hatred and resentment were strongest among those who envied the greatness of great pagan cultures. Moses' religious glorification of totalitarianism became the modus operandi of tyrants for centuries, and then was secularized when Karl Marx declared the State was the true God that must be worshiped. In either case people became slaves to an ideology.
Judaism was perhaps the first emergence
of a genocidal political system, that is, a political system that denied the
right of other cultures to exist. The Old Testament describes the systematic
genocidal attacks against pagan cultures and Yahweh's demands to destroy their religious altars. In religious terms it was a shift from
tolerant pagan polytheism to intolerant monotheism that would be passed
on to the other two members of the Abrahamic religions, Christianity and Islam. Pagan cultures such as the Greeks and Romans
believed they were superior to other cultures, but that wasn’t reason enough to
want them destroyed out of existence.
Karl Marx introduced a secular form of political
genocide, and that led to genocidal fascist ideologies. Both the religious and
secular ideologies are us-versus-them ideologies that created enemies where none existed before. Genocide came in two forms: the physical destruction of a
society or the conversion of its members. Putin seeks to destroy Ukraine
physically and then make Russians of its people. Ukrainian children are
kidnapped and taken to Russia to be Russianized. Trump seeks the Americanization
of Canada, either peacefully or violently. Ditto that for Greenland. Within the
U.S. Trump has been engaged in ethnic cleansing and transforming American from
a pluralistic culture (E Pluribus Unum)
to a monoculture defined by the MAGA ideology, in a fashion similar to
Marxist ideology. “You are either with us or we’re against you.” Or “You are
either like us or we’re against you.” Of course the result of the us-versus-them ideologies is aggression and conflict, creating enemies where
not existed before.
Were the cultures of the Native Americans great? They were not great in the technological sense, though they managed amazingly well with their simple tools. Their greatness was their way of life and the wisdom that defined their way of life. They possessed wisdom that great technological societies have too often lacked because technological power fuels the will to power over others. Native American wisdom taught how to live in harmony with the natural world and how to live in beauty. Their wisdom was rooted in the Lebenswelt, the life-world, not in an invented artificial religious or secular ideologies filled with hatred that fuels aggression. At times their actions fell short of living wisely, but the wisdom remained in the various cultures to be rediscovered.
Hope for future peace diminished to zero with the arrival of the four Jewish ideologies—Judaism, Judeo-Christianity, Judeo-Islam, and Judeo-Marxism. (I should add neoconservatism that caused the cruel and unnecessary Iraq War.) In comparison, the threat of global warming is not as looming or horrific compared to war, such as the one destroying Ukraine. Global warming won't turn cities to rubble. It doesn't murder. Unlike the ideologies of hatred it is not driven by hatred. Putin hates Ukrainians. Netanyahu and his fanatical followers hate Palestinians as much as their ancestors hated Canaanites. Xi hates Taiwanese. Trump hates non-members of the MAGA cult and has been doing them harm whenever he can. Climate can change to become harmful to life, but it has no desire to end life, no more than asteroids seek to extinguish life. Religious and secular ideologies of hatred are the creations of men and are as destructive as asteroids in part because they destroy the ability to use moral reason.
“You are failing us.”
We have been failing you for centuries. Your country selfishly failed the children of Europe by maintaining a policy of neutrality during World War II against one of the greatest evildoer in human history. Imagine all those children being sent to concentration camps. Wouldn’t they have said to Swedish people, “You are failing us”? The same selfishness is what drives countries to worry more about themselves than about the threat of global warming to other nations and nature's life-world.
“But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal.”
I’m not so sure. Wanting industrial growth that causes global warming is not a betrayal. All young people want jobs and all the wonderful things that industrialization produces. You live in one of the most technologically advanced nations in the world; most of the children of the world don’t. Global warming is not a betrayal, but this is: “Total global military expenditure rose to $1981 billion last year, an increase of 2.6 per cent in real terms from 2019, according to new data published today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.” Just imagine if that all those billions of dollars were spent on reducing CO2 emissions. Even better, imagine a world without 27,671,000 soldiers (according to The World Bank) waiting to go to war.
That includes 5,166 warships for only the top 14 nations (“Largest Navies in the World 2022,” World Population Review). Another 146 nations also have warships. Add to that about 20,000 military aircraft. And to that some 73,000 tanks according to Forbes. You get the picture, Greta. In comparison to war, global warming is not so big of a threat. Most of all let’s not overlook the roughly 13,150 nuclear warheads as of mid-2021. I almost for forgot the 354 submarines, about 44 of which carry nuclear missiles. And Putin is proving to the entire world that a nuclear holocaust is quite possible because of deranged men like him. He has already murdered tens of thousands of Ukrainian men, women, and children. And has murdered 185,000 to 260,700 of his soldiers. One has to ask how much the sacrifice will substantially benefit the quality of life of the Russian people. The answer is very little if any at all. The war's purpose is not to benefit the Russian people but to stroke Putin's ego. And beating up a smaller nation and committing mass murder of Ukrainians and Russians certainly won't increase the glory of Russia Have you seen Putin's playground for children?
Yes, men who start wars are murderers who don't care about dead—be they women and children. Obsessed with self-aggrandizement Putin does not care about the Russian soldiers who died as his cannon fodder. Dictators care only about realizing their will to power. It's an ego thing. And Netanyahu is no better. Ge doesn't care about killing Palestinian men, women, and children. The more the merrier. He turns their hospitals in morgues.
“The eyes of all future generations are upon you.”
Two points. Future generations are not watching us because they don’t exist. The second and most important point is that evil men don’t give a damn about future generations. The men and women Putin has murdered will not produce future children. He stole the future of the children he has murdered and kidnapped. Such men care only about their personal ambitions. One day Xi will try to destroy the future of the Taiwanese. Such men (and it's always men) don’t care about how they will be seen by future generations as long as they get their way. Criminals don’t care about their reputations, or if they do like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold they want to be remembered for their evil deeds not for good deeds that they were incapable of performing.
Most heinous of all, they don’t care about women and children. Like Agamemnon who sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to go to war (Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis, 406 BC), they will sacrifice women and children to war—as Brute Putin and Hamas and Israel are presently doing. What you say is what Euripides was trying to tell men 2,500 years ago. They didn’t listen. Few do. The love of aggression and carnage makes dull-minded men deaf to morality. It doesn’t exist for them. Such men are stupid to morality and compassion. They have no conscience and are incapable of feeling guilt. So, forget about their sympathetic side. The absence of sympathy is what allows them to be evil. That is why they are immune to appeals for human decency. If men don’t care about slaughtering men, women, and children, why would you think they would care about global warming? Besides, the machines of war are great consumers of fossil fuels. The gas mileage of tanks is about 0.6 miles per gallon.
“And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.”
One thing you learn from playing video games is the bad guys don’t give a damn about being forgiven. You are appealing to men who think and behave like the Biblical Joshua who took Makkedah. "He put the city and its king to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors." Or Judas who sold out Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Will to power, greed and warmongering couldn’t care less about forgiveness. You believe the threat of Hell was invented to frighten evil men, but it was a Judas trick to frighten good men and women. The threat of Hell is a tool of manipulation and exploitation. Its motivation is not morality or concern for the welfare of good people. It is a tool of terror to manipulate believers and nonbelievers to remain loyal to the Christian ideology—not to frighten evil men into being good men. That can't be done. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold didn't fear death or Hell. The threat of Hell was a betrayal of the truth by men, always men, used to realize their will to power. That you have been mocked by the powerbrokers should tell you that much. And in the U.S. the Green New Deal is also political tool used by the oppressor. It’s a disguise that evil uses to appear good, a wolf in sheep's clothing . You may recall that in the story of Little Red Riding Hood that after the wolf swallows the grandmother whole he puts on the grandmother’s clothes to fool the girl. She is fooled and eaten.
“We will not let you get away with this.”
You have no choice. You remind me of a mouse telling a giant voracious cat, “You won’t get away with eating me.” Then the cat eats the mouse. Maybe the cat will get sick and die, but the mouse will still be dead. Your threat is empty. You need allies: Good men willing to risk their lives to fight evil men as brave Ukrainian soldiers are doing at this very movement, while cowardly America abandons Ukraine that only asks for material support and allies itself with the evil overlord of Russia. Ukrainian soldiers fight and die on the battlefield while members of the White House brags about the world's most powerful navy and air force sending bombs and missiles from afar upon a regional ragtag gang known as Houthis. Bombing a tribe of religious fanatics while allowing a nation to be destroyed by an evil military juggernaut is hardly heroic.
About the Houthis the BBC says, "In the early 2000s, the Houthis fought a series of rebellions against Yemen's long-time authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. They wanted greater autonomy for the group's homeland in the north of Yemen." Why? From Wikipedia, "Yemen ranked 176 out of 180 countries in the 2022 Corruption." No wonder they wanted a homeland of their own. The Houthis don't like the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. The Houthis consider those nations the bad guys. But lets's face it. They aren't exactly the good guy. Iran supports the Houthis and Russia and MAGA America supports Russia. Israel has killed 50,000 in Gaza (estimated 80% of Palestinians killed are civilians according to Wikipedia). And Saudi Arabia has been as much a supporter of terrorism as Iran has. The 9-11 attacks were planned by and carried out by Saudi terrorists. And yes, Greta, women and children are the victims of the foolishness of men.
“Right here, right now is where we draw the line.”
You remember Hitler, don’t you? Civilized nations drew the line, all except Switzerland and Sweden, and he crossed the line September 1, 1939. Again, your threat is empty. If the line is crossed, what will your response be? To draw another line? I don’t wish to mock you because the issue is serious, though my concern is war and yours is global warming. The problem is that you believe there is a simple solution when there’s not. There isn't a simple solution to my concern war or to yours global warming. As mentioned above, the world’s population continues to increase and everyone wants the same level of affluence that you have. (If you live to the age of 60, you will see the global population increase to 10 billion people!) Yet, according to the World Bank, “Close to 46 percent of the world’s population is already living on less than $5.50 a day.” Those people don’t produce a lot of CO2 gases but they do live poor lives.
And what reduces poverty and increases quality of life is technology, but 87 percent of all human-produced carbon dioxide emissions come from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil which technology depends on. Sorry, but wind, water, and sunlight cannot meet the demands of modern technology. It’s a complex system driven by greed, aggression, will to power, increasing population growth, societies driven by aggressive masculine ideologies, and masculine politics driven by the male id. Thus, telling complexity not to cross a certain line won’t work because it doesn’t hear you. So what is the answer? I don’t know. I believe that is why one never sees a photo of Freud smiling. He saw that the problem was insolvable. How could it be otherwise when he believed that civilization, ergo civil behavior, is based on repressing the instincts of the id but doing so increasing aggressive behavior? And the id (of the male beast) can be repressed but not extinguished. How could a man smile who lived through two world wars that killed over a hundred million unique individuals? I believe that the self-destructive tendencies of men must first be addressed so humanity can work together in peace to solve such threats as global warming. Knowing the beast that lurks in men, I’m not sure that is possible. Until then the world will remain a sad, sad place after all.
I haven’t forgotten the role of good men and women who have fought evil men just as I haven’t forgotten the good Ukrainian men who have been fighting and dying fighting evil Russian men. You simply can’t rant and rave (as I often do). You must appeal to good men, but the threat of never ending wars must also be addressed. Accomplishing climate change mitigation will not end the threat of global war or nuclear war, which could be triggered tomorrow or next week by a mad man such as Putin or Kim Jong Un . Besides, work is being done to reduce the threat of climatic change. But the only thing that is being done to reduce the threat of war is building bigger and more sophisticated militaries. It’s the old Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine which is truly mad because bigger and more sophisticated militaries encourage dull-minded men like Putin and Kim Jong-Un to start wars, perhaps even Donald Trump.
“The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.”
The world is waking up to an actual nightmare—another eruption of masculinity, but the noise that they are awakening to isn’t Global Warming but Vladimir Putin’s (AKA Czar Putin, Adolf Putin, Vladimir Makarov Putin, Vladimir the Terrible, and Genghis Putin) military machine destroying Ukraine and possibly triggering global war. (And now the Israeli-Hamas War!) Within men dwells the demon of doom. It is vicious, aggressive, and cruel. It loves one thing only—power over others. It is will to power. Morality has no effect upon the men in whom the demon has taken control and squeezed out any love for life. Putin is such a man. You see it in his face. The demon face! Such men are evil because their will to power is a threat to humanity and civilization. They are an affliction that has been with us always. They are the men who throw babies into the air and catch them on bayonets. Global warming is a threat, yes, but it is not a demonic will to power. It does not seek to destroy us. In fact, it is the result of life living beyond its means, wanting more in life, wanting more from the cornucopia of technology.
“My message is that we'll be watching you.”
Isn't that what Sweden said while it watched Hitler’s war machine ravage Europe? Fortunately, there were good men in the world who didn’t just watch in the way Americans have watched for three years the military juggernaut Russia decimate Ukraine, like the passengers on the Philly train who watched a man rape a woman and did nothing. Is the American hero a Hollywood invention. Fortunately, there are men who are willing to die to defend women and children from evil men such as the Ukrainian men who are dying defending Ukrainian women and children from Putin’s evil armies.
This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!
You shouldn’t be up there crying about global warming when there are far worst evils the world murdering young people today, which Czar Putin and other monsters of death and destruction in the Middle East are doing. Their tanks don’t care what young people think. They kill young people intentionally. Global Warming may do that but never intentionally. And it is up to young people to change the world. They must find a way to give the world hope so their elders don’t give up on hope. It is up to young people—like you—to inspire their elders to do the right thing for everyone and for every creature, not just humans. Condemnation alone, however, creates only enemies. In your anger Jackie DeShannon would remind you to put a little love in your heart.
Another day goes by, and still the children cry
Put a little love in your heart
If you want the world to know, we won't let hatred grow
Put a little love in your heart.
That was 1969 when young people wanted peace, more love and less war. The struggle continues.
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I’m one of the lucky ones... How dare you!
You’re angry and I understand. I too am angry. However, your words are simplistic—that of a child. Evil men have been stealing dreams forever. Yes, you are one of the lucky ones, but maybe not for long. “Several Russian amphibious warfare ships briefly moved into Baltic Sea waters, some of them coming uncomfortably close to Sweden. That, and a series of recent drone flights of unknown origin over the country’s nuclear power plants, has put Sweden on edge, reawakening longstanding fears of a possible Russian incursion” (France 24). Will Sweden look on if Russia invades Norway? Or Finland, that other member of the humanitarian superpower triune that sided with the Germans? You see why your words ring hollow, don’t you? It is always about your people, isn’t it? Though now it seems that Sweden has become a Good Samaritan by doing the right and brave thing by supporting Ukraine when others won't. I see a reassuring change in your peace-loving homeland. But the masculine lovers of war are many.
It's a Sad, Sad World where War is Entertainment
And I fear that war has become entertainment for war-loving voyeurs. Of course, war has always been a source of entertainment all the way back to Homer’s Iliad and before. But the entertainment of war has undergone a revolution led by YouTube. No longer is war presented in words and movies. The revolution in communication technologies has made possible to view actual killing and destruction. Snuff videos are back and as popular as ever. Even more, lovers of the machinery of war can talk to their hearts continent, and there are many contented hearts, about the newest fighter planes and tanks and drones and artillery and small arms and special military units and then watch them all in action. Of course, showing torn, crush, mutilated, dead bodies of babies, women, and other civilians is forbidden. Doing so would lessen the entertainment value or would it? Also forbidden are criticisms no matter how true that are considered hurtful to viewers supporting one side or the other.
Yes, it seems war is being treated as another sport—each side rooting for the hometown team no matter how evil. Of course, more war doesn’t end war only no war does that. But now that war has become an entertainment commodity, I doubt that will happen. Money speaks loudest of all. President Trump says if you can't pay for help then you can't expect help. No Good Samaritan is he—only a rich old fool who enjoys mocking the pope who was a Good Samaritan. So what is the answer, Greta, in a mad world where masculine madness holds sway? Where many ghoulish mad men in control armies prefer war to peace as long as others do the fighting?
“For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.”
Vitriol will not help your cause. Using rhetoric that wins friends, supporters, and allies is a more effective strategy. There have been plenty of nations working on political and technological ways to lessen global warming. Solution? Not if the world’s population continues to increase, and both liberals and religious conservative believe the Earth can accommodate billions more, when in fact it’s not accommodating present population now. The environmental threat to billions of people today is not global warming but a lack of resources such as arable land and water. Poor countries can't afford oil that cost $72.72 per barrel.
And the political threat comes down to three nations: Russia, China, and North Korea. If it were not for those 3 nations global defense spending would not have been $2,240 billion last year, an increase of 13 percent in Europe because of diabolical Putin's war. That money could be spent on dealing with the causes of global warming. What about the Muslim threat? I think if you stay out of their homelands and keep them out of yours, they are not a threat. They may continue to kill one another (or not), but that will not trigger a global war or a nuclear war, especially if Israel and Iran could manage to tolerate one another and if Israel could grow a conscience and give back to Palestinians a piece of their homeland that was taken from them. (Isn't it weird that the Iranian-Israel clash is between two religious ideologies rooted in the idol-smashing philosophy of Abraham who would have sacrificed his son to God? Not really.)
Because of masculine aggression there is a chance that W.W.III will happen before a serious global warming crisis occurs. Putin could trigger it at any moment. I think he would enjoy nuking American and European cities even if it meant the destruction of Russian cities. Why not? He has shown that he is willing to throw away a million lives of Russian men because he enjoys seeing Ukrainian men, women , children killed and Ukrainian cities destroyed. At heart he is a nihilist. Like his fellow idiot Donald Trump he believes expanding Russia’s territory will increase its greatness. It won’t. It will just be a bigger version of what it is now, a culturally undeveloped society that serves as Putin's private military base. Putin loves war. Like Trump he knows nothing about culture. The change would be only quantitative rather than qualitative. The talents that died with those dead Russian soldiers could have been a source of qualitative greatness for Russia. But Putin, again like Trump, is too dull-minded to see that. And China and North Korea are be happy to serve as his allies. And who are running the show in all three countries? Diabolical men.
“You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act then you would be evil and that I refuse to believe.”
Clever rhetoric, but not a persuasive argument. And in this case it isn’t even persuasive rhetoric. You seem to believe that ending global warming is as simple as flipping a switch. It’s not because billions of people, not just political leaders, want the very things the production of which causes carbon emissions. You have those things already, but are willing to deny others those things. Let’s shift the focus back to War: “Several studies have found a strong positive correlation between military spending and increased greenhouse gas emissions, with the impact of military spending on carbon emissions being more pronounced for countries of the Global North" (i.e., OECD developed countries)" ("Environmental impact of war," Wikipedia).
“Accordingly, the US military is estimated to be the number one fossil fuel consumer in the world” (“Environmental impact of war,” Wikipedia). So war is a multiple problem: (1) It kills people and destroys homes, schools, hospitals, businesses, and cities. (2) It wastes essential resources. (3) It is a huge polluter. (4) And what it destroys has to be rebuilt using diminishing resources and causing more CO2 emissions, both of which could have been avoided had there been no war. After Adolf Putin’s slaughter of Ukrainians and the destruction of their cities, perhaps you could do a study of environmental impact of Vladimir the Terrible’s private war. And ditto that for the destruction of Gaza to make room for more Israelis.
“The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50 percent chance of staying below 1.5 degrees and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.”
Tell that to the Ukrainians or to the Palestinians who no longer have a place to live because their homes are now rubble! And have you ever considered a chain reaction that leads to global war? Study the causes of WWI which caused WWII.
“Fifty percent may be acceptable to you, but those numbers do
not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by
toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice.”
That is called gobbledygook, like Judeo-Christians and Judeo-Muslims threatening members of other religions with the fires of Hell when the only evidence for Hell is found in scripture, which doesn't qualify as evidence. Yes, you belong in the classroom or you might want to visit Ukraine or Palestine to conduct a poll to get their opinions about global warming.
Video Games and the Truth about Human Evil in the World
The truth is revealed in video games. In Mass Effect the Reapers = a pure form of mechanized masculinity. Unbridled masculinity fueled by the will to power has always been the greatest threat facing humanity. Like the Reapers such men (today it is Pestiferous Putin and his army of husks (once human organisms transformed into deadly monstrosities) care nothing about family, children, or women. They are killers, destroyers, and controllers. In Kill Zone it’s the Helghast Empire (think Russia) that launches a blitzkrieg. In Half-Life 2 (the greatest game of all time, by the way) the evil empire is the Combine (think Russia, China, and North Korea) under the control of G-Man (a government man as usual), think Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong-un. And perhaps America's wannabe dictator Donald Trump with his MAGA maniacs. Evil is written on each man’s face! Gordon Freeman is the hero. His name reveals what he is all about and what the evildoers are against. And we don’t want to overlook Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 which stars mass murderer Vladimir Makarov the very embodiment of Putin, slaughtering people at an airport. Putin’s airport is the Ukraine that consists of businesses, schools, hospitals, and residences. Of course, hiding in his billion-plus dollar palace, his life is not in danger. Like LBJ and G.W. Bush, he’s a coward.
Slave States China, Russia, and North Korea
CHINA
China is a slave state. Its people are loyal automatons programmed from cradle to grave. They are devoted and well-behaved as one would expect from automatons. The Chinese government has transformed entire cities into factories. The entire nation is an industrial complex. They are also smart, family devoted, dependable, drawn to difficult scientific disciplines, and non-complainers and non-whiners unlike those complainers and whiners lucky enough to live in humane nations such as the U.S. and France. The precision and quality of the productivity of the Chinese people are to be admired. Americans, on the other hand, are deficient in all those areas. However, the Chinese are not the big, creative thinkers as they once were. They do not excel in intellectual, philosophical, scientific, or artistic innovation. And though they have a genius for technology and its applications, they are plagiarizers. And unlike American culture, theirs is boring. Unfortunately Judeo-Marxism crushed the three Chinese cultural forms most admired by Westerners: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
Still, their government is evil, and the people will robotically serve its evil ends. The Chinese’s Winter Olympics reminded me of Hitler’s 1936 Olympics. The most significant aspect of both was the willingness of other nations, in particular Western nations, to kowtow to the Chinese evil empire. Ditto that for the Russian Olympics. Three truisms that cannot be ignored about China are the following: (1) It is an enemy of Western civilization even though its strength has been built on Western science and technology and Judeo-Marxism. (2) One day in the future it will invade Taiwan. (3) It will continue to intimidate and/or dominate nations in the Pacific Rim region. This intimidation caused humanitarian superpower Australia to spend $70 to $170 billion for 8 nuclear submarines. Such a waste of money and not a threat feared by China. Australia has a population of 25 million. China is willing to lose that many soldiers fight the Australians, and it will still have a billion plus left over. Australia would have been better off with 2 nuclear powered submarines with nuclear missiles. Being able to destroy cities is the only thing the evil empires China, Russia, and North Korea fear.
RUSSIA
Russia is also a slave state. Its people are suppressed and programmed like the automatons of China. Russia depends totally on its natural resources. All it mental and financial energy is devoted to Putin’s military. Russia is essentially a military base. It creates nothing intellectually, culturally, and technologically that is of any interest to the rest of the world. It is at one with Putin and Putin is as uninteresting as a human being can be. Russia’s glory days occurred in the 19th century. Judeo-Marxism destroyed the Russian soul and it hasn’t recovered. I’ve read that like G.W. Bush, Putin keeps a Bible bedside, most likely reading, if he reads at all, the part of the Old Testament devoted to the conquest of Canaan, also Netanyahu's favorite part . Neither have no use for Jesus.
Putin wants Ukrainians murdered so that Russians can move into their homes, as the Jews did when they invaded Palestine and now want to move in Gaza homes once they are rebuild. The Jewish Bible taught the world ethnic cleansing so that thuggish dictators are able to destroy other cultures and peoples with a clear conscience. Ditto that for Judeo-Marxism. If you’re not a Marxist, then you are an enemy. However, dictatorial thugs like Putin and the Maoists politicians of China or the pathological oppressor Kim Jong-un don’t have a conscience, so keeping it clear isn’t a problem.
They are all Satanic. Satan did evil because he enjoyed doing it. Satan is the personification of evil, and the fundamental characteristic of evil is the absence of morality. Evil is the opposite of morality. Unfortunately, Satan wasn’t an ex–nihilo creation. His prototype was men who enjoyed doing harm. Like his creator, Yahweh, he is the projection of masculinity. Fortunately for humanity, not all men are Satanic. But enough are to prevent the world from ever eradicating evil men whose threats of disorder keep the world in a constant state of fear and trembling.
It's a sad, sad world after all. That was Freud’s conclusion, which seems to be the case given the present state of the world. Freud illustrates how difficult it is even for a very smart man to be morally wise. He supported World War I: “Freud's initial response to World War I was patriotic, and he closely followed the unfolding events of the war. Two of his sons volunteered for duty in the Austrian army” (“Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture,” The Library of Congress). And, “His first response to the declaration of the First World War in 1914 was an unexpected one. He was enthusiastic, as if he was reliving the military ardours of his boyhood, when he would play war games with toy soldiers and plan his own military campaigns” (“Sigmund Freud, war and disillusionment,” Young Poets Network). That 's really sad! The question that looms large is how can anyone be enthusiastic about war, either as an aggressor or defender of one's homeland?
But it was Jewish ideology that taught humanity how to program a population to be automaton citizens. When Korah complains to Moses, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the Lord’s assembly?” (Numbers 16:3). In other words, Moses behaved as a dictator. As a result of Korah's complaint, his followers and his clan are destroyed by God. All cultures inculcate their members with traditional ways of behaving and thinking. The difference is that Jewish culture was totalitarian and based on an ideology. Questioning the ideology or the priests who represented the ideology was not allowed and punished by death, as Jesus found out. What was new was oppression and censorship based on an ideology. The Jewish ideology would be passed on to Judeo-Christians and to Judeo-Muslims who would treat dissenters in the same manner Moses treats Korah and would use Jewish scripture to justify doing so. Maoist China adopted Judeo-Marxism and was as intolerant of criticism and disobedience as was Moses. Sixty to eighty million Chinese people died because of Mao’s policies. In all four cases, ideology is used as a program, similar to a computer program, to program citizens, thus transforming them into automatons. It is also used to justify punishing nonbelievers, skeptics, and heretics.
NORTH KOREA
North Korea is also a slave state. Like Russia, it is a military camp. Its sole existence is preparation for war. It has nuclear weapons which are the sole pride of the nation's chubby (unlike his underfed vassals) godfather Kim Jong Un. As a human society it is boring, interesting only as a pathology. It produces nothing intellectually, culturally, or technologically that is of use or interest to the rest of the world. North Korea comes closest to the former slave plantations in America. And no matter how orderly a national slave plantation is, it's not a civilization. It’s a dystopia.
War and the Triune of Evil
Russia, China, and North Korea each have targets for war. Bully Russia has already launched a war against little Ukraine. Russian tanks have crushed beneath their tracks men, women, and children. Russia snipers explode the head any Ukrainian—man, woman or child that gets in their sights. Russian missiles have been destroying cities. That Russian soldiers have been throwing Ukrainian babies in the air and catching them on bayonets is an unverified rumor. You believe I go too far, but this is what Will Durant tells us in his The Age of Louis XIV about the Cossacks' killing of Poles, Ukrainians, Jews and others:
Killing was accompanied by barbarous tortures: the victims were flayed alive, split asunder, clubbed to death, roasted on coals, or scalded with boiling water. . . . The Most terrible cruelty, however, was shown to the Jews. They were destined to utter annihilation, and the slightest pity shown to them was looked upon as treason. Scrolls of the Law were taken out of the synagogues by Cossacks, who danced on them while drinking whiskey. After this Jews were laid upon them and butchered without mercy. Thousands of Jewish were thrown into wells, or buried alive. (467)
No reason to wonder what binds Poles and Ukrainians: they are bound by blood spilt by Russians.
Greta, you’ve just looked into that dark cauldron of masculinity that Freud called the id, though apparently he believed it existed equally in both men and women. It doesn’t. Women will follow evil men, but doing harm comes unnaturally to them, whereas it comes naturally to men. He made that assumption because he couldn’t see beyond his own masculinity. Women too have their primordial emotions and impulses, but they originate in sensuality, love, birth, and child rearing. They will kill to protect or out of sickness, but not because killing gives them pleasure as it does men. Greek goddesses tell us a lot about the feminine. Here are just a few: Achelois, moon goddess whose name means “she who washes away pain”; Antheia goddess of gardens, flowers, swamps, and marshes; Aphrodite goddess of love and beauty; Demeter goddess of agriculture, fertility, sacred law and the harvest; and your favorite GAIA primal Greek goddess of Earth. The ancient Greeks valued equally the masculine and the feminine.
In much of the world today the feminine is consider weak thus inferior to the masculine. But it is the masculine that the destroyer of people, creatures, cities, and perhaps one day civilization. Women are considered weak because they are not destroyers. Their strength lies in the appreciation of life and beauty. They see the world as artists do. As Virginia Woolf does in her novel Mrs Dalloway. Still, women need masculine heroes to protect women and children from evil men.
Judaism is a masculine religious ideology that worships a tyrant of masculinity. It is the deification of the masculine id. Apostle Paul, who converted pagans to his (not Jesus') neo-Judaism, Christianity, didn’t care much for women or Earthly existence. You might know that to him the central goal in life was to escape worldly existence for existence in the postmortem—the dead world. But don’t despair. There are plenty of good men who want to serve the Good, not God. (As Jesus did, protector of women and children.) What is the Good? Mother Earth, nature, men and women, love and children, home, neighborhood, community, and civilization. There are good men like Jesus who are not slaves to the masculine id because they serve morality and other human beings. They are altruists. The religion of Jesus was altruism, as illustrated in his parable of the Good Samaritan. The spiritual life is achieved through the morality of altruism. Both Buddha and Jesus overcame aggressive masculinity. Their principles: cause no suffering and aid those who do suffer. You need to appeal to such men or else you have no chance of realizing your goal of preventing nature from becoming unbalanced and chaotic.
Unlike cowardly Putin hiding in his fortified castle, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, wearing helmet and flak vest refuses to evacuate: “I need ammunition, not a ride,” he bravely says. While chicken hawk Vladimir the Trembler hides, brave Ukrainian soldiers have been giving Putin’s militarized Russia a bloody nose. And Ukrainian women? “More than 60,000 Ukrainian women serve in the Ukrainian military defending their homeland against Russian aggression. Tens of thousands more do their part to help their country as journalists, paramedics, teachers, politicians and artists.” The women and their children are certainly worth fighting and dying for.
Once wise now diabolical, China wants to capture Taiwan, a civilized democratic nation that means no harm to anyone. Communist thug Xi Jinping Chairman of the Central Military Commission has already sent three dozen war planes over Taiwan to frighten women and children. Once China has completed its carnage in Taiwan and transformed the island nation into a re-education camp that will transform the Taiwanese into obedient husks, then China will seek control of the entire Pacific Rim and beyond. (Saying this, Chairman Trump has similar plans for Canada and Greenland. Don’t let the silly man fool you. He is a closeted us-versus-them Marxist who seeks complete control of the economy and culture, thus the society as a whole. His movement is as domineering and authoritarian was the Biden-Harris woke movement.)
The pathetic leader of North Korea has his sights on South Korea and Japan, but essentially Kim Jong-un is a chubby Chinese puppet. Still he is a dangerous puppet since he is a psychopath in control of nuclear weapons, but then aren’t they all. No question mark needed.
America, God’s Savior of the World? No.
The Slaughtering of Native Americans
During America’s history, its orators claimed that America would show the world what a civilized nation is: “As a ‘Poem on the Rising Glory of America’ had foretold as early as 1772, Americans believed their the ‘happy land’ was destined to become the ‘the seat o empire’ and the ‘final stage’ of civilization” (American History: A Survey, Alan Brinkley, et al. 194). It has failed miserably. As an American born during World War II, I really wanted to be able—like those former Americans—to present my country as a hero to the world. It was but only briefly after that war. Europeans came to North America not too long ago. America is only 245 years old. China is about 4000 to 4200 years old, and still has not learned how to behave in a civilized manner.
One would have thought those invading Europeans and later the Americans would have been grateful and benevolent having inherited by theft a part of the world that really was an Eden. But no. The slaughter of the Indians began almost immediately. For example, on May 26, 1637, the Pequot massacre occurred. A pre-dawn attack on Mystic Fort that left 500 adults and children of the Pequot tribe dead; soldiers set fire to the structures and burned the remaining people there alive. (Wow! That sounds just like what Russian soldiers are doing in Ukraine.) The killers of the Indians were Puritans, so mentally possessed by the Jewish ideology of the Old Testament that preaches that such slaughter is divinely justified. The slaughter of the native peoples would be repeated throughout American history—always justified by Jewish ideology. In the end, The National Archives tell us that "that between 80% and 95% of the Native American population died within the first 100-150 years of European contact with the Americas" ("Native North Americans: What was early contact like between English colonists and Native Americans?").
One of the worst was the Wounded Knee Massacre December 29, 1890, just after celebrating the birth of Jesus. Why was it that Americans never matured morally? Never really paid any attention to Jesus. Because they preferred the Old Testament to the New Testament. Because the Old Testament
complemented their greedy ambitions by declaring that being the enemies of God
pagans (who never considered themselves or anyone else as enemies of God) have
no moral rights; thus, God (i.e., Yahweh, Christ-God, or Allah) condones their
slaughter and the acquisition of their lands. Of interest here is that Mao used the Judeo-Marxism to justify the slaughter of millions of his own people. And it is well known that Putin is a God-fearing Christian—but like most American Christians, he prefers be an Old Testament Christian. And Little Big Man George W. Bush believed he was doing God’s work when he had the American military machine invade Iraq on March 19, 2003, 366 years after the Pequot massacre occurred. It is always God’s work, never that of Jesus. He did say that he came not to bring peace but the sword, but those were the words of the pagan hater Matthew, not Jesus. And Old Testament Christians followed those words and destroyed the classical world as explained by Catherine Nixey in her masterful book The Darkening Age. It's a sad, sad world, Greta, because men never change.
The Enslavement of African Pagans
On August 20, 1619, the first enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown, kidnapped by Christian Portuguese, and bought by Christian English colonists. And why not? The Bible condones slavery as long as one’s own people are not enslaved. Apostle Paul said, “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ” (Ephesians 6:5), not “Earthly masters of slaves, set your slaves free or burn in Hell!” Judeo-Christians considered both the conquest of the Indians and the enslavement of Africans as being justified in two ways. The first is the eradication of the Indians was an eradication of evil that was an abomination to God Yahweh (not to Jesus). Second, Indians who were not killed and slaves who did not die were given the glorious opportunity to be converted to Christianity. The old organic self was replaced with a brand new artificial ideological self. Judaism and Judeo-Christianity are ideologies. Jesus rejected living according the laws of an ideology. He was an ethical spiritual philosopher, not an ideologue like Moses or Apostle Paul or Augustine or Karl Marx.
No Respect for Nature’s Creatures
And then there is this, a single example of Americans’ hatred of wild nature—and attitude so different from that of Native Americans and other pagans: “In addition to being driven of most of their land, the Plains Indians had also lost the economic base of their society. For countless centuries they had acquired food, clothing, and shelter from the meat and skins of the buffaloes, who had roamed across the Plains in immense herds totaling person 13,000,000 animals. But the white [Judeo-Christian] men almost exterminated them within a quarter of a century. Buffaloes made easy targets, and shooting them, in many instances for pure love of killing, became a popular sport. In 1883 government agents, after scouring the Plains in search of the vanished herds, reported that the number had been reduced to less than 200” (Henry Bamford Parkes, The United States of America: A History 424).
Wisdom and truth from John (Fire) Lame Deer: “The Buffalo was part of us, his flesh and blood being absorbed by us until it became our own flesh and blood. Our clothing, our tepees, everything we needed for life came from the buffalo's body. It was hard to say where the animals ended and the human began.” Thus, celebrating the golden calf would have made perfect sense to the plains Indians. The Smithsonian tells us that “bison not only provided American Indians with food, shelter and tools, but a model on how to live. To American Indians, bison also represent their spirit and remind them of how their lives were once lived, free and in harmony with nature” (“American Bison and American Indian Nations”).
As for myself, I am presently eating a chicken & cheese sandwich with mayonnaise made from oil, egg yolks, and lemon juice or vinegar. The bread is made from wheat flour. I am also drinking water and coffee. Nature provided all the ingredients of my meal with the help of farmers. Being supernatural, God played no role in creating the ingredients of my lunch. I am grateful to the chicken for its sacrifices. They are marvelous creatures, most entertaining. I am a vegetarian at heart but a guilty carnivore by nature.
Christians, on the other hand, saw nature as an evil setting to escape from. To Apostle Paul nature was the realm of the flesh and matter, both of which he hated. He preferred the nebulous realm of the spirit. Because of Paul's teachings (that are contrary to the Earth-loving way of life of traditional Jews as described in the book of Ecclesiastes), Christians came to hate their worldly existence and couldn’t wait to escape from it via death in order to live in the postmortem spiritual realm forever praising God. Imagine spending an eternity in church! Thus it is not surprising that Americans had no moral qualms about exterminating the native peoples of North America or the buffalo. That they didn’t see their behavior as immoral is baffling until one considers Judaism’s hatred pagans because they worshiped the multiple deities of nature. Note that the story of the Golden Calf is about Jews who wanted to return to venerating nature (there were many). When Dictator Moses saw them singing and dancing and having a good time he orders his priests to murder them. Yahweh joins in the slaughter. It made sense to pagans to worship nature. Nature, not God, was their great provider.
The anti-life Apostle Paul said, “Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life” (Galatians 6:8) And “The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so” (Romans 8:7). “For while we are in this [Earthly] tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling... [and we] know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:4-6). For Paul the material world was the flesh world that one needed to escape from.
Jesus said, “If you would be perfect, go sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me” (Matthew 19:21). Both men were celibate rejected the conventional life of falling in love, marrying, having children, working, and providing for one’s family, and looking forward to growing old with one’s grandchildren. Paul considered sex evil—ergo, having no children was the ideal life. Still, Matthew’s words are unreliable. Jesus did not hate life. He simply believe living for others is how one lives a spiritual life. He was an altruist. The religion of Apostle Paul and Matthew (the Christ cult) glorified selfishness, the belief that oneself, the ego, is so important that it deserves to exist forever.
As the realm of the flesh nature was seen as evil, Satan's playground; thus people—such as Native Americans—who worship nature were evil. The man-God Christ said “follow me,” in other words surrender oneself not to an Earthly way of life but to a religious ideology. Women were better off living in convents, monks in monasteries, and priests living unmarried. I do find it strange that this negative attitude toward the flesh didn’t prevent celebrating the Eucharist—the symbolic eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking his blood, considered cannibalistic to the Romans. But none of this had anything to do with Jesus’ ethics-based religion. There is something very Greek about Jesus’ philosophical emphasis on moderation. Marriage is fine; adultery isn’t. Do allow emotional and sensual desire take control of your life. And he showed people how to do that. He knew he was asking a lot of mere mortals jerked about by their desires. That is why he forgives the adulterous woman. Jesus’ solution was ethical: live for others, not for yourself (which would exclude wanting to live forever). Yes, facing death is hard. It was even for Jesus.
Also astounding was the inability of the Americans to see the beauty of wild nature. But no, wilderness was evil and must be tamed. Like their leader Trump Republicans, more than Democrats, see nature as nothing more than a repository of raw resources. That is all Ukraine and Greenland is to Trump. And one recalls his attempt to open the Arctic Refuge to oil and gas development, a move that overturned six decades of protections for the largest remaining stretch of wilderness in the United States. To do this the Trump Administration attempted to reverse nearly 100 environmental rules. Trump is a vacuous man, hollow and soulless, as are his followers no different from Putin's husks.
Republicans wear contact lenses with dollar signs so all they see in nature is money, money, money.Thus it’s not surprising that Trump would transform Gaza to spiritless Las Vegas, with all Palestinians deported. Netanyahu smiles. That’s what makes them environmental scrooges and should make impossible for lovers of nature and wildlife to vote for. I voted for neither party. How can I vote for Democrats who hate me, hate my mother and father, aunts and uncles, and ancestors, just ordinary working Americans who as far as I know never owned a slave or killed a buffalo. Thus, I hate both parties equally; that’s call equity. Was that vitriol, Greta? I guess you and I are more alike than I first realized.
America as a Role Model for Peace
Don’t think so. The entire history of America is a history of warfare. Americans even engaged in slaughtering one another during the Civil War, which again was triggered by an economy that depended on human beings being considered private property. America’s wars were usually wars of aggression. Seldom were they Good Samaritan Wars. After World War II began, Americans grudgingly got involved only because the Japanese (Hitler’s allies) attacked Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, two years after the war started, September 1, 1939. Americans would have allowed Hitler and his allies to gobble up Europe. Many of he Trump cult wished they had. America’s attitude was that of Sweden’s (Sorry, Greta) and Switzerland’s. If Scrooge was a nation it would be
Switzerland:
"Switzerland has blocked delivery of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine from several European countries. It took months of pressure for Switzerland to agree to ship surplus Leopard tanks to Germany to replace those sent to Ukraine. Its refusal to allow Swiss-made ammunition in Germany's stocks to be sent to Ukraine for use in donated Gepard anti-aircraft systems helped prompt German armsmaker Rheinmetall to boost ammunition production in Germany" (Politico.eu). Go Germany!
In Good Samaritan fashion Britain and France entered the Second World War following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Ditto that for World War I which started 28 July 1914. The Germans invaded Belgium 4th August 4, 1914, and the Good Samaritan British declare war on Germany the same day. I might be an American but my heroes are the British. The Americans enter the war April 4, 1917, or 2 years, 8 months, 8 days later because of Germany's resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships in 1917. A lesson for those who believe Putin will end aggression once he has Ukraine.
At least the women did their part in both wars while the U.S. waited on the sidelines:
When Americans consider other nations being invaded by Germans or Russians, they think mostly about the men, but women and children are always affected by war. And there were British female spies serving during World War II: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Female-Spies-Of-SOE/
The video game Velvet Assassin was inspired by Violette Szabo, executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp, 1945. Motivated by the he Blitz, a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War, that killed and maimed mostly civilians, she enlisted in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) on 11 September 1941. Americans were twiddling their thumbs waiting for a selfish reason for entering the war. Thump does the same while figuring out how to make a profit from the war, from Ukraine or Russia doesn't matter. That is called the Judas $ Principle.
They Returned as Heroes
The American men and women who fought the war were heroes. And they returned to America wanting a better America, one that reflected their own goodness and sacrifice. But the betrayal started early by two of the great men of the war: “UK prime minister Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower administration (the vice president was Tricky Dick Nixon) decided in early 1953 to overthrow Iran's government” (“Operation Ajax,” Wikipedia). Eisenhower had the CIA participate with the British government to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad Mosaddegh, who died under house arrest. (My disappointment in Churchill and Ike was infinite. But at least they were great men, heroes even, before they became corrupted—unlike Donald Trump whose claim to fame is the purity of his corruption past and present.)
The coup d'état was called Operation Ajax. The motivation of the coup was — to put into power a pro-British-American puppet government, the dictatorship of the Shah, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, that would ensure British Petroleum would continue to control Iranian oil production. Is it any wonder that the people of the Middle East hate America? We believed Eisenhower and Churchill to be wise men. They were flawed men who were once wise. Apparently wisdom and politics are incompatibles. Yet, the coup had other supporters. Political stupidity would be powerless were it not for the fact that stupid politicians always have stupid supporters that are easily led.
Lyndon B. Johnson’s Cruel & Unnecessary War
LBJ became president because the lecherous adulterer John F. Kennedy was assassinated. LBJ was a chicken-hawk blinded by Judeo-Christianity. Johnson made illegal and immoral political decisions because he had become thoroughly Judaized growing up in the Texas Bible-belt . Johnson’s family were Christadelphians, who believe the Jews are the chosen people (they actually chose themselves as Yahweh’s chosen people), that Jesus is the Messiah, and that the Kingdom of Israel would be restored as prophesized in the Bible. (There is no hope for humanity when people willingly believe such invented self-serving nonsense.) This is why President Johnson ordered the recall of American planes sent to rescue the USS Liberty that had been attacked by the Israelis “with the comment that he did not care if every man drowned and the ship sank, but that he would not embarrass his allies,” meaning Israel. (“USS Liberty incident,” Wikipedia) (Israel an ally? Since when? Israel is an ally only to itself. Isn't that the other meaning of the Good Samaritan parable?) Two questions: first, who side was he on? Second, did LBJ consider Israel a religious or a political ally? Political allies don’t behave as enemies.
Johnson was a member of the Disciples of Christ. So Johnson lived in two worlds or histories—one factual and the other mythological when he launched the Vietnam War. History has shown that religious mythology influences the way humans think thus the way they behave. For example, I assume Johnson thought of himself as God’s Commander in Chief, as did the Christian Roman emperors and European kings, and as did President George W. Bush did when he became president. And certainly Muslim political leaders throughout the ages have thought of themselves in that way. Johnson believed that he was engaged in God’s war against godless Communism. Thus, the collisions of two Judaisms. Thus the threat of aggressive ideologies that steal minds and make men their slaves.
The consequences: 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties. Vietnam lost between 171,331 and 220,357 men, defenders of the homeland reminiscent of the homeland defenders of the Iraq War. As many as 2,000,000 civilians were killed. Until the war in Afghanistan the Vietnam War (1955 – 1975, 19.4 years) was America’s longest war. What you see here is not wisdom but the reign of folly. Look a Johnson’s face and you will see that same evil of stupidity that you see in Putin’s face and now see in Trump's face.
The Situation Didn’t Improve
The war made millions of young Americans and adults realize that America’s political system would not allow America to become one of good guys that so many Americans wanted after World War II. The sleazy slippery slope initiated by LBJ would continue.
Richard Nixon of Watergate infamy became president. Like Trump, he tried to cheat democracy. He was a rotten tooth in a mouth of rotten teeth.
Then came Jimmy Carter, a good man who was no match against the corrupt, immoral stupid politicians occupying the political swamp that Washington had become.
Then came the savior of the Republicans Party (until Trump) Ronald Reagan who granted amnesty to approximately three million immigrants who were in the United States illegally. In Washington crime does pay. Upon signing that act of surrender at a ceremony held beside the newly refurbished Statue of Liberty, the first step was taken toward immigration debacle that has pretty wrecked America by giving us Donald Trump.
Then came George H. Bush who after Gulf War could have legally removed from power the evil Saddam Hussein, who in Putin fashion tried to conquer a tiny country (Kuwait). Hussein should have been hauled before the World Court for crimes against humanity. The Iraqis would have rejoiced. But Bush Senior decided to keep Saddam in power to keep Iran at bay and to keep Iraq stable. And then there was all that oil to be considered. So the U.S. government betrayed both Iran (a second time) and the Iraqi people. Again no wisdom, only stupidity. Bush Jr. would seek payback because his daddy had become a laughingstock among the Hussein cult. Besides, like LBJ he was on the prayer phone with the Almighty so believed would be a winner with God’s help, just as the Jews believed when they started the war with the Romans. Though eventually a Jew would destroy Rome in David and Goliath fashion—not Jesus but his false apostle Paul, with the help of the Judas Emperor Constantine I who used the Christian ideology as a weapon to realize his will to power. About Constantine historian Ramsay MacMullen says, “The empire had never had on the throne a man given to such bloodthirsty violence as Constantine,” AKA Saint Constantine. (Christianizing the Roman Empire, p.50)
But before Bush's destruction of Baghdad came lecherous, decadent Bill Clinton who turned the White House into a whorehouse with the help of a Jewess Judas who used Bill’s penis as a dagger to stab him in the back. It is about this time that the U.S. government became a circus of demented clowns and America increasingly became a Gotham City with Trump becoming Joker-in-Chief. Hollywood would grease the downward slope with endless sex and violence and just plain weird decadence and contempt for anything that might provide America values to aspire to. But a culture without ennobling value cannot produce great motion pictures. The Golden Age of movies has been over for a very long time.
Bill’s decadence made possible for the return of Bush family led by the Little Boy Bush Jr. A boy dressed as a man so inept that he would create endless America destroying havoc unknown since LBJ. He did LBJ one better by getting America into two very long, cruel, unjust, totally demoralizing, America degrading wars at the same time, in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Iraq War was totally unnecessary but little George Custer Bush wanted to make amends for Daddy big screw-up. The cost of his presidential malpractice was astounding coming from a village idiot. His private and totally unnecessary war with Iraq caused at least one hundred thousand civilian deaths, as well as tens of thousands of military deaths, including 4,431 total American deaths and 31,994 wounded in action. (Actually, George Jr. should have been hauled before the International Court of Justice as a war criminal.) His war in Afghanistan would result in 2,401 United States military deaths and 20,752 American service members wounded. And Bush boy didn’t even kill the master mind of the 9-11 attacks, Osama bin Laden! Not only that he encouraged illegal immigration by waving the Mexican flag to immigrants crossing the Rio Grande. He used a little American flag as a handkerchief. A monster emerged from the folly unbridled immigration. It occupies the White House today.
Bush had made such a mess of things that a black man who like Kamala Harris wasn’t even an American black whose ancestors had been slaves would become president: Barack Obama. The poor man inherited Bush's two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with a name like that he had no chance once in office. All the haters of black people came out of the woodwork. Still, he did do what Bush boy couldn’t do: he took out Osama bin Laden. And the hated Obama not only had Osama bin Laden killed, he ended the wet foot, dry foot policy for Cuban immigrants—which Republicans supported. This policy meant that Cubans who reach the U.S. could become automatically U.S. citizens. Republicans supported the policy because of their hatred of Castro. They didn’t care about the outrage immigration was causing the U.S. only about their ideology. Republicans have never really been against open borders (the Koch family, for example). They saw illegal immigrants as cheap labor, more consumers, and bigger profits. However, Obama’s vice president would drive the final nail into America’s coffin by completely opening America’s borders. I didn’t think any politician hated the country that much.
After Obama came the narcissistic flimflam man and illiterate joker (as in Batman) Donald Trump. It was as if a combination of the Kardashians, the Hollywood Hillbillies, and the Addams’ Family had moved into the White House with a MacDonald’s vending machine in every room. Trump wasn’t an American president but a cult leader. His rallies proved that much. They were carnivals of sycophants looking and behaving like the guests on The Jerry Springer Show. That is what America has become. Anyway, they made sure that America would never be great again. The slippery slope had become a free fall.
It seemed to hit bottom with Joe Biden the walking bedpan. Who would have ever thought such a man could become president, a sniffer of young girls, a man lost in the maze of his own mind, a man who life has been a long Walter Mitty fantasy, and a man who thoroughly hates everything about America and whose administration consisted of other haters of America. He seemed to care more about aliens crossing the border in hordes than he did about Americans, or maybe open borders was Biden's version of payback for a lack of sufficient adoration from the American people. He did serve as a hit man for credit card companies hated as much as Amazon. Actually, Biden has no people. He willingly served as a tool for the cancel-America haters. Watching him one sees a hollow man, a scarecrow made of chaff standing alone watching strange birds consuming the bounty planted by working men and women. If one looks at his legacy one finds nothing noble. He ended the war in Afghanistan by suddenly leaving like a husband walking out on his wife and kids, leaving them to fend for themselves. Besides that, he abandoned enough military equipment to arm a small nation but instead would in up in the hands of the enemy. Go figure!
At least Donald Trump pretended to be an American. The revelation is that Trump and Biden are the proper figureheads of what America has become. They are strawmen incapable of inspiring or leading Americans. One filled with resentment the other with an inflated EGO that must look like Kim Jong Un. The nation has become like a 1000 piece puzzle of which none of the pieces fit together. They are broken men who can’t fix the country because it’s beyond repair in part because Americans no longer agree on what the country should be. The Biden administration believes that if enough money is given away the country will fix itself. One realizes how bad the situation is when one tries to imagine America’s future and the only thing that comes to mind is helter-skelter resulting from the turbulence that has been created by the clashing of Wokeism and —neither of which
has anything to do with America, just as Marxism had nothing to do with Russia
or China. It killed both those cultures. To rediscover America one has to turn
to thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, James Fenimore Cooper,
Emily Dickinson, Henry Adams, and many others lost in the mists of time. Today Americans live in a cultural fog created by technology, mass media, commercialism, consumerism, and postmodernism. Can the lives of media junkies achieve meaning beyond being entertained? America's future could very well turn out looking like a David Lynch movie. Perhaps it already has already arrived.
Dead Men
At night do evil, stupid men ever look up at the stars, marvel at mountains, meadows or lakes? No. They are too trapped in their bloated egos, ideologies, wills to power, greediness, pathological narcissism, and other obsessions to experience the world with appreciative awareness. They are dead men, the walking dead, hollow men, husks who believe they see and understand but are blind and trapped in stupidity. One cannot feel sorry for these dead men no more than one can feel sorry for the cancer that kills men, women, and children. The harm they’ve caused is unforgivable. That is the other reason Hell was invented, in hopes that evil men who go unpunished in this world will get their just reward in Hell. But there is no Hell thus no final justice. The only Hell is the one created by men such as Putin and the others mentioned above. Qoheleth the preacher saw the truth of evil and injustice over two thousand years ago:
All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear fill with hearing.
Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun.
And behold, the tears of the oppressed,
And they had no one to comfort them!
In my vain life I have seen everything;
the a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness
and the wicked man who prolongs his life in his evil doing. (Ecclesiastes)
Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard Disgrace themselves as Putin's Tools
The extent of America’s self-centered decadence is reveled in a Tucker Carlson's Putin propaganda segment titled “Tucker: Does Biden want war?” It is a loaded question implying an unjustified assumption of guilt. Its purpose is to slander Biden even when he does something good and right, and by doing so he disgraces himself. That is all we get from the Republican Party and its supporters in the news media. Ditto that for the Democratic Party news pundits. Objective, respectable newsmen such as Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow no longer exist. Today’s news agencies have become propaganda mills, each side representing political ideologies, not news per se. News provides a platform that enables the two groups to go after one another and to espouse the ideologies and political celebrities they represent. This us-versus-them mindset is also part of Washington politics. The conflict has little to do with concern for the American people. They are simply spectators who can really do nothing but look on. Votes don’t matter nor does viewership. What Americans get is all bad. There are exceptions, a few politicians who work outside of Washington and subterranean news commentators who broadcast on YouTube platforms until deleted. However, this episode sadly reveals the petty character of America’s decadent self-centeredness.
Jake Sullivan, Biden's national security advisor, says he can’t predict what is going to happen in the Ukraine and wisely tells Americans there to leave. Even Ukrainians have been leaving by the tens of thousands. But Carlson is quite willing to offer predictions of the future if by doing so he can criticize Biden. The show implies that Biden wants war with Russia. That’s incorrect. Biden said that no American troops would be sent to Ukraine. What Biden actually said was that if Russia invades NATO countries, America would support those countries. No longer since Biden is out of office and Trump is in. It’s hard to say who hates Europe more—Putin or Trump and his sidekick J.D.
And I’m sick and tired of hearing that if Trump had been president the invasion wouldn’t have occurred. As early as 2019, "Trump blocked payment of a congressionally-mandated $400 million military aid package, in an attempt to obtain quid pro quo cooperation from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy" ("2019 Trump–Ukraine scandal," Wikipedia). Yes, had he not done that perhaps Putin would not have invaded Ukrine. But Trump just had to have his thirty pieces of silver. And betrayals would be repeated. Like Judas Trump is a man without a conscience. No wonder he and Putin get along so well.
Putin isn’t worried that his friend Trump would betray him. Trump and his family have been on the Putin dole for years. Carlson asks how would a war with Russia make America stronger and more prosperous. That’s like the Good Samaritan asking how will my helping the injured man benefit me. Jesus altruism isn’t about benefiting from helping those in need. That is the meaning of the crucifixion. Jesus suffered to help people in need. Now Judas would ask that Carlson's question. That’s the difference between a good man and a greedy man. Becoming stronger and more prosperous are the reasons evil nations go to war. Many Americans thought the same as Carlson when Hitler’s war machine was invading Poland. “Getting involved won’t benefit us.” But the British and French didn’t ask that question. They chose to go to Poland’s aid. Carlson’s position that of the 10 bystanders on a Philadelphia metro train who watched and did nothing while illegal alien Fiston Ngoy raped a helpless woman. Each was probably thinking “If I try to stop the beast will I recieve a rewad?”
Do nothing Carlson says that the Europeans are not concerned about a Putin blitzkrieg into Ukraine. The truth is that they have been concerned for years that the diabolical one would invade another country because having the imagination of a virus or bacterium that is all Vladimir Makarov Putin thinks about—invading, hurting, harming, causing misery. So unlike Trump’s withholding, military supplies to Ukraine, Europe has been sending military aid, have imposed stiff sanctions (even from the usually self-centered Swiss), and have been accepting thousands of Ukrainian war refugees—not immigrants, there’s a difference. Trump doesn’t make that distinction. Over a half million into Poland, more by now, which unlike America knows what it’s like to be under the iron heal an aggressor. I take that back. Today we do know.
Elon Musk, a friend indeed when needed, activated SpaceX’s Starlink satellites over Ukraine after a request from the embattled country’s leadership to replace internet services destroyed by the Russian attack. So different from the self-serving Russian oligarchs. Musk creates wealth; unlike Putin and the Russian oligarchs who steal their wealth from the wealth that belongs to the Russian people. Musk serves the good of the ordinary people of Ukraine; Russian oligarchs serve Putin, the destroyer of the ordinary people of Ukraine. By serving the Ukrainian people Musk serves moral good; by serving Putin the Russian oligarchs serve evil and by doing so become even more evil than they were before. But as it turned out Musk was Satan in Good Samaritan clothing. First he turned off the light in Ukraine killing who knows how many men, women, and children. Then Leatherface Musk turns his chainsaw on good Americans.
Like our dull-minded president, for Stoneheart Carlson there is no reason to aid Europe because Europeans mean nothing to him. No matter that NATO Allies went into Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. No matter Great Britain, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Denmark, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Albania, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, etc. were American allies during Bush’s idiotic Iraq War. I suppose that if Putin invades Poland, which evil Putin would love to do, Carlson would say America should do nothing. The flimflam man Trump has praised Putin whom he considers a friend and hero. Really? How can one be the friend of someone who thinks and behaves like Stalin? And heroes don't slaughter men, women, and children. And we know how Trump feels about the Ukrainians, having withheld military aid from them just because their president wouldn’t find dirt on Biden’s dirty son. And dirty boy ended up the failed son of a failed president. if dirty boy had stayed clean the Ukrainians might have received the aid held back by Trump to help fight Czar Putin and his husks. It’s called Karma, and the White House is where bad karma has been living for a very long time.
That’s the reason Trump lost to somnambulist Biden. Trump cares only about one thing—Trump. He is no more American than Biden or Harris or the other hollow men and women of the anti-America Democratic Party are. They are all rich celebrities for whom Washington is a reality show. The themes are greed, narcissism, ideology, corruption—truly like the TV series the House of Cards starring the sex sleaze Kevin Spacey. Americans are nothing more than the audience. To the politician performers Washington is Saturday Night Live, a big fucking joke on the American people.
Tulsi Gabbard says Biden could have prevented the conflict by telling Putin that Ukraine won’t become a member of NATO. Nonsense. It’s not about NATO membership but Putin Russian expansion, as were Putin Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008 and Putin Russia’s invasion of Crimean and the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. Putin Russia’s War in Donbas during which Russia launched a coordinated political and military campaign against Ukraine, the result of which was 14,000 killed. President Macron spoke to Putin and Czar Putin told Macron that nothing could stop the invasion. That is because under Czar Putin Russia is nothing more than a military machine looking for victims. Like a great white shark it needs to feed.
Gabby Gabbard sounds a lot like Hitler’s sycophant Neville Chamberlain who played a role in the Munich Agreement of 1938 which ceded parts of Czechoslovakia to Hitler and is now the most popular example of the foreign policy known as appeasement. She and Carlson twisted facts and pretend to know what’s going on just to go after Biden—who showed more gumption than they by warning Vladimir Makarov Putin to stay out of NATO nations. Having taken his Geritol Biden also said, “I thought it was critical that there not be any doubt, none whatsoever, about U.S. support for Ukraine in the war,” and unlike Trump he committed billions of dollars, artillery ammunition, TOW anti-tank missiles, tanks, air surveillance radars to help protect the Ukrainian people from aerial bombardments, howitzers, helicopters, and tons of other weaponry to Ukraine. I say good deeds deserve praise just as bad deeds deserve condemnation. It is a shame, however, that the seven billion dollars’ worth of military equipment left behind in Afghanistan wasn’t kept for Ukraine. Nonetheless, even if Americans don't love America, the Ukrainians do.
Gabby (her name is right on!) says that sanctions are a modern day siege. And that is much worse than Russia’s Blitzkrieg into Ukraine? Jesus! Whose side is she on? She says that it is the Industrial-Military Complex that wants war with Russia. What?! The America industrial-military complex like Putin is in favor of only wars against small nations or the Houthis, not against one with an army, navy, air force, and a million soldiers. Only a know-nothing FOX toady would be stupid enough to say such a thing. I used to have some respect for these two talking heads, but I see they are on the Republican payroll just as the Trump family has been on the Putin payroll. They are all fakes, hollow people. Everything they say is scripted even Carlson’s fake laugh. How sad. It’s all become like a surreal carnival fools.
Poor Gabby reminds me of Biden, a nobody who so badly wanted to be a somebody, which really is a common theme in Washington. And it worked. She is now director of national intelligence, which seems an oxymoron. So now she is a somebody who is still a nobody to most Americans. Politicians are the only people who can become celebrity stars without doing anything but getting enough votes. She feels so sorry for the Russian people. Why? THEY ARE THE INVADERS! Would she have felt sorry for the German people during W.W. II? How can she director of national intelligence and not tell the difference between invader and the invaded? Even if Biden wanted the war, Putin is the one who went to war. And then FOX toady Babbler Carlson jumps in to repeat “Why aren’t the Europeans afraid?” They are. Clearly, Carlson has spent little time in Europe. Living in on fantasy resort Gasparilla Island how can he know their fears? To be fair to Carlson, he had no choice given he was traumatized by the zombie hit-squads Antifa and Black Lives Matter. For conservatives, especially Republicans, big cities have become like Raccoon City in Resident Evil. That shows just how far mighty America has fallen into a Charles Manson state of Helter Skelter.
The Greatest Generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6cm6YKLAo
In this video FDR’s words could be those of Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky. Before becoming president he was comedian. Like most ordinary people he was a family man who just wanted live life and have some fun. But the world is full of evil men like the diabolical Putin who won’t allow ordinary people to live peacefully and have a little fun. These are men with big egos and big plans that require domination and destruction of other people who just want to be left alone. Yet, in America today the Great Generation of Americans are hated for being Americans or forgotten. It is sad to see how far America has fallen from that generation. When World War II ended it was a moment for America to decide to become a wise, humane society, which it failed to accomplish. It didn’t choose–or the politicians didn't–to become wise and humane but to be foolish and inhumane. The anti-Vietnam War counterculture saw the wrong choice had been made. They wanted free speech, equality, world peace, and the pursuit of happiness and love, not unnecessary though profitable wars. But like the youth of your generation, Greta, they were ignored often Jailed. So they dropped out, turned on to drugs imported from south of the border, and transformed themselves from a counterculture of love and peace to one of hate and self-loathing.
And Ukrainians have been afraid for years. One can see that reality doesn’t matter either of the two talking heads Gabby&Tuck. They are prevaricators who twist reality to drum up love for do-nothing hateful Republicans and hatred of the Democrats—who don’t need their help because most Americans believe that the Democrats betrayed them and the country. To the Biden-Harris Democrats, the word American is a slur. And actually the two talking heads' Trump-like, heartfelt concern for the Russia will have the unintended effect of their having become recruiters for the Democratic Party. It's called the tar baby trap. In this case the two dolts got caught in trap they themselves set! What they have forgotten is that most Americans don’t like bad guys. And making Biden and his ilk the bad guys and Russians the good guys has a boomerang effect that makes the Gabby&Tuck look like evil sympathizers.
And you can see how they twist the facts in Gabby's contradiction: Europe want Ukraine in NATO but that will never happen. Why? Because Europe does not want Ukraine in NATO. The reality is that were it not for Russia, which was once the Soviet Union let's not forget, there would be no need for NATO. Then Babbler Carlson jumps in asking why Americans would want Ukraine in NATO. What! Most Americans never gave a shit about Ukraine because most of them didn’t know that there was such a country, though thanks to Putin now they do, just as they didn’t know that there was a Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq. Most Americans think Europe is a nation. Babbler Carlson’s constant anti-Good Samaritan refrain is “IS THERE SOME BENEFIT TO AMERICA?” The 10 bystanders on a metro Philadelphia train probably asked the same question: “Would there be some benefit to me rescuing the woman being raped?” The Good Samaritan could have asked the same question, but he didn’t:
A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. “Look after him,” he said, “and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.” (Luke 10:30-35)
What was the benefit? The satisfaction of helping a person or any creature who is suffering. It’s called altruism. It’s a moral good totally unknown to Trump and MAGA, Inc.
Then Gabbard says she has a hard time with anyone saying “We are defending Democracy.” Sorry, Gabby, but it’s about defending mothers and their children from Vladimir Makarov Putin’s war machine. War should never be about defending an abstraction. Had director of national intelligence read Farewell to Arms she would know that. So where did she get that idea? Who said we must go to war with Russia to save Ukrainian democracy? Democracy doesn’t work in the U.S., says Putin laughing out loud. To both talking heads Gabby&Tuck it was all about Biden. That is all American people get from mainstream news: attacks on Trump and attacks on Biden. Yes, both are fools who should have never been presidents but are because the America is decadent like Russia run by wealthy oligarchs. And because wise men rarely become politicians because they are wise, the American political system is broken. Fortunately, the world is bigger than Trump and Biden and their cults. So it’s up to you, Europe. Now it’s you against new axis of evil: Russia/China/USA. Sorry, Greta. It’s a sad, sad, world becoming sadder by the day. Maybe a big climatic shift would be Mother Earth saying she’s had enough with humans, the least intelligent of her beasts.
Gabby complains that Biden has supported authoritarianism which she says (correctly) is going on in the U.S. today. But the implication is that Republicans never supported authoritarian regimes. Give me a break! They have repeatedly—like our oil buddy Saudi Arabia, which deserves a lot of credit or the 9-11 attacks: "Of the 19 Al Qaeda terrorists who hijacked four U.S. commercial airliners on the morning of September 11, 2001, 15 were citizens of Saudi Arabia." See "House of Bush, House of Saud," Wikipedia.
But notice that Gabby’s last shot is at Ukraine, that being an authoritarian regime its people don’t deserve our support. No matter that former comedian Jewish Zelensky became president of Ukraine after a landslide election victory in which he received 73 per cent of the vote. How is that an authoritarian regime? With 39% of the world’s Jewish population, the Americans would never elect a Jew as president—though they have elected plenty of comedians. It was authoritarian Russia that invaded democratic Ukraine. It is not about authoritarianism but about women and children being killed by bullets, bombs, and rockets. So what we’ve witnessed here is propaganda from FOX/Republican talking heads, not unlike the propaganda spewed out by CNN & Friends working for the Marxist Democratic Party.
Most Pathetic Tucker Carlson
In a YouTube broadcast titled “These are the realities that actually matter,” Biden’s Jen Psaki* makes the point that standing up for our values has costs. Of course.
*Psaki has become a female voice of wisdom. Since diabolical Trump has come to power again—Americans never learn—thoughtful, wise women are speaking out. The only good thing Trump has achieved by his diabolical behavior is to bring to the fore many voices of wise women commentators such as Jen Psaki and Rachel Maddow and many others on MSNBC, Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan on IHIP News, and on UK’s Times Radio Kate Gerbeau, Cathy Newman, Kate McCann, Chloe Tilley and others. Can female voices—like theirs and yours, Greta, save the world? Certainly Putin’s propaganda groupies can’t nor can Gabby and Trump’s other propaganda groupies on FOX so-called news. But the world can’t be saved without the wise voices of wise women, like yourself, Greta. Besides, a world without wise women would be a return to a Stone Age ruled by chess pounding alpha males, home sweet home to the likes of the two simians Putin and Trump. And in spite of all the faux gold decorations, when one enters the White House one enters into a Stone Age lair.
But of course Scrooge Carlson asks, “What are our values and what is the cost.” He answers the questions: Gas prices are our values and the increase in gas prices would be an unbearable cost paid. Then comes the kicker: $5 for a gallon of gas is “a tragedy for a lot of people.” No, $5 a gallon of gas is not a tragedy. The destruction of cities, homes, schools, businesses and hospitals is a tragedy. The murder of parents, brothers, sisters, children, and friends is tragedy. And $5 a gallon gas would be less burdensome (and less polluting) if the U.S had decent public transportation like that of France, whom Republicans hate more than any other nation. This is a tragedy:
The mass exodus of refugees from Ukraine to the eastern edge of the European Union showed no signs of stopping Monday, with the U.N. estimating more than 520,000 people have already escaped Russia’s burgeoning war against Ukraine. (AP News)
Most of the refugees are women and children who have been forced to abandon their homes. Most of the men—many civilians—have stayed behind to fight. Like Homer’s Hector in the Iliad (unknown to most American), they are the good defenders of homeland and family. An American tragedy is a woman being raped on a train while 10 other passengers look on as if the rape was entertainment. That is the tragedy born from me-generation decadence. From The Guardian “Children, teachers: civilian are casualties of the Ukraine conflict.” That’s a tragedy. In addition, the article says, “The truth, they say, is the first casualty of war.” That’s certainly the case at FOX news and the Trump White House where the motto is NO LIE IS UNTRUE AND ALL TRUTHS ARE FALSE NEWS.
In the U.S., as Gabby&Tuck illustrate, the truth has been a casualty of political claptrap for decades in the U.S., going as far back as the Vietnam War—certainly much farther such as when American generals told Native Americans that they would honor treaties. One news source claims “Day 5 of Russia-Ukraine war: Over 5,000 people, including 14 kids, killed so far, say reports.” That’s a tragedy because it was unnecessary, the result of an evil will to power and conquest. Of interest, the citizens of European countries providing Ukrainian freedom fighters with support already pay $6 to $7 a gallon for gas (France $7.67, Germany $7.42, Greece $7.54, Poland $5.84, etc.). And unlike Americans, Europeans depended heavily on Russian oil and gas exports, which they now no longer accept, but they are not wimping out by whining that an increase in gas prices is a tragedy.
The deaths of the diabolical Russian Reapers of course is not a tragedy, but a victory against evil. Willingly or not, those who serve evil are themselves evil. (That goes as well for the servants of Trump.) The sad, sad lesson here is that things will never change. Evil men such as wormy heart Putin will always be with us just as cancer will be. They are as much a part of the human condition as are old age and death. So good men, who care about women and children, must always be ready to confront evil because though evil cannot be finally defeated the good can be defeated.
The News Isn't all Bad, Greta
The good news for you, Greta, is that all that bloodshed caused by Putin-Russia has spurred in Europe green energy development and installation. A new French law will blanket parking lots with solar panels: "It will require all parking lots larger than about 16,000 square feet — able to hold roughly 50 American-sized cars, and more French ones — to build raised solar-panel canopies covering at least half of the surface of the parking lot." (Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post):
Shadehouses covered with solar panels are seen at Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallee.
"The measure could add 10 nuclear power plants’ worth of solar panels atop parking lots." See, America, socialism need not equal communism and can create jobs and improve lives. See, Putin-Russia, a nation can choose to be like France a creator or a like Russia a destroyer. Go France!
For babblerw Gabby&Tuck the only war worth worrying about is the civil war between Democrats and Republicans. In a YouTube piece titled “This is moral blackmail,” Babbler Carlson worked very hard to convince us that morality is being used to encourage action that is evil, a tragedy. It’s as if moral awareness is burdensome just as higher gas prices are a tragedy. What really angered the Babbler was Biden's taking the moral high ground which means the Babbler’s do-nothing position (because doing something would be burdensome, even tragic if the price of gas went up a dollar) has been to take the moral low ground. And the talking heads Gabby&Tuck claimed that Biden wanted a war with Russia is logical fallacy—an appeal to fear and a distortion of the truth.
Kristi Noem Had Gotten It Right
In her commentary “This is what Biden Gave Putin,” Kristi Noem, a once decent, intelligent, and America-loving politician got it right because she didn't loudly declare that Biden wanted a war with Russia. She wasn't looking to smear Biden—he does that just by being who he is. She just looked at his bad policy. To address Czar Putin cyber-attacks she said the U.S. needs to develop cybersecurity and notes that South Dakota has a university doing just that. She focuses on issues rather than being a Republican attack dog mauling Biden. And unlike Babbler Carlson, her interviewer Stephen Doocy (a friend to America in spite of serving FOX) at least recognizes that Russia’s strongman Putin as an evil man who has evil destructive plans for Europe and the U.S.
(Sadly, she was bought with a position she is unqualified for and went over to the dark side. Trump truly corrupts anything or anyone he touches.) First, Europe and the U.S. should have been focusing on energy independence so they don’t have to be enslaved to Nazi Putin. Poor little Greta Thunberg was hoping that the first priority for the world would be preventing global warming because being just a kid who still believed in the goodness of adults she couldn’t face the real threat to humanity—masculine aggression, global stupidity, and the threat of a conventional war going nuclear. The most pressing priority is and always has been national survival, meaning the survival of people today in the here and now. She’s disappointed in huMANity. And she should be.
If there were no evil, uncivilized men in the world such as Harbinger Putin, then we could focus on the civilized matters such as the environment. But these evil entities won’t allow that. When it comes to survival—right now—environmental considerations are secondary—national borders are primary. So responding to the demands of the leftist anti-America coalition led by death-to-America Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez* and her fifth column Democratic squad, Biden arbitrarily canceled the Keystone Pipeline putting thousands of ordinary Americans out of work and jeopardizing the energy survival of America and its ability to help Russian dependent countries in Europe. Biden rotting brain was ripe for subversion, just as was G.W. Bush tiny brain was ripe for subversion by Jewish neoconservatives.
*The infinite evil of Donald Trump has transform Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez into an American hero. Her feminine wisdom told her you can’t save America by hating it. Now she has join ranks with that all-American gadfly and hero Bernard Sanders. So the evil doers haven’t won yet.
Even attack dog Hannity got it right. He knew that Biden was not a friend to Americans pointing out that America’s import of Russian oil doubled under Biden. He said in spite of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and his war crimes the U.S. continued to import 500,000 barrels of oil every single day—when America shouldn't import anything from Russia or Putin supporter China, for that matter. As a practical matter, it's like feeding a pet child-eating crocodile. Or as a moral matter, it's like doing business with Hitler or Stalin or Mao. Why do we continue to empower the greatest threats to us and world peace—Russia and China? Ignorance, decadence, and greed are why. To his credit, on March 8 President Biden finally woke up and announced a ban on U.S. imports of petroleum, coal, and natural gas from Russia. One can dislike Biden but good deeds should be praised whether or not you like the person. A principle neither Republicans nor Democrats follow. Their principle is a good deed done by a political opponent is to be condemned as an evil deed. Still, instead of finding ways to free Europe from Evil Empire Russia by providing European nations with American gas and oil, Biden put a pause on oil and gas leases in America the very same day the rabid bear invaded Ukraine. That act deserves condemnation.
The logic deeds: Good deeds should be praised. Bad deeds should be condemned. However, good deeds cannot compensate for bad deeds. And evil deeds negate good deeds. In the end, like it or not, a person is a composite of good and bad deeds or all good deeds or all bad deeds. And they are all a matter of free choice, so there are no excuses. Thus, people who commit evil deeds during their lives end their lives in the evil category in spite of their good deeds. And in Biden's case there is a test to determine whether his good deeds as president outweigh his bad deeds: the Trump Test. He failed because he helped to pave the way to a Trump presidency. In the case of Trump there are no good deeds to balance the bad deeds. He is thoroughly evil. People have suffered and died because of his actions. His kill and harm rate is very high and he hasn’t even started a war. But he has time.
What about the Green New Deal? It's a program you would love, and just might be good for the country. But it reveals why nothing good can get done for the country. Its leader the previous hate-America Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used a good idea as a weapon. A good idea (if its cost was reduced) had it not comes from a American hater who used the program to antagonize Republicans and their supporters and thus caused it failed to in the Senate though half the country was in favor of it. America is a divided country, not just politically, like most countries, but culturally. The Democrats and the Republicans are like the Hatfields and the McCoys. They don't just disagree but hate one another, consider one another enemies.
On the other hand, in spite of political differences the French are still united enough to come together over programs that benefit citizens and the environment. In other words, political rancor will not prevent programs that benefit the country—such as universal health care, public transportation, and renewable, non-polluting energy—from being enacted. In the U.S. political rancor does result in the welfare of the country being ignored. You see, Greta, I've known for a longtime that American political systems has been broken for a long time, but I believed that after World War II it would get better. I'm sure many Americans believed that would happen after the Civil War. It didn't then or after War World II. It has only gotten worse.
However, what I didn't realize until recently is that not only is the political system broken but the country itself is broken—fragmented into pieces, more precisely. And it is beyond repair. It has become a nation made of multiple hostile fragments of ethnicities, histories, cultures, religious and secular ideologies, and political systems. In such a social morass a unified nation and culture cannot emerge. Originally Christianity unified the country but with pernicious effect because it wasn't the Christianity of Jesus but the hateful Old Testament Christianity of Apostle Paul. The united states are no longer united as they briefly were during the great war I was born into. Chaos has come again to America, and what has emerged is a society that exists in state that Thomas Hobbes describes as bellum omnium contra omnes, "war of all against all." So you and I both have something to be sad about.
In the Hannity piece Biden says we must start seeing ourselves for who we are: “Fellow Americans.” We're not fellow Americans. There is no such thing. Biden has just allowed a million plus non-Americans into the country, none of whom identify with America, have no roots in American history or culture, thus cannot be nor ever will be “fellow Americans.” And by doing that he antagonized millions of Americans, further dividing the nation—which has occurred in France, Sweden, and Germany and was the cause Brexit. Even he, Harris, and Pelosi were not fellow Americans because they are not American at all. They hate America and their supporters and fellow Democrats hate America.They wanted to forcefully transform America into wokeish monstrosity. Wokeism became a cult and cults—like the MAGA cult—are scary, and totally unnecessary. The Putin cult in Russia and the Trump MAGA cult in America are very similar. That is why the two cults are allies. They laughed as America burned. And Biden never liked Americans because Americans never have and still don’t recognize him as having any more substance than a depleted credit card. He was once a shill for the credit card companies who sent Americans into bankruptcy who overused their credit cards to pay medical bills. That is why when he said "fellow Americans" Americans didn't believe he was one of them.
Ukraine is united, not America.These are heroes and patriots: “Ukraine Invasion: Volunteers queue to join Ukrainian army” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfkzOwoDB2A
America has become a gutted country. How is possible that U.S. citizens would do as the brave Ukrainians are doing when half the population rejects America, the other half feels betrayed by the government, and the millions of leftovers are from other countries to which their loyalties lies. They are in U.S. for the cornucopia of free benefits given to many by the Biden government while a half million Americans are homeless and 11 percent of population lives in poverty (Wikipedia). Really, how is it possible to be patriotic in a country whose inhabitants burned cities and are applauded by Democratic politicians? And the Republican Party is no longer the party of reason and responsibility but a religious cult that worships money and hates homosexuals. With Trump America has became a surreal carnival with the cultural and philosophical depth of a tractor pull, which is great for lovers of machines such as dragsters and hot rods which I adored in the fifties, but not for a political party:
The Republican Party was once a party of rational conservatism, of moderation, and love of homeland. Its worldview was based on commonsense, not on ideology. But it was hijacked by religious fundamentalism and the cult of mammon, which should have been incompatibles. The Democratic Party was once a party of the people—factory workers and farmers—but today it has become a Marxist cult that is no longer a party of the American people. Both parties drifted away from the America that emerged from that terrible war. And America was lost.
Foreign Volunteers Join the Fight for Ukraine
Sounding a lot like Neville Chamberlain, let’s do nothing wimpy Carlson says (in his “This is moral blackmail“ commentary) that as a result of the Putin’s war on Ukraine “we could see many Americans die.” You know, Carlson, there are many Americans who are willingly risking their lives each and everyday for a moral imperative and to save the lives of others. A total of 96 firefighters died while on duty in the United States in 2021. Of those deaths, 59 were volunteer firefighters. The same year a total of 35 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty. Again the same year a total of 14 service members died due to hostile actions. In the Ukraine thousands of able-bodied men (ages 16–49) became soldiers. They don’t worry about increasing prices at the pump. The Babbler simply ignores Biden’s having said no American troops will be involved in Ukraine. What more is Biden expected to do, cut off his pinky finger to prove that he means what he says? But for Babbler Carlson it’s Biden, not Putin, who is the enemy.
Some Brave Americans Did Join the Fight for Ukraine
"At least 50 American citizens have
died in Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in
February 2022, according to a list compiled by Task & Purpose ... Most Americans killed in Ukraine went to
join the fighting. Others worked to provide humanitarian assistance to those in
need while others documented the war. Many were killed in direct fighting with
Russian forces or in attacks that struck behind the front lines while others
died outside combat, such as in car crashes."
An American hero who died fighting in Ukraine.
Putinspeak: “The Europeans are coming! The Europeans are coming! We must invade Ukraine!”
The idea that Europe is a threat Russia’s national security interest is nonsense. Yes, Napoleon and Hitler invaded Russia but they had also invaded European nations. Putin has already undone the nation as Stalin had done before him. Other than Russia there are 44 countries in Europe. None of those countries fear one another, but all of them fear Russia because Russia is a Europe-hating aggressor nation that has been under the control of maniacs since 1917. The Reason for the hatred is that Russia’s leadership hates the fact that European nations are not authoritarian dictatorships thus offer a humane, civilized contrast to what Russia has been since since the communist revolution—an inhumane totalitarian society.
Unlike Putin Russia, Europeans are not the war-loving people they once were. And today, unlike Russia’s husk people, they are enjoying life too much to want to go to war with one of the world most powerful and brutal military machine (known to shoot down passenger planes just for the fun of it). That’s all Russia is, a military base. Why does Russia, territorially the largest nation in the world, have an economy smaller than Italy? Because the Russians are lobotomized Morlocks who work in armament factories. Russia's wealth comes from nature in the form of diamonds, gold, oil, gas, and trees, not from the ingenuity and creativity of the Russian people because they have never been allowed to thrive.
They engage in no innovative intellectual, technological, artistic, and cultural creativity. Their Olympic Games athletes are hormonal cyborgs. JudeoMarxism was scalpel used to perform an ideological lobotomy on the Russian people and under thug Czar Putin, the nation never recovered to its former glory days of the 19th century. Yes, it was a time with oppressive czars but loads of artistic and intellectual creativity—even what might be called soul. Today Russia is soulless. Marxism extinguished the flame. Like dull-minded Trump, Putin believes more land will make the country greater. But all greater will mean is bigger, not better, not more ingenious or creative. It will still be the world’s largest trailer park with nuclear weapons. Now there is only Czar Putin without the creativity. There were gulags under Stalin; now the entire country is a gulag and the Russian people are mindless slaves to the super-wealthy oligarchs who spend money stolen from the Russian people on a soulless hedonistic lifestyle with trophy wives and luxury yachts:
“France seizes yacht linked to Russian oligarch at Mediterranean port”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/03/germany-seizes-russian-billionaire-alisher-usmanovs-600m-superyacht-report
It’s weird that Russia became communist to cleanse the country of exploitative czarist capitalist pigs who kept Russians poor. But communism kept the people just as poor but also made their way of life boring. So it was overthrown and now the czar is back and exploitative capitalism is keeping Russians poor again. What has been prevented is to allow the talents of the Russian people to flourish. Decadent ostentatious displays of wealth are always disgusting but at least American movie actors (movie stars are extinct) and entrepreneurs earn their wealth rather than just appropriate from the people as do Vladimir Makarov Putin’s cronies. Really, Russia has become a mafia nation with Czar Putin playing the part of godfather. France has also been confiscating oligarch’s palaces and bank accounts in France. Go France!
I have lived in Europe for eleven years and have never come across anything made Russia, yeah a lot of stuff is made in China because China might be a totalitarian nightmare but it produce quality stuff because its people are all about quality in the sense of quality in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig. In fact, I’m writing on a Lenovo computer that I bought 9 years ago for about $300. I will never buy another Chinese computer, or anything else made in China if possible, because China is a Marxist bully run by communist thugs who threaten the small nations of the Pacific Rim. I can't boycott made in Russia because there is nothing to buy from Russia. The only stuff made in Russia is for killing and destroying, nothing fun, cultural or interesting. Only North Korea is more boring than Russia. The world is truly depressingly weird, Greta. You and your generation deserved better. Evil, ignorant, selfish adults have failed all of you. That's why I'm painting you blue.
The quality of life is better in Brazil as long as you don’t get kidnapped. Like Rocket Man Kim Jong-un, the only way for Vladimir Makarov Putin can get attention is by grabbing his crotch and threatening to nuke civilized societies and to invade a small nations, though in the case of Ukraine one with friends. Russia has no friends. China, North Korea, Iran, and Syria are not friends and have no friends because hating doesn’t win friends. (Trump might invade Greenland. How pathetic is that. Any soldier involved in the invasion should get a Medal of Dishonor.) Whereas Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky is seen as a hero in his country and on the world stage, Vladimir Makarov Putin is seen as a demented murderous thug because that is what he is. He is a Russian version of Al Capone, a gangster, nothing more. People love comedians and hate gangsters.
What about America?
What about America? The question that causes global nausea. America’s rapid decline is visible in its recent presidents, men who are pathetic laughingstocks. When listening to FDR one realizes that the country has declined 100%. We were unable to deal Covid-19 in a unified, dignified manner. The country collapsed like a decadent house of cards. China knew it would. Putin probably thought America would be too decadent to care about Ukraine. But old man Biden cared and that's all it took to open the cornucopia of U.S. support.* The truth is that Putin's invasion of Ukraine is both a bloody land-grab and a live-fire military exercise. He overlooked the fact that the civilized world hates bullies, or more likely he didn't care thinking he was invincible. That is why there are no warmongering leaders in Western Europe. Adolf Putin is a warmonger cut from the same cloth as Hitler. After Hitler and Mussolini Europe was done with warmongering leaders. Europeans only want peace, affluence, and a healthy environment. They have been working hard to bring about all three, whereas Putin is a destroyer of all three. Russian culture has the appeal of a dollar store.
*Biden seemed to care more about the Ukrainians than he did about Americans. Why? The difference was motivation. His attitude toward Americans was determined by a negative leftist ideology, whereas his attitude toward Ukrainians was without ideology. He simply cared about the suffering of men, women, and children. His act was that of the Good Samaritan, who didn’t let ideology get in the way of helping an injured man who was of a different religious affiliation.
American Decadence Is a Tragedy
Because of its decadence America no longer serves as the great hope that the civilized world depended upon. And Americans couldn’t care less as long as they can buy their gas cheap and buy their cheap made-in-China stuff. If China was to slaughter a half million Taiwanese, which it wants to do and take the island, America couldn’t go to war with China. It lost to China during the Korean War when America was at its peak. Mao deployed around 250,000 Chinese “volunteers” fighting as the People's Volunteer (LOL) Army. American soldiers were the best but ran out of bullets fighting endless Chinese husks. Besides, war with China would mean Americans could no longer buy cheap made-in-China stuff. They would rather let the Chinese Godzilla swallow Taiwan.
China cannot be defeated conventionally but could be defeated easily and bloodlessly economically, but that would require American corporations making nothing in China and American consumers buying nothing made in China. (If Taiwan is invaded, no tariffs, simply NOTHING is bought from or made in China.) But in Carlson’s terms not being able to buy cheap made-in-China stuff would be a tragedy on the scale of the Holocaust. Americans have become China’s junkies who get their next fix from China’s dealers the local Walmart or Amazon.Thus, they are unable to make even a bloodless sacrifice. Russia also could not be defeated by America if such a war meant invading Russia. Napoleon failed and Hitler failed. Russia is having difficulty fighting the Ukrainians because Ukrainians are human beings fighting for their homeland and the soil of their ancestors, not mindless husks fighting for the EGO of a dull-minded strongman.The way to confront the Russians without sending troops is to continue to provide money and military support and to isolate Russia from the civilized world so its only so-called friends would be Syria, China, North Korea, and Iran. (Yuck! That totalitarian cult is as appealing as collection of drug cartels and pedophiles.) No manufacturing in Russia, no trade of manufactured goods, no Russians allowed to enter the U.S. or European countries, and Russians already there would have leave those countries would not be allowed to return. (Or become refugee citizens
of those countries without dual citizenship and with no return option if they visit Russia.)
The additional bonus would be no Russia crime organizations like the Red Mafia. Yeah, yeah, what about the Italian Mafia? Okay, but with the Italian Mafia come Italians and their wonderful culture—handsome men, beautiful women, food that is impossible to live without, a culture that brings a smile to one face. Americans flock to little Italys avoid Little Odessas having watched Eastern Promises, The Equalizer and Taken 3, or played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The thing about the Italians in The Godfather is that even the bad guys have class. Italians have class—look at Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and endless other classy Italians. Russian? A no-class culture of thugs. What else comes to mind? The Bolshoi Ballet? An orphan from a more civilized time. The state of the Russian state can be seen in the face of its leader. No class, dull and soulless: thuggish. Uncivilized nations should be unwelcome among civilized nations. Russia is listed as an European nation. It isn’t. It once was, but no longer. It’s a rogue nation like North Korea. A cultural dead zone. It's not even a nation but an criminal organization run by oligarchs. And as a lover of ballet and great Russian music and as a reader of all their great novels, I wanted so much to love Russians. But the USSR and its detritus Putin has made that impossible. Russia really needs another revolution more than it does Ukraine.
The IKEA Episode
Sweden developed some moral backbone and told its companies not to do business with Russia. In good old WWII fashion IKEA balked at doing so. Greed before morality was its motto. But the Swedish government told IKEA tough shit. Do as you are told. So wimpy IKEA closed the manufacturing plant and put the employees out of work, but said it would continue to pay them. What?!! The goal is to put them out of work so the Russian government would have to pay them unemployment—not to put them on an extended vacation while Russian soldiers slaughter Ukrainian men, women, and children! Besides, the hands of all Russians are dirty, bloody really, unless they rebel against the evil doing of their evil president. (American politicians who allow Trump to run roughshod over America also have dirty hands. Yes, there is a GREAT STINK in Washington, just as there is something rotten in Hamlet’s Denmark. In America the rot is in the White House.)
During the Vietnam War when America was engaged in doing evil under the auspices of evil politicians (only two senators, Wayne Morse (D-OR) and Ernest Gruening (D-AK) had the moral backbone to vote against going to war), young people took to the streets and protested. Protesting evil LBJ’s Vietnam War, students at Kent States were shot down by members of the National Guard. That is how to absolve oneself of the evil doings of one’s nation. And there were thousands young protesters during the Vietnam War. Of course, though evil, America was not a totalitarian society in which presidents engaged in assassinations of critics.
America: no longer “a shining city upon a hill”
That was also hardly the case when Americans (in name only) were setting fires to American cities. Let’s face, America was never perfect, often not even close. Still, America was the best hope for the civilized world because only it possessed the power that could protect that world from dictatorial thugs like Putin, like the town marshal Wyatt Earp in
the movie My Darling Clementine,
which shows that Americans (the word doesn’t include Trump and clownish cronies)
want to be the good guys.
But that power for good was squandered by dull-minded men such as LBJ and Bush Jr. and the politicians who did their bidding. The eyes of people from all over the world have been on America, and what they have witnessed is its rapid state of decay, a country in which $5 a gallon of gas is considered a tragedy while the torn bodies of good men, women, and children litter the streets of Ukraine.
American streets are lined with drug addicts, homeless, and the insane as recently noted by Dave Chappelle, who asked a question that can apply to America as a whole: “What the f—k happened to this place?” Corporations serve greed and politicians serve corporations. Politicians have become husks, deluded, self-serving, corrupt, and decadent. The old decent America still exist—mostly in small towns outside of big sin-cities like L.A., Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, and New York—as it always has. Its goodness is consider antiquated. Who are the old decent Americans? They are the men and women devoted to family and work, who want to be good, though often fall sort because they are human. Still, they prefer to seek goodness and reject evil. Unlike the Trump and his gang of idiots who reject goodness to serve evil, most Americans want to be the kind of people others can depend on.
They are farmers, fishermen, teachers, doctors and nurses, cops, soldiers, scientists, mechanics, plumbers, electricians, waiter and waitresses. They are good neighbors and believe it’s better to be a poor Good Samaritan than rich, powerful, and selfish. I believe this because I’ve known these people—all of them as family, friends, fellow workers, and acquaintances. Some were foolish or misguided but none of the people close to me were evil, and some were perfect in their goodness and willingness to suffer and sacrifice for others. Unfortunately, the power and influence of common people is limited, and being law-abiding they have been easily tricked and deceived, thus betrayed, exploited, and manipulated by evil men.
💀WARNING💀
Do not be fooled by Trump’s MAGA ideology.
It is not about the American people. To Trump making America great again is
similar to how Putin and Xi Jinping seek increasing the “greatness” of Russia
and China—QUANTITATIVELY, by increasing the size of their nations. They see their
nations in quantitative terms: more land, more wealth, and more military power.
They never ever consider increasing the happiness of their people’s lives,
because the people are also considered quantitatively as tools—the Cogs, wheels,
and grease of the State, which really isn’t important in itself by as an
expression of EGO and selfish WILL TO POWER.
The Impossible Task before You, Greta.
You’ve already gotten a lot of blowback to your ideas. So have I. That’s because people prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth—usually about their behavior. Charles Darwin got blowback because of his theory of evolution. But he was devoted to finding the truth. Personally I find his truth beautiful because I prefer my origin to be that of all creatures great and small, male and female, to a deity (Yahweh) that embodies pure masculine aggression and who declared war on the world seeking global conquest and dominance over all of humanity. Darwin said in a letter that “I work from a sort of instinct to try to make out the truth” (Charles Darwin by Cyril Aydon p. 208). His pursuit of truth is what made him different from most men who preferred a self-aggrandizing lie that the purpose of the entire Universe (actually an ugly lie). Darwin did not believe the animal origin of humans was an ugly truth. That his ancestor was an “ouran-outang” quite pleased him (Aydon p. 128), just as Carl Sagan was pleased that we are made of star stuff. He loved plants and animals as much as he loved people. The reasons why should be obvious. The greatest enemies of humans are humans.
Your greatest enemy is masculinity unbridled by morality, that doesn’t want to be told what to do especially by a girl. (Matthew has Jesus rejecting his mother. Jesus would not have done that, and that is why Jesus is superior to the men who wrote about him. Goodness is found in the devoted, loving women of the Gospels and Ruth in the Old Testament.) What you want is inconsistent with what political systems and corporations run by men want. They want more wealth and more power, not less. In a way, what you are asking is similar to asking drug cartels not to sell drugs. Such men don’t care about creating a better world or about future generations. They care only about wealth and power. Their philosophy is carpe diem, seize the day by the throat if necessary as long as they get what they want.
Then you have those billions of people who live in an alternate reality—invented but no less real to them. Take JudeoChristians as an example. Why would they care about the environment and the old Earthly ways of living when Apostle Paul—the most influential hater of nature—tells them every Sunday that the Rapture will occur any day now with all Christians being taken into the clouds to be with Jesus and his angels? You might recall that Paul says that the “earthly tent” isn’t worth saving because it is evil. That Earthly tent is the nature that Darwin loved. How can we believe Paul? He tells us that he got the information straight from the horse’s mouth—when the resurrected Jesus paid him a visit. Expect all Christians to ignore your warnings because they believe every word Paul says in his letters—written 2000 years ago! So they must be true. Just like the creation of life story in the book of Genesis must be true because it was written 2,600 years ago! In fact, Catholicism is an institution founded on Paul’s words, not the words of Jesus who was interested only in inspiring a spiritual kingdom in the Earthly here and now. (Pope Francis sought to return to the words of Jesus and was mocked by Donald Trump whose biblical hero is Judas and his 30 pieces of silver.) But once an organization has power, it wants to keep it. There is no way it's going to say, "We got it wrong. Time to take the red pill and wake up to the truth."
Red Pill Revelation: Trump Is Stupid!
Haven’t you notice the absence of IDEAS in his presidency.
Trump’s approach as a “Deal Maker” is to threaten aggressive action because he
has no ideas, and ideas are required for thinking. A man without ideas must behave like a bully.
Bullies don’t use ideas because they don't have them. Like his friend Putin he is a Stone Age might makes right! man who thinks with a club. When
the famous manufacturer of agricultural equipment John Deere decided to move part of its manufacturing operation to
Mexico, President Trump had no ideas to offer in response. No ideas that might
convince John Deere to keep all of its business in the U.S. Thus, without ideas (and
he has never had ideas), he does what he always does: He THREATENED John Deere with a 200% tariff—which accomplished
nothing, just as he has threatened everyone and every nation he dislikes, which
is just about every person except MAGA husks and every nation because he not
only has no ideas, he has no friends. Bullies have no friends except for other bullies.
Needing to appear the smartest man in the room, Trump surrounded
himself with other empty heads like himself, and the Chainsaw Gang was born. Its motto is CUT, DESTROY, AND THREATEN,
pure proto-human primate thinking. The chainsaw became their symbol, used to
destroy, not to build. And the White House became the Bleak House filled with
frustrated masculinity and its female groupies. What was then unleashed upon
America has been a Clockwork Orange nightmare:
jobs lost, families impoverished, poor and sick left to die, people
disappeared, nations threatened with conquest, friendships abandoned, and alliances
with evildoers. If this is thinking it’s not thinking that uses ideas but primordial
instincts of the masculine id.
If you are wondering what any of this has to do with your concerns about climate change, it’s this. The focus of religious believers is not on their Earthly existence but postmortem existence. That is the case not only for Christians but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and others representing most of the world’s population. Thus, global warming isn't an important issue to them. It might even be good because whatever happens is part of God’s plan. If the world blows up tomorrow, it was God's plan thus good. America's Armageddonites would like to see the end of the world come sooner rather than later. Thus, your appeals to preserve the world for future generations are meaningless to them.
This is also true for the Islamic ideology. The central focus of the Quran is the afterlife that offers, like Christianity, two destinations: paradise and a fiery Hell. Wikipedia says, “Among the different terms and phrases mentioned above that refer to hell in the Quran, Al-nar (the fire) is used 125 times, jahannam 77 times, jaheem (blazing flames) 26 times, (23 times by another count)" ("Jahannam"). Paradise is referenced approximately 147 times. Clearly, Muslims would be more concerned about the afterlife than about global warming in this life, which most likely would not seriously affect them.
The same is essentially true for Buddhism and Hinduism and their concern with reincarnation or the transmigration of souls. My point is that these religious ideologies are impervious to worldly concerns unrelated to the afterlife.
Another problem is the us-versus-nature of the dominant Abrahamic religious ideologies. Judaism is the originator of the us-versus-them religious ideology. The "us" were the Hebrews and "them" were the pagans. As enemies of God pagans counted for so little that they could be cleansed from the Earth. Judeo-Christianity adopted the same mindset toward not only pagans but also Jews and later Muslims or any religion that wasn’t Christian. Judeo-Islam, which skipped Jesus and adopted the Old Testament ideology, continued the us-versus-them way of thinking. And Marxism is a Jewish secular version of the us-versus-them ideology. Important here is that the “them” are not a concern for the “us,” yet for your mission to work requires altruistic concern for all of humanity—especially future generations. That concern isn’t present in cultures that live according to an us-versus-them ideology. All such ideologies claim to be ideology motivated by love but their dominant theme is hatred. Fake Christian Putin hates Ukrainians and Europeans. Ditto that for the fake Christians presently in control of the White House.
You also appealed to the United Nations. In fact, very few nations of the world are united. Here the problem is nationalism. Nations are first and foremost concerned about their own people. Again the us-versus-them mindset is present. Putin and his Russian sycophants consider Ukrainians a "them," an abstraction to be destroyed. Trump’s thinking is similar—toward non-MAGA Americans, Canadians, Greenlanders, Europeans, Chinese, basically everyone except you got it Putin Russia.Your appeal to reduce carbon emissions is based on Good Samaritan altruism. The ideologies just mentioned are essentially “all about us” selfish ideologies.
You can see why it’s a sad, sad world. Life is a tragic affair because being made of flesh and blood all creatures are susceptible to physical disease and injury. Humans and some animals suffer mentally. Death is the end of life for all living creatures, and death already makes life a tragic affair. But what makes the world a truly sad places are the evil and stupid men who cause unnecessary suffering or fail to prevent preventable suffering thus add to the tragedy of life. There are good men and good women like yourself, but the evil of evil men often seems overwhelming. And their evil adds unnecessary suffering and sadness to the suffering and sadness that comes naturally to humans.
So, what is the solution, Greta? I don’t know. I would say just keep on promoting what you think must be done to improve the environment for everyone (including nature’s creatures) today and for future generations. You possess moral and practical intelligence, more so than the men you are trying to influence, men who are deficient in both. Today the great concern is the threat of artificial intelligence. You and I know that the greatest threat human existence is not artificial intelligence but is one that has been threatening humans their entire history—masculine intelligence made defective by powerful irrational instincts, desires, and emotions. Human reason is like Saint Anthony affected by demons—not supernatural demons but the demons of irrationality. Unfortunately, we don’t have a wise artificial intelligence like Gort in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still to get selfish, indifferent men to do what is right. For you, the issue isn’t whether you will win in the end but your choice to live your life as a Good Samaritan rather than like the men who beat and robbed him. You don’t want to just stand by like the 10 American bystanders on the Philly train who did nothing while a woman was being raped. It is a sad, sad world, but people like you make it a little brighter.
