Well, boys and girls, it seems the Russian President, Vlad Putin got his nose bloodied by the by western Ukraine. His man did not get elected. God knows he tried. Every two bit trick and truckloads of cash (not to mention untold numbers of "voters", all of them Russian, bussed to Ukraine to help out, voting, at least once, for Moscow's butt boy), did not seem to help.
Dont be alarmed.
It is business as usual.
But who did our "media" say stopped this "crime"?
Who did it?
The farmers. The people, so they tells us.
The Ukranians most distant from the neo-Soviets.
The ones who know a pile of dung when they smell it. Because they smell it their whole lives.
And they are still in the streets.
It has been over a week.
They won a "victory" of sorts; a new election.
The whole world will watch this one.
It will be as phoney as the last one.
As phoney and corrupt as both "candidates".......
Except to the young, the students, and the uninitiated, who take the whole thing seriously.
The ones without memory, or a personal history of victimization.
The ones who have not been around the international political block enough times to realize that the whole structure is a joke we all buy into.
There is no such thing as the "will of the people"........
Never fear.....they will learn.
And when they do.
They will become as cynical and oblivious to what is actually happening in the world as you and I are. As willing to let men (mostly men), run their lives through corporate sturctures so powerful they laugh out loud at "goverments".
Russia is a gangster state; plain and simple. An ocean of disinfectant would not be enough to clean the blood off of their President's hands
So?
Name a single world leader incomplicit in international "crime".
Not that Vlad is a bad guy. Ater all, our blood soaked, war monger of a President likes him a lot. He invited him to the ranch in Crawford, Texas. The had a swell time and everybody smiled for the cameras. (Vlad even rode a horse.) George II knew of Russia's attempts at controlling the Ukranian vote. But, in the words of the State Department, The Ukraine is a "Russian sphere of influence".
None of these affairs are accidental.
The "boys" in the back room are running things. "Boys" who abhor publicity and collect politicians like toy soldiers.
Here is another example.......
The United States is destroying Iraq.
So?
And there is more to come from United States "wantings".
Shortly (as the media builds the case for a "limited" (whatever that means) mlitary "look see" into Iraq's eastern neighbor....) the United States, even as you read, exerts enormous diplomatic pressure upon Iran to stop it's nuclear weapons program. (they are not mature enough or responsible enough to be like the United States...how kind our attempts at persuasion are....right?...nor does it matter to the United States that Iran is surrounded by countries POSSESSING military nuclear capabilities........did you think of that, or did you immediately leap to the conclusion that Iran is simply a rouge state, as you are currently being told to think? [what would YOU do if surrounded by what YOU considered imminent danger....what would YOU demand of YOUR nation's leadership?]..)
And what if they do not cease and desist?
We will kick their ass.
Thats the fact.
No bunch of fundamentalist towel heads is gonna get their hands on a weapon of mass destruction (WMD...remember that acronym, or do you?)....remember how it turned out to be a phoney excuse to invade a legitimate country, a member of the United Nations? A legitimate, international entity?
Remember?
The Europeans worry about Ukraine, bitch at the United States and generally wring their hands, proving their ineffectuality. But they know the truth. A while back, when they possessed the same illusions the United States has now, they threw their weight around. (Ah, the good old days....."Mad dogs and Englishmen"....)
Why?
Because they could. The didnt need another reason.
However, time passed, new "boys" took over the block (or maybe the same "boys" in better suits), and these days, the EU cannot change anything.
Why?
Because the United States holds nearly all the cards in this game........ for now.
What is the game?
Power.
Regardless of what you read, or think, or wish to do about injustice, or improving humanity, the unspeakable sufferings of this planet exist because of one desire.
Any one who can, regardless of ethnicity, culture, or country, wants what they want when they want it.
They will serve their own interest, evey single time.
That is historical fact.
The United States will do what it feels it must do to maintain what it feels it must maintain.
So will the Europeans (in their convuluted way).
Did you know this (bet you did not)?
A huge pipeline runs through Ukraine, filled with oil for Germany, France, Holland, and damn near everyone else in Europe who wants what they want when they want it.
That is the real resaon Ukraine is important to Europe.
Not "Democracy" for the oppressed Slavics.
Russian oil flowing through a an indespensible European artery........
What do the Russian's get out of it?
Money and regional influence to scare hell out of the EU, halting the steady eastern advance of NATO.
Where does the oil money go?
To the same places it goes everywhere else.
To the "boys", the people who want what they want when they want it.
There is nothing new about the power game. It is as old as History and vibrant as human desire.
However, only half the world gets to play. The other half reeks of maggot filled children and hopeless poverty.
The ones who cannot get what they want when they want it.
But nobody really gives too much thought to these people, these lives, these members of history.
Why?
Because they do not matter, and possibly never will.
This begs a rather disturbing question......
Is there any longer a need to teach History as an academic subject? Not many of you bastards know too much about it anyway.
Why should you?
Why waste your time?
Why spend years reading the same old story?
The only thing you really need to know about nations and human behavior, is that it is fundamentally a matter of self interest. And, like the leaders (thugs) of the United States, most nations will do anything to get what they want when they want it. (At least anything they can get away with.)
This is what is going on now, internationally, domestically, in your own home, and definitely in your minds.
Man is both good and bad.
And the game is immutable.
Not exactly sage prophesy.
But think about it.
At least for a minute......... maybe thirty seconds.
Is that too much to ask?
By the way, Vlad, wiping the blood from his nose, didnt let the little Ukranian setback stop him. He is currently in India, doing an arms deal with that "government".
Why?
So that India, vis a vis Pakistan (the hand picked stooge of the United States), will have what it wants when it wants it, too.......(preferably, hegemenomy over Pakistan).
Golly, we left out China, and the entire continent of South America, didnt we?
But rest assured, the "boys" are there too.
But do not think their slide rules and Cray computers are not working overtime in that neck of the woods.
The game never ends.
It never will.......
It is maddness.
It is a human curse.
And it is very good business, for those who play the game.
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