Now that a ceasefire with Russia is in the cards, I wanted to offer some thoughts on what I consider fake vs real peace deals. I also haven't blogged about the Ukraine war recently, since I don't find the subject very interesting— it's just been the same old endless losing and endless coping for them and their supporters (a ritual they somehow never get tired of).
What I really want to talk about is the broader subject of 'peace deals'. Namely, I think this is part of the broader betrayal of Trump's anti-establishment / populist base, not anything real or substantial.
What they're doing is temporarily de-escalating on one losing front, but not in order to change things up or wind down the level of interventionism, it's so they can re-focus the money and weapons to some other losing front or possibly even start a new war.
In this case, what they have in mind is de-escalating on the Russian front (following another major defeat) so they can re-direct all the energy to fighting Venezuela instead. This is a fairly obvious call, given the massive build in the region.
It's also a warning sign that the actual power of the US military is collapsing, since it no longer has the industrial capacity or manpower or logistic ability to fight on multiple fronts at the same time. Instead what they have to do is isolate one front by pausing all the other wars, stage highly theatrical bombings and assassinations, and then quickly back down before the real fighting starts, before doing the exact same thing somewhere else-- but always failing to achieve their real objectives, whether regime-change, winning territory, securing trade-routes, capturing resources, or whatever.
Contrast this with the peak of American military performance during WW2, when we could fight (and win) on multiple fronts, while enjoying the support of the domestic population, and without bringing down the entire economy, and you can see how far things have fallen in terms of industrial capability, long-term strategic thought, and so on and so forth.
And since nothing in the real world is frozen / static, this will continue to get worse and worse over time. The military will be weaker in the future, with less equipment to throw away and less support at home, and the economy will be more and more indebted and less capable of producing anything worthwhile to feed into the meat grinder.
We are also not ditching the losers in Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, etc in order to make deals with Russia / Iran / China / etc that would allow us access to energy, trade routes, etc, which we need in order to stabilize our economy. It's simply dialing down the heat, but without altering any of the long-term dynamics, meaning that (1) nothing will change and (2) there will be no economic benefit to re-compensate us for the massive waste of blood, money, equipment, etc.
The wars will likely resume in 5-10 years (maybe sooner), since none of the participants have any reason to stick by these flimsy / cynical agreements, and perhaps with more intensity than before. And since, like I said above, we're only going to get weaker and weaker, the side being backed by the Pentagon will get raped harder than before by Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, etc.
It's just kicking the can down the road, and calling that a win, a short-term defeat for an even larger loss in the long run-- retarded, but also typical of the Trump administration and spineless American / Western elites in general.
Also, and as usual, Trump, Musk, Vivek, and the GOP in general are relying on MAGA supporters being too stupid to tell the difference between real vs fake outcomes, and too addicted to slop consumption to push back against them, which is why their army of paid apologists is now working overtime to rationalize yet another destructive wasteful foreign war as AKSHUALLY America 1st. After so many betrayals, the MAGA base (at least judging by the Internet) is now just an army of die-hard masochists and cucks, led by paid shills at the top, marching happily into yet another massive disaster-- better to just leave them to their fate, if that's how they want to go out, then join the doomed suicidal cult.
As enraging as these foreign wars are, I'll admit that the Ukraine war has now turned into a source of amusement and entertainment for me. It used to make me mad, but now the ongoing humiliation of the Ukraine cheerleaders is a source of joy and too entertaining not to ignore-- the one silver-lining from the whole mess.
ReplyDeleteAll that shit-talking we had to endure about muh gas station with nukes, muh washing machines and shovels, muh paper tiger, muh Mongolian hordes, muh Ruzzia wuz irrelevant in WW2-- when I heard Trump start insulting Russia, I knew there was some real intense coping and seething going on behind the scenes, and that something big was on the cards-- and lo and behold, where we are now?
'Russia losingly advances, Ukraine winningly retreats'
Or as someone on Reddit said:
We'll never lose that strategically important city
The enemy is being pulverized around that city
The enemy is trying to capture that city but suffers catastrophic losses
The enemy is baited into trying to capture that city
We may lose that city but the enemy lost much more
That city was never relevant anyway
Here's why losing that city is actually a win for us
(https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1ow2luz/russia_stands_to_gain_very_little_from_the_bloody)
Obviously, when liberals guzzle down all kinds Ukraine slop, it's not because they actually have any interest in Ukraine, or in the region in general.
ReplyDeleteWhat they're really doing is no different from the rest of their empathy / sensitivity politics: they're jerking themselves off to how morally superior they are, for bravely standing up against fAsCiSm, defending Europe from the barbaric hordes, etc etc etc.
'We're not crying because of what's happening in Ukraine, they're just cannon fodder for us, we're crying because of how wonderful and brave we are.'
Their inflated sense of moral superiority is what allows them to claim to support Ukraine, but really support the worst outcome for them-- Ukraine is being dismantled internally by corrupt oligarchs, destroyed and annexed on the front line by Russia, and rapidly abandoned by more and more civilians who realize the madness that's going on.
It's a disaster, and all of that waste is just so they can lose and cede territory to the Russians anyways, but instead of doing it quickly, doing it as painfully as possible for everyone.
As I've said before, and as I imagine most people have noticed by now, this is just an extension of their self-acceptance / virtue-maxxing orgies or collective masturbation sessions they performed throughout the whole of the last decade and into this one as well.
ReplyDeleteI never joined in those things. After middle school, it's just embarrassing to behave like that-- and a lot of these freaks are in their 30s and 40s, even more pathetic.
This virtue-maxxing and self-love dovetailed perfectly with their real-world intolerant vicious vindictive callous behavior, cancelling normal things as sick and elevating degenerate behaviors as normal, lashing out at and executing random Trump supporters (including trying to kill a 17 yr old kid), all kinds of pointless witch-hunting, and the rest of it.
It reminds of an anecdote my Dad told me (he grew up in New England) about how he was play-fighting or mock-fighting with one of his friends, when his friend's dad saw them and yelled, 'I HATE VIOLENCE!' and then slapped both of them.
Or at one of my shit-jobs, I remember talking with one of my coworkers and he was telling us something about how he had poor health, might call in sick sometime, don't hold it against me, etc. So the other guy, our 'supervisor', said in the most SJW self-superior tone, 'I will NEEEEEEVEEEER hold it against your for calling out sick, I will always support you doing what you need to do, bla bla bla.' He went on and on for a few minutes like that.
When they say things like that, it may sound like they're talking about other people (since that's what normal people do), but we're projecting our normal psychology onto the freaks. What they really are saying is, 'I'm so amazingly tolerant, and I'm just so fucking amazed at what a great and wonderful person I am' or 'I'm not crying because that happened to you, I don't care about you, I'm crying because of how special and empathetic I am for noticing it.' That's what they're saying, translated back into normal-people language, there is zero actual interest or concern for the other person.
Then, naturally, the day that guy called out sick as he was telling us he would, this so-called moral superior adult was the first one to throw a screeching 7 yr old temper tantrum and public crash-out, crying about how 'this always happens to me' (again, incapable of thinking about anyone else), and then hold a grudge about it too!
(This guy was in his late 30s, too, so not a teenager or in his 20s. If he was an outlier, it would be funny, but they're all sick and insane and there are many of them.)
It's so pathetic and fraudulent, which is why I reject their claim to be moral leaders or whatever and will always be glad to see them get humiliated, both at home and abroad.
And of course that guy was super-snarky and ironic, too, but not in a light way more in the typical seething bitter way.
ReplyDeleteWhen I wrote that post earlier about having to protect your smile, work hard to keep your spirit alive, it may have sounded schizo, but what I was saying was that there are an increasingly large number of people who will lash out at you for being open, sincere, and alive, rather than just dead inside and boring like they are. The existence of other people who are not as miserable or depressed as they are enrages them, they can't just tolerate it, because it exposes for them being dead waste, emotionally, so they have to go on the offensive to try and drag you down with them and infect you with their own self-hatred.
It's also a kind of tool they use to enforce conformity, especially on Reddit (and Twitter too, I guess, but I don't go on their as much). In some other period they would have executed you, or burned you, but they can't do that so instead they resort to mocking and dismissing anyone that disagrees with them or is smarter or has an opinion that's outside of the range of the typical retarded slop they're peddling. And they don't do it in a manly way, their testosterone is too low for that, so it's more like a jealous high school girl LOL. More faggot-compatible or faggot-adjacent (if I had to describe it using PC terms) even if they might be done by straight guys.
That's why I post here. I can say whatever I want, and I don't have to deal with the legions of witch-hunters and mockers and jaded losers trying to go after me for not being as retarded and dead inside as they are.
The thing about ironic and snarky people-- and this could be another true-ism, or obvious to anyone above 40, but I don't claim to offer mystical insights, it's just worth saying-- is that they always affect this pose of being more hip, superior, enlightened, etc than the normies and the low-status dummies. They're too cool to care, above it all, can see past all these superstitions, and so on. And that level of self-confidence makes them somewhat attractive or alluring, at least first.
But then when you interact with them extensively, you realize very quickly that they're not smart or profound, they just have a psychotic level of bitter rage at everyone else (or at women, their high school classmates, their parents), which they do a good job hiding for most of the time, but it eventually erupts and then you realize you're dealing with an anti-social type, not someone you would want to imitate or follow. They only really differ in how good they are at hiding it, and how long it takes for them to erupt, but they're all like this in general.
Getting to know someone's character is always the opposite of what the SJWs do, too.
ReplyDeleteWhat the SJWs do is judge someone's entire life and existence on the basis of one micro-Tweet, one expression, maybe even a word within a phrase, a slip of the tongue, etc. It could even be from 10 yrs ago! But it doesn't matter, if they find that mini-expression PROBLEMATIC-- they destroy your entire life.
And of course, if they like you, you can get away with all kinds of racist or misogynistic shit (if it's against a target they despise), but if they don't like you whatever you say is incriminating no matter how inoffensive. It's just a totally made-up 'morality', no rules or consistency.
What an empathetic person would do is allow someone an extensive amount of space and time to show their personality, and without judging them, so they can really let loose. Then over time, and after watching someone make various choices, you can understand who they really are as a person.
There's nothing more pointless and counter-productive than trying to figure out someone's entire existence over some 5 second clip, and then send so much anger their way that they have no chance to apologize, explain, etc-- but that's where these "morally superior" beings have led us.
It's also never a hatred of 'bad parents' or 'crazy women / men' or 'high school bullies' or something like that.
ReplyDeleteLike if your parents fucked you up, abandoned you, divorced-- your anger would be justified.
Or if you dated a true psycho, and they blew up parts of your life-- justified.
Or if you were bullied in high school-- justified.
But they never say, 'I like the good types, and don't like the bad types.'
It's just this generalized hatred at everyone, with zero discrimination-- everyone is guilty, everyone must pay, everyone is inferior to ME.