Live from Bulgaria: Are Europe & Russia on the road to mutual destruction?

 

Live from Bulgaria: Are Europe & Russia on the road to mutual destruction?

       I'm currently hanging out in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria -- and just learned that both its president and prime minister are trying really hard to stay neutral with regard to that endless weird contest to the death between Europe and Russia, using Ukraine as their battlefield as these two mammoth forces desperately try to see who can destroy the most stuff first.  

     It's like watching Godzilla fight King Kong for world domination -- only squashing Kiev instead of squashing Tokyo.  Screw them both.  I'm sick and tired of all this doom-scrolling and war talk.  Time to just relax and enjoy Sofia.  So I signed on for a day tour.

     "Sofia was conquered by the Romans back in 130 AD, back when Marcus Aurelius was in charge," said our tour guide.  Holy cow!  One of the greatest generals who ever lived used to walk on the exact same street that I am standing on right now!  Unfortunately, however, there was nothing left of the ancient Roman city here but a pile of sad-looking ruins.  So much for empire.

      But then the tour guide suddenly started to go on a rant.  "The President and Prime Minister want PEACE!" she exclaimed, her voice dripping with contempt -- talking about peace like it was some terrible and awful thing, almost on the scale of farting in public or torturing babies.  "Our so-called leaders are just trying to side-step the issue!  We can never have peace with Russia!  They attacked Ukraine for no reason!  Putin is a liar!  We must fight them with all that we have!"  Er, okay.  But what, exactly, do you have?

     130 million Russians died fighting the Germans during World War II.  I forget how many other Europeans died back then too.  But how many millions of Europeans and Russians are willing to die today?  Burned to death by drones or buried under missile rubble or shot in the head during front-line combat?  According to my tour guide, all of Bulgaria is willing to die for The Cause.

     What cause?  To make sure that war-mongers, banksters and oligarchs never run out of five-star champagne?

     Sofia is a lovely and modern European city, built on top of the ruins of the Roman Empire.  I like Sofia.  I would hate to see it destroyed in the name of jingoistic polemics and money-grubbing war profiteers while Russians are taking painfully bloody drone hits, and Europeans are running out of ammo and going bankrupt trying to keep Voldemort Zelensky supplied with mansions in Italy and Miami.  

     My tour guide needs to be careful of what she wishes for.

Resources:

Gotta love Stanislav Krapivnik:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLXTuZBUCys

The Military Summary Channel tells us daily abut the endless slaughter in Ukra$ne:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLeFYpDhdwc

Gotta love Alistair Crooke's English accent:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbqLwTsHMO8

Let's tax the shite out of everyone equally!  https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/china-global-initiatives/

Does dialogue actually work?  Let us hope.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nghfgViKsLg

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