Thursday, June 22, 2023

Report from Prague: Why Appeasement didn't work for the Russians either

 


Report from Prague: Why Appeasement didn't work for the Russians either

     "So.  What do you think about the war in Ukra$ne," I asked my cab driver here in Prague.

     "Those evil Soviet bastards!" he replied.  

     Like so many other citizens of central and eastern Europe right now, it's hard to convince him that modern Russia is nothing like the old Soviet union -- so I gave up trying and just appreciated the lovely views as we drove into town from the airport.  Prague is a beautiful city, one of the few European cities that didn't get bombed to bits during World War II.  Lovely architecture -- plus Prague practically invented beer.

        So what is modern Russia really like these days -- if it's not like the old Soviet Union?  Until recently, it was like Britain under Neville Chamberlain back in the 1930s -- appeasement all the way down.  "Appeasement?  Hell no!" you might cry.  But let me explain.

      After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia was weak, right?  Yeltsen was in charge back then, becoming Russia's modern version Neville Chamberlain right before World War II.  He gave America everything it wanted -- and America wanted a hecka lot.  Russia became corporate America's money bin.  But then Putin came to power and Russia stopped being America's candy store.

     And so America's military-industrial complex got all totally pissed off.  "But what does this have to do with the historic architecture of Prague?" you might ask.  Answer?  History might be repeating itself here.  Appeasement.  Then war.  Then a hecka lot of bombs?

     Sorry.  I've got really bad jet lag after spending 30 hours on airplanes and in airports.  Perhaps I'm not making myself clear.

     Russia, like Chamberlain, had to stand by while American corporatists gobbled up the former Yugoslavia and then Iraq.  Why?  Because Russia wasn't strong enough to stop these terrible injustices.  Russia was too busy licking its own wounds after an American economic invasion that had hit it like Dunkirk.  "Peace in our time," declared Putin after signing the 2014 Minsk Accords.

       But Russia, to its credit, also lacked something else that America had in abundance.  "What is that?" you might ask.  The pork barrel.  America's military might was based on Congressional hand-outs and glad-handing corruption.  Take the F-35 for example.  I rest my case.  So Russia was able to slowly build up its military while America just used its military as a hand-out instead of a hand up.

     As a result, when America staged its unjust and unjustified attack on the Sudetenland, er, Syria, Russia was finally strong enough to say, "No.  Enough."  Putin had suddenly become Churchill -- not Chamberlain.  My cab driver (and also 300 million Americans) got it wrong.

     Before Churchill, er, Putin put his foot down and said, "No more NATO expansion on my doorstep," the Minsk Accords had promised to bring peace to the region.  America, Germany, NATO and Victoria Nuland had crossed their hearts (and crossed their fingers), swearing that they would not blitzkrieg Poland, er, the Donbass.  They lied.  But Russia was still acting like Chamberlain at this point. 

     "Jane, you are starting to lose me here.  Was it Yeltsen who was Chamberlain -- or was it Putin?  Or both?"  Hey, I'm practically losing it myself.  Let's review.

      American bad.  Russia good.  "What!  That's heresy!"  Pretty much.  But the true story is that Chamberlain, er, Russia needed the Minsk Accords to regroup -- while NATO, the CIA and sweet Victoria Nuland needed this breather to arm Ukra$ne to the teeth so it could...who knows?  Destroy Putin and replace him with Yeltsen's ghost?  No wonder the Russians fought back.

    So here we are now, on the verge of World War 3, and my poor cab driver is clueless that his beautiful city might soon become another Dresden all because Chamberlain, er, Russia offered American corporatists a whole wish list of appeasement -- until Putin, er, Churchill came along and pissed off American corporatists to the point of them actually threatening Russia with nuclear war.  And yet most Americans and Eastern Europeans here will hate me for this analogy no matter how true it is.

     But Prague's beer is really good.

PS:  Yes, I do know about Prigozhin's recent move on Moscow -- but he's gonna fall back when he runs out of hot dogs and beer.  And Zelensky is gonna run out of hot dogs and beer too and then he and Prigozhin will happily reminisce about their grand summer adventure at Camp Ukra$ne back when they were Boy Scouts.  And in the meantime, who pays for all this grand adventure?  You and me.  And boy do we pay dearly.

Resources:

Things aren't totally going the the American corporatists' and Evil Globalist Bastards' way.  Alex Kraimer calls them out:  Alex Krainer on the emerging world disruption of the old world order | Vanessa Beeley on Patreon

Scott Ritter tells us why the Bradley tank is a sitting duck in Ukra$ne:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDytnxq7xQ4


Ray McGovern reminds us once again about how truly screwed up the CIA was and still is:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmvPp_3elfk

"Stop them from stealing our money," sez the inestimable John Titus:  https://tube.solari.com/videos/gmchd_financialrebellion_061523/

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