12-05-2014, 09:58 AM
Kevin O'Keeffe Wrote:I like to think people have enough sense not to admit it to NATO as well, but they will probably do so. Personally, I don't think NATO should have been extended to any former constituent entity of the USSR, or even any nation bordering the ex-USSR (other than perhaps Poland).
The USA guaranteed Russia that they would not recruit former Soviet territories into NATO.
They immediately broke their word and set out to do just that.
Wasn't it Tonto who said "white man speaks with forked tongue"?
Or put another way, "how to start a new cold war" in 5 easy steps.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14