08-11-2014, 12:15 PM
Lauren, I harbour little doubt you're correct about this, but I doubt it makes any meaningful difference to the bigger picture of the Ukrainian situation, which is where my interest really resides. Allow me to explain please.
It's not my intention here to purify Putin or Russia, but rather to show who is guilty of starting this damned war - as a prelude to a new cold war, which has now begun. You and I both were born in and lived through one cold war and one is enough.
it is, therefore, my continuing intention to demonstrate that this entire affair - and the present war in Ukraine - is US driven and that we in the west have been subject to an unremitting propaganda bombard to get the public in line behind a duplicitous neocon agenda.
One the one hand it will rape you, and then loudly shout "rape" and point the finger at someone else to avoid discovery and prosecution - enjoying both guilts equally.
Putin has always and openly made it clear that the Ukraine is a vital security interest of Russia - the same way, I guess, that successive US presidents have repeatedly stated that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf is a vital security interest of theirs. Consequently, it can be no surprise that Putin would engage in Ukraine - a nation that is directly on Russia's borders and has, for over 200 years been considered the cradle of the Rus civilization, and which reverberates deeply in the Russian psyche. In contradistinction, the Arabian Gulf is some 7,500 miles distant from the USA and has no racial or tribal parallels. The US interest there is firstly and foremostly about oil, with a distant second interest being the use of Saudi wealth and assets in deniable deep political events around the world.
As best as I can tell the US has begun a new cold war against Russia for having the temerity to attempt to shed the US dollar as a currency to do business in - and wishes additionally to draw Europe (partly willingly, I suspect) into a new Sino-Russian/BRICS orbit and away from American economic diktat.
The US permitted banking corporations and cartels to destroy the value of the dollar as a reserve currency by closing it's regulatory eyes while it was relentlessly looted several times over - beginning with the Savings & Loan fiasco and ending with the momentous bankrupting of the western banking system circa 2007/8 (and prior years leading up to that). Having permitted this to occur in order to line private pockets at the expense of taxpayers across the world - it now holds no moral remit to impose the dollar on any nation as a continuing reserve currency and it is wholly understandable that large trading nations now seek other options.
The US is a busted flush and has no ethical or moral backbone, and has gone the way all empires go... down the greed toilet.
It's not my intention here to purify Putin or Russia, but rather to show who is guilty of starting this damned war - as a prelude to a new cold war, which has now begun. You and I both were born in and lived through one cold war and one is enough.
it is, therefore, my continuing intention to demonstrate that this entire affair - and the present war in Ukraine - is US driven and that we in the west have been subject to an unremitting propaganda bombard to get the public in line behind a duplicitous neocon agenda.
One the one hand it will rape you, and then loudly shout "rape" and point the finger at someone else to avoid discovery and prosecution - enjoying both guilts equally.
Putin has always and openly made it clear that the Ukraine is a vital security interest of Russia - the same way, I guess, that successive US presidents have repeatedly stated that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf is a vital security interest of theirs. Consequently, it can be no surprise that Putin would engage in Ukraine - a nation that is directly on Russia's borders and has, for over 200 years been considered the cradle of the Rus civilization, and which reverberates deeply in the Russian psyche. In contradistinction, the Arabian Gulf is some 7,500 miles distant from the USA and has no racial or tribal parallels. The US interest there is firstly and foremostly about oil, with a distant second interest being the use of Saudi wealth and assets in deniable deep political events around the world.
As best as I can tell the US has begun a new cold war against Russia for having the temerity to attempt to shed the US dollar as a currency to do business in - and wishes additionally to draw Europe (partly willingly, I suspect) into a new Sino-Russian/BRICS orbit and away from American economic diktat.
The US permitted banking corporations and cartels to destroy the value of the dollar as a reserve currency by closing it's regulatory eyes while it was relentlessly looted several times over - beginning with the Savings & Loan fiasco and ending with the momentous bankrupting of the western banking system circa 2007/8 (and prior years leading up to that). Having permitted this to occur in order to line private pockets at the expense of taxpayers across the world - it now holds no moral remit to impose the dollar on any nation as a continuing reserve currency and it is wholly understandable that large trading nations now seek other options.
The US is a busted flush and has no ethical or moral backbone, and has gone the way all empires go... down the greed toilet.
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