Biden's "Reckless" Decision To Escalate Russia-Ukraine War

[Anna]

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Evil exists in this world, and we need to look at evil for what it is (pests) - and destroy it.

Many of us always look for the good in other creatures (and that is beautiful), but sometimes it is a big mistake because evil does exist, and we need to stop it....

We need to look at it for what it is (pests).

I want a good and intelligent world - where truth and love rules, but that can only happen if we destroy the root of evil.


I do realize that even pests just follow their nature (so they aren't evil in their own view of reality) - but they are "evil" in my reality because I want a good and creative world for humanity!....

Leon Mugesera wouldn't put it better.

The Hutus used very similar rhetoric before they started their epic campaign to remove pests from their land. They weren't slaughtering humans, they were only killing cockroaches.

The utopias people imagined, all the programs to improve mankind, all the unrealistic dreams about the better world are measured with the heaps of bodies and flowing rivers of blood. Because this is human nature. Wars have always accompanied humanity. This is not going to change. And all the attempts to eradicate human cruelty lead to even more cruelty. Blaming the mythical "Them" for all the evils in society, finding scapegoats led to witch haunts, holocausts and genocides.

I don't like wars just like you too but I'm afraid the world is not going to bend to anyone's wishful thinking. During the war in Vietnam the hippies set on a psychedelic journey to liberate the world from the evil of wars but their rebellion didn't demolish the primal status quo that has been with us for ages. No declarations of human rights and liberties, no conventions brought us anywhere close to the utopian vision of the idealistic world without evil you described.

And it's not the fault of some "puppet masters." You cannot manipulate something that is not already the innate nature of those manipulated. Even if Putin, Biden and their supporters die, the wars will happen from time to time, with all their inherent animalistic cruelty.

[LightAngel]

People should of course deal with their own "evil" before they can become the change this world need.

That is common sense.


And no, we don't need cruelty, we just need a high emotional intelligence to stop this madness.

[xpert11]

The underlying premise of escalating the war is ridiculous. Russia invaded Ukraine, so if the war didn't end in three days, they faced the risk of opening a more extended war can of worms.

This leaves Biden's admin insane restraints on Ukraine attacking legitimate Russian military as an epic historic blunder. Granting the Russian forces a sanctuary or buffer zone left Ukraine at a strategic disadvantage. Russian forces enjoyed the advantage of preparing for offensives untouched.

The Biden administration made the related ninth-hour policy reversal in a desperate and failed bid to salvage their Ukrainian War legacy. Why did the U.S. and the international community fail to dispatch sufficient military aid to Ukraine?

The war in Ukraine exists in a strategic vacuum, so no thought was given to the defeat of Russian forces in Ukraine and what happens after the fighting ends. The same applies to what happens if Russia conquers Ukraine.

Moreover, the other colossal error is the religious blind faith in sanctions crippling Russia's wartime economy. Russian industrial-military material output is modest but has increased in the last two years. 

However, I do agree with the alarming and obvious question of who the decision-makers are in the Biden admin. Biden's health and ego ensure that he is a puppet president.

[jaded]

Everytime someone says "Biden's Ukrainian War Legacy" I bust out laughing. Somehow, somewhere someone thinks a colossal epic screwup is a positive legacy. 

This last ditch push for allowing medium range missile's is just the last gasp of a part of the current administration before Jan 20th. No ones mentioned it yet but it's been very clear Trump wants this Ukraine thing ended, so why wouldn't whoever decided this last fiasco be hauled up on treason charges? I'm pretty sure they weren't elected, plus doesn't making your own foreign policy decisions unilaterally warrant "some" legal ramifications? 
(the backdating of documents an paper trail coverup will be also epic)

No one wants to give Putin any credit but his restraint & foot dragging is costing him politically in Russia. Just felt that needed acknowledged.

[UltraBudgie]

No one wants to give Putin any credit but his restraint & foot dragging is costing him politically in Russia. Just felt that needed acknowledged.

True.

No one paints a picture of what "winning" looks like that is in any way realistic. Perhaps that's because it is more profitable to "fail", both in terms of sustaining defense budgets, and in terms of all the myriad policy and alignment goals that can be achieved along the road to quagmire, before "sound minds" transmute aversion into political capital.

It's Europe's turn to step up and find that out, I suppose. Perhaps we're on the road to a "pole shift"?

[CCoburn]

On "Evil" (maybe even deserving of its own thread) 


Evil will likely always exist, unfortunately. It's born, nurtured, and manufactured every day, and often too late by the time it is discovered. It may be dealt with at some point after the fact, but never completely eradicated.

This raises a philosophical/theological inquiry of why evil exists, or even more precisely, why is it born? Which absolves its existence from human hands and deposits it solely in the hands of the creator, if you believe in one, otherwise it's just completely random.

I'm more an advocate of design and would therefore inquire: why is evil created? Free will is exercised after the fact, so why would it exist in a newly created being? It is true that a person may harbor an evil nature (born that way), but morals and consequences may prevent them from acting on it.

I suppose in the case of a "newborn", evil might be more akin to a seed that is planted(the way some human brains are wired) and has yet to develop where "nurture" may play a role in lessening or intensifying the outcome.

[LightAngel]

If They held a war and nobody came, would they go fight it themselves? 

Thank you for a very good post!


I wish everybody would stop fighting!

I always said, if our leaders want to fight then let them do the dirty job themselves, after all, they should live as they preach.

But they don't do that of course because they are cowards - and they are also controlled by the puppet masters.

What they have done to humanity since the corona madness started is one of the biggest crimes against humanity.

Most of them belong in prison.