05-04-2024, 02:03 PM
I remember when I was very young, there was no actual talk of something called "economic warfare." I'm sure the leaders of the world knew of the idea, perhaps even waged it. But it wasn't a thing that was spoken of openly. War was fought with people and things... bullets and bombs. Things that need to be made. Making things to unmake other things, I thought.
But having lived in the real world as an adult now, I actually participated in a different war. Over time, attrition and hubris left the Soviet Union a brittle husk of her former self. So brittle, that she broken into pieces.
I think the Russia of today is driven by a different set of animals entirely, while we in the West are now all subjects of crafted "appearances." The "show" we see by the media under the production of the various governments is a 'flavored' reality. Too many secrets, too much "inconvenient truth." Economic sanctions were like throwing stinky rotten fruit at each other... for show. No one was ever going to reconcile this matter with economics... and I'm surprised they pretended they thought it would... the talking heads, I mean. It got clicks and consumed bandwidth though... engendered "funding" for 'causes'... they sure made a lot of money selling that fantasy.
I feel deeply for the poor innocent souls in Ukraine, and the dutiful Russian soldiers who are the grist for the mill of "political" contention. Too many have died, and too many suffer.
Ukraine, like Afghanistan, are lusted after for things that they do or things that they have. And like Afghanistan, Ukraine has too many that 'value' that over over the people that live there. "Identities" are the excuse for the hate and fear that serves those lustful few who have the tools and means to pursue them. It is immensely sad.
It seems that we in the West are consumed by the appearances crafted for our consumption, because most of us consume whatever appearances are crafted without examining what they really are... or who is doing the crafting, or why.
Isn't it odd that the "International" community and what they 'think,' are more important than the people who live, suffer, and die in these places? Or is that also, just an appearance?
But having lived in the real world as an adult now, I actually participated in a different war. Over time, attrition and hubris left the Soviet Union a brittle husk of her former self. So brittle, that she broken into pieces.
I think the Russia of today is driven by a different set of animals entirely, while we in the West are now all subjects of crafted "appearances." The "show" we see by the media under the production of the various governments is a 'flavored' reality. Too many secrets, too much "inconvenient truth." Economic sanctions were like throwing stinky rotten fruit at each other... for show. No one was ever going to reconcile this matter with economics... and I'm surprised they pretended they thought it would... the talking heads, I mean. It got clicks and consumed bandwidth though... engendered "funding" for 'causes'... they sure made a lot of money selling that fantasy.
I feel deeply for the poor innocent souls in Ukraine, and the dutiful Russian soldiers who are the grist for the mill of "political" contention. Too many have died, and too many suffer.
Ukraine, like Afghanistan, are lusted after for things that they do or things that they have. And like Afghanistan, Ukraine has too many that 'value' that over over the people that live there. "Identities" are the excuse for the hate and fear that serves those lustful few who have the tools and means to pursue them. It is immensely sad.
It seems that we in the West are consumed by the appearances crafted for our consumption, because most of us consume whatever appearances are crafted without examining what they really are... or who is doing the crafting, or why.
Isn't it odd that the "International" community and what they 'think,' are more important than the people who live, suffer, and die in these places? Or is that also, just an appearance?
