Where do I begin? I could begin by using a cliché. “Words fail me” And yes, words fail us regularly. Words fail us most abjectly when we over-explain, over-insist, over-emote. This is one of the reasons our journalists, our media, our social media have failed us. We instinctively feel they are too verbose. Their word sewer hides the truth quite efficiently.
I will talk about Ukraine - but just a little bit. I am more interested in what the waterfalls of words emanating from our radios, phones, tablets, laptops and TV’s hide. To begin, let me state the obvious: Vladimir Putin is an international criminal, a sociopathic thug of epic proportions. I was a victim of a Warsaw Pact invasion and although the people who perpetrated that crime are now dead, their Stalinist legacy is ably carried on by Comrade Putin. Bombing cities, killing civilians en masse and invading sovereign countries is not something that can be excused, forgiven or forgotten. Even if the invader has legitimate concerns - and I believe Russia has very legitimate concerns of NATO encroachment in light of its bloody and tragic history - these concerns are not to be solved at the point of a tank muzzle. I do not know enough Ukrainian history and politics to offer anything of substance on the 2014 coup or on Zelensky. I’m certain he’s not the superhero some would have us believe and I am equally certain he’s not a blackguard, only eager to implement an insidious WEF agenda. “The truth”, as my good friend, philologist Tom Gutfreund told me over a glass of Armagnac in the Latin Quarter in 1975, “is always in the middle” Perhaps not always, Tom, but often.
(an unrelated but humorous aside: during that same conversation, Tom gave me an address of a woman in Brussels, who would put me and my girlfriend up when we reached that city on our Euro trek. I asked Tom how well he knew her. He took a slow sip of his delicious Armagnac and said: “I know her very well. I slept with her before her husband, along with her husband and after her husband!” I only wish I could translate his idiosyncratic lisp, which made it sound even better)
I understand that war is red meat for the networks. I get it. This is what they live for. Breathless broadcasts from the front lines, reporters in flak jackets, fighter jets screaming overhead. And I am as horrified as you are when I see the ruined buildings, the demolished streets, the torn bodies. Yet, as the war drags on and reporters’ voices vibrate my eardrums ever louder, I grow ever more frustrated, impatient, even desperate. They’re talking about war crimes, about special UN plenary sessions, about condemnation and consequences. Suddenly the people who until three weeks ago sported a mask on their social media profiles, now all have “I stand with Ukraine”. It’s as if all of a sudden, because of an invasion that - let’s face it, was not unexpected - Chinese state-sanctioned torture doesn’t exist, war crimes in Yemen don’t exist, America’s own heavily blemished record doesn’t exist, the blood thirsty mullahs of Iran don’t exist. One one villain (VP) and one hero (VZ) are in focus. Here’s a little home truth for ya: “I stand with Ukraine” does not need to be said. It’s a pat, laughingly obvious statement that means nothing. It’s the weapon of the half-wit who can be bothered neither to read up on the history of Russian and Ukrainian bloodlands, nor to pick up a weapon and buy a ticket to Kyiv. As soon as anything becomes a bumper sticker, it has lost true meaning. It’s just another slogan to be mewled, another meme, a rebel yell of the impotent.
Here’s what I think: you want to put Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on trial by an international tribunal? Go right ahead. As long as he gets a defense attorney like any other mass murderer, it’s only fair. You know what isn’t fair? That we have stopped talking about the “other” crime against humanity, the one that has just been perpetrated on the world by the likes of Pfizer, Moderna, the WHO, the CDC, the FDA, the Faucis, Tedroses, Fergusons and Drostens of the world. Yes, that crime. The idiotic masks, the useless, harmful lockdowns, the “vaccines” that are leakier than the Titanic and prevent neither disease, nor transmission, nor - it now turns out - hospitalization. Two years of government-invented emergency, summoned to fight a respiratory virus - an undertaking that has never been attempted before and which has totally failed, creating a hopelessly bifurcated society, turning brother against brother, destroying businesses, livelihoods, stealing liberty and damaging our way of life forever. As if that were not enough, we now learn that all-cause mortality in all age groups may be as much as 40% higher than in the past two years, a jump steeper than that caused by a war. The causes are not yet known but we can all take educated guesses.
That, my friends, is THE crime we should all be talking about. The crime that calls for the International Court in the Hague to be convened. The crime that has changed the course of humanity more than anything else since the end of World War II.
We may be heading for World War III and if we are, we can be certain Covid crimes will be buried for a long, long time under mountains of irradiated ruins, along with the lies, the word vomitus of “public health’ and, of course, THE SCIENCE ™
"I stand with Ukraine" worn as a mask on Covid's wake echoes Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" insofar as Bohumil Hrabal's character in "Closely Observed Trains" Milos Hrma wisely observes that "All the same, the Germans are fools. Dangerous fools. I’d been a bit of a fool myself, too, but to my own hurt, while with the Germans it was always to the hurt of someone else."
I knew a bit about Ukraine politics and its relationship with US politics from reading the works of Christopher Simpson and John Loftus. Ukrainian nationalism is naziism. It's carrying on the ideology, values, sadism, and psychotic Russophobia of Stepan Bandera. As far as Putin goes, he's not that great at killing people, b/c UN is reporting around 565 deaths. I'm familiar with the lies that were used against Milosevic when the US was supporting nazis in Yugoslavia. And I see when similar lies are resurrected. Prior to the actor, Ukrainian leaders proudly gave speeches on how they would wage war on ethnic Russian civilians, which is what they do--shooting and shelling civilians much like hamas does. Since I'm part of the nazis despised Jew-bolshevic alliance, I must stand with Putin. US leaders have done absolutely nothing in the last two years to cause me to believe or trust them on any topic of import. Two years of being berated, treated like a 2nd class citizen, basically forcing us to get our kids injected with chemicals showed me that they're a much bigger danger to me than Putin.