[Kiev, 2/11/16] Laying siege to a city, you’re not just cutting it off from reinforcement and supplies, but information. In Ukraine, the Russians aren’t quite doing that. Even more incredibly, they still allow trains to run. Two weeks into Russia’s invasion, you can still take a train from Kharkov to Lviv, then board a bus to Poland, all for free. Russia clearly wants civilians out of the warzone so it can engage what’s left of the Ukrainian military.
Sometimes I wonder if people like Zelensky and Biden aren't hostages to the the actual devil.
Only demonic energy could animate such an old man to "lead" a such a country as the US; to wake up, day after day, and put on a suit and tie over a desiccated frame, and stand there muttering in confusion, looking like the crypt keeper while selling out the world's masses.
And it seems that this must be the same energy that would bind a far younger man to take the world stage and encourage the sacrifice and ruination of his whole nation, to risk the life and innocence of every 16 year old boy, to generate photogenic dead children, indeed to vociferously advocate starting a nuclear war, in order to advance sinister and vague foreign imperial objectives.
I just don't believe a human being would do either of these things by choice or free will. Simple corruption, ideology or even personal ambition does not explain it. There is a video of Zelensky, clearly intoxicated, speaking into a camera. It seems that off to the side is a man holding a rifle. That could be interpreted in at least two ways.
Hi Linh, I tried to read some Chris Hedges over the years and came away with the conclusion that although I believe his sentiments are sincere, they come from a safe, comfortable New England enclave" where the eightened can wring their hands as the world disintegrates. When the darkness reaches their doorstep and the hand wringing is sincere, I'll listen.
Hedges comes off with the assuredness of Tony Fauci, never wrong in his own mind, but often wrong in reality. His argument about the Russian quarrel with Ukraine is self-contradictory. On the one hand Hedges says the Russians have every right to feel threatened, while, in the same sentence, they are wrong to do anything about it. Obviously, Hedges is aware of the thousands of deaths of ethnic Russians in the Donbass ever since the 2014 Nuland-inspired neo-Nazi junta. Apparently, in Hedges' mind, Putin is a war criminal for (belatedly) trying to end the slaughter. I'm no military strategist, but I think Paul Craig Roberts is right about Putin. His near daily diatribes (published on TUR) chastising Putin's strategy are worth checking out.
BTW, Linh, loved your humorous riposte about the Ukrainian babushka taking out the Russian drone with her tomato jar. Instead of giving useless weapons to untrained civilian males who were forbidden from leaving the country, they should be armed with her tomatoes.
I think Webster's dictionary should have a picture of Lindsay Graham next to the word chickenshit.
Is there an Irish family that doesn't have alcoholism running through it ? My father died of alcoholism about 25 years ago, although my mother & sister will talk about it for 20 minutes and never once mention the word alcohol. Guess there's a river in Africa named after that syndrome.
Sorry to hear you and Hedges are kind of on the outs.
What's scary is the nuclear codes are in the hands of a man in the initial stages of dementia. Who knows who's pulling all the strings behind the scenes.
Sometimes I wonder if people like Zelensky and Biden aren't hostages to the the actual devil.
Only demonic energy could animate such an old man to "lead" a such a country as the US; to wake up, day after day, and put on a suit and tie over a desiccated frame, and stand there muttering in confusion, looking like the crypt keeper while selling out the world's masses.
And it seems that this must be the same energy that would bind a far younger man to take the world stage and encourage the sacrifice and ruination of his whole nation, to risk the life and innocence of every 16 year old boy, to generate photogenic dead children, indeed to vociferously advocate starting a nuclear war, in order to advance sinister and vague foreign imperial objectives.
I just don't believe a human being would do either of these things by choice or free will. Simple corruption, ideology or even personal ambition does not explain it. There is a video of Zelensky, clearly intoxicated, speaking into a camera. It seems that off to the side is a man holding a rifle. That could be interpreted in at least two ways.
Hi Linh, I tried to read some Chris Hedges over the years and came away with the conclusion that although I believe his sentiments are sincere, they come from a safe, comfortable New England enclave" where the eightened can wring their hands as the world disintegrates. When the darkness reaches their doorstep and the hand wringing is sincere, I'll listen.
Thank you for another great article.
Such a wonderful distraction from all the dead vaccine injured
Hedges comes off with the assuredness of Tony Fauci, never wrong in his own mind, but often wrong in reality. His argument about the Russian quarrel with Ukraine is self-contradictory. On the one hand Hedges says the Russians have every right to feel threatened, while, in the same sentence, they are wrong to do anything about it. Obviously, Hedges is aware of the thousands of deaths of ethnic Russians in the Donbass ever since the 2014 Nuland-inspired neo-Nazi junta. Apparently, in Hedges' mind, Putin is a war criminal for (belatedly) trying to end the slaughter. I'm no military strategist, but I think Paul Craig Roberts is right about Putin. His near daily diatribes (published on TUR) chastising Putin's strategy are worth checking out.
BTW, Linh, loved your humorous riposte about the Ukrainian babushka taking out the Russian drone with her tomato jar. Instead of giving useless weapons to untrained civilian males who were forbidden from leaving the country, they should be armed with her tomatoes.
Linh
I think Webster's dictionary should have a picture of Lindsay Graham next to the word chickenshit.
Is there an Irish family that doesn't have alcoholism running through it ? My father died of alcoholism about 25 years ago, although my mother & sister will talk about it for 20 minutes and never once mention the word alcohol. Guess there's a river in Africa named after that syndrome.
Sorry to hear you and Hedges are kind of on the outs.
What's scary is the nuclear codes are in the hands of a man in the initial stages of dementia. Who knows who's pulling all the strings behind the scenes.
Bill
I understand there's only 5 days of food left in Kiev, hoping it's over soon.