Mitch McConnell and a lot of other people in the government don’t care at all what happens to Ukraine in its war with Russia. From David Stockman at lewrockwell.com:
Rarely has the imperial arrogance of the Washington political class been so succinctly expressed. We are talking about Mitch McConnell’s recent triple bank-shot rationale for inflicting still more misery and death on the god-forsaken peoples of Ukraine.
American support for Ukraine is not charity. It’s in our own direct interests – not least because degrading Russia helps to deter China.
What kind of sick fuck would demolish an entire nation and slaughter tens of thousands of its citizens in order to weaken its neighbor and historic suzerain—all for the purpose of sending a carom shot across the bow of rulers 3,600 miles away. And rulers, at that, who are no boon to their own citizens but also pose no threat to the liberty and safety of the people of Kentucky or any other part of the United States?
Indeed, even when President Truman and War Secretary Stimson ordered the cold-blooded killing of 214,000 Japanese civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki their rulers actually did mean America harm and had already killed thousands of its soldiers from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima. But exactly where is the evidence that Beijing is assembling a massive armada of air, sea and land forces to invade the coast of California or is standing up a devastating first nuclear strike capacity to leave American cities in cinders before the awful nuclear retaliatory forces of the US could strike back?
Substitute “nation” for a “man”. Russia has always been the recipient of the United States’ Shadow, the projected unconcous contents of its collective psyche. And vice versa.
The following are quotes from the Collected Works of C. G. Jung.
A man who is unconscious of himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.
“The Philosophical Tree” (1945). In CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P.335
Projections change the world into the replica of one’s own unknown face.
Aion (1955). CW 14: P.17
Substitute “a nation” for “a man”. Russia has always been the recipient of the United States’ Shadow, the unconscious contents of the American collective psyche. And vice versa.
The flollowing are quotes from the Collected Works of C. G. Jung.
A man who is unconscious of himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.
“The Philosophical Tree” (1945). In CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P.335
Projections change the world into the replica of one’s own unknown face.
Aion (1955). CW 14: P.17