A little actual history about Ukraine goes a long way to quelling the pearl clutching and wailing. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
enough
most of history, even near history, is fiction, fiction written by winners, fiction written by those who control media and publishing and who render proclamation from pulpits, bully or otherwise.
while a certain amount of this is inevitable owing to subjective biases and incomplete knowledge, much is deliberate, designed and cultivated to push agenda and to accumulate and to retain power:
for he who controls the present controls the past and he who controls the past controls the future.
this hard, pitiless dictum is why we wrestle so to be the ones telling “the story of what happened” and why so much of that story is lies.
“the past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”
it’s all made up history to create made up pretext to push to a future suited to some agenda or other and “the ukraine” seems a particularly bad example of this about which an extraordinary number of people seem to have very strong opinions based on what could charitably be described as “very few facts and even less perspective” and i find it’s often useful to explore how the world looks from multiple sides when trying to predict what actors (or comedians) are going to do.
i have been deeply surprised at the ignorance of history both recent and more, well, historical and at the peril of playing the pedantic pussycat, perhaps some lessons are in order because folks like congresscritter mike seem dangerously bereft of context and general sense and this seems as good a place to start as any.
