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Sh#t Could Get Real With the Ukraine
The western (United States dominated) press is weird. Patsy of the government and big corporate interests, its been a long time since the mainstream “lamestream” 4th estate has really stepped up to inform, simply and well, the western people of what’s really going on in the world. Yeah, people choose “infotainment” but the press has a duty to set that aside and inform anyway because even though bad news is all “icky” and stuff, adult populations have to know what’s going on. Its crucial.
The conflict in Ukraine is a perfect example. The press is indeed telling a biased story on the East side of things, but they’re doing the same over here. I found a fairly balanced analysis here:
www.peakprosperity.com/blog/85369/warning-ukraine-flashpoint
Ironically, this article was published on a western capitalist site, because people with money have a vested interest in knowing what’s going on beyond the bullshit propaganda stories everyone hears. Its easy to see the Russian people in the Ukraine have a right to be worried, now that an antisemitic and anti-Russian group of people have been put in charge. And yes, the west DID maneuver things that way. Yet another reason I’m not a “my country right or wrong” sort of person. The U.S. has been shitting on people all over the world for several decades now. Being an empire is SO all-consuming, don’t you know? Sigh~!
For those of us not in direct line of fire, its a little unsettling but one is not always sure how to take things.
Here’s the rub: Since the 90s, the east and west have had steadily improving relations. China and Russia have been wary friends of the U.S. and Europe. Communism fell apart and obviously doesn’t work, so they’re making forays into some controlled form of capitalism to reform their economies. However, capitalism in the massive conglomerate forms we know today, for many reasons, is also on its way out. It can’t last without plenty of resources to exploit and cheap energy to make it possible. Yet as things get tighter and tighter, the west will grip harder and harder. When stressed, people look for scapegoats– completely irrational scapegoats: Jews, Russians, Mexicans– basically ANY group of people in a country who have little economic power or population to strike back. They get picked on and blamed even though they have nothing to do with energy scarcity or dwindling resources.
But knowing that doesn’t help much when shit goes down. You can’t force people to see reason! Worse, the powers-that-be are doing their best to insure people don’t know about Peak Everything and that our way of life is disappearing. Its too late to fix the issue, we’re on our way DOWN. Telling the truth means facing loss of power, so they LIE, and the ignorant people turn on each other, completely oblivious to how screwed they are.
So we’re left with this type of situation. One that will get more and more frequent as we continue through Decline and the Age of Scarcity. In an age of scarcity, if you have something other people need, you have power. Russia has natural gas– which Europe relies on. They know they can push back. Anyone who has energy or water will have a lot of pull in the years ahead.
But this time, people have bet all their chips on getting their way and that can be a very dangerous situation. Personally, I think the Ukraine would indeed be better off if they just split down the middle and called it a day. Western Ukraine goes to Europe and Eastern to Russia. Sadly, I don’t think that solution will be reached until a lot of blood has been shed. Each side wants the whole thing or nothing.
If Russia pulls gas from delivery to Europe, there will be howling on the western side. The United States hasn’t dealt with an adversary with any real power in a long time now. I don’t think this is going to go well. The civil war in the Ukraine (which is what its quickly becoming) may just be the flashpoint, the “black swan” for the next nasty bump down.
Source: http://lucretiasheart.livejournal.com/1035398.html
