East or West, Liberal or Conservative, Communist or Capitalist, Red,
White, Green or whatever, all sensible and compassionate people ought to salute
the Russians these days for having successfully delivered essential
humanitarian supplies to people who desperately need them, but do not get them
otherwise. Those who are not compassionate and hate the Russians, but still
have enough sense in their heads to adhere to the rules of sensible behavior,
should be expected to give a grudging nod, or at the very worst to stay neutral.
What kind of scum would say that delivering water, baby food, bandages, and
such, to children, women and the elderly, who are being bombed by certifiable
thugs on a daily basis, is not an unconditionally
commendable endeavor?
And yet…
I have seen a lot of stupidity in my experience with great power
politics, but the latest one seems to take the cake. Some very authoritative
politicians of some unquestionably great nations have rushed to declare this humanitarian
relief an unlawful act, an invasion of a sovereign country. There are many
other insane things said about it, but I trust my readers to read the news (even
if it makes them sick), and to be able to separate the facts from irresponsible
fiction. So, I shall forgo the sordid details and crazy insinuations, in order
to stick to one point only. And this point is important enough to stick to, by
itself.
A Russian invasion, my foot! What would they call a real Russian military
invasion, or don’t they understand the difference? Too much name-calling desensitizes
the public, which may become so cynical about the efforts to pass off chaff as
wheat, that it will soon start throwing out their politicians’ wheat together
with the chaff…
And when they start doing it, with other types of domestic and foreign
backlash following, the end result may prove far more hurtful to the great power
verbal fencers than any kind of actual
fencing, any kind of what these days is casually labeled as terrorism.
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