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nebrisIn Every Single Narrative regarding the Ukraine Crisis I have read and/or heard, there is a Single Fundamental Flaw that runs through all of them; the need to advance a moral and philosophical justification for the side the various authors support. In other words, to portray one side as the 'good guys' and the other as the 'bad guys'.
But here's the problem, kids; there are NO Good Guys here. They're ALL Bad Guys. The regimes in Moscow and Kyiv are both post-Soviet kleptocracies, brutal, greedy and criminal in nature. The thugs in the Eastern Ukraine 'people's republics' are no better and probably worse.
The Ukraine Crisis is really a 'turf war' between political gangs. All the rhetoric about 'self determination' and/or 'national sovereignty' is pure propaganda. Those supporting or opposing one side or the other are either being deluded or are merely using this debacle to grind their own tangentially related axes.
This is The Bloodlands. There are no good guys here. Just gangsters and warlords of various flavors [ideological, nationalistic, etc] and the poor bastards caught in the middle. And no, there is not a fucking thing you can do about that.
But here's the problem, kids; there are NO Good Guys here. They're ALL Bad Guys. The regimes in Moscow and Kyiv are both post-Soviet kleptocracies, brutal, greedy and criminal in nature. The thugs in the Eastern Ukraine 'people's republics' are no better and probably worse.
The Ukraine Crisis is really a 'turf war' between political gangs. All the rhetoric about 'self determination' and/or 'national sovereignty' is pure propaganda. Those supporting or opposing one side or the other are either being deluded or are merely using this debacle to grind their own tangentially related axes.
This is The Bloodlands. There are no good guys here. Just gangsters and warlords of various flavors [ideological, nationalistic, etc] and the poor bastards caught in the middle. And no, there is not a fucking thing you can do about that.
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Date: 2015-02-15 04:23 am (UTC)