Highwayman Preachers
On the selective outrage of the liberal west
Elmar Rustamov
The hypocritical moralizing of “the West” has become very irritating lately.
They complain that you, my dear Russians, are not fighting the bloody Putin regime that unleashed the war.
I would like to ask something of the European bureaucrats. Didn't you shake hands with the “bloody dictator” at summits while our comrades were beaten at rallies, arrested, imprisoned, maimed, and killed? Or did he only become a tyrant and dictator yesterday? You were consistently “expressing concern” at the time.
And you did more than just shake hands! Sweden, for example, supplied Russia for years with surveillance cameras to track the faces of “dear Russians,” Finland sold them tasers, and Germany police vans and helmets. It's business – nothing personal!
This is not surprising at all, it was simply in your class interest, and an example of the class solidarity of the bourgeoisie. Like, for example, the introduction of Russian troops in the CSTO and the brutal suppression of the workers' uprising in Kazakhstan in January 2022, which Europe and the United States not only did not condemn but even supported. The CSTO intervention in Kazakhstan, where a significant share of the property is in the hands of foreign capital, is right, good, and legal, while the war in Ukraine since February 2022 is nothing less than aggression.
French President Macron has already got it down to the fact that Europe does not even want to overthrow Putin. They want a defeated and weakened Russian president, a humiliated one who has endured proper chastisement. Nothing more. You need the eternal “threat to the world” to ease your foreign and domestic political pressures, to scare your parliaments into supporting your next military budget. Well, you didn't care much about the fate of several hundred Russian political prisoners before.
What if some independent forces were to come to power in Russia? Or, even worse, leftists, socialists, or communists? They will put the issue of property ownership on the agenda! They may reverse the predatory “privatization” that served as the basis for the current political regime in Russia.
Now that would rub them the wrong way!
The measures in Kazakhstan appear to have been preparatory steps for the war initiated by Putin a couple weeks later. The protests were most likely engineered to show an example of Russia restoring order. Who ordered the increase of the price of fuel at that time and who ordered the professionals to incite the riots at that time? For what other purpose than RF could demonstrate its willingness to restore order in the former USSR space. The EU should have protested then and protested even more when Crimea was seized in 2014.
This, however, shows what a blockhead Putin is. In 2013 Ukraine was united on the path to Europe. 72% of the parliament had approved the Association Agreement with the EU that had been negotiated with the EU by the Yanukovych government. The EU was delighted to deal with Russia. France had a contract to build Mistral assault ships for Russia. If Putin had allowed Yanukovych to sign the Association Agreement Ukraine would have remained largely under the control of Russia and the Europeans would have been even more welcoming towards Russia.
Putin, however, chose to pressure Yanukovych to abandon the Association Agreement as Winter approached in 2013 without any political preparation of the Ukrainian people and its political system. Clearly Putin had to anticipate that there would be massive public demonstrations that would destabilize Ukraine and set the stage to annex Crimea and the Donbas. Yanukovych was strongly opposed to the annexation of Crimea. His power base was also the Donbas. No Russian takeover of the Donbas would be conceivable as long as Yanukovych was in power. It appears events were organized to remove Yanukovych to create conditions for the RF to seize Crimea. This has led to the present situation.
Ultranationalism was bad for Germany in the late 1930s and is bad for Russia now. Hitler was appeased until there was a breaking point. The same with Putin.
It appears that a necessary step will be to recognize that Russia now illegally holds the seat of the former USSR in the UN Security Council. In the set of December 1991 agreements that dissolved the USSR and created the Russian Federation and other newly independent states as sovereign states the other newly independent states granted Russia the right to the seat of the former USSR in the UN Security Council. These agreements committed all newly independent states to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of each other and forbid the use of force. At that time Crimea was agreed to by Russia to be a part of Ukraine. Russia has not only violated the UN Charter but also the agreement that created it as a sovereign state by attacking Ukraine and seizing its territory. Logically, a key condition of the settlement of the war will be to exclude Russia from the seat of the former USSR in the Security Council that it now illegally occupies.
That's due to the USA gov't who also tells NATO what to do. Germany wouldn't give lying Joe Biden any weapons to fight his proxy war on Russia using Ukrainian lives as fodder. So, in retaliation, he blew up Nordstream so all Europe could suffer without fuel. Who do you think tells Mr. Z "no" to peace talks? The American people hate lying Joe & his criminal & corrupt family & his criminal & corrupt government running American into destruction. He can't even run the USA & let's those who don't agree with him to suffer & die. You think he cares about the 300,000 lives killed, wounded or missing? NO! The USA is NATO that bullies every Western country telling them what to do. Even small non-western countries. But he's so full of greed, he doesn't realize no American believes him or reads his MSM propaganda B.S. lies unless they're idiots, but we have a lot of those & a lot of warmongers. Lying Blinken, warmonger turd Lindsey Graham. Look at the French who hate Macron & Trudeau in Canada and the UK has gone through 3 premiers in less than a year. Biden is nothing without the Western countries who are fools & think they need him. But look what he did to Nordstream allowing Europe to suffer and Germany to fight for their survival & the Arabs were sick of his bullying & rudeness. Many American people are with you & sympathize with you. We know the US lied & betrayed you since Clinton. You are only trying to protect your borders. And no, we know you only want Ukraine & are not trying to destroy Europe & NATO (lying Joe) only tries to use fear. But he did that with Co-Vid & people are dying from the shot that we now know him for what he is. A liar, full of greed, who doesn't care about human lives. The US is broke, & the Western countries are fools who think he has the support of the American people. We don't have a never-ending supply of money & our own weapons are depleted & our military left when they allowed drag queens. We hate them all. He has weapon & nuclear facilities everywhere, but he needs to be taught a lesson & so do all the West. Loss of goods & money will deter the Western countries to wake up their people. No one wants war except for our leaders & ignorant military. We pray for your victory. (And I don't care if you're a fake CIA, FBI, or NSA tool. You're stupid & fools if you are following your criminal leader lying & corrupt leader ruining American. And if you are, shame on you for betraying your oath to God & the American people & our country.