Disputin' Putin
By ice rivers
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The motivation of Putin's desire to devour Ukraine regardless of cost is perfectly self-evident. The desire is evident to Putin himself and nobody else. It's all about the political geography of boundaries.
What are boundaries?
According to Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary, a "boundary is
an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other."
No imaginary lines had been concocted in the twenty first century until Putin putzed along and grabbed Crimea. When it happened we realized that stealing Crimea was a crime but we ignored....that is our media ignored the story. Most recently, Putin has imagined a new set of lines based on his "annexation" of people and property in the Ukraine.
The new lines are imaginary of course but the people and the property are real. Ya know what else is real? The deaths on both sides caused by Putin's self-evident imagination. Ya know what else? The billions of dollars that the US has sent to Ukraine as well as the weapons that are being used to rectify imaginary boundaries while inflicting more non-imaginary carnage.
Putin delineated the latest imaginary boundaries a few days ago and promised that he would defend these boundaries at all costs including nuclear devastation. Yesterday, the Ukes crossed that boundary. What's gonna become self-evident to Putin next?
Meanwhile diplomats representing the United States and Russia have been practicing the art of lying to one another in hopes of backing off from the brink.
We are encouraged when we hear rumors of revolt and insurrection in Russia which is likely to produce an unsuccessful revolution that will replace misrule with less imaginative governmental chaos.
The situation is grave. Gravity is at work, so is motion and emotion.
What me worry?
I'm gonna grab a Xanax and go to the movies.
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Personally I would try to find out where the nearest nuke to me
will fall (probably Nato HQ, Brussels), catch the last train and wait for it outside the buiIding --- don't think I'd be alone.
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Putin's moving boundaries
Putin's moving boundaries have certainly caused an awful lot of misery in the region, to Ukraine in particular, but also for Russia and its people!
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