Ukraine is Obviously Much More than Ukraine

And it is much more that the war between two East European countries.

The whole damn thing totally penetrated and perverted the western politics for the last eleven years, counting from 2014 Crimea. Endless propaganda and obfuscation as far as the information about the war was concerned. Endless misrepresentation of what was going on. Endless brainwashing of western public. Degrading of public discourse, demonizing, simplification, projection. You name it.

Cheesy cliches were on the march, and nothing could stop them. But all that is just the tip of the iceberg. The entire political machine in the United States pivoted on the issue, ever since the utterly corrupt and equally cynical Hillary began to explain her spectacular loss as the Russian interference.

All of the sudden the ugly head of McCarthyism rose and began to stare at us with its Medusa-like stare. Politicians began to be afraid to say what they think. Academics got bullied into silence, along with journalists, public personalities, intellectuals. Everyone felt the need to hide their greed, weakness or ignorance behind Ukrainian flag.

And then we had the spectacle of impeachments, Mueller commission, endless Congress hearings. Trump derangement syndrome. Was anyone observing and analyzing? Was anyone asking questions? Was anyone protesting? Not really.

When people in Ukraine fell silent, the reasons for that were clear. They were bullied, physically attacked, intimidated if not killed by the neo-nazis who went literally berserk, and began burning people, tying to the polls, beating, and so on.

But why did western opinion makers fell in line, and followed this nonsense for eleven years, and continue to follow it, at least as far as the Western Europe is concerned?

As an academic and intellectual, I am supposed to explain it, but I can’t. I can’t really explain why otherwise sane people all of the sudden began to act with cowardliness, stupidity, militant ignorance, self-righteousness and virtue signaling. It wasn’t fear as in Ukraine. Greed? Well, that’s fine as far as military industrial complex is concerned.

But the rest of the populace? Fear of being fired? Bullied? Silenced? Fear to be different, herd mentality? It is all very sad. Of course, history has the ability to put everything in its place. So sooner or later truth of the situation, of the sick symbiosis of the most liberal side of Democrats with the most neo-nazi side of Ukrainian society would have been studied and exposed.

But for time being, I am glad that Trump with the power vested in him, has challenged this wall of lies. Without him, it would have taken much longer. So yes, he is arbitrary, whimsical, myopic, or what have you. But at least he punctured this giant bubble, or rather, began to diagnose the rot, that has utterly disfigured western society.