PUTIN'S UKRAINE PLAY, AND AMERICA'S SHAME

This blog site is 12+ years old from 2009 with President Obama's first term. The focus has been eclectic though focusing on national affairs and culture, and occasionally discussing new technologies. Sometimes Perilces21's observations receive a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains honed and unblunted as a sharp eye is always kept on the ways and directions of American politics and culture.

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(This post is based on Pericles21's  response to Umair Haque’s Feb 22, 2022, MEDIUM piece on Russian Leader Putin’s putative designs for global Russian dominance ala Hitler’s Third Reich.)

I agree with Mr. Haque’s thesis that there has been a ‘Putin Plan’ perhaps since, but more generically before the 1989-91 “fall’ of the USSR. But, I personally feel that Fall was an artificial orchestration by the Communist Party to boost their embrace of the Marx-Engels “Dialectic Theory of Political Evolution” , i.e., their impatience with achieving a perfect communist state (e.g., Gorbachev's 1980s failed experiment with democracy, or at least some of its features, i.e., Glastnos and Perestroika). The complete script accompanying that hypothetically orchestrated collapse also required the formal structure of the Party to disappear from the public political stage, leaving a shadow 'party' chaperoned by the ever-existent Russian communist secret police, the KGB, now publicly cloaked in name as the FSB, the Russian Federal Security Service, whose membership continued from the KGB and piloted by Vladimir Putin. 

According to Pericles21's thinking, after 1989 (with the fall of the West-East German Berlin Wall), the Russian Communist Party went into a cloaked, public 'hibernation' while the international Soviet Communist Movement (Comintern) was nursed, guardianed and guided by a dialectic-scripted experiment with a kind of neo-democracy (Boris Yeltsin) capped in 1996 with the return of the KGB (now FSB) under the direction of the well-honed KGB wunderkind, and veteran (since 1975), Vladimir Putin , who became the Communist Party's "show operative" and who is currently directing Russia's Ukraine Operation (the March, 2022 invasion).  [This shadow-play is explained in a series of interviews on Putin and his Russian political roots given by Masha Gessen a Moscow-born writer for the New Yorker:  (Masha Gessen: The West Is “Insane” for Thinking Sanctions Will Deter Putin | Amanpour and Company;  The Putin Files: Masha Gessen)

But, the Comintern neither slept nor vacationed under Putin! In recent years, the Putin ‘plan’ seems to have been taken from the domestic and international strategies resembling the milestones in the Hitlerian scenario from agitator to indictment and prison, through a MAGA-like Brown Shirt alliance and on to revival and 1945. 

As the second act of the Russian-Marxist dialectic, the Putin Plan appears to have featured the center-stage, puppet-role played by the narcissistic Donald Trump who was boosted to the American presidency by Soviet operations that took advantage of rumored ‘kompromat’ on Trump, and leveraged by Trump’s self-frustrations to achieve his grandiose business empire dreams…and resultant debt, and cyber machinations that exploited America’s own self-absorbed, commodifying kultur characterized by a collective monster in the form of a few social media giants, eg, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others. And the ‘Putin Plan’ has been accelerating from the first stage to ‘capture’ America — Trump kept by his bed Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” which he read before sleeping. Who directed Trump to read Mein Kampf when Trump dislikes reading and from first-hand reports from ex-White House aides, he doesn’t have the focus, interest, nor attention span to read serious books. But it seemed from Trump’s rhetoric and use of grandiose slogans he was mimicking and idolizing Hitler, as well as displaying a puzzling but unvarying predilection to schmooze current autocrats…even ‘declaring’ a love relationship with the comical but dangerous North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. Also, there is the questionable and subordinate relationship Trump, even with presidential powers and protection, has had with Putin who appeared to be in control of Trump-potus — even to the point where Trump visibly cowered in Putin’s presence, a quite odd picture for an American president. (Obama stared Putin down.) Third, on January 6, 2021, Trump attempted an American Putsch which incorporated the ‘I-ate-the-whole-thing’ buy-in of pro-Soviet (pro-Putin) propaganda by Trump and his supporters (Republican Partiers and MAGA persons). What is going on? Seems America has, by a vicious agency, been split not just along political party lines but more globally along lines separating its own people into pro-American vs pro-Russian support… when probably a significant portion of Trump’s supporters can’t name Russia’s capitol or even place a finger on Russia in a world map. All of this says that Russia has won a propaganda ‘battle’ to win the brains of a substantial portion of Americans, maybe 90+% of conservative Americans. Meanwhile in ‘HERE-time’ America and its allies watch Putin run amok over Ukraine like a sated Manhattan crowd idly watching a street rape evolve then happen, all the while remaining uninvolved except to offer the victim a handkerchief during the act and perhaps a band-aid after.

[Refs.:  Masha Gessen: The West Is “Insane” for Thinking Sanctions Will Deter Putin | Amanpour and Company, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxJxfSCMvnE;  The Putin Files: Masha Gessen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk9igTqTx9s]

Trumpian Times: EyeBall Deep in DT's Dialectic Doo Doo ('You Don't know What You Got 'Till It's Gone)

This is a post-in-progress. Stay tuned.

PREFACE:
This blog began in 2009 and was somewhat consistently added to through today, 2017. What a ride it's been since election day 2016! And what a difference from the transition from Presidents Bush II to Obama - a transition that was carried out with mutual self-discipline and regard, and above all, a concern for America's continuity and peace. (Bush 2 is to be congratulated for his decency with which he conducted himself through that smooth transition).

But this transition, the 'Trumpian Tribulations', is a different show - this is a taking of America by force, an occupation by a foreign enemy (in several ways, morally and what looks to be a true coup assisted by a foreign enemy state, Russia)...but no one seems to have the guts to do anything serious about it.

It is also a macabre sign of this transition that so many of this blogger's acquaintances are so deeply affected (shocked, traumatized, mind-zonked ..) by the barbaric and crude disrespect, and unmerciful willy-nilly viciousness and ruination-by-trampling as DT and his gang of troglodytes have raped, pillaged, decimated and 'sold into bondage' sensitive and secure federal government apparatus. (Though all in character for DT, one supposes.)

'Oh, Hillary, Sanders, Stein, Johnson, Brazille, Wasserman-Schultz...what were you thinking? And all you lib-progressives who with miffed, kindergarten egos sat this one out and did not vote at all...well, this is what you (and we all) get. What a price to pay for lib-progressives to be educated for future campaigns.

But what fascinates one most is how the perpetrator (once again our 'DT', 'OBP'(Orange Big Pimp'n), OG (Original Gonzo) so easily (and often) has gotten away with flaunting American standards no POTUS has ever violated ...with only feeble complaints like American Tradition is a sweet deer-fawn being done with by a hyena mauling and eating it live while it simply lays there in wide eyed shock.

One has to wonder why (if one cares)if this 'stick up' is so easy, why no POTUS in one's reading hasn’t done the same previously in America's short history.? One explanation must be that regardless of Party, every modern POTUS except this One has had a basic respect set for the office, the country and humanity, that create built-in borders of some decency.

And, this job is not easy. Every modern POTUS has quickly shown signs of mental exertion trying to seriously juggle and manage America's complexities. Struggled to find the right way.

But THIS ONE makes it look easy because he is unaware of traditions (like the Constitution of the United States), has no behavioral boundaries and knows very little of the significance of the job except for a one-sided misconception that the Presidency is just a job description of something that should be simple because 'obviously' being President means automatic exemption from all laws and the ultimate freedom to do what one wants - like 'grabbing America by the 'Shorts'.

In other words, being POTUS is a simpleton's dream come true - the ultimate freedom to rule like an emperor or a kid in a candy shop. Or, it should be..and if it isn't. then all one has to do is whine, wscrean, threaten and pull any other kind of nasty tricks a man-child can manage or dream up. And, 'regarde', they all fall down ...especially if man-child occasionally throws in a brief second of adult-mimicry that makes them all (mostly) swoon with relief at the prospect that man-child has finally grown up. Only it's all just one more joke on us.

The conflicts of interest and monetizing of the Presidency for private gain is appalling! And the family altogether seem a gang of rug merchants parking their camels on the front lawn and pissing in the corners of the Oval Office. Sorry.