Bari, I would like to thank you, and your contributors, for keeping on writing about the current events in Ukraine. I am appalled that after all promises of "never again" the world not only allows this horror to happen, but the "enlightened" western nations keep financially supporting the Russian military machine by buying their oil and …
Bari, I would like to thank you, and your contributors, for keeping on writing about the current events in Ukraine. I am appalled that after all promises of "never again" the world not only allows this horror to happen, but the "enlightened" western nations keep financially supporting the Russian military machine by buying their oil and gas. The current sanctions are half-hearted and don't make enough of a difference. That the West still did not start supplying Ukraine with heavy weapons that they need in order to take back their territory and free their people from this horror is something I can't wrap my head around. Every day that goes by means more killings, more rape, more torture, and more suffering. I know that it's too easy to shrug our shoulders and ignore this horrific tragedy. But we need to keep shouting from the rooftops about the atrocities that are being perpetrated at this very moment, and do everything each of us can to put a stop to them, as quickly as we can. I want to add that as someone whose native language is Russian and who grew up on Russian culture, I cannot wrap my head around the evil insanity that is currently gripping the Russian community. I can read their newspapers and opinions and watch their videos, and they make me sick to my stomach. I thought this mass insanity only happened to germans in WWII or in Orwell's books. How can people with whom I share my culture, and whom I thought I knew and understood well, behave in this way is something I can't grasp. For those who can read Russian or can get an English translation here is an example of a typical drivel (in a government newspaper): https://ria.ru/20220403/ukraina-1781469605.html
The condition of modern Russia, is I believe, the legacy of revolution and Bolshevism. Seventy-plus years of "scientific socialism" destroyed Russian civil society. Nothing was allowed to exist outside the party-state. Thus when the party-state fell there was nothing to replace it. That's why today Russia has Putinism, a kind of shambling, zombie-like shadow of Stalinism.
Bari, I would like to thank you, and your contributors, for keeping on writing about the current events in Ukraine. I am appalled that after all promises of "never again" the world not only allows this horror to happen, but the "enlightened" western nations keep financially supporting the Russian military machine by buying their oil and gas. The current sanctions are half-hearted and don't make enough of a difference. That the West still did not start supplying Ukraine with heavy weapons that they need in order to take back their territory and free their people from this horror is something I can't wrap my head around. Every day that goes by means more killings, more rape, more torture, and more suffering. I know that it's too easy to shrug our shoulders and ignore this horrific tragedy. But we need to keep shouting from the rooftops about the atrocities that are being perpetrated at this very moment, and do everything each of us can to put a stop to them, as quickly as we can. I want to add that as someone whose native language is Russian and who grew up on Russian culture, I cannot wrap my head around the evil insanity that is currently gripping the Russian community. I can read their newspapers and opinions and watch their videos, and they make me sick to my stomach. I thought this mass insanity only happened to germans in WWII or in Orwell's books. How can people with whom I share my culture, and whom I thought I knew and understood well, behave in this way is something I can't grasp. For those who can read Russian or can get an English translation here is an example of a typical drivel (in a government newspaper): https://ria.ru/20220403/ukraina-1781469605.html
The condition of modern Russia, is I believe, the legacy of revolution and Bolshevism. Seventy-plus years of "scientific socialism" destroyed Russian civil society. Nothing was allowed to exist outside the party-state. Thus when the party-state fell there was nothing to replace it. That's why today Russia has Putinism, a kind of shambling, zombie-like shadow of Stalinism.
Marxist 'woke' is the lipstick on a pig called Totalitarian Finance.