The US and allies trying to
use Ukraine as a bludgeon to subdue the world are instead hastening the demise
of their own empire of shame
By Daniel Patrick Welch
This whole Ukranian episode
of the Forever War is more and more like a caricature every day. In the first
place, it’s not a Ukranian war. We have to abandon that propaganda narrative
that we’ve been aiding and abetting. It’s not a war where “the Ukranians did
this, the Russians did this, the Ukranians, the Russians…” and on and on. That’s
not what’s happening. It is--and has always been--a proxy war of the combined
west against Russia. Absolutely every bit of that is true.
And now even the word
“proxy” is getting to be a little creaky. Because all they are using is foreign
investment in weapons: missiles that shoot farther, uranium depleted weapons.
All those things are overseen by NATO and by the US. What provides an
interesting light shone on this idea of it being j
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now have the President of Ukraine going to the Germans. To ask *The Germans* to
be the greatest provider of weapons in his fight against Russia.
Is this 1939? Is W.H. Auden
going to write about this? Is Stepan Bandera actually alive? What is this? The
trouble is that this is exactly what it is-- to replay of the end of World War
II. Which, let’s be honest—let’s be completely honest—didn’t quite end the way
the west wanted. From that space which the Nazis share. ALL the Nazis! I don’t
mean the German word “Nazi.” I mean it sounds cool, and it’s fun to say the
word, Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! But Nazi isn’t a German tradition. And they certainly
weren’t the only Nazis around!
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In fact, they shared all
that space with Bandera, with half the aristocracy of the British Empire, with
all the great titans of American corporations who were building up Hitler to
ruin Russia. This is what happens with exceptionalists, supremacists. It’s okay
to kill the people who live on the land you want to take. And you can flip Auden
either way you want from that time until now: “I and the public know./ What all
schoolchildren learn,/ Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return.”
This is what is happening.
And what is going to happen. The ending is no different. The movie is the same.
The Russians (Soviets) lost 27 million people. And it might as well have
happened yesterday. The same people are providing the same weapons to the same
people (with the details slightly tweaked). These are the Somozas! This is the
very origin of the Proxy. Older than Somoza. Older than SAVAK. Older than
settlers in South Africa—well maybe not, I don’t know. But certainly Bandera is
revered in this corner, in this northwest corner of Ukraine, for “making it free
from 1939 to 1945.”
How? By slaughtering tens of
thousands of Poles, Russians, Jews. Friends of Hitler! Friends of Hitler have
never been enemies of the United States in its policy machinations. They’re the
first ones they went to! And one of the first things they do is to demonize the
hell out of anything that has to do with those people targeted. The attack--the
slaughter—on Russian language, Russian tradition, Russian history. Is
mindblowing. So much so that Americans don’t even know how brain dead they are.
And they should. I mean, if so many of us come from Ireland, and we had to
suffer historically what the British do. Which is sell the narrative that says
Ah, the Irish are all drunks anyway. And they’re lazy. And they’re most likely
terrorists. So we just march in with Cromwell and slaughter them all. And take
that land!
So you always have the
resonance of that war, of World War II…all the wars come back and feed into each
other. What the Wolfe Tones sang in the 80’s: Cromwell’s men are here again!
England’s name again is sullied in the eyes of honest men.
And it is ridiculous to
think that you can change that. That history is just the long arm of a clock
that if you have enough necons running things and enough capitalists on your
payroll, you can stop that hand. You can move it! Guess what? You can’t.
And the Russians know it.
What are you going to do? Bring in all sorts of long range missiles? Well, we’ll
blow them up where they are. These go 300 or 400 kilometers? Then I guess that
is how far we have to push in. None of this shit is going to be a threat to
Russia. Period.
Americans? The neocons who
run things? They don’t understand that. Partly because they come out of this
tradition. The King of England! Was pro Nazi. He had to abdicate partly because
of that. Truman said Eh, if the Russians win, we’ll help the Germans, and if the
Germans win we’ll help the Russians. Today. Today, in 2023, there is a woman
sitting as an advisor to President Biden, who actually said you know what?
Hitler might have been controversial, but no one really sings his praises for
fighting communism to the death.
What is this? Its okay to be
soft on Hitler now? Then what the hell was that all for? Ah, we know. We know
what it was all for. And guess what? It had very little to do with communism.
I’m sorry. I don’t buy that. I know that that is the narrative. But it’s about
Russia—it’s not about Lenin, Stalin, or even Marx. It’s about Mackinder! It’s
about The Heartland. Abou preventing anyone from uniting that central part
of—fast-forward now--Russia and China. And that is the threat! And the irony is
that these people are so arrogant, and so full of themselves that they can’t see
that they have made that even more inevitable than time itself. Russia and China
are now joined at the hip because they know their existence depends on it.
These wars are not proxies.
These are fingers of a LONG armed puppet. They are dangerous. And they are
threats everywhere. So just like you do at a dinner party with friends you don’t
really like or trust. You nod and smile. Find the exit. And jump and run to
it—quick as you can—when it feels like you’re in danger. And—unknowingly,
apparently--that is what the west is facing. They can’t help it. It is the
demise of their control for the last five hundred years. It will yield
incredible shortages and difficulties for the hundreds of millions of us who
live under the western regime. But the party is over.
Daniel Patrick Welch is a
writer of political commentary and analysis. He lives and writes in Salem,
Massachusetts with his wife. Together they run The Greenhouse School. He has
traveled widely, speaks five languages and studied Russian History and
Literature at Harvard University. Welch has also appeared as a guest on several
TV and radio channels to speak on topics of foreign affairs and political
analysis--around his day job--and may be available as time permits.
