Is Europe About to Pay The Cost Of Ignorance?

 

Yeah, yeah, yeah Putin is a remorseless murdering thug. Not the first in Russian history and probably not the last either.

But... Where do the western powers get the arrogance to think that they can reimpose on Russia the borders and conditions of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk wherein Ukraine was to be nominally free but in reality an occupied German protectorate.

Russia is not the one prostrate under the conditions of still unsettled revolutionary chaos as it was in early 1918. In fact it is the west not Russia that is on the verge of a self imposed chaos and social unrest. Conditions that will only get worse as the fall temperatures fall into the cold of winter. Somehow I don't think global warming will save them.

At this point ignorance of their own history is the west's failure and weakness. Now come the repercussions. Got any extra f

 firewood? If you do you might become rich.

The Incompetence Part 2

 In the previous post I talked about the danger of a rail strike interrupting chlorine deliveries to water processing facilities. Well that appears to be prevented for the time being, at least till after the election.

Today we'll get get really serious.CO2 shortages disrupting ber production! Most of the CO2 used in the carbonization of beer and soft drinks comes from a huge underground reservoir created by an extinct volcano in Mississippi.

Well at present the suppliers are finding contamination in the gas they're pumping out of the reservoir and having difficulty separating it out from the desired CO2. 

Smaller brewers are finding deliveries either cut of completely or so reduced as to make it impossible to stay in business. Larger brewers are paying 3 to 4 times as much for supplies.

High food prices, high gas prices, soaring mortgage rates and now the possibility of no beer at the supermarket. 

Whatever the cause of the problem nothing is going to piss off "Joe Six Pack" more than not being able to afford or even get his favorite six pack. 

Three guesses who he will blame and the first two don't count. Biden has been able to suppress rising gas prices by emptying the National Petroleum Reserve but I've never heard of anything called The National CO2 Reserve.

The Incompetence Just Grows Like Fungus On A Rotted Log

 Just wait for all the "boil your water" orders start coming down in every community in the country. The fact is there isn't a single water purification system in this nation that isn't dependent on regular deliveries by rail of chlorine. No chlorine, no clean water. Smaller communities to get their deliveries by truck. But those trucks all get filled at rail hubs. And they're simply are not enough specialized chlorine tank trailers to demands of large municipalities. And don't count on the Biden administration to have the guts to challenge their Union pals by sending the National guard or the Army to operate the trains and make sure such needed commodities are delivered.

German Idiocy.

The German foreign minister has told Putin to withdraw from Ukraine. What? Does this moron think the 1917 treaty of Brest-Litovsk is still in effect? What is Germany going to do if they don't? Invade Russia for a third time?

Ignoring History's Lessons

 When there is a hostile group of people within a society who have openly declared that another group within that same society is their enemy and that their unilateral declaration gives them the authority to kill you and destroy your way of life and there is no agency of the government created by that society as a whole that they have not corrupted to their purposes that is willing to intervene, what choice do you have but to defend yourself?

There are four important and immutable lessons of history that these leftist would have the world ignore.

1. Public opinion on issues is a pendulum and must be allowed to freely swing back and forth in it's natural arc. It's only restraints being common recognition of equal rights to personal self-direction and reasonable laws created in the course of open and public debate.

But when one side has seized that pendulum in defiance of those restraints and pulls it too far in it's desired direction and ignores it's natural desire to return to center then  those natural forces pulling it back can and will only grow stronger and weightier.

2. This is evidenced by the fact that history has proven that you can't kill an idea and even trying to do so only strengthens it and adds yet more weight and counterforce to the aforementioned pendulum.

3. People have an innate desire to be free. To be left alone to raise their families among other family and like minded people, free of government telling them what to do, how to do it, when to do it and extorting taxes from them that are used to create instruments of state that are used to force them to comply against their will.

If these leftists hate the MAGA movement they had best look in the mirror. For it is a movement born out of their hubris in violating of these immutable historical precedents.

This of course brings us to rule number 4. Such hubris and arrogance in destroying and suppressing the rights of others who simply want to be left alone can and will explode into resistance and then violence that will  go far beyond any of their imaginations of control.

Imperialists and socialists of every stripe have tried over and over across the centuries and each successive attempt becomes shorter and shorter as the will and the technology to subvert them grown larger and more accessible. But then that's another lesson of history isn't it?

German Greens Sacrifice Their Own To Ukraine

The German Green Party finance minister has openly declared that she will continue to provide whatever support Ukraine needs regardless of what German voters might say or want. Giving historical perspective this is simply one fascist showing loyalty to other fascists.

When Lenin surrendered to Germany during WWI Ukraine was by treaty designated as a German Protectorate. (An occupied colonial territory). After the German surrender in 1918 Ukraine was reverted to Moscow's nominal control and the Ukrainians flocked to the White army fighting the Reds. Not because the wanted the Czar back but because they wanted to be free from Moscow's control. For their "disloyalty" Stalin slaughtered some 8 million Ukrainians in the Holodomor.

When the Germans once again invaded Russia in 1941 over 250,000 Ukrainians joined the German Whermacht directly and additional all Ukrainian units fought on the German side. Tens of thousands more gladly joined the German administrative operations in the occupied territories including becoming concentration camp guards and aiding the Einsatzgruppen that were tasked specifically to hunt down and kill Jews and later Russian partisans.

After the German surrender in 1945 Ukrainian fascist resistance groups continued to conduct active guerilla warfare against the Russians (particularly in western Ukraine) until 1950. 

As a result Stalin slaughtered tens of thousands more and continued the deportation of the populations of entire towns and regions to Siberia where to this day their descendants are prohibited from returning to Ukraine.

In short this conflict and its attendant hatreds and paranoias goes back over 1000 years. And today many Russians see the Ukrainian's indiscriminate shelling of ethnic Russians in the Donbas and western, particularly German and Polish support for Ukraine as an historical extension of German/Western Slavs vs Russian (Eastern Slavs) conflicts going back as far as the Polish-Lithueanian Kingdom and the even earlier wars with the Teutonic Knights.