Armageddon and Antony Blinken

 

Recently I wrote a couple of posts about Antony Blinken's performance of "Rockin' in the Free World" in Kiev.  I argued that no matter which way you looked at it, said performance was indicative of crippling stupidity on Blinken's part.  I wrote those posts, not because I wanted to make fun of Blinken and feel superior to him.  I wrote them because Blinken is the US Secretary of State and is therefore a very powerful man.  And if we want to understand why the world is the way that it is and if we want to anticipate where the world will go as people like Blinken respond to subsequent events, it is imperative that we acknowledge the incredibly low level at which these freaks are operating.

I mean, to begin with, the proxy-war against Russia that the Ukrainians are being used for, and the genocidal Zionist campaign against the Palestinians are stupid, evil policies.  They are stupid and evil and sick and deranged because we live inside a sick system that rewards sick behaviour driven by sick, shallow, stupid people's twisted, narcissistic, sociopathic desires.  So, war with Ukraine, genocide in Palestine, neo-liberal economics, saber-rattling against China, fossil fuels expansion, micro-plastics, price-gouging, police brutality, mass media corruption, etc., ... they're all part of a system built for and maintained by sick, psychopathic imbeciles such as Antony Blinken.

Look out! He's going to shart!

And that is how we find ourselves in situations like this:

It’s damn near impossible to keep up with all the warmongering of the western empire these days.

In response to the frightening steps that NATO has been taking to allow western-supplied weapons to be used by Ukraine to strike Russian territory, Vladimir Putin warned last week that these escalations can lead to “serious consequences”. 

“This constant escalation can lead to serious consequences,” Putin said. “If these serious consequences occur in Europe, how will the US behave, bearing in mind our parity in the field of strategic weapons? Hard to say. Do they want global conflict?”

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On Friday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg dismissed Putin’s warnings, saying, “This is nothing new. It has … been the case for a long time that every time NATO allies are providing support to Ukraine, President Putin is trying to threaten us to not do that.”

This cavalier attitude toward nuclear brinkmanship that empire managers have been demonstrating lately was addressed on Monday by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, who said the US is close to making a “fatal” miscalculation. 

“I would like to caution American officials against miscalculations which may have fatal consequences. For some unknown reason, they underestimate the seriousness of the rebuff they may receive,” Ryabkov reportedly said.

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It’s important to push back against brinkmanship with Russia well before we go over the brink into nuclear war, because obviously by then it’s too late for anyone to do anything — and indeed a full-scale nuclear war between NATO and the Russian Federation could mean that nobody will ever do anything ever again. Nuclear armageddon is the one foreign policy mistake that you can’t course-correct for after you make it, so it’s extremely urgent to course-correct long before we get to that point.

The biggest risk for nuclear war isn’t that either side will knowingly choose to enter into one, but that one will be set off by miscalculation, miscommunication or technical malfunction in the chaos and confusion of soaring tensions, as nearly happened numerous times during the last cold war. The higher tensions get, the more likely such an incident becomes, and the more hair-trigger everyone’s nuclear systems will be. 

And that's the reason why I'm pointing out Blinken's enormous stupidity.  It's not just "trash talking."  Stupid people like Blinken, with their stupid beliefs and their stupid values and their stupid policies might get us all killed.  There's a tendency to see powerful people in positions of global importance as being overall intelligent people who know that they're lying and who know how hypocritical and cynical their professions of "values" are.  Some people like to see individuals like Blinken, the Clintons, Bezos, Gates, Jamie Dimon Crystia Freeland, stephen harper, ad nauseum, as basically smart, and I'm occasionally chided for underestimating them.

But I don't think that other way of looking at them provides as good an explanation for their behaviour as my way does.  I think looking at these people as the idiots that they are will help clarify how we find ourselves in the nightmare that we're in and will more effectively predict the actions of these scumbags.   (I'm reminded again of stephen "smartest man in the room" harper and the way he would crumble and then flee the country whenever his shameless, brazen lying met with the slightest challenge.)

No my friends; We live in a world of idiots.  Stupid people who come by their stupidity honestly.  They were born with it.  And they're supported by vast armies of stupid people.  From partisan hacks like the former blogger Montreal Simon (and his supervisor the detestable Jackie Blue) to the deluded, hypocritical ass-hats at Daily Kos supporting the "liberal" wing of the oligarchy, to the shit-heads in the working class who support "conservative" grifter parties led by Doug Ford, stephen harper, Poilievre, Trump, Mitch McConnell.

And, working together, they'll probably get us all killed.