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Morgoth's avatar

Somebody has restacked my essay with this huffy commentary. The substance of this comment I have no response to because I never made the claim that Ukraine had no choice but to fight. I absolutely understand that they have to fight. The purpose of the essay was to place the conflict into a wider context of civilizational Winter and decline.

''Since Morgoth does not have the minimal courage to let his replies open unless you give him money, which won’t happen…

Ukrainians do NOT have a choice. The threat of transsexuality and gayness is REMOTE. There will never, ever be a comparison between being a vassal to a power thousands of miles away, like the US, to being absorbed by the nearby empire and ethnically cleansed - as that is what Russia is doing through “denazification” - it erases ethnic, nationalist conscience from the Ukrainian mind.

Ukraine does NOT have a choice, because it is small and poor, and only ONE entity on the entire planet, the US/NATO, is willing to provide it with weapons to remain in the fight.

You think that paying lip service to Sarah Ashton Cirrillo or whatever his name, or doing the bare minimum so the shitlibs in DC have something to show to people moaning they are funding Nazis is such a bad thing?

What’s the alternative, Morgoth? Other than allowing the country to be engulfed by the neo-Russian Empire?

You should know better than most that this is a very simple struggle for power over land and resources. Traditions, ideologies and more are for the plebe to consume. What matters is who owns the goods.

Remember, Ukraine has no other choices. Only one entity will help it. And it has to compromise with that entity, which is corrupt and decaying, yes. But survival is a binary thing. Either you survive, and yes you will likely change, or you succumb, and there won’t be a YOU any longer to worry about transsexuals and Pride parades.

Cheers.''

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Susanne C.'s avatar

This is a beautifully written piece, and it really delineates why “taking sides” in the war is such a ridiculous thing to do. People who can’t find Ukraine on a map or have the slightest notion of why Russia might not want to be surrounded by NATO countries paint their cars yellow and blue and plant Ukrainian flags in their yards. And while Putin may talk about the moral degeneracy of the West he has not, with all his many years of power and wealth, done very much for his beloved country. The degenerate West is sitting with their knives in the conflict, looking to make money out of it both now and later.

I’ve always been a Russophile, without a drop of Slavic blood their history and literature fascinate me. My first two children are named after the ill fated and not very bright nor good last tsar and tsarina of Russia, now orthodox martyrs. I want to see Russia win but because I want to see the US humiliated. I am ashamed of our part in prolonging the hostilities rather than allowing someone else to broker a peace. We seem to want to destroy Putin not because he invaded a sovereign nation, a novelty position for Ukraine historically, but because he doesn’t like homosexuals and probably really hates trannies. Foreign policy has definitely fallen from grace.

Your position is the correct one, we no longer inhabit a world in which war can have meaning large or small beyond furthering the business as usual model of the West while the elite cull the ever crumbling bits of nationalism and grind them finer. The pictures accompanying the piece are pitch perfect and terrifying. This is the landscape we all inhabit metaphysically now and regardless of how post post post Christian we become metaphysics are real and man was not meant to live this way.

So much in this one, and the WWI references are heartbreaking. Really thought provoking, thank you.

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