From what I have gleaned from people who have studied history of genocide –its application and nuances—there seems to be a pattern. Nation-states, governments seeking legitimacy, more power and identity, seem able and determined to shape themselves by the destruction of a collective others. If the scholars are right we will see more illogical wars—designed with elaborate excuses for the grasp of control by the leader of such states. Laws cannot stop them, nor any god, nor sanctions.
We all heard him.
His is a matter-of-fact- tone, articulate with none of his obsessions seeping through. But for people who don’t understand the syntax of war and warfare, by “ I decided to conduct a special military operation” could mean anything from a special military parade to a benign staging along the Ukrainan borders and not Cruise and Ballistic missiles crashing on airfields, military depots in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro. Not a full-blown war blamed on the conscience of the regime ruling on the territory of Ukraine.
We all could use a little sensitivity in times of war
It could be shame or the aristocrat’s deft will for aloofness or arrogance, I don’t know which is it. But in all it is a vapid vanity to standardize the spelled out languages of genocide and terror, to make it less intimate and impersonal. To call it a military expedition without fully outlining it’s inane boxed-in goals—Pillage to protect, Invade to Secure, Kill Ukrainians to save ‘former’ Ukrainians—insults the crass nature of wars by manipulating the law; extrapolating lawful origins from favorable charters —"Donbas People asked for help from Russia. In this regard, according to Article 51 part 7 of the United Nations charter with the consent of the Russian Federation Council and in accordance with the ratified agreement on 22 February of this year on friendship and mutual aid with Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic, I decided to conduct a special military operation.
But even in mid sentence we can hear the mask. “Demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine?” We listen again and again to sift through the fuzzy details and we see right through him…
… Recognizing the independence of the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk, was a convenient excuse to wriggle out of the 2015 Minsk peace agreement and to invade, abuse, and shame the sovereignty of a state. And of course every Fascist in the east will disagree with an aristocrat’s indifference without deigning to give us an argument but we know that they are thinking it:
Medvedev and Putin knows how the world works. Sovereignty of the Ukrainians shouldn’t place a dagger on Russia's throat. Mother Russia.
Stealthily waging the cold war all these years and knowing just when to show full strength that brings fervent clarity on the matter.
NATO will deny for as long as it takes to feign incredulity and pontificate diplomatic measures of a war they’d perpetuated.
Using Georgia and Ukraine like this?
Disrespecting Russia like that?
And we understand. At some point. There are two sides of every story after all.
Was it not why many of us recanted righteously, conflated facts, fictions, and auto-suggestions to build a schism of no consequence on Facebook and Insta, resurrected Saddam Hussein on blog articles, took up twittering and asked evil NATO to return the looted gold and treasures of Libya.
But the rest of us argue with war sounds because we know we can never convince them either—like the owners of those sounds—we are all properties of hardcore men. Prepaid with arrogance, the flow harmony of caste systems, blatant aspirations of imperialism, and assurances from nuclear bombs.
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