Today’s resolution that the UN made about supporting Ukraine is being celebrated as “a big moral victory” (direct quote from Russia’s official representative at the UN). A victory for Russia, in case you didn’t get it.
You see? That’s positive thinking at work. I mean, if everybody unanimously voted against Russia, that would be one thing, but with a few supporters and a bunch of abstentions, Russia can snatch victory from the jaws of progressive humanity and exclaim triumphantly, “You guys can’t even reach an agreement if it’s OK for us to invade people. So we win!”
And they are right, too.
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This is a very old tactic (frequently used by W Bush). Take whatever reaction you get and declare victory and go ahead with whatever you want to do (as far as the reaction doesn’t actually prohibit it).
It’s often very effective and I’m sorry that the Russian government is picking up on it more quickly than those whose policies are not reprehensible.
Also, I think the general ineffective and non-reactions of the West to the Crimean debacle have taken Russia by surprise. I think they were expecting far more opposition and are now temporarily regrouping on how to take advantage of Obama’s and the EU’s fecklessness.
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“Also, I think the general ineffective and non-reactions of the West to the Crimean debacle have taken Russia by surprise. I think they were expecting far more opposition and are now temporarily regrouping on how to take advantage of Obama’s and the EU’s fecklessness.”
– Yes. Yes, I agree. There is a definite, “Wow, was this supposed to be that easy?” feel to the official Russian newscasts on this subject.
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Sorry, my reactions are all bad and these kinds of things make them wronger than ever because I get into a mindset that everything is an outrageous farce. Therefore I do not take anything seriously and behave like the donkey’s but-tocks. But I have been increasingly disappointed for many years by the prevailing quality of ignorance just about everywhere. As Marechera says, rewriting (I think it is) Voltaire, the savage that went abroad would be faced with the most extreme cerebral shocks that he would likely return to his homeland with an altogether shocking notion of “civilisation” and what it entailed.
So, please excuse me and my lack of appropriate seriousness and generally bad attitude all ’round.
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