In total $ amount, the US support of Ukraine is somewhat lower than that provided by Europe.* If we look at numbers relative to the GDP, it’s significantly lower. It’s a lie that Europe isn’t doing its part.
Of course, when you compare what, say, Denmark does in total numbers, it’s enormously less than what the US does. But in relative terms, Denmark us going all out, and thank you, Denmark, for it.
Thank you, everybody, and absolutely thank you, the United States. I’m only saying all this because the pouty lie that Europe is not doing anything and letting the US carry the brunt of the aid is cropping up again. It’s invented by people who want to drive a wedge between two pillars of the Western civilization. They are not friends of said civilization.
By the way, there are reports that Cuba traps young men and sends them to Russia to fight. I wonder why, instead of bickering among ourselves so unnecessarily, we don’t pay attention to what’s happening in Latin America. They are part of the Western civilization but they aren’t being helpful at all. They are entertaining themselves by murdering presidential candidates and being complete assholes about Ukraine. (Except the Colombian writer Héctor Abad Falcolince and dissident Venezuelans who have been an absolute ray of sunshine. Thank you, Venezuelans and señor Abad Falcolince).
Why don’t we hold Latin America up to the same standard we hold each other? Why bitch about Europe not pulling its weight (which it totally does) and not look at the people who are really failing? Why do we automatically expect so much more from the tiny Estonia than the large Mexico? Estonia, by the way, always delivers in spades. And Mexico never does. And I don’t mean just about Ukraine. I mean about everything. When was the last time Estonia produced a transnational criminal organization that murders presidential candidates on another continent on a whim?
And please don’t say that Estonia is more threatened by Russia than Latin America. Look at Cuba, look at Venezuela. Latin America is threatened all right but it can’t get its head out of its anal cavity and start doing something about it.
Latin America is not inferior. It’s part of the Western civilization and not some utterly invented “global South”. It’s just spoiled rotten and that needs to stop.
But everybody in Europe and North America is doing great and really coming through. As always.
* When I say “Europe”, I take the aid offered by individual European countries and the institutions of the EU.
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“Latin America is not inferior. It’s part of the Western civilization and not some utterly invented “global South”. It’s just spoiled rotten and that needs to stop. ”
Latin America is a gigantic mess. Ecuador has been taken over by the mafia and are having serious internal problems, Venezuela is aligned with Russia, Colombia has serious internal problems, Argentina is on the brink of economic collapse, Brasil also has serious internal problems, Mexico is also a gigantic mess, you see the pattern? These countries simply do not have the bandwidth to look externally, much less get involved in a war that has near no effect on them.
The only country that can probably do more is Chile and they seem to have come strongly against Russia:
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/19613
Whatever you say about Cuba, they have political stability and continuity which affords them the opportunity for foreign interventionism. That does not apply to much of the rest of Latin America.
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Whose fault is it that Latin America is a mess? Look at India, sending a spacecraft to the Moon. These are people who are trying to be in control of their own destiny. Latin Americans, in the meantime, are still whining about colonialism that ended by the 1820s.
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A fantastic, fantastic text by a Ukrainian philosopher about the concepts of Sovereignty, Independence and Freedom.
Незалежність, самостійність та свобода. Суб’єктивні роздуми
by
СЕРГІЙ ДАЦЮК
Філософ
https://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/datsuk/64e5ea0f769d6/
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I have very tender feelings for Дацюк but he has neoliberalism of the brain. And this is his most neoliberal text.
Neoliberalism is very exhilarating, deeply enjoyable but it’s rooted in a fantasy.
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Do you mean his ideal of freedom?
Btw, I was surprised that even a philosopher feels need (forced?) to write росія with a lowercase letter, while Україна, ЄС and НАТО are written in a correct fashion, grammar-wise.
What about his poems?
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СЕРГІЙ ДАЦЮК is also a poet. See here:
https://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/datsuk/
My two favorites:
Україна – то джаз-банда (mentioned in the past here)
and
Любов, ненависть і лють
https://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/datsuk/64b3601b0c415/
Рим і Карфаген was also nice
Мистецтво уяви was kind of too long for me, especially since I have to use Google translate on some words in every line. But the topic of imagination is potentially interesting.
If you read, will love to hear your impressions.
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