CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE

 In the flood tide of ruin and assimilation with the Caliphate it may soon be time for Central Europe to turn its face back to the East and renounce the West. It's hard to believe that the course of civilization would have reached such a dismal fork in the road in just 25 years. Poland and Hungary will soon find that they have less and less in common with France and Germany and nothing in common with the Low Countries or Scandinavia.

How in the world did a union of European countries come to the conclusion that they must fine and punish each other for failing to destroy themselves at the given time and speed agreed to by France and Germany? For the countries that were always caught in the middle it must seem like time always stands still and they are always faced with the German demands for control and submission or the Russian eagles of tyranny and despair.

People like to revise history and they all seem to think they can get away with it somehow and I'm not sure how that works. The history is written and the books were published and the history books will always be out there. It is true that those who own and control the internet can fake out and fool the stupid ones that get all their information from untrustworthy sources but the facts remain as they always have. Russia never sought to conquer and pillage the European powers to the extent that the Great Powers did. Russia largely wanted to be left alone and short of invading it Russia refrained from making any impacts at all on the main European stage and generally responded to attacks as and when attacked.

I look at the current idiocy in Ukraine and just wonder, who did they think was running Russia when they decided to just kill and displace Russians living in former parts of the Russian SSR? It would not have worked against Andropov, Gromyko, Stalin, Kruschev or even Yeltsin. What in the Hell made the idiots running Ukraine think it was safe to poke the bear under Putin?

If you play fast and loose with history now is the time when you look around for the distractions and the conspiracy theories to explain why a middling European country of no apparent resources, skills, or industry decided to attack Russia. Was it all a blind to see if a larger attack would succeed and thus just a test of Russia's arms and determination and if that is so, who in the world could exploit it because it wasn't America doing the poking. Who else is there?

Hello? Anyone out there? Who is stirring up pointless wars in Europe and why? In one light it looks like the self-induced/inflicted idiocy of the Argentine Junta trying to divert the mob's attention by making an easy conquest of the Malvinas. It was a done deal and that silly women in London could do nothing about it and it wasn't an attack on NATO so the US wouldn't intervene.....But again, who benefits from launching Ukraine at Russia's throat? If it's markets, commodities or banking, I'm not your guy. If it's a conspiracy theory, I enjoyed reading about the Phoenician Navy but I don't believe in them. 

You just know that scholars and pundits are going to go around suggesting that we add a CENTRO treaty to NATO and form a nice heavily armed collective polity aimed in perpetual enmity at Russia by States arming themselves to the hilt and with the backing of the United States right there on Russia's borders. You know who would think something like this is brilliant though, don't you.