Bidenist Elites Scoff at Putin Inauguration as Nuclear Armageddon Looms
In my last article, “72 Minutes to Nuclear Armageddon,” I detailed how the Global Nuclear Presidents – let’s call them that now – wield “Sole Presidential Authority” to blow up the world in – 72 minutes. But the fools who run the United States, including Biden, just don’t care. Maybe it wasn’t a great idea to give such authority to an octogenarian dementia patient.
The unseriousness of America’s elites as we march toward perdition is seen in this headline of the New York Times read by our elites: “Isolated From West, Putin Projects Domestic Power at Inauguration: The event for Mr. Putin, who claimed his fifth term in a rubber-stamp election, included a church service that underscored efforts to give a religious sheen to his rule.”
Here's a key part about his inauguration address: “He also said nothing about the tactical nuclear weapons drills that his military announced on Monday, a move that highlighted Mr. Putin’s continued attempts to pressure the West to relent in its support of Ukraine.”
Of course he wouldn’t mention it. Actions speak louder than words.
At the inauguration he celebrated his continued rule and his hopes for the future. But as even the Times was forced to note, that’s the most important story today. What’s happening is, egged on by the Times and other neocon influencers, the silly Europeans might put their own troops into Ukraine to try to stop the Russian juggernaut now crushing what’s left of Ukraine’s military. The most gung ho is French President Macron, who looks like the busboy at my local Paris Baguette.
Ukraine’s unfortunate troops reportedly are deserting, refusing to fight or surrendering. They finally discovered Obama’s maxim: “Don't underestimate Joe's ability to [expletive] things up.”
Here’s the Time’s story’s lede: “Vladimir V. Putin was inaugurated for a fifth term as president on Tuesday in a ceremony filled with pageantry and a televised church service, as the Russian leader tried once more to depict his invasion of Ukraine as a religiously righteous mission that is part of ‘our 1,000-year history.’”
They don’t get it. If you want to understand Russia, read “War and Peace” by Tolstoy and “The Brothers Karamazov” by Dostoevsky. Long books, certainly, 1,200 and 800 pages. The Times’ two reporters in Moscow, Valerie Hopkins and Anton Troianovski, presumably speak Russian. Or at least they could read those books in English translation.
At the end of “War and Peace,” aristocrat Pierre – note the French version of Pyotr – is trudging along as Napoleon’s invasion is repulsed. He gets an appreciation of the narod, the people, in a mystical sense. Many of these were serfs tied to the land. And both books, especially Dostoevsky’s, are suffused with Russian Orthodoxy.
You can get a sense of Russianness even from the Times story: “pageantry…church service…religiously righteous mission.”
America is a very different country. And it’s foolish for our elites to keep trying to turn Russia into America, as they dream of looting Russia. Remember Biden’s “The ruble is rubble!”? But consider The Battle Hymn of the Republic, written by abolitionist Julia Ward Howe during the Civil War:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
It’s also used at the end of John Ford’s “They Were Expendable,” which came out in 1945 at the end of another war, World War II. The movie ends anticipating McArthur’s fulfillment of his pledge to the Philippines, “I Shall Return.” Which led to America’s righteous conquering of most of the world. But the Americans of that generation knew how to make accommodations with the Russians.
Our elites have become so alienated not only from the meaning of religious sentiments, whether Russian Orthodoxy or American Puritanism, they would rather risk nuclear annihilation than make the peace among the nations, beginning with Russia.
But let’s end on a positive note. President Xi of China was in Europe meeting with the Paris busboy, calming him down about Ukraine. They discussed resolving a dispute about France “dumping” Cognac on the Chinese market. That’s the real level of the importance of the once puissant European nations, now reduced to U.S. vassals.
But vassals can influence a senile master.