Let Us Re-Learn The Word "Detente": Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-03-10 at 23:07:51 )

Let Us Re-Learn The Word "Detente": Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Western powers insisted that they were trying to prevent this war while doing everything possible to ensure that it happened. Now they say they are trying to end this war while doing everything possible to ensure it continues.

Normally when western powers are involved in a war they at least pretend they support the people in the enemy nation and just oppose its government. With Russia they are just "No, f-ck your music, f-ck your food, f-ck your books, f-ck your cats, f-ck everything about all of you."

The word "detente" has been deliberately scrubbed from the western lexicon. This has created a false dichotomy where everyone thinks the only choices are either escalate until we have a nuclear war or "OMG SO JUST GIVE PUTIN WHATEVER HE WANTS AND LET HIM TAKE OVER EUROPE???"

Any time you oppose freakish world-threatening escalations that is the response you always get: "So just give into the bully and let him have everything?? That is appeasement!" They are sincerely unaware that there is a third choice between World War 3 and crowning President Putin Emperor of Planet Earth.

This is by design, because detente and United States unipolar hegemony are mutually exclusive.

You can not dominate the entire planet and also let Russia be its own nation; it is either one or the other.

Detente was a popular concept back when we lived in a multipolar world, during the USSR, but since it has been dominated by one single superpower that word has been phased out of public awareness.

Now that United States unipolar hegemony is the normalized mainstream consensus ideal within the western empire, any talk of working toward peaceful solutions that do not subjugate one power to the other show up before indoctrinated minds as outrageous heresy.

President Putin: Do not cross this red line or it will mean war.

Westerners: He is probably bluffing. Cross that red line.

President Putin: "starts a war"

President Putin: Now do not cross this other red line or it will mean nuclear war.

Westerners: He is probably bluffing. Cross that red line.

I am really not feeling great about how much of mainstream western punditry today boils down to "What is the maximum amount we can provoke and attack Russia without starting a nuclear war?? Some say the line is here, but I think it is probably further back."

It is starting to feel like westerners will not understand the seriousness of nuclear brinkmanship until there is an actual nuclear exchange. One of those rare lessons in life that you can not learn until it is too late to benefit from having learned it.

It reminds me of young drivers, how they will get into accidents because they do not have a good visceral understanding of the very real dangers on the road. Except instead of damaging your fender, they will wipe out all life on earth.

There is such a massive, massive disconnect between the unparalleled dangers we are toying with here and peoples attitudes about them. In the general public, and throughout the political-media class as well. It is so easy to imagine an "Oh shit it was not a game after all" future moment.

No part of the way empire managers have acted up to this point suggests they can be trusted not to set off an unthinkable chain of events from which there is no return. They have been making wrong calls every step of the way. And it is so easy to f-ck this up.

"Tankie" used to mean "western Stalinist". Now it just means "person who understands power dynamics and foreign policy".

People say, "Ukraine has a right to choose its own alliances and join NATO if it wants."

Sure, and NATO has a right to reject it and promise it will never make Ukraine a member. And it should have. That is how alliances work; it necessarily goes both ways. Not everyone gets membership. It is not a
f-cking library card.

Those who support a no-fly zone or any other direct attack on Russian forces are enemies of our species. They have the most dangerous worldview in existence, without exception. They are more dangerous than Nazis, and they should be reviled as such.

The fact that support for nuclear brinkmanship is mainstream does not make it okay, it makes it infinitely more dangerous than if it were a fringe position. It is not less important to condemn it because it is mainstream, it is more important. Much, much more important.

I have been screaming at the top of my lungs for years about the mounting risks of nuclear war while people called me a crazy idiot the entire time.

Now nuclear superpowers are on hair trigger alert while officials hurl accusations that the other side is preparing a biological weapons attack.

At least I f-cking tried.

With what precious little influence I have in this space, I have done my very best.

Come what may.

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