Theme: Governance

THE TRUTH ABOUT UKRAINE, RUSSIA, AND THE WEST

(important – unification of the circumpolar people)

—“Soros, the CIA, Europeans, etc) funded Maidan, something the nationalists like to forget.”— (A Friend)

Um. Yeah. Soros needs to be killed or imprisoned and his assets seized and returned to the Bank of England.

But then while he invested in Ukraine. So did the USA. So did every bordering country. And Russia heavily invested in Ukraine as well – although at competing purposes.

More importantly, so did most of the oligarchs out of self-defense under the (correct belief) that the then-president, by rejecting European membership, was close enough to Moscow, and had so successfully impoverished the military, the reunification with Russia at the expense of the oligarchs was in the near future, and would lead to government’s power to TAKE from them, rather than a unification with Europe which would make more of them even richer, and require governments NEGOTIATE with them.

And while I realize I am better informed, and have a greater understanding of the circumstances, it does not take a rocket scientist with a great deal of knowledge to grasp that the people who organized Maidan and put Poroshenko in power were the Oligarchs, and that the foreign investment merely provided them with a discount and political cover.

Everyone even vaguely connected to every intelligence service, or their private sector NGO’s, or those of us who have understanding of both know this. But *ALL* the media organizations in Ukraine, (just like the USA) are controlled by the Oligarchs. And worse, MORAL NARRATIVES are appealing to eastern Europeans even more so than they are appealing to western Europeans – they are a less empirical people.

The People Of Ukraine wanted European Membership like their Polish Cousins and Neighbors. The only people who didn’t were a minority in the east whose incomes were dependent upon the remnants of the Russian military manufacturing sector, the miners who and pensioners who would receive greater redistributions from Moscow than kiev, and the (dominant faction) of gangsters in Russified Donbas basin, who understood the impact of European integration on their organized crime, and the families, friends, and business dependents in Crimea where the large Russian military presence drove the economy.

You can tell a Russian argument simply by the fact that he will posit a false moral equivalency rather than an economic interest.

I know this technique is as endemic to Russian culture as it is to Jewish. But as an anglo empiricist I am immune. Everyone acts in the material (economic) and therefore reproductive interests in matters political. So we anglos argue in long-term incentives in favor of individual family, and collective gains and losses, not moralisms in favor of collectivist and short-term moral equivalency.

Putin says the difference between Russia and the west less precisely but makes the same point. The difference is that Russians feel vulnerable and ‘behind’, and so they favor the collective at all times, and argue moral equivalency to justify it. Wealthy westerners are not insecure so they argue empirically for the interests of individuals and families. Westerners argue empirically and security for a luxury, while Russians argue justificationally out of vulnerability and insecurity.

It would be better if we both argued truthfully, trying to make Russia secure, and the west less suicidal and more interested in defending our civilization via the collective and family than the luxury of the interests of the individual over the family, tribe, nation, and civilization.

The answer is out there in front of us. We must have the knowledge to understand it, and the courage to work together to solve it.

Curt Doolittle

The Philosophy of (The West) Aristocracy

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine