#OnRussia

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Mark Rutte: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSIomEFAIob/?img_index=1&igsh=aGU3cXNsOTgxY25r

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Russia’s attempts to invade Ukraine and Europe are reflective of Vladimir Putin’s capacity to reshape conflict in an unwelcome way, bizarrely, in the age of overly aggressive warmongering ideology being categorically invalid.

Human development throughout hominid history has roughly functioned on the basis of doubling up. When the human psyche of a given pioneering group has found an apt angle of doubling over predecessors or foreigners, major change happens. This process of doubling up can be blazingly obvious, such as if a group becomes so much better at something than others, or very frequently something more subtle and abstract, like if a Buzz-Concept casts an interesting, haunting parallel with something else.

Putin’s warmongering capacity started off as more abstract desire within his vision for harbouring power. He would have liked to… But now this instance of conditional tense is becoming worrisomely more mainstream. The aforementioned pattern of doubling up -of course- has been applied here, and over time the prospect of WW3 has become more concrete, as doubling up matches have acquired momentum.

Another critical case of doubling up: it has emerged that it might be the primary interest of the United States going forward to do business with Russia. It is sad that it has taken so long, so many decades after the Cold War commenced, for the United States, quite possibly world history’s most critical pioneer, to realise that it actually has a lot to learn and reap from Russia. This has amounted over time to a colossal failing. The US is understandably keen to address the discrepancies created by such failure. It is vexing that Putin has added such high extra costs for NATO.

I remarked previously, not long after Russia first launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine back in 2022, that Russia’s stance was casting eerie parallels.

Some previous factors:

• The Great Disagreement(s) of primitive Caucasians described in previous posts. Southern Russia extends across the North Caucasus, with Ukraine nearby. Quite possibly memory of the Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers, the Proto-Nostratics and Indo-Europeans persists more strongly through Russia and Ukraine. Chewing.

• The First War, not the First World War but the first war that ever happened. I have a theory that mass cruelty and undue harshness were something that was incorporated into human culture at some point many thousands of years ago, and is certainly not instinctual to Homo sapiens. We are not naturally malevolent predators. So we can conjecture imaginatively some abstract things about the first war that ever happened, that there was imbalance that vexed people, for example.

• Prehistoric/ancient Yamnaya migrations from the Pontic-Caspian steppe to Europe. A pivotal tale of ambition/aspiration and quite possibly intense thirst for blood. This legacy persists throughout European DNA, after all.

• Russian imperialism. Their expansionism has not been resolved properly. What do they stand for if hegemony hasn’t worked for them?

• The World Wars 1 & 2, of course. Many questions about these events have not been satisfactorily answered.

• The Cold War, which was in a way in ultimate manifestation following the age of European empires and World Wars 1 & 2. Did the previous world wars satisfactorily finish off said age of empires? The ongoing importance of education about the 20th century’s Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union / Russia is spectacular.

• Putin’s desire to redefine conflict in a way that is more reflective of his vision. What a sicko.

• In some people’s view -subversively- accounting for the rise of the English language as a global lingua franca on many counts. A way to make and distort the English news and then some.

What other factors have you identified? What parallels can you see?