UKRAINE: THE LEVERS OF POWER DON'T WORK ANYMORE....

The brilliant Aurelien comments on the situation in Ukraine. What Putin wanted was an agreement to end the conflict. The Europeans (and Ukraine) wanted a freeze to stop and re-arm. But what next?

'The fundamental approaching crisis is less that the war in Ukraine has been “lost,” than that the US will have forfeited, unmistakably, unnecessarily and very publicly, much of its ability to influence events in the world. For their part, it’s clear that the Russians would prefer a less confrontational and more normal relationship with the US, but it’s equally clear that they are not prepared to sacrifice anything of importance to bring it about. I’m not sure that the US political system, disorganised, delusional and fragmented as it is, can cope with all this......The all-purpose slogan of Liberal politicians, with no real political programme except mindless managerialism, is: if you think we’re bad, look at the other guy. This creates the continued demand for enemies whom you can boss around, dictate to and if necessary attack with impunity, because they are inferior. But this will no longer be possible with Russia, the transcendent Enemy, the negation of every tenet of Liberalism, the society of the Past doomed to disappear. And where will all this surplus antagonism go then, when prudence dictates trying to make friends with Russia again? It isn’t hard to imagine some worrying possibilities.

But this is only one aspect of the problem. The levers of power don’t work any more. No-one answers when we call. The servants have rebelled and are leaving. A western political class drunk for thirty years on illusions of omnipotence and moral superiority is about to be slapped around the face by the large wet fish of reality. Will it survive the experience?https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-war-was-the-easy-bit?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=841976&post_id=171376234&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ed69z&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email



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