“Putin was cornered” is the unanimous reaction to the war by the American “New Right”. Curtis Yarvin, Darren Beattie are the most notable mischlings on the forefront of this thinking. Darren Beattie more on the side of the logic that the long arm of the swamp is negatively, globally involved. And Yarvin outlines his favorite formula that all wars are started despite the will of the participants. Since reading Yarvin is a torment, and Substack’s search function is the pits, I will go from memory and use Yarvin as a general metaphor of this ideological trend.
All wars started by someone else
Yarvin wrote that the American Civil War started by the North, not the South. He quotes an example of the dog. One repeatedly kicks the dog until the dog has no choice but to bite and attack you. And this then gives you the right to shoot the dog. He applies this logic to many wars, including the WWII below.
Yarvin naturally loves Icebreaker by Suvorov. The general premise of the book is that Hitler had no intention on opening the war with Stalin but when Hitler saw extensive war preparation on the side of the CCCP, he had no choice but to attack preemptively.
Similarly, Yarvin writes that Hitler had no intention of killing the Jews. He only wanted to use the Eastern European Jews as hostages to pressure Great Britain and USA. Hitler miscalculated the power of the American and British Jews. Antisemites exaggerate and mythologize the Jewish power. Hitler didn’t expect that American Jews and the government didn’t actively care for the fate of the Eastern European hostages. Seeing the hostage taking gone bad, Hitler, and his nationalist had to kill them.
The power of this logic is that it sounds too real and believable, but the general theme is that it’s always someone else’s fault. So, you can see how neatly Putin fits this formula.
People with roots in the CCCP generally have little to agree about, except whose side they take in this war. Never seen such a unanimous opinion in my life. Conversely, never seen such a unanimous opinion from the fledgling American New Right. Just the fact that the American far left agrees with them, should give them a pause, but no, they are united on the different sides of the hate of the American system. This seems to be the only driving motivation. Not even the idea of freedom, that they demand so fervently, in the middle of the cancel culture onslaught, can sway the New Right.
Who is to blame, the Deep State, Trump, Obama, Biden?
It’s the time to ask what could have been done when the horror of the war unfolds with horrific loss of life and nuclear threats.
One can argue that nothing could have been done as this was Putin’s post Soviet project of retaking Ukraine no matter what. Regardless presumed or real NATO encroachments.
Trump could have stabilized the entire region just as he did in the Middle East. But his policy in Ukraine and Russia was kneecapped from the start. All the toxic four years of the proven lies about the Russian collusion. The emotional, around the clock misreporting of demonstrable fabrications, the impeachment, and not a single person paid the price for the disruption of the American presidency when it was needed the most. Instead, the NYT, Maggie Haberman got the Pulitzer. The prize for the false media incitement was never rescinded.
Obama’s point person in Ukraine, Biden, was more concerned with extraction of the gangster funds via his son. No one will ever be prosecuted or impeached for this. The reporting suppressed before the election. Contrast with Trump speaking some macho crap on the phone, versus the actual crime of corruption. And who got impeached? Who is still hounded? Below is an astonishing front page of the NYT. Every single headline and the Deep State still weaponized, two years after the presidency.
It appears that there are two globalist leaders most responsible for our current predicament. One is Angela Merkel who curbed clean nuclear power and induced the dependence on the Russian gas and oil. And the other globalist was Merkel’s pal Barack Obama. His typical non reaction to the takeover of the Crimea gave Putin the proven idea that he can take over the Kievan Rus' quickly and without consequence. From that point on NATO’s threat was and is a smokescreen.
“I don’t know why, but it’s a tradition.. and without our traditions, we’d be as shaky as a fiddler on the roof” - tevye
I can’t fathom the need to have an opinion on who to blame for this