I love Russia!

For whatever reason, about a third of the people who read The Truthless Reconciler are russian. At least, so my computer tells me. Every day, a fair number of americans, a german or two, coupla brits, then maybe some folks from latin america, here and there. never anyone from china or japan. at least, not yet. But, for whatever reason, a whole lotta russians.

...and so therefore i wanted to devote this article to just saying "thanks" to my russian friends! 

when i was a little kid i was trained to hate and be terrified of the russians, during the "cold war" of the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties, like everyone else in my generation. hiding underneath my wooden desk at school, while my 30 classmates did the same, i used to wonder exactly who the russians were,  what made them so bad, and how in the hell  a small wooden desk would protect me from an atomic bomb... 

..why were the russians the enemy?  by high school i hadn't found answers to my questions, but i thought the russians were kinda cool, and i understood something about socialism and communism.

I began faintly to understand that we americans were required to hate the russians because their government refused to accept american corporate capitalism exploiting their country.(that's what "freedom " is in america, corporate control)... in tenth grade i started trying to learn russian. it didn't last long, i was in a sampling phase.

all through school i was taught that the "cold war" was america's valiant attempt to resist the evil of communism.  only within the past ten years or so have i finally arrived at the truth; the cold war was the invention of the american military-industrial complex used to justify the conversion of the american republic into the american security state empire, with a permanent war time military and economy, and a global empire just for grins.

at the end of world war two, and for a very very long time thereafter, the unwieldy entity called the "soviet union" had absolutely no ability or intent to make war against or do harm to the united states. when twenty million of your people and most of your cities are destroyed by war, you're ready for peace.

and the russians were ready for peace, even as the american - generated cold war raged. their posture towards the united states was always defensive, and still is. pearl harbor was the reason america needed to stay eternally prepared for war, and ever since, america has so stayed.

the united states of america owes an apology to many groups of people, including african - americans, mexicans, homosexuals....and america is delivering.

if we (americans) don't feel as though we owe any apologies to the russians, let's at least admit that we owe them the chance to be friends... a russian-american alliance, in fact, makes perfect sense. the chinese are coming.

Bb

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