Backing Out, Gracefully

IT BEARS MENTIONING, and remembering: we the people of planet Earth had better find a way, make a plan to give Putin an opportunity to get out of the mess he has made with face saving honor, or the world is at risk of experiencing its second nucelar was ever. The first was rather one sided; only one side had atomic bombs. This time it wouldn't be so neat and tidy. Nagasaki and Hiroschima would look like practice. It is far from outside the realm of possibility that within two weeks, or, say, by the Ides of March, the world could be engulfed in ecosystem ending nuclear holocaust. Vladimir Putin is nearly seventy years old; either way, he's not long for this life, notwithstanding the fact that he's in excellent health and great shape. Picture if you will the mouse in the corner, confronted by the inexorable cat. Unless the Russian army starts doing better in Ukraine, Putin may assume the position of the cornered mouse. Punk Senator Ted Cruz blames the whole Ukraine debacle on Joe Biden, just like a typical low life Trump supporter would of course do. Why not instead blame it on Trump? Nobody has ever stopped Putin's various acts of aggression before; Trump not ony didn't stop him, he constantly flattered him, and still does. The problem with the United States strongly opposing Putin's aggression is that a sizeable portion of the American electorate, consisting entirely of the far right, the Trumpiest of the Trumpers, not only does not condemn Putin's behavior, as they would if they were civilized human beings, they are utterly unconcerned about it, and they actually admire Putin, as evidenced by the chant of "Russia! Russia!" at the far right convention the other day, the one at which Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke in suppport of white supremacist ideology. Taking a quick peek at the scoreboard, we find that America's far right, which is defined as including most American conservatives and most members of the Republican party, admire Putin, refuse to accept the defeat of Donald Trump in the election of 2020, still suport Trump's violent attempt to overthrow the American government by force as having been a justified attempt to render justice which unfortunately failed, and, the piece of resistance, the far right refuses to acknowledge the reality of human made climate change, a stance which, if it endures, could spell the end of all life on planet Earth within a century. As a military authority in ancient times once said: "we have met the enemy, and they are us". Or rather, they are within our midst. There's a reason why this website and its essay incessantly berate America's far right conservative community: namely, its a great danger, not only to the United States, but to the world.