The Western postmodern leaders have started to talk gibberish. They make no sense at all. US Secretary of State John Kerry thinks he can defend his ideals just by respecting them.. Vlad will be impressed!
'Vlad, my boy, sanctions against Russia are not meant as a threat and please, please don't be angry, it isn't personal in any way'. Crank up the volume, audio is bad.
Like Chamberlain these postmodern leaders want peace at any price. Peace - to them, the absence of strive, offense as well as defense - is their moral standard. They are not even capable of defending their own ideals of the "multi lateral structure that we have lived by since World War II". Because you can't defend the Good by simply respecting it. The evil doers will laugh in your face. That is what the amoralists just don't get. As Wayne Dupree says:
"U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry undercutting his own message of possible sanctions against Russia by saying it is “not meant as a threat” or “in a personal way” against Russia or Vladimir Putin. If it is not meant as a threat, what good is it? This is why this totally laughing stock foreign policy by this Obama administration is totally hard to watch from the ground. They don’t know what they are doing! (Source)
Wojciech Przybylski, in an article entitled "Europe and the problem of force" catches the problem in a nutshell when he asserts with some indignation that "naked brute force has the edge over talks. Violence remains the essence of power." Postmodernists believe 'truths' aren't absolute and change over time.
Thus somehow, miraculously, force would no longer be the root of power just because to them it ought not. This is like saying, we no longer want history to be about the past, henceforth we want it to be about the future. You might well think that, but that doesn't make it so.
Moral power comes from economic strength. Not to overpower others, but by fulfilling the potential. This goes for individuals as well as nations. Or power can simply be counterfeited by brute force as it always has been.
Put'n and the oligarchs are going to get away with force. (Source.) And they know it. And that's just for starters. In Putin's wake comes his client state, Iran. Assad in Syria will derive new fervor from this weakness. Every rogue state on the face of the planet knows by now the stuff the Western defenders are made off. It's a riot of pussies!
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Thus somehow, miraculously, force would no longer be the root of power just because to them it ought not. This is like saying, we no longer want history to be about the past, henceforth we want it to be about the future. You might well think that, but that doesn't make it so.
Moral power comes from economic strength. Not to overpower others, but by fulfilling the potential. This goes for individuals as well as nations. Or power can simply be counterfeited by brute force as it always has been.
Put'n and the oligarchs are going to get away with force. (Source.) And they know it. And that's just for starters. In Putin's wake comes his client state, Iran. Assad in Syria will derive new fervor from this weakness. Every rogue state on the face of the planet knows by now the stuff the Western defenders are made off. It's a riot of pussies!
More on this subject.
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