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Lying at the heart of this seemingly unbridgeable ideological and psychological impasse between Western Ukraine and Russia is the same pain, violence, rage, and loss, caused by the same dark side of humankind, that has been repeatedly waged upon all human and non-human life upon the earth ever since the very origins of the homo sapiens species. It’s what lies beneath the histories of every human nation on earth, to varying degrees of intensity and longevity, given their basic different cultural, ethnic, and evolutionary makeup. Hence, A hot-blooded Russian or Ukrainian is markedly different in temperament and world view than, say, that of an Australian Aboriginal or Tibetan.

How each offshoot of the human species has historically chosen, individually or collectively, to address such suffering, rage, and loss, towards whatever other peoples or nations they perceive as being primarily responsible, is what becomes the dominant driving force within the psyches, ideologies, and propaganda they choose to manifest.

The war between Russia and Ukraine is such a case where one of the most sweeping, propagandic gang swarms ever perpetrated, is being waged anew by the American Empire of the United States in league with Canada, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, NATO, and the European Union bloc against the Russian Empire, who they all equally look upon as their prime adversarial Empire in the world today.

Putin’s 2022 invasion of Western Ukraine was and is, without a doubt, a clearly criminal act against international law. No question about it. But, at the same time, Putin’s ill-thought-out military hastiness played right into the Western World’s long-range conquest plan to ultimately defeat and eliminate the Russian Empire, as a long-standing major impediment to the imperialistic expansionism of the American Empire into Eurasia and its overall desire for ever greater hegemony in the world. Putin, as it were, walked right into the veritable Russian ‘Bear Trap’ The West had set for him on their global ‘Empire’ Chess Board.

There are no innocent victims here, from among all the world leaders responsible for continuing to contribute to the mayhem that’s being caused by the hideous ‘Proxy War’ now underway in Ukraine. There only are more dead Russian and Ukrainian lives needlessly wasted.

Western leaders, American ones, in particular, seem intent upon leaving Russia with no other possible exit from the war until either the Russian Empire is utterly obliterated, or, in the end, the American Empire and all other empires will be likewise destroyed because Russia will have no other way out other than finally resort to a devastating, free-for-all Nuclear War. In which case, the only real victims, won’t just end up being all the Russian and Ukrainian’s lives already wastefully spent, but all the lives of the rest of we humans, non-humans, and all living things in the world, as well. It’s evil madness no matter how one tries to spin it.

But something even more evil and sweeping already is now occurring in the level and intensity of degree of effort by the ‘gang swarms’ of Western propagandists and their Allies in the war in Ukraine. The target of the bludgeoning propaganda isn’t solely about Russia or Ukraine, but about something much more evil and oppressive about America’s lust for ever more empire-building at the expense of whomever or whatever.

Because in the 21st century and future beyond, the real goal and objective among many U.S. politicians and other Western imperialists now seem intent, at the expense of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, to expand America’s ‘Manifest Destiny’ empire into Eurasia. But to achieve such a Machiavellian goal, they must accomplish an even more daunting numbing subjugation of all the thoughts, minds, and wills of not only the American people but the entire Human Race, as to what the ‘officially-approved’ version of what is behind the war in Ukraine.

Thus, the mind controllers among the Western corporate press in the West, are working overtime now to successfully erase from the collective memory so many of the real truths that underlie the fascist origins of the ugly underbelly of what, historically, has led up to this current madness now manifest in Ukraine.

WHAT LIES AT THE COMPLICATED HEART OF UKRAINIAN & RUSSIAN IDEOLOGIES & PSYCHE’S

The heavily controlled, propagandized corporate Western media has reported very little politically balanced, democratic, communist, or socialist news about the Ukrainian region of the globe: not since the Russian Revolution of 1917; not throughout World War II; not even up to the savage brutality waged against human life during Ukraine’s Civil War in 2014 between Western Ukrainian Ultra-Nationalists and Neo-Nazi fascists against their Russian-speaking cousins in Eastern Ukraine. The Western press has provided little balanced news about Eastern Ukrainians who, before the current hostilities began in 2022, had already legally voted to become the pro-Russian separatist governments now known as ‘The Donetsk Peoples Republic’ and ‘Luhansk Peoples Republic’, in what, collectively, is known as the Donbas Territories of Eastern Ukraine.

Neither has the Western press provided all sides about the Euromaidan Coup of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, that took place in 2014, and why it occurred because Yanukovych had dared to choose closer economic ties with Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union over those of NATO and the West’s European Union (EU). The Ultra Nationalist Fascists in Western Ukraine, who have a long-standing, abiding hatred for the Russians and anything Russian, going back to WW II and even further back to the hideous period of the Collectivization pogroms and Scorched Earth policies under Stalin and the 1917 Russian Revolution already are well-known.

But, in the case of the American-led ousting of Yanukovych’s Government in the 2014 coup, little has been shared about how the U.S. Government’s military wing of the CIA, and political wing of its State Department, mobilized its Secretary of States (Hillary Clinton and Antony Blinken), along with the long-standing U.S. Asst. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who were all right-wing anti-Russian ideologues who vigorously went right to work to plot the violent overthrow of Yanukovych’s legally-elected government. Eastern Ukrainians called the violent overthrow that occurred – the Euromaiden Coup. While the Pro-Western Ukrainian Army, led by the infamous Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, known for its extreme brutality and shocking war crimes against all things Russian, carried out the actual overthrow of Yanukovych and, instead of a coup, instead spun it as a Revolution of Dignity. See below for more details.

The 2014 coup in Ukraine – World Socialist Web Site (wsws.org)

So, what was clearly a manufactured violent coup, no matter how one calls it, the self-declared ‘Ultra-Nationalists’ and ‘Neo-Nazi’s’ of Western Ukraine, with the help of their Azov Battalion-led army, who already had long-since before had openly declared their abject hatred for the Russians, killed some 14,000 Russian-speaking Eastern Ukrainians, while seriously wounding another 50,000 more innocent civilians.

Ever since, these self-declared neo-Nazi’s and their leaders have spent the past eight years: shelling, shooting, murdering, raping, lynching, and persecuting, ethnic Russian-speaking Ukrainians, while, at the same time, with the assistance of Western nations from the American-led Empire, instead only continued to threaten, antagonize and provoke, in every way they could, the Russian Empire, seeking every foothold as close as they’ve been able to get to Russia’s borders to place threatening military bases and missile-launching platforms within a quick-strike distance of the Russian Empire’s borders and main political and industrial centre’s. It doesn’t require a brain surgeon to help one realize what the real intent all along has been.

Russia then seized the Crimea in 2014 when there was no one else to protect the Russian-speaking Ukrainians; 80-90% of whom already had voted to join Russia. Russia’s intent all along has been to link Crimea, Donbas, and Lagan with a land bridge across the Black Sea and rekindle something of the once prouder Soviet Union era, that once gave Russia and the Russians so much more physical protection, not to mention national pride, than they now have.

Ever since their 2014 coup, the Western Ukrainian Ultra-Nationalist and Neo-Fascist (UNAF) government, and its self-declared neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, have continued to strengthen and embolden Nazi-leaning ideological groups all over Eastern Europe, if not the world.

The roots of fascism in Ukraine: From Nazi collaboration to Maidan Liberation School

Banderites – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WESTERN UKRAINE’S AZOV BATTALION ARMY INSIGNIA “A3O-B” SAYS IT ALL

Since the war in Ukraine began, the Western Press clearly has been intentionally downplaying, minimizing, or omitting altogether the fascist elements of Volodymyr Zelenskiyy’s Western Ukrainian Government and his Azov Battalion’s Neo-Nazi Battalion’s ideology.

THE TRAGEDY THAT IS UKRAINE, RUSSIA & THE WORLD IN 2022

Some call Ukraine The Frankensteinian Nation! The real tragedy of Ukraine, they say, is that it isn’t a real country at all, but a collection of parts that all absolutely hate each other. The reality of modern Ukraine is that it is a country divided sharply along ethnic, linguistic, and political lines. Ukraine has a radically different language than Russia, yet actually is closer to Polish as a language than it is to Russian.

IN 2014, Yanukovych’s willingness to partner with Russia made him an immediate target for Ukrainian Ultra-Nationalists and neo-Nazi’s which speaks to one of the reasons for his eventual overthrow. The Ukrainians have had much pain inflicted upon them by Russia in history. 10 million Ukrainians starved to death under Stalin. The Ukrainians even had to resort to cannibalism, killing and eating their own children just to stay alive. When the Germans invaded Ukraine in 1942, Stalin again ordered a “scorched earth” policy, which further starved the people. Ukraine’s entire ideology could be summed up by saying, “Ukraine Good, Russia Evil.” Or, as others cynically note, “Modern Ukraine is a broken, divided, corrupt, kleptocracy and a puppet client-state of the Empire of Lies”.

These same Ultra-Nationalists are Funded by the Western powers, armed by Israel, trained by the British and the Poles.” They’re violent ultra-nationalists to the point where actual and literal Neo-Nazis among them promote White Power.

One could say that Ukraine’s sobering and terrible lesson to us all is the inherent dangers that come from ultra-nationalism. “The Didactic Mind” says Ukraine has gone way off the deep end, arguing that language and blood make one ethnic group worthy. But let us not use this pride as an excuse to demonize those different from us and seek their annihilation.”

Stephen Bandera, the WWII Nazi collaborator, is a central figure in modern Western Ukraine’s political evolution. His personal history mirrors Ukraine’s own turbulence. Bandera supported Hitler’s Third Reich and collaborated with the Germans during World War II. Bandera personally negotiated the Creation in WWII of the Ukrainian Legion under the German Command. The Legion was under the command of the Abwehr ((German Military Intelligence Service). As the head of the Ukrainian Legion, Bandera was awarded the title, “HERO OF UKRAINE” in 2010. It’s telling that when the Coup or Revolution of 2014 occurred, one of the first acts the new government took was to glorify Hitler’s collaborators, like Bandera, followed by commemorating memorials and renaming significant places for Ukrainian Nazi collaborators. Torchlight parades are held annually in Western Ukraine cities in Bandera’s honor. As the saying goes, “In Western Ukraine, “Bandera casts a very long shadow.”

Banderites – Wikipedia

The roots of evil between the Ukrainians and Russians go back to the darkest times in Ukrainian history. “Ukrainians are true Slavs but Russians are mongrels”, say many Ukrainians. This deep, abiding fury among them goes all the way back to what the Soviets under Stalin did to Ukrainians in the collectivization pogroms of the 1920’s and 1930’s when starvation forced many of them to turn to cannibalism within even their own families, as Timothy Snyder recounts in his book Bloodlands:

In the face of starvation, some families divided, parents turning against children, and children against one another. As the state police, the OGPU, found itself obliged to record, in Soviet Ukraine “Families kill their weakest members, usually children, and use the meat for eating.” Countless parents killed and ate their children and then died of starvation later anyway. One mother cooked her son for herself and her daughter. One 6-year-old girl, saved by other relatives last saw her father when he was sharpening a knife to slaughter her. Other combinations were, of course, possible. One family killed their daughter-in-law, and fed her head to the pigs, and roasted the rest of her body.”

Stalin, cannibalism, and the true nature of evil. (slate.com)

As Snyder notes in Bloodlands, “Ukrainians have their roots in utter hatred.” Which is why, since the coup in 2014, as one Russian-speaking Ukrainian puts it, “Western Ukrainians have spent the past eight years shelling, shooting, murdering, raping, lynching and persecuting 15,000 ethnic Russians and our relations in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions.”

After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Ukrainians sought independence from the Russian Empire but were conquered by the Russian Red Army under Stalin.

Western Ukraine thus harbors a totally irrational hatred, that isn’t totally irrational, for those who are to the East and South of them. It could be said and understood, as a result of such a terrible history, that Western Ukraine’s ultra-nationalism, essentially has its roots in utter hatred.

– SUPERMAN, AMERICA’S COMIC BOOK HERO SAYS IT ALL

Not nearly enough people in the world can readily see the mass hypocrisy being played out in the war in Ukraine. But some, however, still continue to wonder, “Does America’s original comic book hero Superman and his famous motto, “Truth, Justice & The American Way“, still ring true after over 83 years; when Americans and their Allies, inspired by Superman’s motto, went off to fight and die in WWII against two very real live humans who also thought of themselves as ‘Supermen’ in their own right: Adolph Hitler and his Nazi forces in Europe and Africa, and: Emperor Hirohito’s Japanese Fascist forces in Asia and the South Pacific.

Many also now wonder, as the world now faces yet another possible even more grim and calamitous, perhaps even nuclear, war in Europe, if another real-live ‘Superman’ is again on the rise and the comic book Superman-character’s bold motto still holds true in 2022?

It’s always fascinating to see how art mimics life and the real world exactly as it should. Many now wonder, with the new war in Ukraine, if the motto of Superman, still America’s biggest DC COMIC book hero, has stood the test of time for over eight decades?

But, alas, so much has changed everywhere in the world since the Allies first fought against the fascist Nazi hordes who were then threatening the whole world. But has anything really indeed changed, at all?

America, along with the Western World now is back in Europe, everywhere fighting, with the Ukrainians as their proxy army, this time on the side of the fascists. But against whom exactly? Who are they ultimately now for, and who are they now against? It’s all very confusing.

America and the rest of the Western World in toto obviously have dramatically changed since the days of the New Deal, or Government of the Little Guy, Mom & Apple Pie, and instead has become ever more progressively fascist-leaning and reactionary in its politics and religion. So, Surprise, Surprise! Even Superman’s motto has now had to change with the times, as well; because ‘The American Way’, now means too many conflicting things, some very good, some extremely bad, to too many different people, like the war in Ukraine, itself.

So now, the banner motto heading on every DC Superman comic has been changed to now instead read, “Truth, Justice, and Hope for a Better Day and a Better World. For a time, some cartoonists at DC Comics argued that it should instead read: “Truth, Justice, and Hope for a Better Tomorrow”.

But apparently, DC Comic cartoonists thought longer on it. “A Better World”, they conjectured, might withstand the test of time more than “A Better Tomorrow”. A smart move, perhaps, given the very real nuclear threat that now looms ever larger on the horizon, that suggests there may no longer be a “Better Tomorrow”, or maybe not even a ‘Better World’, as the ever more likely fascist rather than democratic world also looms ever larger in the future.

Also, in keeping up with the changing social demographics of the times, and the wide disparity that exists now in sexual preferences among the world’s populace, DC Comic cartoonists have also added a new main character to the storyline of the DC Superman classic series.

Now, newspaper reporter Clark Kent has a new half-earthling son, Jon Kent, who, surprise-surprise again, is bisexual, has since been added. This means either Clark Kent (i.e. Superman), or his wife (‘Lois Lane’), or whomever, also must have some bi-sexual genes or tendencies floating around somewhere between them.

Now young lads and lasses in each new issue, everywhere in the world, including Ukraine, will also be challenged, not only by war, but forced to deal with the world’s many complex hostilities, prejudices, and confusions about not only sexual identity but about all the other taxing things that so bedevil young people today everywhere, as like young Jon Kent will have to face in each new comic in the series. Isn’t that so de rigueur.

(DC Comics Changes Superman Motto, Drops ‘American Way’ The Hollywood Reporter )

THE END GAME SEEMS ORDAINED

What Ultra-Nationalist and neo-Nazi’s in both the West and East now are doing to try to totally crush Mother Russia once again is pure evil. They’re calling this a Watershed Moment in empire-building history. They can smell the blood in the water, absolutely thirst for it and think they’ve got the Russian Bear finally cornered and can take him and his empire totally out now.

But if they’re wrong and the now severely-wounded, but still extremely dangerous and not yet quite mortally wounded, Russian Bear still has some clever, devious tricks up its ‘bruin’ sleeve; one need only recall the heroic struggle Russia’s leaders and their people once bravely-marshalled against the so-called ‘invincible’ Nazi Germans. They should then know the awesome threat the West is still up against. In the end, for all the West’s efforts, the whole world might end up on the same short-end of the same stick. And we all maybe will end up equally dead!

The EU, without any previous legal precedent to fall back on, continues to ship weapons to every hamlet and berg in Ukraine. A major tabooed breach in international law has now been seriously, dangerously, violated forever. The only weak, dishonest lie the EU has so far been able to give as a reason is, “We live in unprecedented times.” What a pathetic, duplicitous excuse! Only more egregious lies upon lies upon lies.

Zelenskyy tries to cover for his own warring aggressions by sending out prepared duplicitous smoke screen press releases about so-called ‘peace talks’, but then, before the talks ever even begun, Zelenskyy tells the press, “I do not believe in the outcome of the peace talks.”

But the genie now is out of the bottle. It’s ‘Open Season” on ‘Commies’. Zilenskyy, Biden, and all the rest are looking for legal ways to cut off the snake’s head without personally endangering themselves.

It’s a daring, reckless gambit with nuclear bombs hanging over everyone’s heads now serving as the deadly pawns in the game. Every human and every nation is under threat, with wide swatches of their homelands ravaged and left in ruins. It’s Doctor Strangelove time at the movies for real.

UNAF forces and their Western allies are looking to destroy the last of the real democracies the way the Communist Revolution once swept the world and led to a whole generation of rebellions, rebels, refugees, murderers bred on war and fueled by chaos.

It’s now already not out of the impossible realm, that someone’s quick, nervous finger on the button, in a moment of insanity, quicker than anyone can say Armageddon, or ‘BOOM’; places like: Ukraine; US; Russia; Kiev; Vladivostok; Moscow; and everywhere in-between in: Europe’, North America and South America will disappear in the blink of an eye; segue to Turtledove’s trilogy in 2016.

In 2016, Author Harry Turtledove, wrote a ‘Hot War’ trilogy on the Effects of a Nuclear War in three novels: Armistice; Bomb’s Away; and Fall-Out. Turtledove, realizing what the Russian coup of 2014 portended, wrote about an unthinkable ‘alternative history’ of an ‘unthinkable’ nuclear war caused by: a simple act of folly; one poor decision; one instance of rage; one fit of madness; when the Cold War instantly turns ‘very hot’ and the U.S. and Russia have finally been goaded into unleashing their vast nuclear arsenals at one another, in one last big Donnybrook

In Turtledove’s trilogy, of course, millions die and millions more are displaced. Germans end up fighting next to Americans. Polish freedom fighters stand next to Russian fascists; each trying to protect themselves and their tiny portion of Mother Russia or Mother Earth from extinction.

Yet, in a real live 2022 setting, it could just as easily be something like: Russian patriots and leftist ‘greenies’, worldwide, are forced to fight now against New World Order mad men and women, to try to protect Mother Russia and Mother Earth against Ukrainian neo-Nazi storm troopers and other mercenary armies.

With the weaponry and destructive power humans now have at their ready disposal, this moment in history is perhaps bigger than any or all the other revolutions put together that have come before whether by the Americans, French, Russians or Chinese. Yet much of the duped Human Race still are just as ignorant, still as selfish and brainwashed as what led up to and caused any one of the world conditions that contributed to all the former revolutions now past.

WHAT TIME IS IT ON THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK

The Doomsday Atomic Clock was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein who helped develop the first atomic weapon in the Manhattan Project. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is sent every year to the Board of Scientists, eleven of whom are Nobel Laureates. The clock has become an internationally-recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe, man-made or natural. It was last updated on January 20th, 2022, but before the beginning developments of the war in Ukraine.

International analysts once said there was “no chance” that the Soviets would ever go to the ‘nuclear’ level over any issue with Korea, or even China and the US, but all bets are off now when nations and peoples get pushed as far as the way the insane Western propagandists and international fascists now are pushing Russia and the Russian people.

Up until this moment, the closest the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have ever said the Human Race has come to a ‘Doomsday’, ‘Armageddon’ moment was 3 minutes to Midnight during the Reagan arms race with the Soviet Union. In 2017, the Bulletin sent out its first bulletin update of the clock since 2015. By then, the 3 Minutes to Midnight hands had moved closer by one minute to ‘2-and-a-half Minutes to Midnight’, the closest the world had then been to Armageddon since 1952, during the Korean war and the H-Bomb tests.

On Jan 20, 2022, before the Ukraine War broke open, the Doomsday clock was the closest again it EVER has come to an apocalyptic moment, where its hands have remained frozen a mere “100 Seconds to Midnight”, for the third-year running.

With the proliferation of nuclear devices in Israel, Iran, North Korea and China, on top of the war in Ukraine, not to mention the United States testing of tactical nuclear weapons, and Russia’s bombing of nuclear plants inside Ukraine, it’s impossible to know how many fewer-seconds closer now to Midnight the Doomsday Clock’s is at. But it must be very, very close.

MADNESS OF WAR IN UKRAINE COMES FULL CIRCLE*

This writing undertaken here, that has now come to over 3,500 words, has amounted to a search of self-discovery for te author and others to arrive at some degree of personal truth and understanding about who and what is behind all the madness of the Proxy War in Ukraine, and the ultimate dangers this madness poses to all life upon the planet, for all the future generations of life yet to come on the earth.

One can only hope the world will learn, before it’s too late, what Albert Einstein, the creator of the Atomic Doomsday Clock, meant when he once warned:

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

(Jerome Irwin is a Canadian-American writer who once upon a time in university was a Criminology student while working in one of America’s local police departments. For decades, Irwin says he has especially sought to call world attention to problems of environmental degradation and unsustainability caused by a host of environmental-ecological-spiritual issues that exist between the conflicting world philosophies of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

Irwin is the author of the book, “The Wild Gentle Ones; A Turtle Island Odyssey” (www.turtle-island-odyssey.com), a spiritual odyssey among the native peoples of North America that has led to numerous articles pertaining to: Ireland’s Fenian Movement; native peoples Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Movement; AIPAC, Israel & the U.S. Congress anti-BDS Movement; the historic Battle for Palestine & Siege of Gaza, as well as; what he describes as the many violations constantly being waged by industrial-corporate-military-propaganda interests against the World’s Collective Soul).