BBC
I just watched a detailed three part BBC documentary called “Putin and the West”.
Basically it’s a hatchet job on Vlad the lessor, made by his enemies.
Little effort was spared to create the impression that no effort was spared to make this advertorial appear completely unbiased.
What I got out of it is that they’re all mad; politicians, dictators and their collective advisors and servants. The lot of them. Except just maybe Zelensky (or he’s simply the best actor).
There’s a lot of speculation as to why Putin doesn’t share the values of the West, and what his values actually are.
One thing for sure, he doesn’t mind collateral damage whereas his Western counterparts go to great lengths to pretend that they abhor collateral damage.
And yet they collectively start wars that have much collateral damage. They do this and then claim three ameliorating factors;
1. They don’t know why the other bastards are so unreasonable
2. All their allies are also unreasonable and not one of them can act unilaterally, unless it suits them to do so
3. They’re way too dumb to be able to predict what the other fucker will do in response to whatever is their fucktard action de jour.
Actually are they that dumb? Mankind has solved much harder problems when there’s a quid in it. For example, we can design and build Landrovers, poker machines and catflaps.
Coming to my conclusion, these problems aren’t anticipated and presolved because there’s a quid in chaos and war.
Sometimes that quid is power, sometimes fame, and sometimes just a quid.
At the core the issue is whatever those Freudian-style mummy and daddy issues are that drive people into these leadership roles.
To fix it, we need good AI to weed the fuckers out before they even get going. There’s no point trying to fix them because my guess is that they’re beyond repair by 8 years of age.