the brilliantly leaping gazelle

This is only going to short post, in part because I’m so furious and in part because if it were going to be any longer, then it would require time-consuming research and time is not my friend right now.

In the Europe of 2023, an independent sovereign nation has been invaded by its much larger neighbour, one that is not only by a considerable margin the biggest military power on the continent. But one that is under the control of a leader also who is easily characterised as a ‘path this or a ‘list that. However, from an alternative point of view, one might reasonably deduce that he might have looked at 20th Century European history and arrived at a wholly rational decision, namely that the other European powers would talk a good talk, but actually do nothing.

For Austria in 1938, see Crimea in 2014. Both were justified on totally self-serving fabrications and both were used to gauge the response it would provoke. Angry words at The League of Nations in 1938 and the same angry words at the United Nations 2014 on both occasions, but both about as much use as a marzipan dildo. Meanwhile, whilst aggressor keeps on aggressing, the European leaders give ever more pitiful reasons to explain away why they must do nothing. What kind of fools are they, spineless or just scared. ‘All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing’, goes the old saying. The updated 2023 iteration is ‘Evil triumphs when there are not enough good people to stop them.’

Today is June 6th, 2023.