Soon the only “medium” left will be the streets and rebellion | Strategic Culture Foundation

Soon the only “medium” left will be the streets and rebellion against the elites – if, that is, the Western public hasn’t been made totally comatose yet.

When Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky recently declared the war in his country “could go on for another 10 years”, the weapons industries in the United States and Europe must have been rubbing their hands with glee.

The U.S. and NATO partners have already plied billions of dollars worth of weapons into Ukraine. And the Russian military is destroying the gifted munitions as fast as they’re arriving – the destruction accelerating this week with Russia hitting depots with cruise missiles. Zelensky calls for more weapons to be sent and the Western states happily oblige.

The Ukrainian president, being a comic actor before his political career took off, will no doubt appreciate the absurdity of the situation. His country is the scene of a modern-day version of Catch-22 playing out. The 1961 novel by Joseph Heller is a classic satire on the absurdity of war driven by corporate profit. Violence is nothing but a messy means to an end of creating more profit. The messier, the better. Forget about platitudes invoking noble principles. That’s just for packaging the cruel, hideous cycle.

Zelensky and his Western supporters talk about “defending democracy”. What they mean is “defending profits”.

Writes Karl Haki: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/23/catch-22-plays-out-in-ukraine/

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