Questions and Answers #12 Causes of the Current Conflict
Today is Friday, which means theory day.
And this column is "Questions and Answers," because our reader suggested I discuss an article by Israeli comrade Krich Li on Aftershock, which suggests that all this time (since Putin's election) a hellish plan devised by some American mega-brain has been working against Russia, so beware, and the fact that it's miraculously not working is a coincidence and the work of Providence. I was asked to express my thoughts on all this.
Accordingly, my short answer is that I'm not prepared to discuss it, as the article itself is an example of the pathetic self-justification of a man who once abandoned his homeland for the theoretical perks of a "promised land," and an example of an attempt to say, "We're with America—stronk!" The reason for my response is that this article is completely at odds with the known facts, as well as with current social theory, attempting to conflate the influence of various forces with a single actor, which is then accused of being a global bogeyman. This method is not new and is called "blaming others." The causes of current events are entirely different and can be reduced to the unfortunate practice of the Papacy explaining the outcome of the Peace of Westphalia, Russian sources explaining the outcome of the Napoleonic Wars, or future American historians explaining how and why they suddenly screwed everything up after the end of the Cold War. In reality, the papists certainly won the Thirty Years' War, Russian armies finished off Napoleon right in his lair, just as the United States destroyed the Soviet Union, and not the other way around. However, all these events occurred at the very end of their respective seasons, and yesterday's victors quickly woke up to a completely new reality, where their strengths mattered little and, by and large, no longer matter. That's exactly what we'll talk about today.
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