Putin just simulated a nuclear attack on Ukraine. He launched an intercontinental ballistic missile at the city of Dnipro, Ukraine - the first use of an ICBM in the history of human warfare.
Here we have an aggressor nation simulating a nuclear attack on a non-nuclear power. The most blatant provocation imaginable.
But magically, this obscene thuggery doesn’t count as ‘’aggression’’ or ‘’escalation.’’
Because only the West can ever escalate things, you see.
This raises a legitimate question: Does Putin have some kind of God-given right to annihilate humanity in a nuclear holocaust unless we immediately capitulate to every single one of his demands?
I have to ask this because a wide range of political figures ranging from the far-left to the far-right - Tucker Carlson, Jeremy Corbyn, Andrew Tate, Diane Abbott - all seem to believe that Putin possesses this divine right.
This merry brigade of appeasers, capitulationists and apologists for Russian terror and horror are all out in force right now begging our leaders to give Putin everything he wants.
They believe Putin has the right to end humanity and all life on Earth if he is not allowed to gobble up Ukraine and turn the largest country in Europe into a concentration camp.
It is hard to understand their logic.
Russia can bomb and slaughter Ukrainian civilians in Kharkiv every day for 1001 days in a row.
But the second you support Ukraine’s right to fire back to defend itself, you’re a ‘’neo-con warmonger.’’ You’ve pushed the world to the brink of World War III!
Why not take their tortured logic and try apply it to everyday life?
Imagine you’re taking the train and you see a crazy rapist attempt to attack a girl. Let’s imagine that his name is Putin.
This is not even an extreme analogy when considering the fact Putin joked about raping Ukraine at a press conference just prior to the invasion in 2022: ‘‘Like it or not, my beauty, you have to put up with it,’’ he smirked.
So imagine, now, this crazy rapist named Putin threatens to rape somebody in front of you.
Do you try step in to help the innocent girl and protect her from harm?
God no! What are you, Dick Cheney? That would be a horrible escalation, blatant aggression, World War III.
This is literally the mindset of Tucker Carlson. Putin gets to rape everybody and that’s fine. Fighting back is the real evil.
Just check out his podcast today with Glenn Greenwald. He tells Glenn that Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use ATACMS missiles to defend itself from Russia’s invasion is the single ‘‘most evil thing I’ve seen in my lifetime.”
Wow! The single most evil thing?
Tucker Carlson’s 55 years old. He lived through Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy’s serial killer murder sprees. Helping Ukraine is clearly more evil than Dahmer and Ted Bundy combined!
Indeed, attempting to help Ukraine defend itself from a genocidal invasion is more evil than the genocidal invasion itself.
Who can even explain this mindset? It’s pathological.
They have a pathological need to suck Putin off.
Glenn Greenwald actually defended Putin’s right to nuke America in the same podcast. He says that America is giving Putin no choice and now Putin just has to do it: ‘’I mean why wouldn’t they?”
And Tristan Tate was practically gagging on it, replying to the drunken Medvedev on Twitter with a proclamation that he and his brother Andrew are ‘‘relying on Russia to save the world.’’
French leftist leader Jean-Luc Melenchon chimed in to denounce Biden’s ‘‘absurd and criminal strategy’’ aimed at helping Ukraine defend itself.
Let us stop for a second and imagine the world that these lunatics wish to usher in.
Hand over the Xbox controller, give Putin Mum’s credit card with the three digits on the back.
Call Uber Eats, put the chicken tendies in the oven. Remember that he likes his sandwiches with no crusts.
Volodomyr, how are your hamstrings, can we interest you in an inner thigh massage? David Sachs, Vova needs an oil massage, chop chop.
We have to do something - ANYTHING - to avert the menace of nuclear holocaust. He’s carrying a lot of tension in his shoulders. Would you really hold off if refusing might spell the end of all life on Earth?
David, we’re waiting. It’s not gay if you’re doing it to avert nuclear winter.
If David is presently unavailable, we can have Charlie Kirk sub in.
What powerful words Charlie wrote for us all on Twitter: ‘‘Dear Russian people, very few Americans want war with you. Most of us want a friendly relationship. The people obsessed with fighting you forever are a minority. We want peace. Ignore our current leaders.’’
I particularly liked Charlie’s direct appeal to the Russian people - it’s always important to recognise Russia’s vibrant democracy.
Hard hitting stuff, which is, coincidentally, what Charlie was thinking when accompanying Putin on one of their regular tandem shirtless horse riding sojourns through the Siberian wilderness.
Here’s a question for David and Charlie. Why is it that Putin and his propaganda stooges can daily threaten to murder billions of innocent people and wipe out all life on Earth, but it is WE who are the warmongers?
Do you think Russia might have been a little ‘‘escalatory’’ when they invaded Ukraine with 180,000 soldiers on February 22, 2022?
Do you think Russia might have been a little ‘‘escalatory’’ when they turned occupied Ukrainian villages like Bucha and Irpin into sites of mass slaughter?
Civilians were found with their hands behind their backs in mass graves. Was this escalatory?
How about the time Russia blew up the Nova Khakovka dam? Do you think that might have been a wee bit aggressive?
What about Russia’s recent effort to bring North Korea into the war - employing North Korean soldiers to fight a land war in continental Europe. Could this constitute ‘‘escalation’’?
No. Of course not. Russia is apparently allowed to slaughter and rape and pillage with impunity. This is just the normal state of affairs in the world. The state of nature itself. And we must all accept it.
What happened to standing your ground?
The point of nuclear blackmail and brinkmanship is to try to fool the opposing side into backing down.
It’s all a psy-op and it only works if you give in. It’s a test of will.
So the aim of Tucker Carlson, Jeremy Corbyn, Jackson Hinkle, Andrew Tate is to do Putin’s work for him and demoralize the population and break our will.
If Putin was serious about nuking the world he would have already done it by now. Why is it that the decisive, conclusive rout of his forces on the doorstep of Kyiv did not merit a nuclear response?
Ukraine has already developed their own weapon systems that allow them to strike deep into the heart of Russia.
They’ve blown up ammunition depots thousands of kilometers away from the Ukrainian frontline and the subsequent detonations were so great that they literally shook the Earth. We are talking about some of the largest non-nuclear explosions in human history - explosions that registered on earthquake monitors.
Did this merit a nuclear response on the part of Putin?
When Ukrainians use Ukrainian made bombs to blow up Russian ammunition depots, everything’s fine.
But if the Ukrainians use Western made bombs to blow up Russian ammunition depots, we’re expected to believe that Putin will annihilate the entire world in nuclear hellfire.
It seems like - and this is only a hunch - but it seems like Putin is attempting to make us hand over the entirety of Ukraine.
And just to be clear, I don't want war. I hate war. But as somebody who is not a midwit I understand that peace can only be secured through strength.
Peace cannot be secured through appeasement. This is the lesson of twenty years of Russian engagement with Putin.
We let him burn Chechnya to the ground. Did that stop him?
We looked the other way when he poisoned Russians with radioactive Polonium-210 in the heart of London. Did that stop him?
When Russia invaded Ukraine and seized Crimea in 2014, Obama refused to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons to resist. He offered them nothing but blankets. Did that stop Putin?
All these decades of meetings, phone calls, diplomatic summits, diplomatic ‘’resets’’ - did they rein him in?
We let Putin host the FIFA World Cup and just four years later he initiated the largest land war in Europe in eighty years.
Every time we appeased Putin, he learned a lesson. And that lesson was that we are weak.
There is an old quote by Vladimir Lenin. ‘‘You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw.”
For the past two decades, Putin has found only mush.
And so he has pushed and pushed and pushed and now hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are dead as a result.
It is time that Putin’s bayonet finally comes up against steel.
Peace through strength. Give into nuclear blackmail now and you teach Putin that it works. Next will be Estonia and Latvia, then Poland. We cannot give in.
If you want to reduce the risk of World War III, force Russia to leave Ukraine. Give Ukraine what it needs to win.
Refuse to give into the psy-op. Vladimir Putin is not God and he has no God-given right to murder billions of human beings unless we give him everything he wants.
My Ukraine peace plan:
1. US signs an agreement with Ukraine that if Russia uses nukes on Ukraine, US will within days transfer long range missiles with equivalent megatonnage to the control to the AFU. Just to make the game theory really simple.
2. Europe collectively puts 150,000-300,000 troops on the ground into UKR to shore up the frontline, and enforces a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
3. Germany (because their army is useless, and France and Poland will be doing the heavy lifting) finances setup of a 1000 km2 drone manufacturing SEZ in Lviv.
4. Wait for 21% interest rates in Russia and 1000 casualties a day to do the rest.