Self-destructing West's asinine anti-Russian vengeance

30 March 2022

The Russo-Ukrainian War clearly reveals the West's self-destroying insanity

For instance . . .

In Germany — what's in a Z?

As if Germans do not have bigger things to worry about (like energy supplies), we get the following inane reaction:

German officials plan to prosecute people who display the "Z" symbol associated with Russia's war in Ukraine.

The interior ministry said Monday it welcomed announcements by several regional states that people who use the symbol will face legal action on the basis of a law that forbids the public approval of illegal acts.

Germans could fall foul of the law if they paint the symbol on property, display it during demonstrations or publish it online. If found guilty, they could be fined or jailed for up to three years, according to the criminal code.

The white "Z" became a symbol of Russia's war after being painted on military vehicles taking part in the invasion of Ukraine. Its meaning is not clear; some believe it represents a military zone, others suggest it refers to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Russian defense ministry has indicated it stands for “za pobedu,” meaning “for victory.”

The German states of Berlin, Bavaria, Saxony and Lower Saxony have all announced they will take legal action against people using the symbol. Officials in three more states — Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt — have said they are looking into similar measures.

Michael Roth, a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats who chairs the Bundestag's foreign affairs committee, welcomed the announcements.

That's kind'a up there with banning Russian-pedigreed cats.

And in Britain

Not wanting to be outdone on The Idiocy Spectrum, Boris Johnson removed any reason for the Russians to negotiate an end to the war:

The G7 should intensify sanctions against Russia until all Russian troops have left Ukraine, the British prime minister said.

Boris Johnson told a parliamentary committee Wednesday that the public should not expect the G7 group of the world’s seven most industrialized democracies to lift sanctions “simply because there has been a ceasefire in Ukraine,” adding that doing so “goes straight into [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s playbook”.

The British government’s view is that the U.K. and its allies should “continue to intensify sanctions with a rolling program until every single one of his troops is out of Ukraine”, Johnson said.

The Prime Minister's statement explicitly confirmed that the West continues to think that it (not Russia) should be able to dictate Russia's perception of its own existential security.

Not much to negotiate in that, is there?

Then . . .

. . . there's that Gallic affront to sensible geopolitics, Macron.

From Voice of America:

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin's demand for Europe to pay for gas in rubles as he accused Moscow of trying to sidestep sanctions over its war on Ukraine.

Macron told journalists after an EU summit in Brussels that the Russian move "is not in line with what was signed, and I do not see why we would apply it."

Putin made the demand this week as Moscow struggles to prop up its economy in the face of debilitating sanctions imposed by the West over his invasion of Ukraine.

Macron said that "we are continuing our analysis work" following the Kremlin's maneuver.

But he insisted "all the texts signed are clear: it is prohibited. So European players who buy gas and who are on European soil must do so in euros."

"It is therefore not possible today to do what is requested, and it is not contractual," he said.

The French leader said he believed Moscow was using the step as "a mechanism to circumvent" EU sanctions against it for the assault on Ukraine.

Major gas buyer Germany has denounced the move and Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday reiterated that the contracts clearly stipulated how the gas should be paid for.

So let's see, Emmanuel, mon ami:

Y'all NATO-US types can illegally seize and steal billions of dollars in Russian assets.

But — according to your enthusiastically pillaging selves — the Russians may not break the currency wording of an energy supply contract in response.

Even when the Federation does so via a contract deviation that steals nothing from anybody?

Is this how it goes in La Grande France?

The moral? — There is (very obviously) more than just one irrationally self-righteous pipsqueak in the West

Will species-alien geologists (one day) look upon a sedimentary layer comprised of nuclear ashes and be thankful that the violence-peddling life form — that instigated the radioactive remembrance — wiped itself out?

Mon Dieu.

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Self-destructing West's asinine anti-Russian vengeance