How tiresome for Russia — when the nuke-armed West is almost literally braindead

11 February 2022

Depantsing oneself in public is generally a poor idea

Consider the international implications of the following Britain versus Russia incident.

Britain's foreign secretary, Liz Truss, traveled to meet her Russian equivalent, Sergey Lavrov, in Moscow about the Ukraine situation.

There, Truss was videoed pontificating over a translator's version of what someone else had previously said. Rudeness is not what competent diplomats do. Maintaining the appearance of courteous respect is one of diplomacy's core principles.

Then, even more revealingly, Truss obtusely revealed the astonishing depth of her stroll-by incompetence, both as to disregarded facts and her inability to reason — my slight additions in brackets:

The British Foreign Secretary told the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry about the need to withdraw Russian armed forces from the Ukrainian border.

Sergei Lavrov replied that the military is on the territory of his country.

Liz Truss repeated that they should be withdrawn. To this, the Russian minister again objected that the military is not violating anything, since they have the right to conduct any maneuvers on the territory of the Russian Federation.

After that, he himself addressed a question to his British colleague: “Do you recognize the sovereignty of Russia over the Rostov [see here] and Voronezh [see here] regions?”

“Great Britain will never recognize Russian sovereignty over these regions,” the Foreign Minister replied after a short pause.

British Ambassador to the Russian Federation Deborah Bonnert had to intervene in the situation, who delicately explained to Mrs. Truss that we were really talking about Russian regions.

Truss's response to the Rostov-Voronezh question is equivalent to a Canadian foreign minister telling a US secretary of state that Canada will never recognize American sovereignty over Minnesota and Montana.

Let's further plumb the significance of Secretary Truss's obtuse display

First, Britain knowingly sent an arguably complete twit to deal with the world's arguably most competent, geographically knowledgeable, historically attuned and internationally skillful foreign minister.

Second, London managed (further) to leave their dumbshit-emulating emissary unprepared and vulnerable to predictable counterarguments from the admirably skilled Russian foreign minister.

Now, keep in mind that Truss's anti-diplomatic obtuseness has been repeatedly surpassed . . .

. . . (in its ability to harm babies and innocents) by her American equivalents.

Think (most recently) Mike Pompeo and Tony Blinken.

What does such strutted airheadism tell us about the West's character?

Overweening arrogance?

Stone-walled inability to see other nations' points of view?

Avalanched disregard for facts of any kind?

Addictive predilection for elevating dolts to high government positions?

The moral? — How does diplomacy work . . .

. . . under Stupidity Conditions like these?

It doesn't.

This is a situation that pits educated, reasoning humans against lobotomized, barely conscious baboons.

Eventually, so as to preserve itself, the abused human side will take up arms to correct the squashing disrespect that it faces from those nukes-fondling mush-brains.

And then, we'll all be losers.

So, be careful whom you pick to further Homo sapiens' survival.

In this instance, it is not the Russians who are the problem.

PeteFree.com

How tiresome for Russia — when the nuke-armed West is almost literally braindead