Virtue-signaling originates in lard-filled skulls — a foreign policy example

© 2022 Peter Free

 

22 June 2022

 

 

Virtue-signaling makes the United States terminally stupid

 

Consider the culturally indicative (nauseatingly hypocritical) idiocy of the following quote.

 

According to Larry Johnson:

 

 

Graham E. Fuller, who was Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council at CIA back when I was an analyst [said that] . . .

 

The war in Ukraine has dragged on long enough now to reveal certain clear trajectories.

 

First, two fundamental realities:

 

Putin is to be condemned for launching this war– as is virtually any leader who launches any war.

 

Putin can be termed a war criminal–in good company with George W. Bush who has killed vastly greater numbers than Putin.

 

Secondary condemnation belongs to the US (NATO) in deliberately provoking a war with Russia by implacably pushing its hostile military organization, despite Moscow’s repeated notifications about crossing red lines, right up to the gates of Russia.

 

This war did not have to be if Ukranian neutrality, á la Finland and Austria, had been accepted. Instead Washington has called for clear Russian defeat.

 

© 2022 Larry Johnson, Western military analysts, including the CIA, dazed and confused, sonar21.com (21 June 2022)

 

 

Do tell me . . .

 

. . . if I verbally and physically threaten your survival — and I finally force you to defend yourself with a dose of offsetting and self-defending violence — this occurring exactly according to my evil plan — how does your existence-protecting self-defense make you condemnation-worthy?

 

 

History speaks

 

Great powers do not allow themselves to be encircled and existentially threatened on a daily basis.

 

Great powers do react violently to buffer zone encroachments by other hegemons.

 

Geopolitically sensible hegemons do not ignore other great powers' red line warnings.

 

 

Does any one of our virtue-signaling American mush-brains think that . . .

 

. . . the United States would have stood peacefully still for Russian (or Chinese) weaponization of a nation anywhere in our hemisphere? Much less of a country directly adjacent to our border?

 

 

The moral? — The inability to see ourselves . . .

 

. . . fuels American hypocrisy and self-destruction.

 

Our culturally mandated inability to properly reason about virtually anything— is toilet-swirling us into History's septic tank.