There is one very large underlying problem for almost everyone in the West, one that is particularly problematic when it comes to those with their hands on the levers of power and the men and women who advise them. This is the apparent and persistent inability to either, a) take a dispassionate neutral position on events on the battlefield, or b) to stand in the other man's shoes to gain his perspective.These inabilities in combination generate the constant biases that deliver almost everything western audiences are exposed to and have been exposed to for generations. This is unavoidable to a very large extent due simply to all the years that a west-centric view has been promulgated as the norm, and inevitably thereby, the vast majority of us have little resistance to seeing things constantly through a western lens.
The airways, TV media and press are observably indelibly soaked in the west-centric view. Impartiality is simply not an option. This reflects a 'war mode' milieu where nothing good can be said about the enemy and nothing bad about our friends. We see this in particular focus regarding the Israeli pummeling of the Palestinians in Gaza. We need only imagine the Russians doing this to Kiev to get just how contrasting in approach these various media sources would have.
Of course having a god-like academic perspective like that of Professor John J. Mearsheimer, one of the world's foremost experts in great power politics is pretty impossible for 99.99% of us. But does that mean we, and the western elites who are now becoming aware that a Ukrainian victory is not going to happen, shouldn't try?
Isn't some movement toward gaining an objective emotion and allegiance-free overview, where we engage the stone cold facts the ONLY way in fact we are all going to get anywhere near this? Our present crop of politicians in the West appear completely immune to such thoughts and are quite obviously, by their repeated statements, totally fixed in their pursuit of the impossible.
Add to all this that there cannot be anything approaching the clear cut victory for the West via Ukraine that is promised by all on the Kiev regime side of the argument for one simple reason, as repeatedly pointed out by Professor John J. Mearsheimer. The reason is this: The operation Russia began in February 2022 is an existential fight for Russia. It simply cannot afford to lose it. If it appears to be at anything close to an imminent risk of losing it will immediately take recourse to its nuclear arsenal.
The big question for the western powers is whether the relatively small proportion of Ukraine where the Russian-speakers live lives where they look to Russia with love and constant affiliation is worth the lives of millions, with no possible benefit in view. The answer is most probably yes however, as there are overarching ambitions among the western political elite that surpass concern for even this disastrous outcome.
The root of all the denial that the western powers are clearly immersed in on the question of Russia and Ukraine lies in the area of control.
The fervent desire that keeps the western powers glued to their ambitions vis a vis Ukraine is to push back the rise of the nations of the Global Majority that put at risk their historical ability to continue dominating their most vital geopolitical interests worldwide. In addition to fully restoring their former power, in recent decades they have sought to reach a far higher degree of control than they ever had before.
Nine eleven brought agreement among all the western powers that ALL non-West-compliant individuals/groups/nations and systems of governance unquestioningly MUST be weakened, undermined, eliminated and replaced. If Russia now attains its goals in Ukraine the entire forward momentum of the West to attain this goal, begun immediately after 9/11, is massively slowed if not terminated completely.
When and if it becomes clear that Russia has survived all the West has thrown at it the western powers will continue to try to weaken Russia by other means, but I suspect they know this is an extremely long shot indeed.
So what happens to the post 9/11 goals and the desperate and unquestioned necessity, as seen by the western powers, to attain full spectrum dominance and complete surveillance overview (basically the creation of a prison planet with the USA and its proxies as warders)? This is where the West, brought to its lowest point ever, will have to choose between two, for it, drastic options. Accept that they must reconcile themselves to being equal but not superior to all other nations on the planet and that they now cannot and never should have sought to act as exceptional and superior powers with an inalienable right to interfere wherever they wished. Or, to use its remaining power, essentially reduced at this point to its nuclear arsenal and continue to threaten the world into submission.
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