More thoughts on "The" Ukraine.
What fool on the Russian side gave these guys, these "rebels" AAA? (Anti-aircraft Artillery). I dunno but it was the bad idea that backfired big-time. There was some documentary on the tube the other day.....Frontline perhaps not sure but they were going over the mess in the Ukraine. There were a number of really startling scenes, images. One was of the public walking down the street in an Eastern Ukrainian town after government troops had shelled the city (Which was called a "separatist" stronghold) and the civilians and even the fighters were shockingly cavalier and even blase about the bodies laying about. There must have been ten or fifteen bodies, corpses. They just walked past them, stepped over them, pushed them aside as if they were just a very inconvenient sack of dirt. There was NONE of that classic Russian (and even Ukrainian) outpouring of soulful grief, thousands of flower bouquets laid on the bloody pavements...zero, none of it. Perhaps they'd not got round to it quite yet but I suspect something different. I suspect the old callousness of survivors who have just been through too much. I think it was the "shit, well, not me" and it's always "You today....Me tomorrow" mentality. Today it was you.....I live on and can't fret about it too much. The dead are dead and my agony will not bring them back. And then there is the airliner shot from the sky, Dutch bodies still strapped in their seats, dead in a vast Ukrainian wheat field. The very best in dumb mistakes. The bad PR can hardly resist but to flow freely now. If the Russians keep doing stupid shit like this the mind of the few in the West that still think will be made up, no wiggle room for honest assessment of the facts or legitimacy of complaints or what have you. The stupid kids slithering along on Main-street U.S.A., faces jammed into the latest "app", the tattooed freaks that find themselves more wound up about "gay-marriage" or legalizing pot will sober up just enough to form solid anti-Russian attitudes. How can they help themselves but to arrive at that conclusion? Drafted in a jiffy.
Then, there were the interviews with the leaders. Most had an almost unbelievable lack of decorum. They had a lack of awareness of perceptions (Particularly to Western viewers) but displayed a machismo "shtick" that was so stunningly obvious and stupid I really wanted to believe that the whole thing was some sort of demented put-on, a gigantic macabre play designed to infuriate. To be sure, one leader, from a distinct and different Russian separatist group was in a suit and tie. This man sat at a nice clean desk, plain and simple even humble but yet powerful background. He spoke, calmly and with civility and made good eye-contact with the reporter. This leader sat and listened and kept his hands folded inside one another resting them on the desk. He "looked" like a leader. Sure, a low-level pretender but at least he made some attempt to beguile and smooch with the press. Then...then there was the idiot. This dude was head to toe in a camouflage uniform. He was wearing officers belts with all sorts of manly accessories. That was clearly a bad choice for a "meet and greet" with western media organs notorious for massaging even the most mundane and nuanced facts into complete opposites. But this guy, he made it "too easy". He handed them goof-ball press-boys all the ammunition they could ever want. He gave them a gem of an opportunity to make every Russian separatist (Regardless of how legitimate their grievance against EU/NATO and the junta in Kiev) look like a complete murderous idiot. To make matters worse this jack-ass had a pistol, a Stetchkin or a Makarov, or some other deadly little piece and he was just playing with it on the highly polished surface of the table. He was just spinning it this way and that, like he was too macho to be disturbed with mealymouthed reporters' probing questions and he fiddled with his weapon to pass the time. This guy, some self-proclaimed "general" or "colonel" played with that damn thing all throughout the interview hardly stopping even one time. Little to no work there eh? The guy's a loose cannon, obviously!. Moscow stupidly gave these retards all the rope they need. And I thought only the West could be so dumb.
