As a certified “dupe of Putin” in the
eyes of our McCarthyite, mob rule majority that speaks for the American foreign
policy establishment, I use this opportunity to restate my claim to independent
thinking about the big issues of responsibility for the ongoing and escalating
New Cold War, including each and every major incident along the way.
If only there were no consequences
for you, dear reader, for myself and for the 7 billion plus other souls on this
planet, I would say “a pox on both your houses” in address to the political
leaderships of both the US-EU “global community” (formerly known as the “free
world”) and the Russian Federation (formerly known as the “empire of
evil”). However, any such curse will rebound on us.
To put it in the language of the once
fashionable MIT bard of the 1960s Tom Lehrer: “we will all go together when we
go.” For this reason, let us take the time to sort out where this spiral
of action and reaction, where the mutual contempt and provocations are taking
us and what, if anything, we simple mortals outside government can do about it.
