UKRAINE & THE WESTERN THEATRE OF WAR: A MIX OF FARCE & BLACK COMEDY

In any theatre of war little is truly as it seems. With political & media elites brandishing verbal fig leafs to hide all inconvenient realities what chance is there to learn the truth?

Western pseudo-military figures are marching daily to their safe little home stages to provide their own personal showpiece of hypocrisy mixed with hubris. Mixing metaphors terribly these innumerable clamouring pots are calling rather untarnished kettles black quite immune to the irony of their position. They prove over and over and over again that empty vessels treally do make the most noise. 

You might think the armchair generals of the West would have learned a lesson or two concerning how people see them after Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. But no, no lessons were learned. Each time they simply set the stage for their very next performance. They bombed one nation after another and being no class act their performance generally also bombed in the estimation of their wider audience. But were they diverted from the task they gave themselves of hitting the next target in line? They were not.

The global audience, watching the deadly playacting of their leaders and their puppets in western media regarding what’s going on in Ukraine is more and more perplexed. They are told that losing is actually winning, no matter what your critical faculties may be telling you. Ukraine is winning hands down, Russia is dismayed with dissension in the ranks, collapsing morale in its army, enormous numbers of Russian troops are being lost in ‘meat wave’ attacks… and their commander in chief racking his brain for some way out of a mess that’s only getting worse. Poor Putin!

This is what western audiences have been promised and this is what they must get. The West be beaten? Never! But if this audience don’t get what was promised there’ll be trouble.They have been hearing about this successful play, its central devil of a character and the undoubted glorious ending for years now and they expect the same happy ending they have been promised. This is of course how it’s meant to be down here on God’s Golfball, isn’t it? The “good guys” win and the “bad guys” lose. Right? He’s up there watching and will SURELY make those evil Russkies turn around with their tails curled between their legs to beat a retreat abandoning the Ukrainian theatre of war. 

What other outcome could there possibly be? 

Surely this is the script being followed here. You’ve spun a good yarn up till now but… where’s the happy ending?

“Sorry, this is the author of the play here. I need to tell you a few little lies so you suspend any disbelief you might have. Besides, we would be seen as losers if we told you the bare facts. You surely don’t want a play like those Scandinavians put on depicting depressing, gloomy reality? Do You?”

“You want fantasy, don’t you?”

“You wouldn’t come to a play that makes you miserable, would you? 

“Just be happy with what we’re telling you…”

There’s a rustling of discontent as the play continues with saintly Ukrainians winning in every scene. But certain disquieting noises off stage are spoiling the show. There’s whispering going on here and there that is not part of the script. Word is going round that they’re actually losing! 

Why, the audience begins to ask, are we not hearing of Ukraine taking back villages, towns… and cities? All we’re hearing is generalized guff, opinion, assertion, and hearsay. Where are all the backdrops showing the images of massive Russian casualties that we were promised? Were there ‘meat wave’ attacks or were there not???

We paid good tax dollars for all the guns and missiles that were sent to Ukraine, billions and billions of dollars worth. Let’s see the amazing results of our investment in this story you are bragging about. We want to see what was promised. Where’s the collapse of the rouble into rubble scene that we read about in your advertising and the demise of the entire Russian economy tableau we came here to see as a major highlight??

And how come WE are the ones suffering instead of them???!

What’s going on????!!!

“Okay, get with the programme… all will be well. The new director, Mark Rutte says so.”

“Don’t worry… be happy. Everything’s under control. The management absolutely guarantees your total satisfaction.” 

(Reluctantly)) “Okay, okay… but bring on that happy ending, like right now, okay? 

Or we’re outta here.”