Normalization. It happens fast. The Catholic Church, which I love, is suggesting we watch less tv and pray more. I can walk and chew gum but hey, for those who listened, its hurting Tucker Carlson's ratings. There is an upside.
We are watching deliberate bombing of Ukrainian children and talking about how Zelensky is channeling Churchill. He's desperate for help, we are charging war crimes and fucking with oligarchs and sanctions and all along praising those still alive in Ukraine.
The fear of nuclear war is no longer an excuse: Russia has control of Chernobyl, shut out the power and now...Zaporizhzhia is under Russian control - the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. But boy that Zelensky is Churclillian.
Just to frame this a bit: The White House under FDR had an undercurrent of antisemitism. When William Dodd, the German Ambassador in 1933, told Roosevelt he was seeing the beginnings of something terrible, FDR told him to just get the money they owe us. He was recalled soon after that.
When Kristallnacht became known around the world - or at least some it - people were outraged. But it passed because the free world did nothing. By doing nothing, the US normalized this and nowhere is this more evident than in the horrible, unforgiveable BUT FORGOTTON turning away of the St. Louis - the last ship out of Germany which Cuba -surprise - decided not to accept.
There it sat, visible on the Florida horizon. Until there was no choice....they went back. Nearly all died in a camp.
This idea that by cancelling Gergiev's concerts or closing McDonalds we will stop Putin from wiping out Ukraine is folly and I think it is a sin. A great sin.
The only single fucking thing that is promising - and keep your eyes on this - is Alexei Navalny who is saying KEEP PROTESTING in the Russian Streets for it is the people that will destroy Putin.
Chances are Navalny will be killed before it will happen but it will.
When Zelensky is killed he will be remembered as "Churchillian", leading the plucky Ukrainians.
We have learned nothing.
The thing is WE THE PEOPLE have the intelligence that we didn't have in WWII.
But here we are finding a nuclear reason not to stop these war crimes but to wait and seek to hold Putin accountable in a tribunal?
"It seems that the fire at this nuclear plant is contained", said some American on my tv just now.
I shut it off. I'm going to pray.
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