Murder sells my dear. Murder sells.
An insular nation soon attaches its sense of morality to its ability to wage war on foreigners: foreigners being anyone the nation has decided isn’t a part of its protected and privileged population irrespective of its actual geopolitical borders.
This very ability to kill outsiders is what accentuates feelings of moral superiority in the national collective. This is not hard to imagine: for god himself, in our context, a Christian fairy in the sky, does all things which then become by definition good. When god allegedly participated in genocides in the bible, it was by definition good. Because it was god. His capacity to commit atrocity on a grand scale with overwhelming power is precisely why he was god and good: it was the basis of his morality, the capacity to unleash great gratuitous violence.
America and the west’s sense of morality is intrinsically tied to their ability to determine the fates of millions across the planet, especially the browner and blacker parts of it, and to label that ability a type of exercise in goodness. This is why even slavery and all its horror in America is still largely understood as a bump… a mere misstep. The genocide of natives… a mere process in the search for ultimate good. More recently, Iraq and Libya… mere necessities towards championing good causes, nevermind the millions killed. Nevermind the resources pillaged. The arms shipped into the DR Congo? Nothing more than “releasing idle resources to value adding markets” in the west so that bloodstained iPhones and flat screens can liter homes and restaurants and bars to televise and spread the underlying propaganda which holds all this bloodfest in place.
We non-westerners understand this psychosis. But now its turning on its own people: westerners. And its shocking and scary to them. Notice: people of color aren’t as traumatized by the Trump election: why? America just came out of its giant, historical, elephant in the room, closet. Its been victimizing them for centuries, and denying it for centuries under misinforming slogans such as “the negro problem”.
In this context, Russiagate is just a new form of denial. A refusal now on the so called liberal side of politics to stare this monster in the face: two cheeks of the same buttock now emerge: traditional deniers on the right and neoliberal deniers on the left, and a population engulfed in the rotten fumes in the middle being urged to breathe deeper and harder; being urged on to inflate their lungs and to inhale these ghastly intestinal fumes of clarity, to join this russophobic bandwagon even if it takes us to an irreversible nuclear war. That war would be, in their eyes as stated at the start, for good… nevermind the catastrophe.
Meanwhile the monster that is neoliberalism which has overseen the destruction of millions in the non-west is left unshackled, so that it now comes back to the west to give its people a taste of the policies we have wailing against since the 1980s and 1990s — the so called structural adjustment programmes which Greece recently swallowed and which Argentina is currently injesting. Policies which Britain inflicted upon itself under the auspices of fiscal austerity and whose instability it struggles under today. As this policies return home to their commissioning capitals, neoliberalism becomes truly racially and globally indiscriminate. It pursues equity in what was previously a global southern misanthropy.
Once more. Welcome to the world as it has always been….in the so called global South or in the chocolate parts of the USA and of the wider west. Just wait until climate change, which has been ravaging us for about two decades now and to which we did not contribute, comes to your doors as well. Putin will really have dropped a joker: yes, Putin who is now about 2 months away from causing earthquakes and tsunamis as his meteoric rise to god-dom continues to buttress this liberal denialism even as countless dollars in the spirit of the same bloody neoliberalism markets this completely manufactured sham of a story to feed the profits of the same system which produces the human and ecological crises we now confront. What a shame.
With love from Russia (as my dear sister always signs off),
Traffique_Jaam
