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Sometimes among more rational excuse-mongers, it is not possible to blame one's parents for one's own flaws, because those parents may not have been old enough. So it is that Liberals seek to blame Stalin--a man dead for 55 years--for Putin's invasion of Georgia in August.(1)
We warned the Liberals about lackey government. The United $tates was sending military uniforms to Mikheil Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, but not real troops. The CIA literally married Saakashvili, who educated himself in the united $tates.
We emphasized the crazy little white nationalisms of the region, and the true presence of false consciousness among exploited whites who needed to stop fighting each other and work on their economies. We showed that neither the United $tates nor the EU was going to be a major factor in the Georgian economy justifying all the pro-Western blather as reflexive as Bush's use of the word "freedom." In other words, there was not any economic reality behind treating Georgia as the second Georgia of the United $tates.
Naturally since Russia is more important to the Georgian economy than the united $tates, the United $tates was shooting off its mouth, trying to wrestle in the 140 pound category, while weighing 95 pounds. In the process in handling similar countries in the ex-Soviet bloc, the Amerikans did not even have the good sense not to side with leftover Nazi forces from World War II vetarans' organizations in ex-Soviet bloc countries. Then they have the nerve to call Stalin "anti-Semitic."
The New York Times and other Amerikan chauvinist outlets sought to blame Putin for being undemocratic, with a steady drumbeat over years of time. Yet both Putin and Saakashvili won elections. It goes to prove that it's hard to let go of dogmas that sell papers to the labor aristocracy. The New York Times would rather campaign against Stalin than deal with reality today.
Yet these New York Times liberals are who Obama reads and leans toward according to his autobiography. These are the ones that the "netroots" follow. The netroots attack MIM on behalf of the New York Times and various occupations of oppressed nations around the world.
What they are--just irrational anti-communists. It's one thing to have a general bad view of Stalin in history. It's another thing to face a compelling need to dredge him up to blame for one's own flaws.
In general, as we pointed out before about Liberals--anything good in the ex-communist countries is on account of free market liberalization. Anything bad is on account of leftovers from socialism--no matter how unlikely. Flat-earthers had nothing on these Liberals, who set themselves up so that they cannot be proved wrong.
The Liberals know this at some level, because they admit Stalin was a Georgian, not even a Russian. So to blame Stalin for being a Russian empire-builder destined to hurt Georgia is nonsense. Since many consider Georgia part of Asia, and since Trotsky used that against Stalin for being too Asian, the New York Times accusation is also racist. The New York Times displays poor judgment.
We could excuse children--people under age 13--for buying propaganda against Stalin in school history books, but it's unlikely young children would come up with stories like these about Georgia. For the rest, it's time to grow up and take responsibility for one's own failure to deal with reality. There are wars over immediately scarce resources, and then there are wars based on stupidity of dogma, where economics gives rise to ideologies that people then parrot regardless of the situation. The war in Georgia is a part of Western dogma. It was totally unnecessary. According to Saakashvili, the war cost his country $2.3 billion in damages.(2)
Instead of having compassion for the former Soviet bloc, in true old-fashioned realpolitik, the West continues to bait the various nations against each other as if Western manna from Heaven were going to bring these countries up to the U.$. living standard, otherwise mislabelled "freedom." Yet the West just does not have that much gas in the tank. Stupid Western Liberals told the world that with six months of Liberal ministers in Russia like Gaidar, Russia would achieve the U.$. living standard. That was also false. Neither internal Liberalism nor manna from great white Liberal patrons was going to bring Bloomingdale's happiness to Georgia.
Georgia obtained its independence in 1991. Despite being a model Western lackey, Georgia's living standard is still about $200 a month.(3) Georgia is the kind of country that has an exploited class. The West goaded it to fight the exploited of Russia. The people of Georgia would have been much better off without the noise from the West and instead taking steady steps to improve relations with the neighbors, people most likely to do business with them. For a country with less than five million people, it's not a good idea to get into conflicts with everyone nearby. It's not the adoption of Western values that moves life forward. The West obtained its happiness through genocide, slavery and on-going super-exploitation. Georgia does not have those, so naturally adopting Western values has not worked.
Notes:
1. "Putin in the shadow of the Red Czar," http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/opinion/24sebag.html
2. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24240409-2703,00.html
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(country)
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