Nuclear Bullying

Nobody Asked Me, But...Vladimir Putin has swallowed an evil spirit.

I don’t understand how life goes on as Ukraine is destroyed under cover of nuclear blackmail.

Biden’s sanctions will have no effect on Putin or his sprawling palaces. The Russian imperialist has a golden guarantee from Comrade Xi (who will certainly collect somewhere out on the squares of his long game).

It’s Russian civilians, not Putin, who suffer. as inflation soars.

In more civilized times, targeting civilians just wasn’t done.

Our leaders believe Ukrainians should do the dirty work of weakening Russia. That’s what Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said April 25, after visiting Kyiv.

So we’re sending crummy old weapons to Z and sacrificing Ukrainian civilians. So Russia won’t destroy any more countries.

Yeah, Slavs have always been great workers.

I can’t even begin to comprehend what kind of spirit could advance such a ludicrous idea with a straight face.

Nuclear blackmail is new news. News of such horrific newness that it’s far, far beyond man-bites-dog and good-G-d-Martha-did-you-see-this!

Yet we have become used to the situation in a remarkably short time.

No, we haven’t become used to it; we’re ignoring it. We’re living atop a volcanic cognitive dissonance.

Americans are back to discussing real estate prices. Some of our weirder conservative voices complain that arms makers will make money when weapons sent to Ukraine are replaced in our stockpiles. It’s rumored that Biden is moving to Edgehill, our local la-la complex here in my dear peaceful town of Greenwich.

So the plan seems to be: Let the Ukrainians bleed. Pooh-pooh Putin’s nuclear threats.

Does it continue with Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Moldovans, Finns, Swedes, and Germans? Does it continue with Greenwich, which as I have written is directly in the path of a radiation plume emanating from New York, thanks to the prevailing winds?

Let better minds prevail.