The thing is we myself included are missing is the fate of this world as connected to our faith overlap in and out of ourselves. With God seemingly dead, even crucifying Himself under auspicious circumstances to prove the value of Self Sacrafice, we go about our business as usual, disregarding these very appearent connections, sweeping them under foot, hoping they will not expose the very delicate balance, with which politicians and their minions navigate in this hyper modern time of ultra sensitive approaches needed to maintain this balance,( no longer gyroscopic and autoimmune , no longer axiomatically zero sum,
The dialectical conflation they thought back in Helsink between Horbachev and Reagen did not reach into some future perfected idyll, a paradise regained as it were, on the contrary, it seeded the tomorrow we are living today as fodder to the entitled, to hunger for more power, distinction and leverage.
That was it, and if this version is no better, I will try again again ad infinity, for by Gid I do not want to see mushroom clouds overhanging in another way cloudless sky.
As far as languages are concerned the distinction with an adopted language can be tested against it’s validity in what language is a narrative thought, or in what that thought expresses.
Joseph Conrad is a vey great example of how not to get trapped deductively into a defensive position, I had a ln aunt a librarian working for Brooklyn College I think, fluent I’m not kidding in 7 languages, died in Bellevue of undisclosed illness, probably alcohol induced psychosis. So everyone is different
Then there is machine language comprised of numbers, no one but analysts and programmers understand and which is man’s hope perhaps last, at last bring back some semblance
‘Ukrainian Troops Sweep Into Key City of Kherson’ New York Times headline
Time to start holding our collective breaths?
How much more humiliation of this sort will Putin and the hardliners in Moscow take before they are either driven to the bargaining table or to weapons of mass destruction?
Without playing the game of chicken and/ or bluff, there is also the chance of a miscalculation Russian roulette tactics, in addition for provocative behavior or accident , happening as part of a set up, or even just bad luck.
It is totally beyond belief that the optimistic assessments post the Helsinki Summit could have degraded so unexpectedly.
Can any conclusions be considered other than the growing bubbles of paranoiac socially imbued fears on both sides of the equation? Is this process reversible?
And maybe retro-interjected as a personally unbalanced methodically defined insanity on part of leadership?
Now here somethin from horses mouth- germ warfare initiated by China against US then why China siding with Russia mostly but not on Russian use of nukes?