Symbols on the eve of the redistribution of the world

The visible leaders, media and public opinion of the Western world unanimously stiffened into the posture according to which the Russian-Ukrainian war was sparked by a deranged dictator for no "real" reason, as if out of passion. That is why liberalism hastily sketched and underlined its normative framework of thinking, in which the Russian people are guilty and the Western world is the victim.

It has been proven once again that, contrary to Fukuyama's prediction, history does not have an end, and liberal democracy is not "the end point of the ideological development of mankind". As a matter of fact, history is thanking him, he is doing well, and as it was not preordained, sometimes it trickles down, other times it stagnates in its bed. It has no beginning and no end, and is shaped by many factors, only one of which is human. The task of history is to explore processes and connections, which can never be reconstructed in their entirety, at most in their elements. But every process and connection has symbolic moments, which, even if they seem small, can be used to perceive how the world has turned.

In Hungarian history, the coronation of St. Stephen, which symbolized the creation of the Hungarian state, was like this, but so are the Battle of Mohács, the murder of István Tisza, the suicide of Pál Teleki, the abduction of Béla Kovács, or the speech of Imre Pozsgay in 1989. It is a cogwheel of so many processes, yet, through them, we symbolically feel the turn that has taken place.

February 24, the day that will go down in the history books as the day of the attack on Ukraine, will similarly be only a small symbol of an attempt to create a new world order, we do not know for a moment whether the West will finally kneel before the Russian and Chinese empires .

However, we know for sure that the liberal democracies willingly and singingly knelt before a seemingly novel, but actually ominously familiar ideology, the woke. And if it weren't so symbolic, it could even be incidental that this ideology used an African-American criminal as its tool and, with the help of George Floyd, forced the world's number one leaders to their knees, along with the entire Western public opinion.

Who wouldn't have had the image of Democratic politicians kneeling in the Capitol, paying respect to the memory of Floyd, who died during police action, for 8 minutes and 46 seconds? Until now, because the police officer Derek Chauvin, who was later sent to prison for 40 years, also used the legally applicable means of coercion against the criminal who otherwise died with drugs and coronavirus in his body and resisted the police action.

I wonder what Putin was thinking when he saw this? Or what followed: the collapse of American cities into a state of civil war, the rampage of cancel culture by toppling statues of the greats of the West, the silencing of the world leader, a democratically elected American president still in office, by tech giants who were not elected by anyone?

And what must the Russian/Chinese generals have thought when they saw the new German Social Democratic Minister of Defense, Christine Lambrecht, who it is hard to imagine could climb out of a tank by herself, and whose first measure was to remove Eberhard Zorn, the chief inspector of the Bundeswehr, the highest military position holder, just because he criticized the defense policy? Were the rival military potentates overwhelmed by the water in their terror at the sight of the new minister, who had no national defense and technical training or experience?

What were the military leaders of the world's great powers thinking when, in 2011, the German CDU-FDP government - with the support of all parties - suspended general military conscription and set the goal of cutting the number of the army from 255,000 to 185,000, and the military radical reduction of expenses? (And what could pacifist Europe have been thinking when it believed that the rest of the world would, like it, put the war on the books, just because they think it is morally right?)

What does Joe Biden's performance since his election tell the Russian president? The combination of public flirting-stumbling-sleeping-sleeping, spiced up with awkward speeches ?

"Putin can surround Kiev with tanks, but he will never win the hearts and souls of the Iranian people"

said the president of America in his annual review on Tuesday. And that wasn't his only embarrassing statement over the past two years.

And what was the message when US Vice President Kamala Harris - who, if Uncle Joe completely renounces the task of deciphering who Uncle Joe is, will become US President - said the other day about the Russian-Ukrainian war :

"So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists alongside another country called Russia. Russia is the bigger country. Russia is a strong country. Russia decided to invade the small country called Ukraine. So basically it's wrong, it goes against everything we stand for."

Phew.

What was the message of the way the US military withdrew from Afghanistan, where they left behind 85 billion dollars worth of weapons and other military equipment? After 20 years! What is the symbolism of the image that captures the Taliban's victory celebration, when the last American soldiers leave Afghanistan?

What was the message of Ukrainian President Zelenskyi's speech on February 19, at an event in Munich, in which he also mentioned that Ukraine would ignore the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, which guaranteed that it would be a nuclear-weapon-free state?

And what is the message of the fact that the tragedy of the thousands of Russian civilians massacred by the Ukrainians in the - Putin consistently calls it genocide, not without reason - is not heard by the modern world, and is even denied today? What was the message that last summer the Ukrainian leadership cut off the water from Crimea, i.e. from two million Russian civilians? What did the activities of the openly neo-Nazi Azov battalion convey? And what was the message of the state-level persecution of the minorities living in the territory of Ukraine - Russians, Hungarians, Romanians - that the European Union did not take note of with a little finger?

The most beautiful symbol, however, is the mass appearance of PrayForUkraine profile pictures in a culture that no longer believes in God, despises Christians, and views the Bible as a storybook.

So many symbols, and they all point in the same direction: the narrative that spares doing mental work, self-examination, and does not even attempt to understand the other party's legitimate need for security, leaving its own frame of mind, is not only hypocritical, but self-deceiving and also self-destructive.

Who does the Western world harm by using the principle of collective guilt to disable artists, athletes, and ordinary people simply because they are of Russian origin? As if a horror like this had already started in the 20th century, right? And how can this be reconciled with Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union? What is your message to the Russian people? Who will they empathize with? With the "innocent" West, led by the USA, which has already started more cynical and bloody wars in this century than any other great power, or with their compatriots who were humiliated and disabled for no reason? For heaven's sake, even Russian cats have been banned from international competitions!

Still, what does all this tell us about the fractured values ​​of the USA and its allies, which is struggling with an identity crisis and has permanently destroyed its moral base with the Iraq war, and which has now been captured by the culture of abolition and gender ideology? And the immeasurable hubris.

Whose divorce are we harming if we shout that Putin has gone mad and his blitzkrieg has failed? Who even said he planned a blitzkrieg? Himself? Or only the CIA gave a prognosis for the capture of Kiev in 1-4 days? The CIA that so accurately predicted the time of the attack? The CIA that is aware that it took 30 days to take both Baghdad and Kabul, because a city siege is just that, if the goal is not scorched earth? Let's say it can be solved in an hour. So Putin has been poking around in Ukraine for more than a week (!) because he's crazy, or because he wants to minimize the number of civilian casualties, especially since he doesn't need a ballast planed into the ground, which will - sorry - used to be called Ukraine?

And who does the West harm when it blocks Russian channels and sites? Who will benefit if we only hear the Ukrainian narrative, who are we deceiving? Are you sure about the Russians? Propaganda! - they scream, as if only Putin is unleashing the disinformation shitstorm on the world.

"I believe a lot of things, but the fact that the Ukrainians have already shot down a TIE fighter is also a lot for me"

- wrote a commenter under the news, which reported that a war site in Ukraine was colored by Star Wars frames.

If you think rationally, or at least think, you will not find any signs that the Russian president is struggling with mental problems, but this is not necessarily true for all leaders in the West, not to mention public opinion and the media. Of course, it is difficult to give up the comfort of wish-driven, self-righteous thinking, but gentlemen!

And one more thing: empathy is not sympathy, and situational awareness resulting from understanding can be the key to survival. Especially in a war. If the goal is to end it as soon as possible and not escalate in any way. Is that the goal?

Just because we see and hear Putin, he said what he wants. the deep state , and we do not know what it wants.

Until we get an answer, let's see what the world was like in which the Russian president still had fun with French and American world stars.