Will the Russian people really be free, and peace will only return to Europe, if Russian schoolchildren are taught that Masa has two mothers? asks Rod Dreher on the American Conservative website.
It happened that Kaja Kallas, the Estonian Prime Minister, called for the re-education of the Russian people at the Munich Security Conference. But he wasn't just talking about a post-war Nuremberg trial, he was talking about a broad "de-Putinization" program.
"You know this is crazy, right?" Dreher writes, adding, "How the hell can you act like that?"
According to Kallas, it is intolerable that a country with nuclear weapons can do what it wants with impunity, so the West should act as if Russia does not have the power to incinerate every Western city at the push of a button.
According to Dreher, it is not a good thing that states with nuclear weapons are above the law, but that is the case. The United States, Great Britain, France, China, Russia, India, Pakistan and any other nuclear power on Earth will never submit to total defeat to have their citizens reeducated by an occupying power - that is why they have nuclear weapons and would exact too high a price. out to any would-be conqueror. Why was it so important for the North Koreans to acquire nuclear weapons? Because they saw what happened to Libya and Iraq.
Anyone who doesn't understand how the world works is a fool. If Hitler had had nuclear weapons, there would have been no Nuremberg trials, no de-Nazification, and probably no more Europe.
What the Estonian Prime Minister is saying is incredibly dangerous. We understand why the people of the Baltic states fear and hate the Russians. But imagine what a Russian thinks when he hears that the leader of a NATO member country is calling for his re-education according to Western standards! That in order to achieve this, his country must be conquered and occupied. What else could you think?
Kallas' words were a gift to Putin and Russian propaganda, because they made it clear that Russia was indeed fighting an existential war.
What Kallas demands cannot be achieved without an all-out war, and such a war Russia would end with a nuclear barrage that destroys the West before it surrenders.
And let's face it - writes Dreher - we Americans would do the same if a similar threat came, let's not doubt it for a second. Kallas's comments were overblown, he adds, and note that no one forced him to face the consequences of what he said. Where are our leaders taking us?
It is no coincidence that the Estonian Prime Minister does not seem to understand that he represents an elite class that, at this very moment, in his own country, is imposing its own ideology on its people, and wants to do the same to the people of other countries.
The American author even describes that he is known to live in Hungary, a European democracy that is despised by the great and the "good" because he has the image to believe that its elected representatives should have more sovereignty over internal affairs than Brussels thinks. Hungarians do not want to live in a country where children and minors are exposed to discussions in the media and in classrooms that make them question their sexual orientation or gender identity.
"Maybe the Hungarians are wrong about this - I don't think they are, but for the sake of argument let's assume they are - but I think they have a sovereign right to be wrong. If the Dutch want to follow a different model in raising their children, that's fine: the Dutch should be Dutch, but the Hungarians should also be Hungarian."
However, the EU does not see it that way, and neither does Washington. That is why USAID administrator Samantha Power was recently sent to Budapest, who encourages colorful revolutionaries under the guise of supporting independent democratic institutions. And it really is a farce.
"I respectfully ask Kallas: the Russian people will really only be free, and peace will really only return to Europe, if Russian schoolchildren are taught that Mása has two mothers?"
Comments like Kallas's only make the continuation of the war more likely because they validate what Moscow is telling its own people: if Russia does not prevail in Ukraine, the West will come and try to take their land, their hearts, and their minds.
Featured image: Estonian President Kaja Kallas speaking at the Munich Security Conference. Screenshot from broadcast by DW
