Machiavelli in Eastern Europe
In
watching the brave but hopeless defense of Ukraine by Ukrainian military and
civilians, some daydreaming and fantasizing on how to help the Ukrainians is
inevitable. In order to hope to accomplish
this, one needs to throw off the “good guy” mantle, and become Putin-like or
Stalin-like, in other words, Machiavellian.
Putin,
Stalin, Hitler and other despots are fond of “false flag” operations when justifying
invading a country. Suppose we “false-flagged”
Putin? Since Ukraine is not a member of
NATO, NATO can’t help them against the current Russian aggression. NATO reaction forces are being positioned all
around Ukraine, ready to go, but are enjoined from helping the Ukraine military
against Russia because Ukraine was late in joining the club.
But suppose
a couple of my nephews and their sons and friends in Southeastern Poland,
dressed up like Russian soldiers, and started shooting up the place, to the din
of “Russia attacks Poland”? We could
even have Trey Yingst of Fox News give a blow-by-blow if we alerted him. Then, the 82nd Airborne, which is already in
the area, could go into Lviv and beyond, and start mopping up the Russian
attackers.
They could
quickly repatriate Zelensky to shouts of “mazel tof” and “Ukraina jeszcze nie
zaginęła”.
Dream
on. I hope Mark Z doesn’t run to Biden
with it, or he’ll be reading it off the teleprompters.
Ray
Gruszecki
February
25, 2022
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