This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Owing to Donald Twump’s inability to focus on any two concepts at the same time. The Rubik’s Cube will forever remain a mystery. Designed in two dimensions, more than the orange one is adept at dealing with. It’s a sign of his radicalization; Jim Jones has a toothache and thinks God is speaking through him again. The panic of the failed night club comic, “Wait, wait, don’t go! Look, I can juggle too!”

Off in the distance, where no one can see. The cheese is slowly sliding off the orange cracker. Headed for the dirty floor of eternity. The little orange bird in the clock is getting a bit erratic and doesn’t always keep good time anymore.

Only because I was curious, due to the current tense situation. That I would watch three hours of the UN Security Council Meeting called by the United States. By a vote of 10 to three, with three abstentions, the measure was carried. Calling on Russia to immediately withdraw its troops from the Ukraine. Every representative from every country invoked the UN’s main purpose, avoiding war.

Observing the different points of view India abstained, wanting no part of this fight. China voted against the measure because she too, might find the need to hold exercises and put peace keeping troops on foreign lands someday. She only pretends to want to be on the world stage as a “Leader.” Only making nice, until she gets what she wants and then retreating.

Only a chance to stand with the rest of the world like a boss would stand. Instead of falling back on platitudes like “Gee, maybe you shouldn’t do that.” And then, going no further. It didn’t make the world look bad, but China? I think it did. They didn’t do anything wrong; they just passed up a chance to do right at zero cost.

Of all the world representatives who spoke, none defended Russians actions in Ukraine. The Russian’s and friends, fell back on Parliamentary procedure. “What are we having this meeting for? Troops? What Troops? Yes, we have troops on our side of the border, but they’re not bothering anybody. And then, the Russian ambassador went into what Paul Harvey would call, the rest of the story.

Obviously, it was coming, I wondered why they waited so long to bring up Colin Powell and the aluminum tubes. The boy who cried wolf, Bush is long gone, but the damage done remains. The American Ambassador once offered to show French President Charles De Gaulle photos of Cuban missiles sites, when De Gaulle replied, “The word of the American President is good enough for me.” Those were the days huh?

Oh, but why oh, why is NATO on our Russian border? A military alliance against one state is a violation of the UN charter you know! Turning these countries against Mother Russia and towards NATO and the West. (The kids want to live with the non-abusive rich relatives.) The captive markets ain’t so captive anymore. Why would they ever want to join an alliance against Mother Russia? What did we ever do to them? Why are we even having this meeting?

Only, as Mark Twain first observed, that God invented war to teach Americans geography. The US is a big, huge country and we fail to think in terms of European dimensions. It’s farther from Denver to Phoenix, than from London to Berlin. Belarus is a Russian client state to the north. Crimea is to the south. Effectively dismantling any chance of a Ukraine military defense. Surrounded like the Czechs, after ceding the Sudeten land.

Oh but, Georgia 2008, Crimea 2014, Ukraine 2022. Troops re-enter the Rhineland, the Austrian Anschluss and then Czechoslovakia. History is singing a sour note as Poland also shares a common border with Ukraine. And that’s the very reason that Poland couldn’t wait to join NATO.

Out of fear, scared to death that what once happened before, could somehow happen again. If they were not afraid of Russian tanks rolling in one day, there would be no reason to join NATO. But that’s just the way of some people. After you invade, subjugate, and pillage their country just one time. They are suspicious about you from then on.

Old Russia claims, it’s the West trying to turn their friends against them. But actions speak louder than words and the actions of the countries along the Russian border say, they are scared. If territorial aggression is allowed to stand today in Ukraine, history (recent history) says there will be more soon to follow. This isn’t step one, this step four. “No War for Estonia!”

Only one former world leader has come out in support of Vladimir Putin’s piracy. His paid proxy, proselytite and periodontal penis holder, Donald Twump. Twump says, Yea! “That was Genius!” Boy, those Japanese sure know how to fly those planes! Boom! Take that battleship! He has no idea that he is speaking against the foreign policy of his own nation, while praising someone condemned by the whole world.

Oh, “Let’s go Brandon,” anything that Joe don’t like, I’m in favor of! “You go Vlad, you’re too cool!”

O’Dea Twump claims correctly, that if he were still President this wouldn’t be happening. The Russians would be in Kiev already, without firing a shot. He is obviously delusional in the belief that he can praise a man the whole world condemns, without gravity eventually taking hold. It is a dangerous business to play your flutes and lead them astray, because if a shooting war were to commence…? Those Republicans would be left naked, condemned as traitors, and locked outside forever.  

Offering his support for Vladimir Putin, as he is condemned for his naked aggression by the United Nations. If a man is out of step with his contemporaries, perhaps he is just an idiot with no ear for music. We haven’t even found him guilty of sedition the first time, and he’s already at it again. Becoming a caricature of the fawning orange ill Duce! The sawdust Caesar, the orange simian simpleton.

Or as Twump cheers for Putin’s piracy, he puts the Republicans in a tough spot. Already under investigation for disloyalty and sedition, and now this. Forced to choose between Putin and the orange Apocalypse and big fist militarism, or American foreign policy and lawful democracy.

Or given one more chance to publicly support democracy, as he leads them over the edge. Because Twump himself has nothing left to lose, and doesn’t want to go down alone. He want’s scorched Earth, and wants to take them all down with him! Congressman Ryan’s on the way. Go ahead and make the Kool Aid! And make enough for everybody!