Oh, Ukraine

Read my previous seminal musings on #Ukraine:

• 💙🇺🇦💛 on Ukraine 💙🇺🇦💛
• Does Russo-Ukrainian bloodshed lie on Western hands? #Perspectives
• Sanctioning Russia & counterbalancing SovietSerendipity

Fact: everything that humanity can ever possibly achieve has already been streamlined by the fruitful mental processing of the very first humans, who dwelled in Africa. All our momentum was worked up then. So consequential was this dimension of this rudimentary phase of human history that every single culture ever established simply must cast echoes of one of its antecedents, or the laws of human cognition ensure that it won’t take off. Working on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, I realised that Ukrainian culture casts echoes of what I can discern to be Pre-Nostratic culture. Pre-Nostratic culture was the culture adhered to by the original Nostratic population back in Africa, descendants of today’s Europeans mainly, upon branching away from the Proto-Global/Original template and cultivating a new unrelated language, the Language of Intuition, that wasn’t descended from Proto-Global. Originally, the Origino-Nostraticos had spoken the Language of Serendipity, which was the world’s very first language of intellect. It enhanced serendipity through subconsciously enhanced intuition and acuity, a phenomenon they weren’t conscious of. When they became conscious of their power of intuition was when they established the Language of Intuition. The Slavs are now THE Nostratic peoples, the heirs to the original fundaments of the Nostratic world, with Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian being East Slavic languages. Furthermore, Russia is picking on Ukraine in particular, very specifically, because they feel threatened by Ukraine’s intuitive cultural grip on those fundaments, and Putin’s Russia feels ironically encroached on by this Ukrainian flair as the Slavonic behemoths who shall only know but the fewest limitations. The behemoths, THE Slavs… who can’t even defend their own hereditary primacy properly. You see, this conflict could simply not be more important, these tremors coming from the very base of collective global Nostratic culture, which dates back aeons upon aeons -thousands upon thousands of years- back to when we were living in Africa as the Original Representers of the human population.

There is also something really foul in the air about this conflict. But what? It is because Putin is totally intoxicated by his thirst for blood, and it is disgusting. I gather that thirst for blood is the strangest of feelings, one that invariably induces the most bizarre conduct. The exhibition of such peculiar behaviour is how I know for sure that this is what Putin’s problem is. A scary reality is that the ghastly subject of nuclear weaponry has formed a strong undercurrent over all this discourse, suggesting that Putin is not just bloodthirsty, genocidal, but full-on nuclear-cidal. I can really sense that he really wants to make the call for something more like genocide or nuclear attack, but can’t because of international deterrence i.e. human rights sanctioning. He is actively keeping himself from pushing the button, so to speak, although Russian manoeuvre is thankfully being successfully outpaced by the West as per usual, meaning ultimately that a nuclear attack could in fact never possibly happen. But we can be sure that there would be a horrific genocide right now if it weren’t for these geopolitical blockades.

It’s particularly awful when you take into account how gracious, likeable and valorous the Ukrainian people are. Why them to be subjected to these abhorrent war crimes? When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the 24th of February, it really wasn’t quite clear how dark this would all get. Now, we see photos mass graves and of civilians lying deceased on streets. This is #WarInEurope, remember, so what makes these images so startlingly poignant is that these are corpses of once discernibly vibrant democratic citizens of a hopeful EU & NATO member state.

The Ukrainians are the creative Slavs: they should have a flourishing art scene and a booming fashion industry, you know. Instead their people are being suffocated by war and indiscriminately slaughtered by their imperial tormentor, still, in 2022, decades after the Soviet Union fell and the Cold War concluded. Ukraine was one of three nationalities to arise out of the fall of the medieval European state of Kievan Rus’ in the 13th century, along with Russia and Belarus. The Ukrainians are alternatively the endearing ‘Little Russians’, while the distinguished Russians are the ‘Great Russians’, and the humble Belarusians the ‘White Russians’ – the name Belarus / Беларусь literally means “White Russia” or “White Rus’”, while Україна / Ukraïna refers to borderlands (between Russian meanies and the rest of democratic Europe). Together they make up the East Slavic branch of the Slavic language family, these languages being directly descended from the Old East Slavic language of Kievan Rus’, belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European macrofamily. I then propose that the Indo-European languages belong in turn to the Nostratic primary language family which also includes the Uralic languages (including Hungarian, Estonian and Finnish), the languages of the Caucasus (including Georgian), and presumed minority languages like Basque (Vasconic) and ancient Etruscan (Tyrsenic). The Slavic languages are the “Fabulous” Tongues, the Indo-European languages the “Glorious” Tongues, and the Nostratic languages the “Transcendent” Tongues – this conflict indeed most certainly has a cultural basis, with the Russian rationale clearly buttressed by nostalgia for past splendid cultural #~glory. The Slavs are also THE Nostratics, now a contradictory fact in the sense that “Transcendent” Tongue speakers generally prefer to rise ~to transcend~ to occasions rather than give in to war. Imperial Russia was instituted in 1721, its predecessor the Tsardom of Russia already having incorporated a significant portion of Ukraine as Russian territory. Ukraine would stay adhered to Russia throughout the rise and fall of the leftist Soviet Union (1922-1991), eventually obtaining independence in 1991. Russia still sees Ukraine as its possession, and the launch of this invasion was not a precipitate decision but a much-mused organic continuation of the Russian expansionist agenda. Moreover, this is by no means the first instance of large-scale brutality of Russia on Ukraine. Russification has long been aggressively pursued in a quest to quash the Ukrainian cultural identity, but the pinnacle of torment came in the form of the infamous Holodomor / Голодомо́р. The Holodomor was a man-made famine that struck Soviet Ukraine from 1932-33. Several million Ukrainians died. The Soviet government literally actively froze them out of the food chain, seizing food and demanding farmers to give up their land.

Yet this brutal invasion took most people by surprise. The race to sanction Russia has been accordingly dominating headlines alongside the war itself over the past couple of weeks, with major powers being urgently discouraged from trading with Russia in things like oil, most notably. It is a race because Russians are so wily and such quick-witted enemies, their Buzz-Concept #perfection/совершенство/sovershenstvo~ endowing them with endless capacity for artful precision. But this capacity truly is endless, casting menacing doubt as to whether these measures will actually work to effectively admonish Russia in the grand scheme of things. Their perverse spirits are already showing signs of regrouping at this premature stage.

Ukraine already has a dark history and this war has hacked open some old wounds. However, Ukraine’s tragedy disturbingly does not end there. No, the torment of Russian domination also seemingly knows no bounds, and Putin has even enlisted the help of post-Soviet ally Belarus to attempt to fully geopolitically isolate their East Slavic neighbour Ukraine from the outside world. Thankfully, Ukraine’s charismatic President Volodymyr Zelenskiy / Володимир Зеленський has an acting background and has managed to carve out a strategy to garner as much attention and awareness as possible by taking over the global stage. He has been proactively engaging in and seeking out open, highly publicised discourse with most major world leaders, particularly in the West. He thus made the canny move of ardently fostering all this dialogue, rather than allow Russia to eclipse the Ukrainian perspective.

While the reaction of the public has accordingly been largely heartening, restoring much faith in Western orthodoxy, some serious inverse moral issues have emerged about people’s rampant hypocrisy. This hypocrisy I allude to is simply inappropriate in the context of war in democratic Europe. The institution of NATO was founded in 1949 upon the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in the aftermath of World War II and the onset of the Cold War, in response to Russian antagonism, even though the Soviet Union had been an Allied power alongside the United Kingdom and the United States. It supposedly enforces a system of collective global security, now having 30 member states, encompassing 28 from Europe and the 2 North American countries. It is important to remember that NATO’s founding purpose was defence against Russian antagonism, specifically. This conflict makes for an acutely pivotal moment for NATO, one by which its future trajectory along with that of traditional adversary Russia will be determined. People at the time of NATO’s emergence were strongly expecting Russian antagonism to explode, yet the Cold War never quite heated up, direct conflict never arising with Russia over the period’s duration from the post-war years to the ‘90s. Is this thanks to NATO activity or rather thanks to independent US no-nonsense overriding of the Russian cause? Indeed. NATO was supposed to be astronomical. Nonetheless, the fall of the two Slavic unified behemoth entities Yugoslavia (“South Slavia”, comprising all South Slavic states bar Bulgaria, particularly Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina) and of course the USSR in 1992 & ‘91, respectively, kept them busy during the 90s. The war in Afghanistan, which had previously been occupied by the Soviets in the 1980s, throughout the noughties has maintained the #buzz since the fading out of the Soviet era. -They presumably aim for like one every couple of decades or so.-

The Buzz-Concept for NATO activity? #Litness. Why? Excellent question.

Yet I find myself wondering whether or not the role of NATO has become somewhat obsolete. Superfluous, even. The inappropriateness of its fanfare surrounding this conflict is what got me thinking about it, first off. The issue is that, while Russia continues to antagonise the West, at present through its corruption rather than the Soviet extreme leftist starkness, the fundamental role and nature of the enmity have changed. Communism is no longer a threat, and in the contemporary world Russia stands no chance of acquiring the level of power their Soviet forebears had keen eyes on. World domination is no longer within their reach. I honestly think NATO’s ultimate objective was fulfilled back when the Soviet Union fell.

They were once competing with the United Status for the status of the world’s sole superpower. Now we have “cancel culture” of Russia, one of world history’s great cultures. Ukraine’s tragedy is excruciating to see unfold, but only heightened by the fact that the world simply does not stand to lose touch with the traditional scope of one it’s great historic cultures. The splendiferous Russian Empire of 1721-1917 was surpassed in size by only the British and Mongol Empires. The Soviet Union covered over 22,402,200 km2 (8,649,500 mi2) and spanned 11 times zones. It covered a sixth of Earth’s land surface. More than 130 distinct ethnicities lived within its borders. Francis Fukuyama in particular described the end of the Cold War and the Soviet collapse as “the end of history as such: that is, the end-point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” It was a massive deal. The Soviets left such a bitter taste on our mouths, but nonetheless so very majestic was their global reign of torment. So profoundly pivotal is Russian culture thus that I don’t think our very senses -of all of us, from one corner of the globe to the next- can take its proposed nullification. I think we should be showing no mercy in sanctioning Russia economically in order to tackle their ego problem, but completely “cancelling” one of world history’s absolute greatest cultures -in the top 5 for sure…? “They are trying to cancel a thousand-year-old country,” said Putin, alleging the emergence of a “gradual discrimination against everything linked to Russia… in a number of Western countries… They are banning Russian writers and books… The proverbial ‘cancel culture’ has become a cancellation of culture.” Is it even possible? And hypocritically dwelling and insisting on this can’t do much to help Ukraine, but rather inappropriately further sap up their serendipitous flow up against Russian exactingness…

Indeed, the Buzz-Concept of Ukrainian is very closely related to that of Russian. In Russian it’s #совершенство/sovershenstvo~ which carries the meaning of “perfection, consummation”. In Ukrainian, meanwhile, it’s #завершеність/zavershenist’ – which translates as “perfection, completeness, finality”. Both Russians and Ukrainians are thus of course characteristically perfectionist peoples. Russians are gracefully precise and boundlessly artful thanks to #совершенство~. Ukrainians have serendipitous flow thanks to #завершеність. The Russians are envious of and infuriated by this trait in the Ukrainians, and wish to crush the serendipitous flow. What more effective way to kill spirit than by “genocide”, as President Zelenskiy has preemptively called it?

NATO really have struck me as power-hungry hypocrites. That said, I of course couldn’t possibly go so far as to dismiss them strictly as “villains” in all of this. No, I think Russia is leading them on here, perpetuating an illusion of NATO’s paramountcy so as to distract people from reality. Vladimir Putin / Владимир Путин is truly a visionary leader, commendably a devoted Russian nationalist who defends the s**t out of his Ppl, but has shown himself up simply as a bloodthirsty wretch. And while I propose the point that I don’t think our very senses can do definitively without any degree of Russian touch, universally potent as it has been for many centuries, it is important to note how overinflated their egos nonetheless still are: the Soviets thought their great culture was literally supposed to be like water to the world. But no, no: that wasn’t them. It was British culture, now represented by the overall Anglosphere. The West’s behaviour in response to this conflict will surely prove pivotal in our trajectory, too. Elsewhere in the world people’s eyes are very much divided between watching Ukraine and watching us, foes preparing to declare the Western orthodoxy as definitively undermined.

It’s so sad that we can’t be more active in helping to defend Ukraine because of how powerful Russia continues to be. It’s very much a worthy cause, a vibrant democracy with so much to give back to us. I have insinuated before that I think Western powers should be directly entering this conflict to tackle Russian antagonism in a way which is thorough. We exhausted ourselves tackling the involuted, hyper-intricate puzzles of the Middle East, invading Iraq in 2003 and brazenly toppling Saddam Hussein, when the crisis would most likely better have been left to play out by itself. Much repentance has concordantly been showed about our inappropriate interference in the Middle East in past decades, particularly to do with our military intervention and invasions. Most notably, Islamic State emerged from the black hole that was created thus and I seriously feel nostalgic for the times before they existed and I knew that people like that existed and get to use the same label of “person” like I do. Overall, I think we made much too big a deal out of the turmoil in the Middle East. We definitively imposed ourselves inappropriately because of that. But we also overestimated the Middle Easterners themselves, I think, in particular massively overestimating the extent of the historical tremors and echoes that would be caused by their strife. The ancient history of Arabia and Mesopotamia goes waaay back and is of cardinal significance, and all, but I think Russia sits on the capacity to eclipse the Middle East as the foremost malign breeding ground of cultivated anti-Western antagonism. Remember that the Russians are THE Slavs, and the Slavs are THE Nostratics, meaning that, while the oldest attested Semitic language Akkadian emerged from the 25th or 24th century BC, this conflict technically sends back echoes tens of thousands of years ago and beyond.