The Ukraine war shows that instead of a small amount of the best equipment, countries need a lot of less-impressive gear, a Ukrainian industry rep said.
utter collapse of capacity for doing any sort of analytical thinking
I think this was very clear from the beginning where Westoids made no effort whatsoever to try to understand Russia’s motivation for invading Ukraine, other than “Putler bad”, and that continues to this very day.
During the Cold War immense resources were spent trying to understand the Soviets - what made them tick, what motivates them, for the purpose of avoiding nuclear holocaust. Now nobody in The Axis of Genocide seems to give a shit.
Agreed, they seem to think that they can just paint a narrative that they want and the reality will magically conform. Western policy amounts to nothing more than manifesting.
Well, that is the way it works. If you control the media narrative, you can easily control social reality, and since no one is actually going to punish you because the material reality doesn’t match the social reality (and more often that not, those that acknowledge and want to study the material reality are punished for not accepting the consensus social reality), then ‘manifesting’ will always benefit you.
It’s basically a cult signalling that you are in the group because you blatantly disregard material reality. The only way it stops is when the material reality actually contradicts it in such a way as to make it impossible to believe (i.e. you will die).
Exactly, and this only works as long as the narrative you’re manifesting still has at least a tenuous connection to the material reality. When the narrative diverges too far then it inevitably starts to collapse. Hence why we’re seeing disillusionment sweeping the western sphere today, and liberal ideology starting to buckle.
I think this was very clear from the beginning where Westoids made no effort whatsoever to try to understand Russia’s motivation for invading Ukraine, other than “Putler bad”, and that continues to this very day.
During the Cold War immense resources were spent trying to understand the Soviets - what made them tick, what motivates them, for the purpose of avoiding nuclear holocaust. Now nobody in The Axis of Genocide seems to give a shit.
Agreed, they seem to think that they can just paint a narrative that they want and the reality will magically conform. Western policy amounts to nothing more than manifesting.
Well, that is the way it works. If you control the media narrative, you can easily control social reality, and since no one is actually going to punish you because the material reality doesn’t match the social reality (and more often that not, those that acknowledge and want to study the material reality are punished for not accepting the consensus social reality), then ‘manifesting’ will always benefit you.
It’s basically a cult signalling that you are in the group because you blatantly disregard material reality. The only way it stops is when the material reality actually contradicts it in such a way as to make it impossible to believe (i.e. you will die).
Exactly, and this only works as long as the narrative you’re manifesting still has at least a tenuous connection to the material reality. When the narrative diverges too far then it inevitably starts to collapse. Hence why we’re seeing disillusionment sweeping the western sphere today, and liberal ideology starting to buckle.