A Decade After Euromaidan

2/20/2024 Episode 55 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline with special guests Dust James and Ian Kummer.  Besides the Ukraine War and its current phase, the panel discusses the turbulent, massively confusing politics detonated by the US ruling class through military meddling across the globe coupled with indifference to the actual pressing needs of the American people, massive economic insecurity in the working class, fascistic lawlessness in domestic politics (i.e., the persecution of Trump through blatant lawfare, plus multiple betrayals by the duopoly, etc.),  and messy if not downright criminal handling of the "border issue", and other concerns.  Carlo Parcelli notes that there is something not exactly admirable in the Ukrainian character, a certain ethical dimension these people lack, a political obtuseness mixed with stubborn blind materialism, that makes them ignore their plight as hapless proxies in a war they never had any possibility of winning. It's amazing that with so much recent history advising against it, they bought the Western lie. In that sense, notes Parcelli, they are "enormous ninnies", they lose that many people and still not realise they were duped at this point. Living in massive confusion and ignorance, and self-delusion, without seeing the obvious. In that sense, they are stunningly stupid. They resemble Americans who are also victimised at this point by Russiagate and MAGA. 

It's also noted that the seeming inability of the US ruling class to govern at this point stems from the intractability of the issues created by the capitalist/imperialist system itself, along with deep divisions in the ruling class comprised of overlapping but also oppositional interests....