WARMONGERING FOOLS

ERIC ZUESSE—If Russia wins in Ukraine, then only RFK Jr. could beat any Republican nominee. However, if America wins in Ukraine (which Russia won’t allow, because that would pose a severe existential threat to Russia’s national security — it would mean the end of Russia as an independent sovereign nation), then Biden (or another neoconservative Democrat) will (tragically for the entire world) win in 2024.

GARLAND NIXON—A nuclear war will be truly a catastrophe for everyone, a no-winners contest, and the survivors—including those billionaires and their running dogs who precipitated this disaster, like the neocon lunatics— may envy the dead, notes Garland Nixon. The bunkers will not offer a tolerable life, and soon enough, in the postwar world, the people with weapons and skills will overthrow and quite possibly outright murder their former masters. 

SCHILLER INSTITUTE—A little bit more than one year after the war in Ukraine, which had in reality already started in 2014, escalated with the Russian military operation, it is very clear that the real issue is not Ukraine. It is a proxy war between the US, Great Britain and NATO, on the one side, and Russia on the other — with a conflict with China also looming. The real issue is that the nations of the Global South are trying to shed the colonial order, this time for good, and they have now become the Global Majority.

MASSIE TWINS—Writer Edmund H. North’s adaptation (of the short story “Farewell to the Master” by Harry Bates) proves that an intelligent, well-written script can easily make up for a lack in visual luster. A few visible wires, a crash of cymbals to replace onscreen intensity, and a clunky robot design (which is now famously iconic) are quickly forgiven as an engaging storyline and memorable characters fill the void of what would nowadays be computer-augmented special effects.

JOE LAURIA—At the Munich Security Conference last week, Gen. Petr Pavel, the Czech Republic’s president-elect and a formerNATO commander, said:  “We may end up in a situation where liberating some parts of Ukrainian territory may deliver more loss of lives than will be bearable by society. … There might be a point when Ukrainians can start thinking about another outcome.”