Two
paths through history came together, and the result was pure mayhem.
The
American path...
In the
mid 19th century there was a Civil War in the USA. Some
states formed a confederation then amassed armies to fight their own
country in pursuit of a new, separate entity. In the new
confederation each state drafted and presented a new constitution.
Each of the new constitutions featured the ability of white people to
own people of color, African-Americans, as slaves. Each constitution
also noted a slave owner's right to pursue, punish and/or re-enslave
any such person that had escaped their bonds.
The
confederate states lost the war that their insurrection had begun.
There were few, to no, consequences pursued against those who had
been leaders of the insurrection... Few, to no, charges pursued
against those who had injured and killed their fellow citizens in
support of said insurrection.
Toward
the end of the 19th, start of the 20th, century
history was being rewritten to remove the fact that slavery had been
the central focus of the confederation and the ensuing war. That
rewrite was largely unopposed even though it was demonstrably false.
Around
the mid 20th century some hyper conservative, white people
(disturbed by trends toward the integration of society and a push for
equal rights under the law), began a push toward control of one of
the two political parties in the USA: the Republican party.
The
path through the USSR...
In the
1980s the policies of glasnost and perestroika were revealing to the
Soviet leadership, and people, that the USSR was a third world
country with thousands of nuclear weapons; defective nuclear weapons
and weapons systems (e.g., ICBMs so poorly built and maintained that
they were unlikely to clear the silo should the missiles be deployed;
a brand new, nuclear submarine that had barely cleared it's Soviet
seaport when an explosion on-board sank the submarine, killing the
entire crew).
Then
came the first, American war against Iraq: the liberation of Kuwait.
It pitted a large Iraqi military, with a great many soviet made
weapons, against the US and our allies. In that war, that had key
similarities to what might have happened if Soviet forces had attempted
to sweep west against the NATO alliance, the forces of Iraq were
annihilated.
A
rising KGB officer observed the collapse of the USSR and started to
plan alternate means to obtain the power he'd been pursuing in the
former Soviet Union. The USSR was one implementation of the pursuit
of a Russian empire. Among the nations that formed the opposition to
the world wide aggression attempting to create a new Soviet/Russian
empire was the United States and it's allies.
There
had to be another way to destroy those who would impede the next
attempt at a Russian empire. The aforementioned KGB officer became a
major kleptocrat during the fall of the USSR, became wealthy,
maneuvered himself into the position of power at the top of the
hierarchy in Russia and began the process of buying a way to subdue
his main adversary in the Russian dominated world he was trying to
create.
Paths
merge...
Russian
kleptocrats began to buy power amongst the ultraconservatives who
were taking over the Republican party and symbiosis began. There was,
however, a major problem... Symbiosis is supposed to be mutually
beneficial, but when both parties want to be the HMFICOE (Head M F In
Charge of Everything) it can not end well... This will end almost
unbelievably tragically.
Here
we are at the merger of the oligarchy in the USA with the Kleptocracy
of Russia. It is an ugly situation that can get worse. We, in the
USA, still have the means (vote en masse) to undo this developing
catastrophe. If we don't get it done this election year we've
provided the means for feudal, dark ages to return; take hold.
I can
not stress enough just how bad this can get in an age where we are
already destroying our only planet's ability to support human life.
