What Is Russia's Endgame?

[Ajay0]

On 7/26/2025 at 4:27 PM, Mandrake said:

 In fact, we had to overcome vast differences between our "western" countries, and it's still and extremely difficult juggling act to stay united.

This is true. Thousands of people were killed in the aristocratic and nationalistic wars in Europe for centuries, and the two world wars which originated in europe killed over a hundred million people as well.

This however had a positive in the point that it weakened the European colonial nations to the point that they could not hold on to their colonies in Asia and Africa .

I consider this incessant warmongering and bloodshed to be a reason why Europe never reached the 500 million mark, let alone the 1 billion mark of the ancient Indian and Chinese civilizations.

Eckhart Tolle had blamed the excessive egoism and greed fueled materialism in the west for widening the line between existential reality and psychological reality with its numerous abstractions (that has nothing to do with reality as it is).

 

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Take Jaishankar, for example. He presents himself like this calm, intellectual statesman, but what he’s really doing is selling a revisionist story—that India is finally rising after centuries of humiliation, and that the West deserves to be put in its place. 

 

There is a general narrative around the world that the western block is unethical, manipulative and had usurped the freedom of many countries and exploited them, with extensive human rights violations. Consequently their advocation and championing of freedom and human rights obviously sounds hollow and hypocritical , devoid of honesty.

However I am not aware of Jaishankar giving similar narratives as such. 

He has only stated that the EU has paid more money to russia and funded it  by buying its oil and gas than it has funded Ukraine.

Indian imports of cheap russian oil is less than european imports of gas and oil. Also India's main customer of cheap refined oil from russian crude, is also the europeans and americans.

If it is a matter of principle, they should have cut off russian oil and gas in the first day of the invasion itself, but they have not done it even after three years as they know that the resultant inflation and higher prices in europe will create widespread resentment among the public, and possible election fiascos.

Thousands of europeans and americans die of hypothermia even now due to homelesness or lack of cheap fuel to warm their homes.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12576771/

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There are about 20,000 hypothermia--related deaths a year in Britain, about 25,000--in the USA, 8,000 deaths a year in Canada. There are suggestions that the unofficial number of hypothermia-- related deaths is substantially higher, particularity in the elderly. 

 

Of course, since they are poor, western governments and leadership  consider them expendable and non-entities who does not matter much in the larger scheme of things, unlike the plutocrats or wealthy capitalists of the military-industrial complex who hold the strings and cheques.

All that beer and parties don't come free after all. 

Edited Monday at 06:59 AM by Ajay0