What I Don’t Know About Russia or Plastic Straws

I went to Russia once, back in the day. At that time, you could get a drink of water on the Moscow streets emitted from a dispenser kiosk that featured ONE GLASS to drink from, plus a little automatic washer to clean it after use, which was used over and over and over. My fellow U.S. high school comrades on this trip all agreed: “Backwards!”

You’ve got to appreciate, however, nobody back then drank bottled water, either. We had the tap, and only the tap, plus drinking fountains. Pure chlorine, fluoride, other additives, nobody questioned it. The whole planet was like that, in one way or another, backwards, I mean.

Now bottled water is the new backwards.  And plastic straws.

I remember in grade school being lined-up with my class in the hallway for a drill, crouching for protection against a Russian-launched nuclear bomb, and I looked up, and the teacher shouted, “Keep your heads down!”

Thus, we were educated from early on what to fear and what to loathe. Then, that changes. During my life, the common thread has always been to fear that which we do not know.

What about feeling just plain overwhelmed?

We grow up, get out into life with our values, our fears, learn a little more, change, learn, change again. If you don’t learn, that’s called being STUCK. Then, you fear that, getting stuck, because it’s all about the EVOLUTION, of humanity.

So there’s always a kind of balance between what we fear and what we know. What we don’t know, we can’t fear. Like that famous Donald Rumsfeld quote, about the idea that the U.S. government knows some things, doesn’t know other things, and the problem is, he said, not knowing what we don’t know that we don’t know.

Remember that one?

I’m pretty sure he was discussing Iraq and their weapons of mass destruction program, or their mobile WMDs in roving trucks, if I recall. What we didn’t know, and then discovering what we didn’t know, was what we should have known.  And NOW, it’s all worked itself out, hasn’t it? The fear, I mean, of not knowing that thing, which we didn’t know.

Because it turned out to be nothing, the thing we didn’t know. But almost nobody feared what we did know, which was starting a war, with bombs, drones, weddings strafed, collateral damage, PTSD, etc.

Is it better to stick with what we know or make assumptions?

Like we know:

Colbert, Maddow, Melania, the Queen, Obama, the FBI and the KGB, Fox News.

People we sorta forgot:

Bill O’Reilly, Hunter S. Thompson, Jay Leno, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Nixon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

People we don’t know:

Jack Benny, the King of England, Grover Cleveland, Bill Moyer, Sammy Davis Jr.

As far as Russian history,

We know:

Putin, election meddling, annexation, thugs, Gulag, Stalin, Khrushchev’s shoe, bomb shelters.

Things we sorta forgot:

Vladimir Lenin, Gorbachev, the Berlin Wall, Alaska, Sarah Palin quotes about Russia.

Things we don’t know:

Catherine the Great, the number of Russians who died fighting Germany during WWI and WWII, Czar Nicholas, Siberia on a map, Russian Orthodoxy, Seward’s folly, nor very many actual Russian people.

Other interesting facts about Russia are just too many to know, because it’s a big country, with a long and complicated history, so we can fit those things into the category of “things we don’t know, we don’t know.”

One word we don’t know is this: Slavophilia.

The type above is linked so you can look it up, because it’s relevant, but unknown. It basically means that Russia has struggled for A LONG TIME to find the proper attitude it officially holds towards the rest of the planet, particularly the West.

It’s opposite is called Slavophobia. (Also linked.)

We tend to view WHITE SUPREMACY as hating people of color, but if we follow the history of white supremacy, the Germans have long despised the Slavs. Here is an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry under “Slavophobia”:

The Nazis’ policy towards Slavs was to exterminate or enslave the vast majority of the Slavic population and repopulate their lands with millions of ethnic Germans and other Germanic peoples.

In our memories, we say: Thank God that never happened.

Oh, but we’ve forgotten, the opening shots fired to start WWII, the invasion of Poland by Germany, Sept. 1, 1939. Hundreds of thousands of Poles were killed, mostly civilians, then the millions more Poles who died across the war, as Poland was essentially trapped between the Germans and the Russians, we’ve forgotten. Where Polish farmers were murdered en masse, German farmers repopulated. So it DID happen and we can see the attempts to push that same Nazi vision further East until it stopped 1945.

When the West objected to the Polish invasion, Hitler’s justification was that Slavs “are an inferior people,” and England kinda agreed, and withdrew their complaint.

Now, if you have read this far, the only reason I bring this up, is to point out to liberals, of which I would consider myself one, that it appears that “the things we don’t know, that we don’t know,” has co-opted our current American attitudes towards Russia and the Slavic peoples. And this dates back LONG BEFORE most any of us liberals or conservatives can remember.  So, let’s review some of what we might not know or be co-opted.

This is just a REMINDER.

Western history traces through Rome.  If we look at the map of the Roman Empire at the top of this blog, we can notice two things. 1) The Romans did not conquer Germania, and 2) nor did the Romans conquer the Slavs.

What happened after this map of Rome at its peak, was the slow and steady unification and expansion of the Roman Empire across roughly two thousand years by Christianity. This officially began with the reign of Roman Emperor Constantine +/- 325 AD and his ceding of the Roman Empire to the Catholic Church papacy, called The Donation of Constantine. Through the launch of the Catholic Church, both Germans and the Slavs slipped into submission. To Rome.

Both peoples mostly gave up their pagan gods in favor of Christianity.

One has to wonder about that. Because it was a bit of a brilliant move by the Romans. It’s written right there in Catholicism: “Pound your swords into plowshares.”

If the question is, “How in God’s name did the Italians defeat all of Northern and Eastern Europe beyond what their military could accomplish?” The answer is, “Exactly.”

In God’s name.

The Greatest Story Ever Told

For more to this story, we’d want to know more about a single book, which was written by a Roman historian named Tacitus. His book was titled Germania. This was written to the Romans, published in 98 AD, explaining how the Germanic peoples were successful in repelling Roman advances in war.

Jewish-Italian historian Arnaldo Momigliano in 1956 described Germania as “among the most dangerous books ever written.”

Tacitus explained German success as due to their never taking prisoners and completely obliterating their foes; women and children too. The Germanic tribes protected their genetic purity without mercy; the book Germania praises them.

This was the true birth of a movement across the Western world in later centuries called eugenics, the belief in genetic superiority, and the requirement of those superior, to take charge of the inferior. One of the biggest proponents of eugenics was our own President, Teddy Roosevelt.

Now of course, books get lost. Germania was lost to readers for over 1,000 years until a single copy was discovered in 1425, about the time of the PRINTING PRESS. And the reprinting of Germania was a big hit, and in fact, played a significant role in the naming of the German nation itself.

In other words, after 1,300 years, the Germans suddenly caught wind of how they had been viewed by the early Romans. What a huge shot in the arm for NATIONALISM! Genetic pride! Germania!

This book’s ideas then simmer across Germany for the next few generations; family by family, remembering that their ancestors had defeated the Roman armies. Germany suddenly wakes up at the start of the 1500s to fact that the Romans have been running their show via religion for a long time, and maybe that was a MISTAKE.

Why Rome became a Church in the first place

We think of the Roman Empire as having collapsed, except what our history teachers left out was the part that the Empire collapsed INTO something else, which was, the Catholic Church.

England, at this time of “Rome’s military withdrawal,” was formerly occupied and protected by Roman armies.  Suddenly, that was gone. Then, after a couple of bad farming seasons across the English Channel in Germany, the Germans discover that England is fine for farming and UNPROTECTED. So there comes to be a mass emigration of Germans into England from 500 AD forward. The Germans just floated across and stayed.

The “British people” which resulted are called Anglo-Saxons.

Again, 1,000 years pass. Then in 1492, Columbus sails the ocean blue. Spain, still Catholic, powerful; with Germania on all the reading lists of the best and brightest, adopts the principles of “supreme race” under God, goes about the planet slaughtering “inferior” peoples, takes no prisoners.  Name any Spanish explorer.

Goodbye indigenous peoples.

Christianity adopts the “genetic superiority model,” not in word, but in deed.

In 1517, Luther nails his 95 Theses to the Wittenberg door; the Germans launch their separation from Roman authority. “Fool us once,” they say. Roughly this same time, England’s King Henry VIII, ruler of the Anglo-Saxons, does the exact same thing.

Despite the Twentieth Century, British and German roots are deeply intertwined.

Now in broad strokes, we see a divide. The Catholics on the one side, the Protestants on the other. The Protestants come to Plymouth Rock. Catholics in America, for the next 300 years, are not welcome. Each and every Founding Father? Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

All the other precepts from Tacitus then followed, which was the total destruction of one’s enemy, then repopulating those same territories with better breeding. Such that, we see the American Indian vanish, and whoever’s remaining goes down the Trail of Tears, the denial of Indian rights and self-determination, and the $5 bounty in California for every Indian scalp submitted for payment by the U.S. Treasury.

Late 1800s: Hawaii. The Philippines. Japan. Korea. These fall to the U.S. in one way or another.

Mexico, however, fights to retain its borders, gets pushed back to the Rio Grande. Americans say, “Thanks Mexico for giving us Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California, now get out and stay out.”

The white supremacy movement owes a lot to the Roman historian Tacitus for “many great gains.”

But, returning to the Slavs, are they white European or an indigenous mix?

To answer that, let’s just get straight to the descendants of Britain’s Queen Victoria (1819-1901). The Queen spoke German when in private. Why? Her mother was German. Then, Queen Victoria and King Christian IX’s descendants went on to rule these nations: Denmark, Norway, Spain, Germany, Greece, Romania, Russia, and the UK. Currently, Queen Victoria’s and King Christian IX’s descendants rule Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

How and when did Russia get on that list?

Even one of Russia’s greatest rulers, Catherine the Great, wasn’t Russian, but German/Prussian. The Germans, as they reestablished themselves as the true heirs of Europe, per Germania, were all over the place. Even Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, wasn’t French by birth, but Austrian.  It was about BREEDING.

Just to point out: Hitler didn’t invent white supremacy.

Tacitus did.

And the Slavs since 1425 are not considered fully white by the fully white.

To summarize:

98 AD: Germania publishes, written for the Romans.

325: First great Church Counsel at Nicaea, the Roman Empire cedes to papal authority.

To 1425: Germany falls, Russia falls to the Church for 1,000 years. Germania is rediscovered 1425, distributed, this time for German readers. Ethnic pride reestablished.

1517: Protestant Reformation launches, kicking the Romans out, particularly popular amongst German and Anglo-Saxons.

1620: WASP Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock.

1776: Founding Fathers sign the Declaration of Independence under the principles of Germania that all men are to be equal (amongst their same kind).

1800s: Many Northern European nations merge under the descendants of Queen Victoria amidst the belief in eugenic theory and the sublimation of the entire planet by Anglo-Saxons wherever the sun may set.

1917: Russians rebel against Anglo-Saxon rule.  “The people” take over.

1939: Hitler starts his program of Slavic removal, starting in Poland.

Then this, begat that, and suddenly there’s Facebook.

Don’t mess with family and friends

The Slavs have long been earmarked into the suspicious category, at least since the Roman Empire, certainly since the Russians split with the Roman Catholic Church, then with the sublimation of the Russian Orthodox Church under Catherine the Great, then with the murders of Queen Victoria’s granddaughter and royal family members in Russia, 1917.

This is perhaps what’s behind all the hoopla surrounding Russian election tampering with the U.S. public on social media. What?  A somewhat ancient history.  About who is getting access to the subconscious minds of the innocent. Because in America, only pedigree is allowed access to our minds.  And family or friends.

And this is why Donald Trump has to go to Russia to act out his dirtiest fantasies because that’s what goes on in Russia.

Dirty deeds happen there.

When it comes to what we don’t know, that we don’t know, that’s Russia now. If anything Slav gets on your Facebook, delete it, go wash your hands.

Or the Slavs will control your MIND, MAKE you vote the Red Ticket, while pissing on your head.  I mean, isn’t that it?

Pretty much, across both sides of the U.S. political aisle nowadays, seems to have been co-opted to hate or distrust as many “non-whites” as is humanly possible. Half of America distrusts Mexicans; the other half despises Russia. It’s a perfect balance of piles of dirt.  Like a wall.

How do they do it, perpetuate all of that? I mean, the they we all fear and don’t know who they are.  Except we DO know Donald Rumsfeld.  The “what we do not know, that we do not know,” stuff.  That too, straight from the playbook of the ancients.

I call bullshit.

Fool us once is all you get.

I mean, fool us twice is all you get

Ok, yeah, I mean, fool us all the time.  Like WWIII, sure, why not?

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