"There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
And by chaos, they mean hilarity.
“I remember two crazy Germans,” Mamuka Mamulashvili, the commander of the Georgian Legion, told me when I reached him over Skype. I showed him a picture of Tobias and Lukas, just to be sure, and Mamulashvili burst out laughing, explaining that he tries to personally interview every recruit. “That’s them.”
“My officers told me there were these two guys trying to party in the barracks, and they had to go. They were gone the next day,” Mamulashvili said.
IMO the chaos is the point.
If Europe and Asia are allowed to integrate economically, if Chinese tech and Russian fuel can easily reach Western Europe by land, then the US is finished as a superpower. Its naval superiority no longer will let it choke off the most important global trade. Its location turns from an oasis into a backwater. It became a superpower in the first place during the century of most intense fighting in Europe and Asia, and it needs the violence to continue.
And, of course, the US is backing Russian Nazis too.
What is reported less often about Navalny are his nationalist leanings, ties to neo-Nazi groups, xenophobic comments and extreme anti-immigrant views. References to Navalny’s nationalism in the West are usually buried or brushed off, while the headlines sing his praises.
Azov veterans… coming to a police department near you!