>What is really behind the conflict So what lies behind the conflict with all its unpredictable dangers? What if this conflict is so dangerous not because it reflects the growing strength of the two former superpowers, but rather because it shows that they are unable to come to terms with the fact that they are no longer true global powers ? When, at the height of the Cold War , Mao Ze Dong said that the US is, with all its weapons, a paper tiger, he forgot to add that paper tigers could be more dangerous than real tigers and self-assured. . The Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco was just the latest in a series of blows to American supremacy, and Russia's effort to rebuild the Soviet empire is nothing more thana desperate attempt to cover up the fact that Russia is now a weak state in decline . As with real rapists, a rape signals the impotence of the aggressor.
At a press conference on February 7, 2022, Putin noted that the Ukrainian government did not like the Minsk Agreements, later adding: "Whether you like it or not, it is your duty, my beautiful." The saying has known sexual overtones: Putin seemed to be quoting Soviet-era punk rock group Red Mould's 'Sleeping Beauty in a Coffin' : "Sleeping beauty in a coffin, I crawled over and fucked her. Like it or not." Sleep my beauty." Although the Kremlin press representative claimed that Putin was referring to an old folk expression, the reference to Ukraine as the object of necrophilia and rape is clear .
Already in 2002, Putin responded to a Western journalist's question like this: "If you want to become a complete Islamic radical and are ready to undergo circumcision, then I invite you to Moscow. We are a multi-confessional country. We have specialists in this question [ circumcision]. I will recommend that you carry out the operation in such a way that nothing else will grow afterwards ", a rather vulgar threat of castration. No wonder Putin and Trump were comrades in vulgarity. At least politicians like Putin and Trump openly say what they meanand avoid hypocrisy; however, in this case, I am wholeheartedly on the side of hypocrisy: the form (of hypocrisy) is never just a form, it is part of the content, so that when the form is abandoned, the content itself he brutalizes himself.
Putin's obscene comment must be read in the context of the Ukraine crisis , which is presented in our media as the threat of "rape of a sovereign country". This crisis is not without comical aspects: proof, in today's upside-down world, that the crisis is serious. A Slovenian political analyst, Boris Čibej , noted the comical nature of the tensions around Ukraine in early 2022: "Those who are expected to attack, that is, Russia, claim that they have no intention of doing so, and those who act as if they wanted to defuse the situation they insist that fighting is inevitable ."
Asher Campbell
We can continue here: the US, protector of Ukraine , warns that war could break out at any moment while the president of Ukraine , the expected victim of the Russian attack, warns against war hysteria and calls for calm. Russia, which is ready to rape Ukraine, claims that it does not want to do so, but between the lines it makes it clear that if it does not obtain Ukraine's consent to have sex, it is ready to commit rape (recall Putin's vulgar response), she also accuses Ukraine of provoking her to commit rape. The US, which wants to protect Ukraine from being raped, is sounding alarm bells about the imminent threat of rape so that it can assert itself as the protector of post-Soviet nations (this protection can only remind us of a local mobster who offers shops and restaurants protection against theft in his domain, with a veiled threat that if they refuse his protection, something might happen to them). Ukraine, the target of the rape threat, tries to remain calm,the hype about rape may push Russia to commit rape .
Russia is not just going back to the old Cold War with its firm set of rules. Something much crazier is going on: not a cold war, but a hot peace , a peace that amounts to a permanent hybrid war in which military intervention is declared to be a humanitarian peacekeeping mission against genocide: "The State Duma expresses its unequivocal and consolidated support for appropriate measures taken for humanitarian purposes." So to conclude with Lenin's question: what to do? All of us who come from countries that have to witness the sad comedy of rape must be aware that only true castration prevents rape . So we should recommend that the international community carry out a castrating operation on Russia (and, to some extent, the US), ignoring and marginalizing them as much as possible, ensuring that nothing else will grow from their global authority afterwards.
John Turner
Zizek is a faggot who deep down craves Putin's dick in his ass
Zachary Jenkins
zizek is a midwit bell curve iq who should stick to movie reviews
he is such a hack on any topic with any gravity he has devolved into a more verbose, retarded Baudrillard here
Jason Kelly
Fuck Zizek, listen to Michael Hudson instead.
Easton Wilson
>international community My sides. What's next? Santa?
Thomas Peterson
Ukraine is right next door Pollack. Go fight Putin.
Jackson King
the only thing zizec has ever gotten right is his love for stalin (unironically).
Carter Nelson
Kys troon didnt readz sage /thread
Blake Rodriguez
Lmao. Is he this retarded? The only fucking force on this planet that can somehow threaten Russia is US. There's no "international community" that strong enough to be able "castrate" us. We will fuck you up
Christopher Ortiz
>As with real rapists, a rape signals the impotence of the aggressor. Everything he wrote before this was just a setup to this line, and is borderline Trudeau tier thinking "if you get raped by your enemies, that only shows they were impotent". Not going to bother reading the rest since its obvious he's too far up his own intellectually stimulating asshole to see reality.
The only intellectual in the past 100 years I've read that was worth a damn was Ted Kaczynski worth a damn, the rest are just fluff writers who huff farts and write wishy washy trash that holds no real point or meaning to them.
A yid fuckhole has a take.. No thx go fuck yourself faggot
Jace Long
enjoyable read castration in lacanian/zizekian terms is symbolic meaning the weight of the label and ostracization that follow is what creates true powerlessness and impotence think about being put on a sexual offender's list t. psycho-therapist
Joseph Gonzalez
>Russia is not just going back to the old Cold War with its firm set of rules. Something much crazier is going on: not a cold war, but a hot peace , a peace that amounts to a permanent hybrid war in which military intervention is declared to be a humanitarian peacekeeping mission against genocide A "hot peace". that's a gem right there
Luke Thomas
Zizek is now a globohomo vaxxoid
Julian Ramirez
This is good analysis. Russian and American power is not coming back, the world has moved on, this display of dominance and aggression is not impressive, if they were really dominant then we would not be able to truly ignore them. They won't ever push the button on the nuke, because it would exhaust their power, the only power they ever held over the world was the threat of nuclear annihilation, the cold war made it very clear that neither side wants to commit suicide, and all of their militarism is otiose grandiosity. Mao was correct that the US was a paper tiger, however, it is also true of China and Russia. They can only threaten, because once they become actual tigers, their power is expended.
Russia will take back Ukraine as a symbolic act of defiance, but it won't matter any more than if they had left Ukraine alone, the digital metaworld has usurped the physical world's ability to be taken seriously. The biggest threat to the former super power nations is not weapons, it's irrelevance, and unfortunately for them, they are already irrelavant.
Zizek is an international treasure and his insight is always about 24 moves ahead of the next best "intellectual." Putin is an impotent rapist exerting a dominance that he doesn't truly have, to warn off the impotent rapists in the west, whom also lack the power to dominate international politics and the public perception.
Jaxson Harris
he is a retarded faggot who talks with a lisp and says silly nonsense hiding behind purple prose
i hope he dies a painful death
Wyatt Davis
didn't read, didn't have to. Let me summarize: >ignores blatant motivation >pseuds some convoluted garbage that only a "person" who's been insulated in the universities could possibly make up
That whole rape analogy is retarded. Invasion of Ukraine is nothing else but savagery. Ruthless, rational barbarism. The West, in it's silly decadent intellectualism completely forgot on which terms world operates. Dog eat dog, simple as that. And globohomo certainly wasn't ready for that
Ayden Evans
Gerald Gallego was impotent and would blame and beat his wife and partner in crime as a result So was Andrei Chikatilo who only was able to cum when he stabbed his victims There are some truths to be found here, sucks to be you for mindlessly rejecting it
Daniel Ward
>retards thinking he was speaking literally >not understanding the symbolic nature of language
He got me to read a few paragraphs, so he gets around a 4/10. Still boring and almost free from content.
Bentley Williams
>his conclusion is to castrate Russia and the US Dare I say, based?
Luis Butler
>celeb worshipper rapidy runs around to find any cherry picked examples he can This is what happens to people who worship personalities instead of thinking for themselves, they end up making themselves look stupid because they are forced to defend the stupid opinions of the person whom they use as a place-in for their very own thoughts/ego.
Angel Long
Demographically speaking you might say that he's right about America and Russia both being in decline. Both are shadows of what they were last century
James Bailey
He uses the rape analogy to emphasize the how both the US and Russia are using violence to mask their decline It's a bit overly elaborated analogy and spills over actual substance I agree
Jacob Ward
he is a dirty fat nigger
anything he says can be discarded
Jason Nguyen
Once US will drown in it's problem the whole Europe will become a free game for us. This entire muggy prolonged peace is held by very delicate balance between our militaries. The world will become the hunting grounds for Men once again, and Zizek's of the world will fade away. Ukraine is just the beginning
Juan Robinson
how are the post-soviet philosphers so much better than the post-ww2 jews like sartre?
Michael Sanders
t. also impotent
Michael Nelson
the irony is that the russians are just copying the iraq war playbook, although they skipped the UN theater step
Jacob Evans
>a literal subhuman faggot yeah I'm not reading that trash
