“Diplomacy” in a room full of mirrors: postmodernism as a cognitive pathological virus
With thanks to Quantum Bird
Postmodernism, with its cognitive relativism and other pseudo-philosophical artifacts, is the place where the West has gone to die. The Western cognitive degenerative disease has entered its terminal stage, and the signs are everywhere.
We’ve already dealt with cultural aspects when analyzing Wokeism in previous posts. Today we will briefly examine the impacts of postmodernism on the [death of] Western diplomacy. Instead of a potentially long and tedious historical approach, let us proceed by example. And the best recent example is undoubtedly the proposed ceasefire, agreed between the US and Ukraine, for the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
The proposal is a great winged unicorn. Something that does not exist, nor could it exist, because it patently violates the physics principles. In fact, since the beginning of the Special Military Operation, the Russian position has been clear on the impossibility of a ceasefire, i.e., suspension of hostilities, because the operation itself was launched to solve the primary causes of the problem, which would be nazism and russophobia associated with the Ukrainian offensive military potential. As the facts on the ground in the former Ukraine demonstrate, denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine – the main objectives of the Special Military Operation – are not mere rhetorical articulations.
In other words, by design, the Special Military Operation is incompatible with the notion of a ceasefire. Yet this is the “peace proposal” that the Trump administration has formulated together with the Ukrainian leadership, to be negotiated with Russia.
The subplots are even more fantastic. The proposal previews the restoration of waepons and intelligence supplies to the Ukrainian regime during the ceasefire and formulates no concept of which authorities would be responsible for overseeing compliance during the 30-day period. No mention of what happens afterwards. The icing on the cake is the US authorities’ request for clemency for the Ukrainian terrorist troops surrounded in Kursk.
President Putin, at a press conference during his meeting with the president of Belarus, diplomatically and elegantly declined the proposal. In his comments, Putin asked a series of questions about the obvious problems with the idea of a ceasefire. By doing so, in a style “didactic enough for the mentally retarded”, Putin effectively put a large “Stupid” sign over the heads of the members of the US delegation that would be visiting the Kremlin shortly afterwards to discuss the matter. Meanwhile, Trump continues to celebrate the ceasefire proposal as a major victory for his peace initiative.
The episode clearly demonstrates the chronic inability of Western leaders to see and hear anything that doesn’t come from themselves, as President Putin himself pointed out in his 2007 speech in Munich. They are effectively trapped in a room full of mirrors. Western “diplomacy” has lost touch with reality and operates on the basis of narratives. Never mind the head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, publicly advocating, willy-nilly, the invasion and dismemberment of Russia into small villages, or the leaders of France and Germany admitting on the records that they used the ceasefire agreed in the Minsk Agreements 1 and 2 to rearm, fortify and organize Ukrainian Nazi troops between 2015 and 2018. Or Boris Jonhson’s visit to Kiev in 2022 to withdraw Ukraine from the Istanbul peace accords. Despite all this, the Europeans insist on being a party to negotiating a resolution to the conflict. How could Russia accept that?
And Trump, does he listen to anything it is said to him? Judging by his behavior at press conferences, where the content of the questions is repeatedly ignored and the answers are a repetition of campaign slogans and self-praise…
Sumarizing, the US peace initiative looks much more like an arrangement to guarantee the recrudescence and expansion of the hostilities. But again, remember, from a postmodernist perspective, what matters is the narrative. There is no objective reality.
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Portuguese version available at Saker Latinoamérica: https://sakerlatam.blog/diplomacia-em-uma-sala-cheia-de-espelhos-pos-modernismo-como-um-virus-patologico-cognitivo/