ONLINE DIARY bad news Russian mobilisation in action to become ready for war engagement of Russian military forces in Ukraine

Once again the Russian President Putin builds up his image as merciless dictator and threatens to use nuclear weapons. I am not the only one in the world who wonders: how can a person of any intelligence and not deranged be so incredible fucking stupid? Sign of disturbed mental health? When I think about his primitive aggression I end up with this question: is this furious madman born in hell, in the cradle of evil? Did he ever enjoyed a goodnight kiss of peace? Another question: What explains his hate towards the Western world? Russia, what did we do wrong to deserve your contempt? This is a cold war question that was actual at the time when we were being despised or scorned by the Soviet-Union. Now this question is again urgent. History repeating itself, are we back in the Cold War? In the dim shadow of the Iron Curtain? Yes, more or less, this time with an unique dramatic dimension: the nuclear bomb. 

Tell me, all these questions (made possible by the most precious privilege of mankind: an analytical mind) who has the answers? The Kremlin-critics in Moscow are silenced by the cruel punishment of the Putin-regime. Fear dominates Russian (by definition throughout corrupted) society. Especially remarkable in this regard is the behaviour of the reasonable intellectuals. Their painful silence demonstrates how strong the instinct to survive is, stronger than the desire for freedom of speech. Everybody is afraid. As if being prisoned and psychologically tormented they are forced to await the dramatic events to come, such as the mobilisation Putin declared recently. 

And now on top of all misery there’s the threat of a bomb, the Big One, like we have seen happen in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Which city first Mister Putin, Kyiv, New York, London, Brussel? Or Amsterdam? Why not destroy the whole world. For who are you going to save the last dance? More important, who is going to stop you anyway? And how? All the killing. First time in history that this war on European continent is possible because of the threat of the bomb.

The obsession with the bomb has actually come to life in my memory with the song Political Science by Randy Newman. He sings the song with ironical pleasure, its purely satirical therefore cannot be conceived in any patriotic spirit. I like the lyrics. What’s it about? The character who is speaking in this song is overly patriotic or nationalistic, unselfishly devoted to the pragmatic and ideological service of his country.
I agree with this following text found on Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia: ‘ … the song is a satire of a particular part of American culture and history, namely its foreign policies at the time. The unnamed narrator describes the state of the world, and suggests, “Let’s drop the big one and see what happens.”