What is the Meaning of "Ukraine"?

Myth, Might and the New Reality

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This is the final post on the parlous subject of the New Year news. It is an essay on the meaning of “Ukraine”, and is not news in the traditional sense - which is the point.

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I will return in detail to the subject of desire, and will also go on about modern superstition along with emotive methods of mass propaganda - soon.

I have paywalled this post a bit as it is time I began to reward my paid subscribers, for whom I will now post a paid piece once a week.

Again, if you are skint but want to read what the voices have told me, send me an email at frankwrighter@pm.me (and I promise not to read it - in your honour).

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There is a timeline where Uncle Sam says this - again - and I think we are living in it.

The Meaning of Ukraine

The loss of the war in Ukraine is a defining moment for the idea of the West.

It can be understood as a major gambit to reassert the mythos and the might of an empire. Instead, it demonstrated that this moment has passed.

Ukraine is no longer a nation and arguably never was. It was, like the fantasies of the West which infused it with such significance, a creation of empire.

That empire was the Russian one, in the Tsarist and then the Soviet iterations. The Russian idea of Ukraine - of a necessary land buffer between itself and its enemies - is one rooted in the geographical reality which informs realistic diplomacy. Russia is a land power with an enormous land border. It has suffered invasion many times in recent centuries. The sea powers of the UK and the USA do not share this strategic concern. There is clear blue water between themselves and the argument that a neighbour’s neutrality is a matter of existential significance.

The Ally Cycle

Instead of this reality, which is obvious to the Russians and to anyone else who cares to see as well as look, we are served values. These values are the dressing of desire - a desire for domination, for the realisation of a renascent power, for the material and mythic rewards of victory. These are plunder and prestige.

The values are the defence of democracy and freedom. These values used to mean something, and we used to believe in them too. What changed was the stalemate of two systems, each claiming to be morally better than the other. We knew that the wall kept them in, however. The West was better because it was (it did not wall up its citizens), it did not send in the tanks as in Hungary, and it was better because it had to be. If those values did not mean free speech, aspiration, a better life for our children - well, we might just choose the alternative.

Then the alternative vanished. The values are now just talk. The actions have spoken louder than these empty words: The West has failed to assert its will. It did not succeed in collapsing its enemy.

Instead, it has gambled and lost. Now it is collapsing itself.

It’s D, you idiot.

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