Re: <nettime> Germany's geopolitics

[Andre Rebentisch <tabesin@gmail.com>]

An interesting pattern - also in conspiracy theory type imagination - is
to imagine your own government as a capable, acting party that in a way
starts or controls developments. Basically one ensures that the
main narration is its capability to lead action, good or evil.

Here we have a ruthless invader of Ukraine and a broken political 
environment
in Russia, but instead one talks about the West. and Ukraine supposedly 
did something
wrong but not on its own but as a proxy that distracts Europe from its 
smarter
geopolitical choices, whatever they are, something Chinese, Tianxia.

You know, like there is no Vietnamese perspective in the Vietnam war 
narrative complex,
all are NPC. It is all about US faults, suffering, politicians, 
soldiers, veterans, protests.

One does not leave it to Russia to do wrong and for Ukraine to suffer 
and others to react, the initiative needs to be claimed for "us" who 
allegedly orchestrate it to go wrong.

-- A

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