Jheronimus Bosch 011.
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A friend of mine, long dead
Said, You're a poet, Michael.
I don't know about that
But home is where you hang your hat.
So to the cockroaches and rats that may survive
The war and eventually learn to read
Re-invent computers and find the cloud
Containing this amidst the fallout
I say, We didn't mean to do it.
Most of us anyway. We were just whistling
Not in the dark but in the light
Of what we knew but chose not to
Save ourselves but wait for God
Who to the great surprise of many
A fearful and devout believer
Does not do miracles. [1]
What would have been the point
Of such a long and tedious project.
A million years of evolution down the drain. [2]
You will have long forgotten the details
If you ever knew them, so here's a quick recap.
Around the time that I was born
The Yanks invented atom bombs.
They dropped them on the Japs to impress the Russkies
Who were allies and had already won the war [3]
At the cost of 27 million lives, but they became
The new enemy. Go figure.
A few decades later eight more countries
Had thousands of much bigger bombs. [4]
Everybody knew that using them
Would end human civilization.
So the Russkies and the Yanks agreed to limit
Long-range and intermediate-range missiles
But Bush 2 ended the former in 2002
And Trump ended the latter in 2019. [5]
The Yanks promised the Soviets in 1990
Not to expand NATO "one inch eastward."[6]
In return Germany was reunited
And the Warsaw Pact dissolved.
Then against their own best advice [7]
NATO added not just an inch but 14 countries [8]
To the east and put missiles in Romania [9] and Poland [10]
That could hit Moscow in five minutes. [11]
After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991
The Yankee plan was never to make peace
But to break up Russia too,[12] as they did
Yugoslavia,[13] playing on the "Grand Chessboard"[14]
To usher in the New American Century [15]
With full-spectrum dominance [16] after 9/11
The New Pearl Harbor,[17] requiring war against 7 countries [18]
And a War on Terror that killed about 6 million people. [19]
Putin made it clear in 2007[20]
That NATO expansion to Georgia and Ukraine
Was unacceptable. Imagine the United States
Surrounded by the Warsaw Pact.
Ukraine would add 2000 kilometers
To the NATO border with Russia. [21]
So they told the Yanks that "Nyet Means Nyet"[22]
And proposed a treaty in 2008[23]
That the Yanks ignored. [24] Vicky "f*ck the EU"
Nuland [25] said in 2013 that the US had spent billions [26]
Arming Ukraine. The payoff was the coup in 2014[27]
That could have been prevented [28]
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