Victoria Nuland and Yulia Tymoshenko. One from the United States, the other from Ukraine. Both deeply involved in politics, both ambitious, both throwing their weight about, and both full of and burning with passionate, violent, irrational and implacable hatred against Russia. Two gorgons, two women, two evil-doers, two female-warmongers, two inciters and sowers of discord, unfriendliness, and animosity.
It is sometimes alleged by the feminists of all shades and persuasions that once women are in positions of power, the world will be a better place because – so runs the naive explanation – women are naturally well-disposed to all humans and care much more about peace than men do. Alas! History has taught us again and again that women can be and usually are far more cruel than men! The two viragoes – Nuland and Tymoshenko – seem to be in competition with men: all feminist-minded women are in competition with men. The two viragoes badly need to show that they can outperform men in war-mongering. The two viragoes have been targeting Vladimir Putin not merely as a Russian, but as a man, a male, a nightmare figure that they would like to be seduced and raped by and at the same time that they hate intensely. What have the two hags concocted?
Well, Victoria Nuland’s scheme was simple and she made no bones about it. Look, she said on an occasion, the United States will print billions of dollars and lend them to Kiev; with this money Kiev will purchase weaponry and shells from American manufacturers and will run into debt while causing harm to Russia, the United States’ long-standing political rival. Sure enough, Ukraine is not going to beat Russia nor is Ukraine going to ever be able to pay off its debt. Ukraine will merely keep Russia occupied and drain some of Russia’s resources, simultaneously being forced to sell all its assets – among them arable land – to the United States companies in an attempt to settle Ukraine’s liabilities. Ingenious! And you know what? Ukrainian “patriots” fell for the trap. Ukrainian patriots who cared so very much about Ukraine and its independence began to run up huge debt, liberating Ukraine from Russia and enslaving the same Ukraine to the United States (and the rest of the Western world)! Tweedledum and Tweedledee, indeed! But then, you know, to any East European, an American overlord is viewed as a guardian angel while a Russian friend is viewed as a bitter enemy. That’s the way it is, has always been, and will ever be. That West only needs to exploit this peculiar psychology for its own interests.
What did Yulia Tymoshenko do? She used to spew hatred against Russia, Russians and all things Russian as much as she could. She went down in recent history as one who called on the West to nuke Ukraine’s largest neighbour. She is a billionaire – at least in her case patriotism pays – and she has always been holding positions of power. She wanted Ukraine to expand, she flexed Ukraine’s muscles, and she incited animosity towards Moscow. Victoria Nuland and Yulia Tymoshenko make a perfect tandem. There is a but, though. Victoria Nuland has tried to cause harm to Russia and in the process has not caused much harm to the United States whereas Yulia Tymoshenko has pushed her country, the country she supposedly cared about so much, to the brink of annihilation: a 20 percent loss of Ukraine’s territory, a 50% loss of Ukraine’s population, along with the utter devastation of Ukraine’s economy and infrastructure. Yulia Tymoshenko, how do you feel about all this?
The American harpy underrated Russia’s military prowess and national stamina, and so she has lost. The Ukrainian harpy overrated American military prowess and the determination of the West to combat Russia, and so she has lost. Both harpies were obsessed with Russia as the world’s villain number one and neither acted with prudence or caution. Either wanted to make history, and either desired to show off that their femininity was more bellicose than any man’s masculinity. Both have been miserably blinded by their irrational hate.
There is one other gorgon – virago – harpy – acting in between them: Ursula von der Leyen. She too is obsessed with hatred towards President Putin in particular and Russia in general, she too does not care how many Ukrainians will lose their life or limbs, she, too, is hellbent on proving how much better and more effective she is than any of her male colleagues.
Three women with misguided – distorted – warped ideals of what a woman ought to be. Three Jezebels – three Shakespearean witches from the Macbeth drama – three incarnations of Lady Macbeth, an overambitious woman, who compelled her husband to commit crime after crime after another crime, who was ashamed of her femininity and prayed to the powers that be that they unsex her!
Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!'
[Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5]
Lovers of all humanity that they feign to be, in their heart of hearts they all – Victoria Nuland, Yulia Tymoshenko, and Ursula von der Leyen – are filled with extreme cruelty, devoid of compunction and remorse, full of poisonous gall instead of nourishing milk. They turn their faces away from the sight of the hundreds of dead and amputees. They do not wish to see the wound their knives inflict nor do they want anybody to see through the darkness of their psychological make-up.
