Is it the twentieth package of sanctions that the European Union is about to impose on Russia? The European Union seems to never be running out of things – economic, political, cultural – it can sanction. Strange, isn’t it? Either the European Union commissioners knew right from the start that the sanctions would be ineffective or…? Or what? Maybe the European Union loves playing big and pontificating to the whole world about morals. Yet, even the citizens of the European Union do not seem to care which package it is now.
Are the European Union commissioners not aware of the fact that they are losing face every time they impose a new packet of sanctions and they remain ineffective? What they do is laughable. Imagine a policeman telling a ruffian to behave himself or else. Or else the policeman will call him names, or else the policeman will report on him to the higher authorities, or else the policeman will not smile at the ruffian, or else… Laughable.
Obviously by imposing those numerous packages of sanctions the commissioners want to impress it on the Europeans that they still matter and that they are to be reckoned with in the whole world.
Or maybe it is a pseudo-religious cult that is being practised in Brussels? You know, something like voodoo. The commissioners are piercing the doll representing Putin with pins and needles in the hope that those pins and needles will bring about his disease and demise? Consecutive packages of sanctions are such pins and needles. Maybe the twenty-first or the twenty-ninth, or the thirty-fourth package will ultimately bring about another February or October revolution in Russia, topple the government and the hated president, and render Russia helpless and defenceless like she was in 1917 and later or 1991 and later? Who knows? Let the commissioners do their best.
Or maybe it is a travesty of the practice of the Catholic Church when she used to anathemize those who dared to believe in ways different from what the Petrine throne pontificated about? Well, the commissioners are very distant from any religion, but there may be more in their behaviour than meets the eye. Brussels may have become an anti-church replica of the Vatican with all the trappings of the latter turned inside out. For the commissioners imposing ineffective sanctions are sort of anathemizing those they do not like (read: those who do not bow and crape to them). If you are familiar with medieval history of Europe (Europe!) then you will have remembered the popes who would anathemize monarchs and whole kingdoms and principalities. Isn’t it the same now? It is not done in the name of God this time, but in the name of human rights and democracy, but then what’s the difference? In either case – be it the popes or the commissioners – anathema is a psychological and ideological weapon with which to combat the political enemy.
For that matter think of the 28-point peace plan that is being discussed nowadays. The plan is American but some of its contents might as will have been drafted by the European Union commissioners, like the point saying that if Russia bends over backwards she will be magnanimously accepted back to the international (read: Western) community, she will again be regarded with dignity, she will stop being the world’s pariah. Isn’t it the same as we had it in the Middle Ages? If the monarch recanted his errors and kowtowed to the pope, the anathema was lifted and he was again regarded as a regular member of the community of the decent. Yet, such instances of medieval anathema worked only so much. Anathema worked in a couple of instances until it began to be overused and its effectiveness wore off. Especially when it was applied too often… like the packets of sanctions. The commissioners should have learnt it from history.
But then, I have always suspected the commissioners to have been weak in history. Rational are they not, nor do they have much knowledge about anything. Contrarily, they fit the definition of being deeply religious individuals. No, they do not believe in the Christian God or any god for that matter. They believe in their omnipotence, in Mother Earth, in human rights, in rainbow rights, in globalism, and the like. Yet, religion is religion. It needs its god or gods (nature, humans, animals) and its Satan (Putin) and his devils (the leaders of China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela etc.). It also needs a set of commandments (you shall honour the Pachamama, your Mother Earth, you shall elevate man above all things but not above nature, you shall perform two minutes of hate against the dictators and regimes) and it needs theological language: there are governments and presidents as opposed to dictators and regimes, for instance. The world is black and white, torn between heaven and hell, and we are the good ones while they are the bad ones. Very simple.
Thus the consecutive packages of sanctions serve the religious purpose of anathemizing the bad ones, those who are the problem. They need to do penance and atone for all the wrong they have done. We on the other hand are faultless. We have the right to pass judgement over others. They, obviously, do not have this right because they are the problem.
We may watch another session of anathemizing those that the European Union regards as heretics. The Europeans will light up candles, say a solemn formula and then cast those candles on the floor, believing that they have just triggered the anathema to work. Candles are consecutive packets and the accompanying formulas are the speeches in which the good tell the other good gathered in their echo chamber of the like minded that they are collectively the good ones and as such have the right to reprimand the bad ones who should eventually realize that they really are the bad ones. To this end the good ones will reprimand the bad ones on and on (package after package after another package of sanctions) till the bad ones come to their senses.
