The REAL Battle of Ukraine

Wauck likes him some Mearsheimer, and Mearsheimer likes him some deep thought.  So here's Mearsheimer's take on the real Battle of Ukraine:

...this identity politics has been used in Ukraine to try and present Ukraine--or at least the west of Ukraine, west of the Dnieper River--as Europe and the other part as Slav, and to create a Slav cultural conflict between European Ukraine based on its identity that it's somehow more European than Slav, against Asia and the values of Asia. And of course the European Union jumped on this. They were delighted to find this new tool of unity that they could use, because their own unity was fraying quickly. Ukraine suddenly became the pole of unity around which Europe could try and gather and recreate Europe as a powerful actor on the stage.

I think what you're seeing, and coming ... there is upheaval taking place everywhere ... a sort of pushback against that corporatist vision that eventually became Wokism ... because the world is just fed up with Western nihilism. They want to find something that has meaning, they want to find something that has value in life, and to get back to their own values--civilizational values. And the problem is that I don't think the team around Trump probably understands what Russia means, that it sees itself as a civilizational state and not just as another nation state. That's what's important to [Russia] and it has to be negotiated on that understanding, and not simply about, 'Shall we freeze this here, shall we freeze it there?' No, they want a permanent solution, which means a new security architecture for Central Asia and for Europe.

Thus, the real Battle of Ukraine has a parallel battle in the US.  The (third) election of Trump--with his serious flaws--is part of that 'battle for traditional values.'  And as we are seeing, Trump does not yet grasp "traditional values" as an integral part of his reign (see, e.g., his endorsement of IVF and H-1B, two very distinct facets and features of the Techno-Finance-Oligarch reign promoted by Jimmy Carter's Brzezinski.)  To the Western "leaders," it's all about the money.

That's not a "traditional" value.  Period.  

Thus, these times are overlaid with the significance of the Battle Over Traditional-Eternal Values, meaning that Trumpism--as good as it is--is hardly the last of that battle.

Fasten your seatbelts.