23A031 The Party's Over by Jim Davies, 8/1/2023

Here is the Photo of the Year, in my opinion, taken by Mustafa Kumaci of the Anadolu Agency at NATO's Vilnius gabfest last month. Observe all those beautiful people in their smart suits and dresses, polished shoes and high heels, enjoying each others' company (though without the usual glasses of chilled Chablis) - except for one guy in the foreground, whom all the others are ignoring and who is wearing a badly-tailored khaki sack.

He is the guest of honor. But nobody is paying him heed.

The symbolism is superb, and all the better for being unintentional: Volodymyr Zelensky has begged for money and weapons once too often, Ben Wallace of the BritGov called him "ungrateful", and from then on he was "out." NATO - or at least the 28 (no, wait, it's 30 now) - European members have had enough. Ukraine will soon be on its own; the weapons faucet is being turned off.

So the party's over, but not the slaughter, alas; like the handful of drunks who fail to leave despite the hints of the host, Zelensky's government will probably go on throwing young Ukrainians against the solid wall of Russian defenses for a few months yet, and bringing them back home in body bags. That's unless there's a coup d'état in Kiev, or a sudden influx of pre-election panic in D.C. Add one more, shortly, to the growing list of failed USGov wars.

Either of those is possible. The Dominion voting machines were neatly programmed in 2020 to record an unbelievable Biden victory, but can the Dems rely on that trick a second time, next year? - if not, even the blinkered Blinken, who is calling the shots in this War on Russian Independence, may see the inevitable and advise his senile "boss" to call it off so as to avoid a wipeout.

More likely, perhaps, will be a revulsion in Ukraine at the useless fighting. The South and East of the country has already been lost to its régime, and will not be recovered. So why not recognize the fact and make the best deal possible? That is the obviously sensible thing do, but governments are strangers to common sense. Outright surrender is repugnant to them, and when the French government did that in 1940, so saving many lives in a hopeless military situation, it was reviled by others then and ever since. Yet that is the example Zelensky (or his replacement) should follow.

They would have to abandon hope of recovering Crimea, Kherson, Zaphorizhia, Donetsk and Luhansk and flush out every trace of NATO for keeps, but they might well obtain quite a generous settlement from Russia, just as the French did from Germany. Moscow might for example help with reconstruction, and guarantee the borders of the residual Ukraine. That latter could be important; the Poles are salivating about grabbing part of the West of the country if it can be broken up, and the area around Odessa in the South is said to be pro-Russian, ripe for the taking.

Such is the appalling, blood-spattered mess that governments create, and the reluctance with which they abandon its making. The good advice above is theirs for the taking, but I'll not hold my breath.

In any case, I come not to help governments, but to bury them.

Once everyone comes to realize the utter uselessness and destructive nature of all government in one country (USA, I hope) after addressing their minds to what is taught in TOLFA or an equivalent, they will be so disgusted with its nature that they will decline to work for it and so it will cease to exist; and as that happy day draws near populations in other countries will follow the example and their rulers will vanish a little later. All the dominoes will fall, so wars like the present one North of the Black Sea will not arise.

The process is really not difficult. It's just a matter of gaining an understanding of what all government really is, which is (for obvious reasons) never taught anywhere else. TOLFA does it systematically, interactively, quietly (under all government radar) and without cost. A very short overview of the process (a kind of overture, if you will) can be read in ten minutes here, where the degradation and immorality of working for any part of government is spelled out.

There are no fireworks, no meetings to attend, no leaders to follow, no single-source of books or even web sites; for without doubt, when the ruling class realizes it is being undermined it will arrange for the site to be taken down. No matter at all; by then millions of copies will be circulating, passed from person to person. The exponential process is unstoppable. So if you're not on board already, now is the time. And if you are, find another friend to join you.

Because the next government war will most likely be the last.