That title popped up in my mind a little time after this post...
Yeah, isn't it hard to go forth together when u have no clue why u are together?
When u are together mostly because u are scared of something and u go to ur buddies rather than when u gather around principles that should orientate the behavior of the members within the so called 'Alliance' and of the so called 'Alliance' itself
All this goes straight at the interrogation on the nature of NATO
What is it? What is it for?
In the past, it was to get protection from the USSR, something which had global politico-economical pretentions on the whole World
Nowadays would be more to get protection 'just' from Putin, and Putin is not interested in the World, but mostly in the Russian Empire and in putting the most possible dust in the US/Western mouths
Then, logical enough that Turkey, which is not really in Putin primary targets can feel free to mess within NATO, to even play with whatever efficiency it could have, to buy some Russian weapons, to do whatever to prove its own Turkophone/Islamist Empire itself, and when u see what Turkey now does in Africa, they really try hard to extend
All this (well, sorry, but again) would go straight toward the 'Westernization' of NATO, we were not that far already but still it deepens and almost fully acknowledges it, and thus would also fully follow the current cultural global and individual trends about the 'Tribalization' of the World
...and i found it so fitting ^^
If ever some other people have some time to spoil over something like this, otherwise no need to waste some to say u dont care, i would just try to extend this a bit since i personally think all whats going really gives a bigger light to those processes
In the sense that it appeared a bit more clear to me that this 'Tribalization' of the World, which would nowadays lead people to gather around their 'nature', that is ethnics, languages, traditions, original religions, sexualities/genders within societies, rather than around some principles, values, objectives, strategies, even common interests
This could be more obvious at 1st within societies, but i think it's now starting to glow more and more between societies themselves
As i tried to point out several times, like in the quoted post here, that NATO case, and whats going on with Russia would really tend to show/accelerate it
Recently enough a lot of people bashed Macron back because when he had 1st been elected 5 years ago he was saying that NATO was in 'cerebral death', and now all people fall on him saying how wrong he was given all whats going on
While im not at all a Macron groopie, no, he was fully right!
While in the past it could have had for mission to defend countries against 'USSR points of views on the World', NATO is now just empty of any ideas, principles, values, objectives, and even common interest
Then, whats left to gather around?
We are same tribe! We are Westerners!
And there is a bad guy from the neighborhood tribe who doesnt like Westerners, and that would like to tackle the big boy of theirs, the US, and tries to team up with other tribes in the World to achieve its own interests, and that mostly out of revenge on the other tribe and of a member of his
So, yeah, so far i used the word tribe, but u can see that u can very easily slip from 'tribe' to 'gang', since all of this easily becomes a gang logic
We are now closer and closer from the title of this thread
In the original story u have a love story between some members of different gangs, hey in this case Ukraine makes such a pretty heroine, torn between its Slavic origins and its love for the Western life, what the country geographically and culturally is in its different shades from west to east is almost a 'school case' of it
So far, the lover, the West, didn't have the best manners and easily let the girl in danger, it seems that from the Western side, ethnicity and fear of the other gang was stronger than love, the heroine needed to be badly hurt and to show that her love was very big and above her origins for the so called Western 'hero' to come help her, but still not to the cost of really challenging the neighboring gang yet
If we go a bit above the story, and thats where it gets better to me (and if ure bored or dont see the point of all of this, the 'TL, DR' policy is very simple to apply without even having to post it), we are also back at the analysis
West Side Story is an American story, even from an epoch when the US were building and spreading their influence around the World, notably against that other form of globalization 'proposed' by the USSR, and we know which form of globalization won so far
We know it rather economically, but it kind of won at all levels! And this victory is what's causing its fall!
Yeah, a model of society like the US, where people gather by their original communities, ethnics, languages, religions, and more recently and to a lesser extent but still, sexualities and genders, a very diverse nation mostly gathering under the 'Dollar' and 'God', thats what this world became!
And it apparently reached a point where the cultural challenges, the grudges, the revenges between tribes/gangs, their cultures and gods is slowly taking more importance than economy itself, or can be used as justifications to challenge the current economical order, the situation with Russia, China, all over Africa, amongst others, would show it so well
We cant unite under 'Dollar' anymore and there is a 'Gods' competition, too many grudges held, then tribes go to fight each other, or also gangs challenge each other territories and gains
And, a lot of people in the World have been, i think,
fed up with the dominating Western gang and could be ready to hear/follow anything to justify its dismise, especially, if, well, the struggle to have ur own bread is here, again, and that u see that, again, this is about something where the Westerners are messing
All the troll job Russia is doing between the West and the rest of the World about it shouldnt be underestimated...at all, and on the same page the kind of interview that Lula gave to Time already makes History to me
Ah, and, thats the most amusing part to me, the guy kinda mostly in charge of the legacy of the USSR, the leader of Russia, who goes all about ethnics and religion makes of himself such an American kid!
Voilą ^^
Different kinds of perspectives and steps can be envisioned for the future, but, just feel free to discuss whatever u wish about all this
Euh, i havent posted/scrolled here since at least this forum had an other name, then not totally aware of current posting policies, feel free to move it if necessary
