Spoiled Privileged Elites Playing Diplomacy, Destroying Everything in Their Path.

How our elites brought us a war.

Your Tatler thanks a family member for alerting him to a superb essay in the Tablet, Ukraine’s Deadly Gamble, written by the always excellent Lee Smith, a veteran blogger-writer on the Internet. It’s fairly lengthy, complex and highly detailed, but essential reading if one wishes to gain a fuller understanding of the outrage and tragedy of the Russian invasion of of Ukraine.

Mr Smith argues the present war in Ukraine is the result of years of blundering by many, even Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. It should be noted though most of Zelensky’s mistakes were made with the encouragement of foreign affairs “experts” in the United States, who encouraged his desire making his country a big player in the international scene, an impossibility according to Smith. And who might those experts have been? A lot of familiar names crop up: Anthony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Victoria Nuland, Susan Rice, and a whole lot more, but surprisingly, not the awful Samantha Power, who might have been too busy crafting the foolhardy Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran.

In the case of Ukraine, it seems every cockeyed policy these rogues dreamed up was to play the unfortunate country off Vladimir Putin, the goal being to inculcate in the dictator the notion Ukraine was a danger to him and Russia. In that, at least, they succeeded all too well and Putin is doing what any despot would do when feeling threatened.

Taking a step back to gaze on this staggeringly credentialed club (Blinken, Harvard, Columbia Law; Sullivan, Yale, Oxford; Nuland, Brown; Rice, Stanford, Oxford, Power, Yale) and others, similarly credentialed, one has to wonder how these people, so purportedly well educated, could pursue such foolish policies yielding such disastrous results. Certainly their near unanimous embrace of socialism and anti-Americanism, learned in college classrooms from former ’60s radicals, plays a significant part, but it’s still puzzling to your Tatler their astonishing incompetence; everything they have a hand in fails.

Should this country still be reasonably intact in 2024, the State Department and all other related government institutions must be scoured. Meanwhile, the privileged, spoiled elites in them now continue on their merry path of destruction. They bring to mind the poignant words near the end of The Great Gatsby concerning the rich and thoughtless Buchanans.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.