Posted on 04/17/2023 5:55:20 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Ponder this fascinating article:
An existential function of ‘enemyship’: evidence that people attribute influence to personal and political enemies to compensate for threats to control”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20175623/
“Perceiving oneself as having powerful enemies, although superficially disagreeable, may serve an important psychological function. On the basis of E. Becker’s (1969) existential theorizing, the authors argue that people attribute exaggerated influence to enemies as a means of compensating for perceptions of reduced control over their environment.
In Study 1, individuals dispositionally low in perceived control responded to a reminder of external hazards by attributing more influence to a personal enemy.
In Study 2, a situational threat to control over external hazard strengthened participants’ belief in the conspiratorial power of a political enemy. Examining moderators and outcomes of this process,
Study 3 showed that participants were especially likely to attribute influence over life events to an enemy when the broader social system appeared disordered, and
Study 4 showed that perceiving an ambiguously powerful enemy under conditions of control threat decreased perceptions of external risk and bolstered feelings of personal control.”
I didn’t think a bot would be that retarded.
Thanks though heh.
Thank you. Why would you want to see DJT in office as far as the Ukrainian situation is concerned?
“Every day this proxy battle in Ukraine continues, we risk global war,” President Trump said. “We must be absolutely clear that our objective is to IMMEDIATELY have a total cessation of hostilities. All shooting has to stop. This is the central issue. We need PEACE without delay.
There must also be a complete commitment to dismantling the entire globalist neo-con establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars, pretending to fight for freedom and democracy abroad, while they turn us into a third-world country and a third-world dictatorship right here at home. The State Department, the defense bureaucracy, the intelligence services, and all the rest need to be completely overhauled and reconstituted to fire the Deep Staters and put America First.” DJT 3/16/23
This ends as soon as Trump takes office. There will no more American financing of it. Crimea and the four oblasts will be Russian and the very last domino, on the Russian border, a days tank ride from Moscow will not fall. The Ukraine NATO crazy talk destabilization ends. That is the Russian stated goal. That is the only way there can be a negotiated end to this catastrophe. That would have been the way it ended last spring with the Erdogan peace process before NATO mucked it up. I don’t understand you.
“Why would you want to see DJT in office as far as the Ukrainian situation is concerned?”
I support DJT in both national & international policies.
Regarding Ukraine, President Donald Trump slammed his former comrade Vladimir Putin for the growing death toll in Ukraine calling it a ‘massive crime against humanity.
UKRAINE MOTIVATION TO REPEL RUSSIAN INVASION:
“-Once again, Ukraine is losing its best sons and daughters.
-Once again, the insidious enemy from Muscovy is destroying the Ukrainian nation.
-Once again, it seeks to seize the Ukrainian land, mutilate the Ukrainian body, and destroy the Ukrainian soul.
This happens again and again on our land. Again we did not call for this war, again it was brought to us and imposed on us: boldly, cruelly, with impudence and sadism, which only the descendants of the Muscovites are capable of.
These descendants of monsters do not have a human soul, but only mimic the human body. Instead of souls with light, their bodies are populated with demonic entities. They seek to destroy us, to destroy Ukraine, because this is the most important goal of their existence.
Their goal is to sow chaos, anger and death, to feed on the suffering of millions of people, which is why they fanatically shout “We can Pavtarit” [repeat],
and we said And Say - “Never again”.
And this time we must put an end to this absolute zlo, seal this absolute zlo with strong seals forever, so that our grandchildren and their descendants will never suffer from this zlo [evil] again. So that the slogan “Never again” becomes an axiom, not a theorem.
Therefore, no peace treaties should put us to sleep, no agreements should weaken our vigilance and should not stop the main goal - zlo should be dispersed. Never Again.”
ARTICLE
Moscow court leaves WSJ journalist Gershkovich in custody
Olena Roshchina
Ukrainska Pravda
Tuesday, 18 April 2023, 15:00
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/18/7398374/
The Moscow City Court made a decision to leave in custody the reporter of The Wall Street Journal, Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage.
Source: Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti, CNN
Details: US citizen Evan Gershkovich appeared at a meeting on Tuesday, 18 April, to challenge the conditions of his detention.
Gershkovich asked to be transferred to house arrest, the defence offered to release him on bail of RUB30 million [approx USD366,900 – ed.], the court refused.
The Moscow City Court left the American journalist in custody, recognising the decision to arrest him as legal.
US Ambassador to Russia, Lynne Tracy, said she spoke with Gershkovich on Monday, and he stays strong and in good health.
“The charges against Evan are baseless, and we call on the Russian Federation to immediately release him,” the diplomat said, speaking after the court issued its decision on Tuesday.
ADDENDUM COMMENT #46
Background:
-On 29 March, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) detained Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, in Yekaterinburg, and a criminal case had been opened against him for espionage.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/03/30/7395686/
-The Moscow court ordered to detain Evan Gershkovich until 29 May.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/03/30/7395741/
-The Wall Street Journal denied the accusations of espionage against journalist Evan Gershkovich and demanded his release.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/03/30/7395705/
-The US Department of State designated Gershkovich “wrongfully detained”.
-According to the media, Russian President Vladimir Putin personally approved the arrest of US reporter Evan Gershkovich whom Russia accuses of espionage.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/13/7397638/
-On April 15, journalist Evan Hershkovich wrote his first letter to his relatives from the Lefortovo detention centre, and on April 17, the US ambassador to Russia, Lynne Tracy, visited him in the detention centre for the first time.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/17/7398247/
Our grandchildren will never survive the nuclear war you and the corrupt globalists in DC are escalating this centuries old blood feud, that we have no business in, into. From your handle I assume you are the mother of a Marine. If so, did he serve in the ME? If so, did he watch friends be maimed and die? If so, for what end other than corrupt globalist lies? If so, is he proud of what happened in those 16 years and the catastrophe we left behind. If he’s still a Marine, you have no more skin in this vastly more dangerous globalist adventure in an Ukraine than I do. My precious, innocent nine grandchildren will every bit be as much on the front line sitting in my living room as he would be doing the woke green pervo globalists’ dirty work when he deploys to Ukraine or Poland for the initial conventional phase of WWIII. Your support for this totally unprovoked proxy war against Russia emboldens the warmongering globalists in DC to further escalation. God help you. God save us from your DC handlers.
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