Collective Thwarting

Hassan Nasrallah

Russia is thwarting Ukraine under the guise of restoring what was theirs. It's the old Imperial Russia impulse going back to Peter the Great, an impulse known as irredentism. Iran is Russia's proxy along with Syria which is a fellow traveller. Iran is also the proxy of China and North Korea. The impulse, in the case of Iran and its proxies Hezbollah and Hamas is millenarian and hence cloudier with the ultimate result perhaps either oblivion or armageddon (and a life after death)--take your pick. 

read "Francis Levy's Divine Comedy," Exquisite Corpse